Modelbuilder Mark

It would be nice if you do make it Mike. I have not seen YOU in over 10 years! LOL

Thanks guys! I am glad you like it.

Very cool

I have tried a great many different things over the years. Brake fluid works, but is way messy to clean up IMO and then you have tow worry about future paint sticking to it, bleach will work on removing chrome, but not much else. Easy Off over cleaner, the original kind, NOT the easy fumes version, will work, but is very caustic on the lungs. Castrol Super Clean and Purple Power will both work and if you use a resealable tub as mentioned above, and probably the most common product used by builders on this forum. You can use it over and over for a long time. You can even strain the gunk out of it after a few jobs to allow it to last longer using a coffee filter ort something similar. But yes, WEAR rubber gloves! It leaches all the oils out of your skin, and if you do not, they will prune up and shed something awful.

Looking forward to this one. Always liked the lines of the MachI

Thanks everyone! I like most on here can see my own errors, I just hope that I kind of hide them fairly well. LOL I did manage to get the plates done this morning, I used Acme plate maker.

I started this one a little over a month ago as part of a group project. The goal was to create a project using only spares from the parts box from no less than 3 kits, the "Junkyard Dog" build. This is what I came up with. Sam & Ella's organic produce. The plates are the only thing not yet on, and they will read "eatdirt". Body from a 29 Ford, frame I think was an old Monogram 32 Ford molded in yellow, the grill was made from pickup fenders that a friend sent me as an urging to create a tractor grill. The windshield and frame I think came from an AlaKart kit, no idea where the gas can came from. Everything else is either stray parts box bits, or scratched from styrene etc like the coke can. Of course you have to have a car magazine, right!? The steering linkage moves when you turn the wheel, but it does not tturn the steering wheel.

Well, as of today, I am calling it done! OK, I will be posting more up in the under glass section!

OK, from what you said above, it seems you were also worried about the width of the strips, but they are thin enough for most things. Here is a strip that I have been using without the band to give it tension. You can see the plastic dust where I have twirled something around in it. Finally, (could not use both hand, needed one to take the pic) here is what I meant by wrapping it around a piece. You can then either twirl the part while holding the strip, or you can grab both ends of the strip and then pull it up and down the seem area.

There you go, learning curve already up to speed, keep another project ready to go at all times! LOL

Good luck if you choose to use it. I have heard great success stories, and then I have heard many like myself. I use it to dip windshields in etc, as it does make them look better, but I have yet to spray it and it do anything but bead up and run down the side of the body like water. LOL

What is the old saying, swallow a horse, choke on a fly... What Tom said, Priorities...some folks have them off kilter.

Looking really good! Nice color choice. Despite being light on enterior detail (ok, poor), I thought that body really captured that car very well. The one I had suffered from a crushed roof, so I made it a convertible.

Very cool!

I try to keep "parted out" kits seperate from my stash, but over time, that gets harder. I leave them in the original boxes and when I take a part/parts from a kit I use a Sharpie and simply write in big letters on the box what I took..." minus wheels" "minus motor" etc etc. Then when I think the kit as been picked apart too far to consider a kit any longer, I fully part it out. (keeps me more organized that way) I use the reseable plastic containers for food and have them for seats, roofs, bumpers, etc etc etc.and larger boxes for bodies, frames etc. The smaller parts like wiper blades, alternators, valve covers, headlights etc... I keep in the little parts bins that pull out similar to takle bixes. You can usually get them are tool supply places like Harbor Freight, or sears etc. I use the same kind of box for wheels, and have two of them. You can see the takle style boxes I am talking about in this older picture. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/med_gallery_8985_809_218886.jpg

No doubt about it, but I also use the flex e file sanding strips by themselves, and sort of half wrap them around a part, then twist the part in the strip. I will try to remember to take a pick of what I am talknig about and post it later for you.

That says a lot about so many people in so many situations, not just this hobby. This is a conversation I have to have with my wife over and over...money in hand does not necesarily mean you "have" money to spend. I want more than I actually buy, but I prioritize. I talked to a lady once that was making a $700/mo car payment, and said she was struggling bcause she was a single mom for the past two years....then I reaslized she only had the car 1 year, (so her circumstances were the same when she got the car). I found it hard to be sympethetic given the fact that if she was struggling, then she should not have gotten this car to begin with when her circumstance were the same! Same job, same number of kids etc.

I really like that. Nice rust placement and effect.

Looks good.

That is indeed a bummer, because those covered spots are a nice bonus here indeed! They are putting more covered spots in at work, but no solar panels.

Thanks guys, you know what they say about the best laid plans, but I SHOULD have it done this week sometime. Depends on how I feel when I gethome from work each night. I work 10 hour days, so with the drive etc, I am gone from home about 13+ hours each day. Sometimes when I get home, it is clean up, eat, go to bed! LOL The up side is, most often I get three day weekends!

I am no longer close enough to attend this show, but always wanted to when I lived in Indiana. How was the turnout?

I have it recorded, but will not watch til later this week. Looking forward to it tho.

I am not at all sure how I missed this project, but I am glad I found it. Looking forward to seeing more. Really enjoying your styling. BTW, WHERE did you get the nuts and bolts? I have looked online and I cannot find them.

Well, it was a nearly full day at the bench today. This started out to be a simple project, for a club theme contest, but, I just could not leave well enough alone. Had to fix that big hole in the floorboard, so I rook some material and some plastruct and made up a boot The enterior has to have some junk, and a car mag of course. Battery Box and Coke can for the overflow reservoir ALMOST done. Most of the sub-assemblies are done, just drying. Final assembly is all that I have left.