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Nice to see these well done NASCAR builds.

All very cleanly done. I like the Comet and hope to build one this year.

Great looking builds. I like the wide verity of cars built.

While not a normal sedan type builder this is interesting to me. I'll wait until someone opens one and posts the contains before I buy one, if it's as well done as I expect I'll buy one or two just to try something different.

That's good to know. I enjoy both your builds and the stories. I since a pent up writer in there somewhere.

I can see the pattern in the gold area and it looks good to me anyway. My question would be is this adhesive backed ? or do you still have to glue it in place somehow ? Looking at the picture it looks like you have chrome foil covering the whole trim area. I would suggest removing the chrome foil in the area of the gold trim unless you're going to try and just paint it in. The gold foil method is just my personal choice and should not be the final reason for what you do with your build.

Looking at the pattern and the finish here this may be an ideal option. The 1:1 cars had a textured surface that I think you could find on Google by just asking for pictures of a '57 Ford Fairlane 500. The kit body has a very correct finish in the plastic in this area, at least to my eye. This texture shows thru the gold foil with a good burnishing of the foil. While this material looks like a good finish I wonder about the thickness of the material and weather or not it has any adhesive backing. If it is any thicker than the foil then it may look out of proportion to the surrounding chrome trim.

I really like your Grand Prix. I was wondering if it was one of Hurst models from that era based on the paint colors and their layout ? Glad to see you're caring for this as to many have been damaged or unceremonially changed into something else.

A Motor Cycle with a Jet Ski body and the rider is wearing a Life Jacket. At least he has a since of humor.

I forgot to mention something about the Gold Foil. The foils finish is very shiny much like their chrome. This is what I used on the ones I have built. This is purely personal choice but since it is so shiny it may appear unrealistic to the eye. The area is also very small and you may not even notice it. I have owned a couple of 1:1 '57 Fords years ago and the gold area was a metal insert held in place by some adhesive and the side moldings above and below and the finish was not shiny like chrome. Should the gold foil appear to shiny, again to your taste, a very light coat of semi-gloss paint should go a long way to tone it down. I left mine without any top coat and they look fine to these old eyes.

Tamaya X-31 Titan Gold is pretty close for the gold trim. Bare-Metal Foil is also available in Gold foil.

Moving along nicely. I actually saw an Orange Super Bee in the wild last week. Almost sorry to see this build getting close to finished, need to know more about McNally and company.

Another thought for this problem. Any place with school type supplies usually has very inexpensive rubber teasers, the type that slip over the end of a pencil. These usually have a four sided area that slips over the end of a pencil or the handle of a #11 blade handle. They also offer several different colors so you can color code your blade handle and your saw handle oe what ever.

Generally I'll use a drop or two of Tamiya X-22 Clear paint. I have used the old Future Floor Polish with similar results, I just prefer the Tamiya product.

These are the artist I was thinking of. So hard to describe just how good they are. They look like they're having the time of their lives when they preform and this really shows the range of their talent.

I have watched the UK based Wheeler Dealer show on TV. When they were still filming in the UK they went to France and bought one of these. I never knew they existed, so it was interesting how they rebuilt theirs into what we here call a Food Truck. Your build looks very much like what they started with. Watching this build I learned some new techniques about this style of build, and thank you for that.

Very impressive looking builds. The Purple colored pick-up just looks wright in every way. The '61 Ventura with all the opening doors, trunk and even the gas filler door really shows the craftsmanship you put into this build. The truck and flat bed trailers with the shovels are also impressive. I got to watch your build on the Roadster and learned a great deal from all the fabrication you did on that. All of these share great paint work and cleanly built.

Thank you for your explanation. I can see now looking at your drawing and the side picture of the body in yellow and white. The area around the rear wheel well stands out just ever so much. Great way to solve the problem as I thought you might have widened the whole quarter panel,

I remember seeing, I think a different group, that opened for an Elton John. They have several You-Tube video's in different settings. In one they're in a music store trying out some instruments. The are both trained in Classical Music from one of Europe's universities.

Watching your build at first it seemed almost like the weathering was getting to much. As the build progressed it really came out perfect . This makes me remember an old expression from the equine world. This looks like it "has been ridden hard and put away wet" referring to an uncared for horse.

Great looking build. Hard to tell one from the other.

Hard to tell whish one is a photo of a real truck and whish one is a model.

The AMT '50 Mercury has a nice Flat Head engine. I've robed the speed parts out of all the ones in my stash to upgrade a few '49 Ford coupes. I'd just fill the hole in the engine sides and go forward from there.

I always enjoy looking at your Muscle Car builds. These are all very clean and well presented.

The extensive detailing is outstanding on these builds. The shading of colors on the Mustang exhaust adds a great detail to the appearance.