Gluhead
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Yeah definitely some great Deoras here. Gives me the itch.
Lee, some real nice lookin' builds in your album too.
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1962 Oldsmobile Starfire
1952 Plymouth Cambridge
1949 Dodge Pilothouse Pickup
1965 VW Notchback
1963 VW Type III Ghia
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Great car to draw from, great job making it your own. Thumbs up.
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Very cool. One of these days I want to do that with one of the 1/16 kits. And yep, I figured it'd take one piece on the fender frame, too.
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I'm sure Michael can back me up on this when I say DO give Ambroid a try. Tenax is another great liquid cement as well. Liquid cements do require a different approach than you would use with tube glue, but with a little practice on some scrap that is easily overcome. A normal application where you are simply joining two well-fitting parts requiring a minimal amount of cement will set up very quickly.
Michael, I hear ya. I try my best to keep my criticisms or suggestions truly constructive and not nit-picky or irrelevant, and I think in general most here probably do a pretty good job at that as well, but there's always someone or a small handful who is ready and willing to spike the punchbowl. It's the internet, though...gonna happen now and then.
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Just spotted this on the HAMB and thought "SWEET!" You guys who can pull off the Watsons and lace etc in scale amaze me. Difficult enough just to get nail the look from a design standpoint, let alone execute it in scale. Big thumbs up.
Excellent work on the mods as well. You have a great eye for which battles are worth picking.
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Fair enough. I think, though, that you are possibly misinterpreting the suggestion. I don't mean to go to what most would think of as a big n little, just a little thicker sidewall than on the fronts. You said you were after an "Overhaulin'" vibe...if you leave those anemic little rubber bands on the back, it screams "tuner" not "overhaulin'". If that's the look you're after, that's how you accomplish it. If the look you have now is what you're after, that's fine too...but it's something different than you said.
Your truck, your build. Just trying to help, but you do seem a bit on the defensive side. Makes it difficult to comment other than shallow "looks great", ya know?
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Yep. Huffin' is serious bidness. Don't be offended that they are taking steps to keep kids alive. Because it really is about that, and not that they don't want your hard earned coin or feel like hassling you.
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I used to do the spru-glu thing. Now, after all my builds finished and otherwise have been sitting for several years, I'm looking for an alternative. I've gotten to where I can cut and fit things close enough to where I have very little in the way of blemishes that need to remedied, but there's often that last little sliver or hairline that needs attention. Where I've used spru-glu on this in the past, I get ghosts.
If you've solved the mystery like many others, fantastic! But myself, I'm interested in the latest job-specific product now that I'm back into building.
But as far as the sprues go, I do keep certain ones. After you've used it for whatever comes to mind for a while, you start to pick up on what types cooperate well for you (specific type of plastic, etc). Like many have said, I pretty much always keep clears and reds.
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No argument from me on the wheels, although I'd like to suggest some more meat on the rear. No idea what they came from at this point, but I stretched some nice rubbery Michelin MXX3's over mine (after making a deeper a dish from a pair of sacrificial rims). I suspect not only will YOU like it a lot better, you'll also get a lot less nay-sayers. heheh
Seriously, though. It would just bring the whole thing home. Nice choice on the color, too.
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Great lookin' hot rod.
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Thanks. Yep, as we suspected, one generation off.
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Nice work.
How's the stance mockup looking with the shackles?
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I love those old VW panel kits and not because they build well!
I think you are remembering the California Roller version. That was neon green.Yep that's he one. I had to be around 10 or 11 when I got that. Pretty sure I threw it against the wall halfway through. lol. I grokked one at a show as an adult and it almost sent me into seizures.
The new Fujimi and New tool Revell make up for it, though.
I've built one of the Hasegawa pickup versions. That was a treat. Didn't even paint the body or interior, it was so nice. Just detail painted here and there where it mattered. I've built a Fujimi 365...I'd imagine that their VW's are also pleasant. Will get around to one of the new Revells one of these days.
I've also noticed several mentions of the Revell '56 F100. Truth. Talk about a tooling that was ridden hard and put away wet. But, I manage to massage one into a very nice truck, 'bashed together with a twin I beam from a junker van, a parts box rear suspension, and the wheels & tires from the F350 kit. It was painted (my first good one, if I remember right) and about a days work away from final assembly...when my gf at the time...destroyed...it...in one of her many fits of utter clumbsiness. I haven't been able to put myself through that kit again. Took me months to get it to where it was.
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Haha Mike, reading that caused the destruction of a large amount of brain cells.
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That old Revell radioactive puke green and black multi-piece bodied VW Bus with the California something or other theme. Plenty of kits out there that are sub-par, but that thing was just flat out horrid.
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I'm with you there, Dave. I'll take them how I can, warts and all. Once they're sorted it's a good representation of the car. I'm partial to the formal rooflines myself but it's great that it's such a straightfoward swap to make the Starliner.
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Great call on putting the drip rails back on. I know it's a traditional custom thing and goes all the way back to the stone ages, but I don't like 'em shaved. I've done the over-smoothing thing myself far too many times. It took me a while to catch on to why they didn't look quite right to me, but I did finally get it. Hardtops can get away with it a lot easier but anything with a quarter window needs them to counter the flow issues between the door line and top of the quarter window.
Lookin' good though...I'll be watchin' for more.
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Okay, thanks Chuck. Yep. Definitely 1 year too new.
A little more digging turned up this '52 Suburban promo. It'd make a fine start, but the one currently listed on ebay is.....only.....$250. I can wait.
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Looks great. I've got one in the works (happens to also be yellow with tan interior). Did you have trouble with the assembled interior/chassis not wanting to fit all the way into position at the cowl? Mine is being a real bear there.
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Looks good to me.
the Wildcat.
I think you are remembering the California Roller version. That was neon green.
the Wildcat.
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That's a knockout, Tom. Then again, that's what you do.