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Sweet buggies.

Sweet.

Thanks folks. There's insulin in the glove box...

Tamiya Honda City Cabriolet. Mrs z designed the colour scheme and I made the decals as per her designs. It's lowered about 4 scale inches but other than that it's box stock (so nice not having to do a RHD conversion ). Paint is a custom mix of pinks, purples & silvers (all car touch ups) followed by clear containing UV bling powder & pearl. As is usual with Tamiya kits I just painted the parts, put them back in the box, shook it and it was built. Amazing...

How easy is it to swap bodies? I fancy a stock roof but channelled & lowered club coupe...

I'm confused. Where did this concept of "unbiased judges" come from? AFAIAW the Cannonball Run Community build ends in a vote either by the competitors or preferably by anyone registered with the forum hosting the run. I wouldn't enter it otherwise - I don't enter judged contests only peer voted ones. I know this forum only allows 5 choices per poll question but that can be worked around by making one of those choices "none of the above".

We don't know what criteria the voters use to select the winner. Personally I try to build in speed, handling, range, comfort, spares, roadability AND looks (although my idea of looks usually doesn't agree with everyone). In reality of course we'd all just be driving porsches, veyrons, lambos or other top end supercars. Why don't you join in? Build us what you'd use on the run. You got 9 1/2 months so you can't claim lack of time. Who knows, maybe it'll be pretty enough to win. But let me ask you this. Do you really think these won because of their looks? None of them are beauty queens in my book.

Looks good Rob. Nice & big. Thinking about range hoods, I suppose there is always a chance of one being used with the gas not lit in which case explosion proof would be a good thing.

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Stock engine or are you going to try & squeeze something bigger in there?

No-one has defined streetable yet. To me means that it will start on the key, idle reliably, drive nicely in heavy traffic and get rubber in all 4 gears. I'd have to say blower but streetability (streetableness?) would depend on what you were using to mix & meter the fuel/air with the blower.

Why is that a bad habit? It's a hobby not a job. It's supposed to be fun which it won't be if you have to force yourself to do it. Build when you feel it, start as many as you want and finish as few as you like. And as for bad habits - reading this while cooking. I just burnt a pan full of onions & tomatoes...

Thanks for that link Aaron - it's exactly what I need.

Rattle cans for primer, undercoat, sometimes colour coat & sometimes clear. Airbrush for alclad (including the black undercoat), custom colour mixes, candies, fades & fancy paint effects, 2 pack clear and it i'm putting bling into the clear. I resisted getting an airbrush thinking i'd find the cleaning a chore but that's not the case. I'm fairly slack with the cleaning (doing only the minimum) but the only time it's clogged was due to a spider setting up home inside the tip! And yes, thanks Don for the GP thinners with enamels tip. I now get good glossy black undercoats for alclad every time. Woohoo!

As it's forecast to be 30 today (that's 92 in american degrees) then no, no pics. But I feel for you all 'cause I hate the cold white stuff. Stay safe and warm.

What, so we can complain about the chops like we do with the '49 Merc & the '48 Ford? I'd like a parts pack containing all the goodies we buy the various kits for plus a few new parts like ardun heads, correct Hemi extractors and a stock rear end. And Revellogram are now producing "celebrity" cars how about a reissue of the sedan with the parts to build the Eastwood & Baraket car

Is a kitchen range hood likely to have an explosion proof fan? I wouldn't have thought so. I'm in the planning stages of building my own spray box (thinking of making it as big as I can from two 8' x 4' sheets of ply) but i'm wondering about the design. Where do we feel it is best to have the suction - floor, back or top? Also, would there be any disadvantage in having the fan built into the shed so it can extract the shed when it's not extracting the spray box? Thx

Nice paint. You need to get some lower angle pics though.

Why use engine braking? Well sometimes you need to stop real quick without your brake lights coming on so as the jerk tailgating you gets a good look at your tow bar...

Well, 11 blobs moulded into the top of the cylinder heads. The stock 340 Duster has the same. Both engines are identical except that the Street Machine version has a twin throttle body EFI inlet manifold that some claim has 10 runners (I contend that it has 8 & some dubiously moulded lumps). As both engines use the same exhaust manifolds which are obviously meant to cater for 8 exhaust ports (with siamesed centre ports) then I think we can be pretty sure it's not a viper engine in the SM kit. Stock engine Street Machine Engine A blueprinted EFI 340 v8 is probably the perfect engine for this race (but lose the cast extractors & mufflers). Plenty of go but also not too bad on fuel (compared to say, a Hemi or BBC). For the first run I used a Duster chassis under the Dustball 500 and used this engine with the EFI (with ram air) but with Hemi heads to make a phantom short stroke rev monster.

Well done on both Tony. You should have stressed that these are the 1/32 kits and NOT the new 1/24 ones. Which makes what you have achieved even better.

This was the kit that got me back into the hobby. It wasn't that I particularly wanted to build a '71 Charger, I just wanted to build a model car again. I picked a good one by chance and from then on it was off down the slippery slope to my 2nd childhood model kit obsession.

Very nice. I look forward to the spread in TRJ. I particularly like the complete absence of billet parts (as far as I can see) and that they didn't feel the need to polish or chrome every single thing under the bonnet.

Why would they do that? Surely they would want us to buy more new kits in order to get the new wheels to put on our older kits. Just be thankful AMT engineered their new parts pack tyres to fit the "old style" wheels and not the new ones...