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Work. I waste 11 hours building time every day going to work, working and then coming home.

Looks like it's what we'd call a Doorslammer. Go to Aussie Google (www.google.com.au), type in "Doorslammer" and then set it for pages from Australia only. The beauty of building it in 1/25 scale is that if you don't want to you don't have to meet all the rules that would apply to 1/1 scale.

Mix Acrylic gloss clear, satin clear, smoke and thinners and wash the chrome. With the right mix (by trial and error i'm afraid) you'll get a reasonable stainless steel look. Use more satin clear & smoke for a tarnished look.

I clean the Airbrush with water after spraying Acrylic. It also works pretty well.

By all accounts the Revell Parts Pack Turbine is a pig to build.

It's your kit. You can do what you like with it (build it ) I got a pair of the non chrome version last year for $AU 16. Built 1 stock and planning on chopping the 2nd. Watch the tyres haven't eaten the styrene.

Oh for some heat - too cold and damp here to paint top coats!

Commodore Ute. Or were you thinking of the Malloo? At least Holden can export - the current Commodore was designed from the get go to be GMs global Rear Wheel Drive platform. When Ford Australia sat down and designed their latest iteration of the RWD Falcon platform someone somewhere (i'm betting it was not someone here) decided that it was not neccessary for it to be capable of being built in Left Hand Drive form. Export sales are therefore limited to former British Colonies and Japan. The Falcon name may live on but it'll be screwed to a FWD vehicle assembled locally from parts shipped in. Ford Australia are doomed to become a vehicle assembler rather than manufacturer and Holden will have won (so some silver lining then...) .

Too many, and at the same time not enough. The problem is not the number of started projects but the lack of time in which to work on them.

Looking good folks. Heres some of my previous sixes. ForPly - Plymouth 6 in '31 Ford Drift Rod - Early Skyline in '32 3 window Plymus Chryst - '41 Plymouth with Slant 6 Thunderchild - Scratchbuilt DOHC head on blown Chevy 6 in '57 T-Bird '63 Nova Eraly Skyline in Nissan Vannette '53 Vette GTR 2000 Skyline And this on is under construction with a 6 from an AMT '60 Pick up. More pics of this soon.

Looking good folks. Having finished 2 more i've now got a chance to get back to this. Body sanding & construction is still on going but i've dug out the engine and made a start on that - 421 Poncho with blower from a Revell Parts Pack. I stripped most of the chrome a while back (all except sump, valve covers, timing cover etc) and am now battling with the slightly dubious parts fit and gaps around the bell housing. Also have to scratch up drive for both blower AND accessories. Also - no gear box in the pack - why? seems like a strange decision Revell (albeit one made about 40 years ago! ). Pics soon.

That's pretty much par for the course for Tamiya. Carefull with the paint thicknesses as some of their tolerances can be so tight that too much paint will mean fit issues.

As it says above. Dated, fiddley, chrome headlight lenses, banger powered but a great kit if you know what you are getting (has to be continuously selling or they wouldn't have kept it in their line up for so long) - don't expect it to be made like a newly engineered Revell kit. Luke at Early Models Kits has one on his webshop. $37 for the kit but postage will be real rather than stupid and you can rely on Luke to get it to you. Or, get it from him through Evil-bay and pay less. Or, Frontline Hobbies also has one (where exactly are you up there North of the border? close enough to drive to get it?). I've not bought kits from them but they post paint quickly.

'Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin or Cocaine' Not that I doubt it, but should Mythbusters test this?

I'd be in it. Give me a reason to build that Tamiya Landcruiser...

Hey Jim, e-mail me some of that heat would you...

Wasn't nagging Mike but I had to ask. You know how it is - i'm Safety Rep here and can't let anything go. It's become a habit. My wifes old man was a paint sprayer and bodyworker back in the days when cars were made of real metal and men didn't wear masks. Towards the end the docs reckoned it was only the trombone playing (a trad Jazz man) that had kept him going so long.

Well done Kev. I've been off them myself (after 27 years) for 2 years 6 months & 21 days. Not that i'm counting. Notice how you used to live your life around smoking? How it controllled what you did & when you did it? And the smell! DId I smell like that? Man you smokers stink. I defend your right to do it. They're your lungs. But go and do it over there away from me.

I've urinated next to Rick Wakeman...

Cool. Michael, don't laugh the fumes off - they are what killed my father in law. You wear PPE right?

A Hemi?

Shivering down here. Winter has kicked in with some nights almost dipping to freezing. That plus the rain means not much painting so it's scratch building season. I've finished my "practice" '60 (http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59120) and now have no other deadlines to meet except for this one. I'll just finish up some other builds first and then i'll get it out again. Now, wheels. I recently picked up the AMT 7 in 1 '60 Corvette. It has included with it a set of 5 slot Astro wheels (look a bit like small window Halibrands). Are these correct for '62 or did AMT not release this 'vette until later than that? They are the ones on the right - all I can find is that Astro started making wheels in "the early 60's" (the ones on the left - Supremes - were first made in 1964 BTW)

Gettin' kinda swirly... It's just something I knocked up in "Paint" which would be easy to spot when scrolling down long threads so I knew where i'd read up to.

Actually, everybody should go here as it's the correct way into the archives. www.thedpmcc.com/instructionsintro.html Also, please try and give back.

Unless you are going to display your finished build sitting on a Cameo White 1:1 then I wouldn't stress it too much. Just go for something in the same ballpark in terms of "pureness" and "creamyness". No one is going to be able to tell, especially if all they ever see are photos on the interweb.