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rail guns: zero recoil is not accurate. There will be a backwards force, but it will not be explosive, thus much easier to compensate for. Also, look up gauss gun.

Fun. Some of these are old builds. Two are builds I finished after joining here. The rest are new. Some motion effect (two overlaid shots)

The Modified. ... clouds moved in! @#$% hard to change gears!

Post aChopalyptica

Looks like a Rolls Royce... oops... I'm looking at the wrong car.

Excuse me sticking my nose in, but if someone doesn't respond to a PM for weeks, what will they be like with the build itself?

You're right about those horrific instructions! Mine is the same kit too.

There's no time like the present to learn how to get radical with mods!

Monogram '59 Cadillac Eldorado Seville #2463 Monogram '59 Cadillac Convertible #2957 Engines are AMT Blueprinter. Rear wheels. AMT International Payhauler. All kits are junkyard specials off ebay. Rear deck lid gets cut out to give the open air section.

As Rob says, it's not hard to make an entire engine. I'd forgotten about it, but I made a complete engine out of pieces of evergreen many years ago. It looked the part. I also made a rotary from pieces of a motorcycle engine in 1/6th scale. Just look at an engine as a collection of shapes, make those shapes, and glue them together.

Oh no!

Finally got my motor, so my build has commenced.

I was looking at the kit in person on Thursday, and the Land Rover from the same series.

And another build is completed! Equestrian Avenger. The above photos are for those who can't handle a bit of pony. Below are a couple of pics with the crew.

This is the model that inspired me to do better. I built it for a model competition... and it failed. Hanging around a different area of the cars on display, I heard a fellow who had brought in a 1:12 '57 Chevy ask a judge why his model had also failed. I listened as the judge described the judging method they used. It was entirely technical. A car starts with 100 points. It loses a point for every fault. Faults include paint faults, injector marks, ejector pin marks, lines from where the molds join, glue marks, wonky parts, etc. Below are pics of what I did to the above model after listening to that judge. What I couldn't fix (the engine) I permanently hid. The rebuild was extensive. The result was a 1st place the next year, and a 2nd when it was re-entered as the defending champion. The guy that beat me that time seemed to have learned the same lesson, as he entered his former build very much improved.

Not all spray can cars are shiny.

We WANT all these pictures. Don't apologize! Bring it on!

Instructions are for Fujimi Tools from the Tools and Garage series.

Swing saws - handy machines for felling zombies.

Nice! A rod with real wheels I've finally got my parts. Time to start.

Two updates from me, two days apart, and they are on the SAME PAGE!!! C'mon guys, Get building. Get updating!!

Today's efforts: