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Sorry, I missed that one, and can't reply to it. It wasn't me, I've never been associated w/the Miata club. Sorry.

Thanks for the replies Yes, I cheated my you-know-what off Hey, race teams prepare well ahead of the race, they don't just unload the car from the transporter 5 mins. before the race... Let's just say I'm always going to start the palooza w/a fully painted body...after doing the final body assembly and decals first (as in when I'm fresh and in a good mood ), I'm going to continue w/that strategy in the years to come!

Interesting to note that Revell has a full itemized (by part number) list of all the parts. Wonder if they'll ever do a parts layout of the trees w/corresponding numbers? That's very helpful on the kits that have it (generally Japanese, but the Trumpeter Falcons have it too).

Very, very cool

Here is what I built during our annual "LeMans Palooza" that a group of ACME members participate in every year. Basically we build a LeMans racer during the race. We're pretty liberal with rules; the main objective is to have fun and finish the model by the end of the race. This year 5 of us were building together (there were others in attendance but didn't participate for the entire race). We have a blast doing this, it's great fun. I chose the Hasegawa Mazda 767B "Finish Line" racer. It placed 7th in 1990, and I like the livery better than the 1991 787B that won (the orange/green "Renown" version). This is a really simple curbside kit. Before the race I prepped the body and painted it Tamiya Pure white, and the night before the race I masked/painted the blue canopy area w/Tamiya TS44 Brilliant Blue. This area is a decal in the kit, but I didn't trust the decals, so I scanned them just in case. I trimmed the canopy decals down to just the white/blue pinstripe that borders the white and blue, and it worked pretty well. I used Microscale decal film over all the other decals "just in case", therefore I spent about 6-8 hours just doing the decals slowly/carefully. It was fun doing the model "backwards"...I did the body final assembly and decals first, once they were done I did the interior, chassis, and rear wing. It also made the harder part (decals/final details) happen early in the day vs. in the middle of the night. I was done around midnight, with about an hour of work Sun. AM before the race ended to put decals on the rear wing and dry transfers on the tires. Next year, Revell's upcoming Compuware C5R

Just get the regular "Chrome". The "Ultra Bright" lacks adhesive, and the regular chrome buffs out even nicer than the Ultra Bright.

Speed will never try harder. Ever. Worst excuse for a car channel ever. They don't know anything but "dumbed-down" because of the audience they think they're playing to, and that's all I'm going to say on that subject It was a great race...when it wasn't under caution. Way too many inexperienced drivers, but McNish is definitely experienced and his wreck was his fault.

If Revell doesn't make a Boss 302 variant from it...shame on them! And I would suggest they make it available as a 2-in-1 in street and Laguna Seca versions in the same box In the meantime, Maisto is doing a 2012 Boss 302...so there's a source for wheels whenever it comes out. I've got a couple of these kits, so far pretty impressive, definitely improvements over the '05-'09 kits.

I think it's pretty cool looking (I didn't say it's pretty )...especially considering the source...and that's all I'll say I've even contemplated making a model of it

It's 35 mins. from my house on the NE side of Atlanta just outside the perimeter. It's at the Hwy. 53 Braselton exit, aka "Road Atlanta" exit. It's on the right as you exit, you can sort of see it through the trees. You might think about going up for their big show in Sept. when Foose is there. The Mustang and other cars will likely be there on display.

Looks great, the custom wheels look good too. Nice work for a Fujimi...after building both Fujimi and Revell 458's, there's no comparison (Revell trounces it), though I will use my set of Fujimi wheels on a future Revelll 458, but with better tires.

I'll be watching the race and building a Hasegawa Finish Line 767B in our annual LeMans palooza. I haven't been able to keep up w/the preliminaries this week. Radio LeMans was hacked earlier today. Cars going round in circles might as well be golf balls and fairways...aka "naptime"

I remember the day when the '84 Corvette hit the dealerships. I went by the hobby shop, and the Monogram snap kit '84 hit the shelves the very same day. I don't ever expect that to happen again

You want models of 2011 Dodges? Well...if recent history is anything to go by, the kit manufacturers who would be likely to do a new modern Dodge are apparently unable/unwilling to get a new plastic model car out until it's about 2-3 model years old . If you want anything newer/sooner, you're better off looking at diecast. Plenty of modern Dodges, but don't expect models of 2011 subjects until 2013...and that's if they decide to do them.

Not sure if it's the same, but the Polar Lights prepainted bodies stripped in minutes dunked in 91% rubbing alcohol (isopropyl). 99% works too. 70%...not likely. The stronger alcohol seems to work very well on those prepainted plastic bodies, and Tamiya spray lacquers.

Because it works on some paints and not others. It works especially well on enamels.

Nice. I was drooling over a real one this weekend.

I learned about using lacquer thinner w/Testors enamels shortly after the "Model Master" and car color lines of paint were introduced. At the time, I was generally using Floquil Barrier on my models, priming, and shooting automotive touchup paint, because I had learned the art of properly buffing out lacquer paints. The color range of hobby paints back then was pretty poor before Testors came out w/the new paints. I used to go to Valley Plaza Hobbies out in CA, and Henry Gonzales worked there. He's a well-known modeler who painted all the cars for the Testors packaging and flyers of those then-new lines of products; he's the one that turned me onto using plain old lacquer thinner. He used w/it when he was under a deadline to get all those models painted, and he was really happy w/the results (didn't hurt plastic, dried faster, much cheaper). As for the buffing out part, he used Bare Metal Foil polish, because automotive products were too strong for enamels. I then started using a lot of Testors paint, mixing my own colors from them, etc. Shortly thereafter, I found Novus #2 plastic polish at my local motorcycle shop, smelled it/looked at it and realized it was most likely the exact same stuff BMF was selling as their foil polish. A whole bottle of Novus wasn't that much more expensive than the tiny bottle sold by BMF.

LOL that's pretty wild, especially w/2 engines

Kleen Strip seems to be the most ubiquitous lacquer thinner you can find at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. It's cheapest by the gallon, but I buy quarts. And I also use their acetone as well, it mixes w/a lot of different paints and is also great for cleaning an airbrush. There's nothing inherently wrong with what you bought; you just paid a huge premium buying mineral spirits in a Testors bottle.

The proportions were locked in when they started making the 2nd gen Lincolns in 66. I always thought the way they did the '69 grille was odd...but seeing it on a built model, it really shows off how "off" it is. Imagine the outrage had the internet been around then

Testors enamel thinners/brush cleaners...all just overpriced products you can buy much cheaper at a hardware store. Like others have said, the pros tend to use common lacquer thinner to thin for airbrushing and to clean regular paintbrushes. This stuff would be what I might use to thin enamel paint for a wash or to make it brush a bit smoother...but then again, I find enamels far too slow to dry to ever deal with that. Most of the brush paint I use is acrylic and doesn't take weeks to dry.

That's pretty cool Love the old Lincolns. That said, in comparison to the '69 photo'd...sheesh, AMT seriously botched those outer headlight/grille inserts on the '69 kit. Caricature city!

Is it just me, or can one only see ridiculously oversized photos of the 2CV with no way to save the photo and view it at a normal screen size?

That's where I picked mine up. Walked in the store, found 'em, bought 'em.