Ace-Garageguy

Sears wouldn't replace, for free, her 20-year-old broken washing machine, maybe ?

The slope and curve of the tail is definitely better, much better, though the AMT body looks great on its own if you don't compare it to anything. The Revell body also shows the fuel-tank separation line correctly, rather than hidden in parting-line flash. The molded character and coach lines, on the other hand, are a little too heavy and thick, and the coach-line curve on the cowl is slightly wrong...too straight...on the Revell body.

The cuts sure look like styrene. I've had some old Johan styrene bodies that Tenax would barely touch too, for what it's worth. Only way I could hold them together permanently was with epoxy. Far as the odd scale issue goes...it WAS your first car, right? That's enough reason to let it get away with being a little bigger than everything else on the shelf...maybe? Adds complication to getting scale guts in it, but that body looks awfully good.

Yup, it's up at about 10:20 AM Eastern, working well enough to upload a couple of pix and post, but it's not working right. I'll probably give it at least another 30 days before I seriously start thinking about bailing. Problems DO happen, and sometimes can be extremely difficult to untangle. Lets hope they can get it sorted.

Thank you all for your interest and kind comments. Again, this was the $1 starting point. No frame, no wheels, no hood, nothing but what you see here. The fenders weren't attached when I got it, so I juggled the proportions to this point. Before I could do anything, I had to reinforce the previous work that had been done. It was VERY fragile, and began to disintegrate as I handled it. A layer of glass and epoxy inside should hold it together long enough to get a final shape, a finish, and molds made.

The sign should have read "SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK", with small print under it that said "...unless you're a lying, thieving, scamming little POS, in which case you'll be taken out back and shot".

Photobucket obviously has multiple functions, and it's still able to establish the links to our stored photos so they show up in an older post. For now. For this we can be grateful...however, there have been reported instances where this function has failed as well. THIS is the problem I have with storing information "in the cloud", which is the new cool hip happening oh-so-techno-savvy BS thing. Yeah, right. All it means is that when (NOT IF) there's a technical issue where YOUR data is stored, you're SOL.

Not working again at 9:03 AM. Won't even load the log in page. All I get is, finally, "Sorry, an unexpected error occurred". Checked , site's down, "server not responding". Read the comments recently here: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/photobucket.com.html 9:41, responded finally, recognized my IP address and went to my "recent uploads" page. Won't do anything else.

Very attractive model. I've always loved the tri-five Fords, much more than the same vintage Chevys, and your model reminds my why. Love the colors too.

Man, some real pretty work going on here.

Looking really good. I'm particularly impressed by your fitting of the engine parts to each other. So many builders leave big gaps between the heads, front cover and block, and between the heads, valve covers and manifolds, and fail to get parts square with each other. Yours looks like a real engine. Nice job.

When the MBAs realized they had software users firmly grasped by the dangly bits, it became open season on users. Expect it to get worse. If you want to play, you're gonna have to pay...more and more frequently. When you depend on software to make a living or do business, you don't have any choice but to go along with the extortion. Just like utilities and phone / internet services, you have to pay or get shut down.

I got a rear body and fenders from a Johan 1934 Mercedes 500k Special Sports Roadster for about a buck in one of the junk bins at the last year's NNL South. The previous owner had started hacking and filling on the tail of it, making a fastback coupe, and I hated to see his work and vision end up in the trash. Though I didn't really know where he ultimately intended to go, there was something about it I found oddly inspiring. The previous work had some interesting ideas, but was very fragile and mostly carved out of lacquer putty, plastic scraps and some balsa. I thought about it in the back of my mind for over a year and finally got motivated to pull it out and do a hard mockup of the parts of the vision my imagination had filled in. This is what I started with, the $1 rescue (minus the wheels, of course) There's a long way to go with this one, but I've about got the general theme, major proportions and stance where I like them.

Getting very close to paint. Had a little problem, though. The way I scratchbuilt the front of the thing was so fragile, it was beginning to crack during sanding. It was never intended to be permanent, but rather to last through paint and then be used as a plug for a set of molds. Only solution here was to coat the inside of the nose with a layer of fiberglass, which should impart enough strength to get me through paint, polishing, and mold-making.

Working, but stupidly. Puts uploads anywhere in a particular folder it feels like, ignores entirely "newest first" command. Seems to put uploads close to what it thinks the new photo looks most like. Just now I started a new folder, uploaded 3 pix. Slow loading, showed they had been uploaded, but it never put them in the folder, just hung. Pushed it through again, now have 2 copies of each photo. What, have they hired some $10 per hour web developers to work on this? Something works almost flawlessly for 4 years, then suddenly begins to work like cheap Chinese tools, it's NOT on my end.

Yes, i am knowing that one, just not which year yet.

OMG LOL But AAMOF some words and phrases are just 2G2B4G AFAIC. B4N. RL beckons.

Nice. Some people really need to have the snot slapped out of them.

The Revell body is on the left in the top 3 shots, on the right in the 4th shot. And these are the frames, body shells and fender units that come in some of the AMT '29 releases. BOTH SETS. The white body shell is from the first Ala Kart double kit, but it's exactly what you get in the later-issue '29, except for color. As you see, the upper body shell, hood and fenders are Ala Kart parts, sans louvers on the fender unit, and with the notch in the running boards (for the side pipes) filled in.

Yup, now it's up and working.

Yeah, and see? THIS is the problem with SO MUCH cheap Chinese crapp. It looks all nice and shiny when it's new, but you use it, you find out they made the seals out of old condoms or something, and they melt, making the entire piece of crapp useless. You buy a REAL gun, you don't have to worry about what the seals are made of, because somebody actually gave a damm about something other than making it cheap, and put solvent-resistant rubber in it. I've got 30 YEAR OLD SPRAY GUNS THAT STILL HAVE THE ORIGINAL SEALS.

OK. Now it's up, but it's saying "Down for Maintenance". Better than no response at all.

Impalow, I'm really curious about that side-gravity-feed detail gun. I'll go inexpensive it it actually works, but I've bought knockoff Chinee guns before and had the seals go bad after only a few uses. I've also had knockoff guns that oxidized badly fairly quickly, with plated potmetal parts that SHOULD have been brass or stainless. Your results look great though, and I'm always in the market for a decent small gun. How long have you had it? Any issues, other than normal maintenance?

Just checked. Server's down for everyone now. And apparently there have been pretty serious and ongoing /intermittent problems since at least as far back as the middle of November. Yeah, ain't technology grand.

Well guys, I shot and edited a bunch of pix of the Revell and AMT parts side-by-side, but our old friend Photobucket seems to be having a nervous breakdown. Soon as it's functioning again, I'll post. And a BIG thanks to Dave Darby for the excellent 1:1 photos. It's always a huge help to be able to see what the things are SUPPOSED to look like.