Ace-Garageguy

"Honey, the truck wrecked."

I like it.

I quite like the little Honda CR-Z hybrid, and turned around the try to see what it was first time I passed one on the road. It's a striking design, and looks like "high-performance". Though heavily modifying one would violate multiple federal and state emission-controlled-vehicles laws, it screams "I want to be a hot-rod" to me. Apparently I'm not the only person who's heard it. Though these are obviously artists' renderings, they're pretty cool ideas for models IMHO. Fujimi does one in 1/24.

Pretty cool. Looks to be a "technical pen" re-branded or developed specifically as a hobby tool. Keep us in the loop as to how well and for how long it works. Also, what the ink is soluble in.

I agree it's no great beauty, but at least it doesn't look like every melted-bar-of-soap, me-too car styling exercise out there. And I think one of THE most insipid-looking cars of all time is the Prius. It looks like it's trying to hide the fact it actually IS a car...which I guess makes sense for its intended market of car-haters. One eco-ride I'd buy solely for its looks is Honda's CR-Z hybrid. It's a striking little hot-rod in person and looks fast just sitting there.

If I was a Pinto and someone did that to me, I'd explode.

Glad to see these still chugging along. I like 'em all.

Saw my first BMW i3 today while I was walking to the grocery store. Neat looking car. Seems a lot more purposeful and adult than some eco rides out there. I could enjoy having one of these for reality, and a full-boogie 2002 tii for weekends.

Feelin' it at the moment. Intended to get up and on the bench early, when it was too cold to work comfortably outside. Got on here and blew most of the morning instead. Now it's warming up, and I've got big-boy things that have to be done...now. Bugger.

Yeah, poor little car.

I have several of those from the many different issues, and that's about the worst one I've seen. It IS correctable and will certainly help to build your skills if you decide to fix it. Kind of a PITA to have to do that much work on a "new" kit, but if you take it back, it'll just get trash-canned. Somebody here might be willing to trade for something else. I've saved a LOT worse...but I'm kinda weird.

Love the Pinto wagon. I bought a '74 big-bumper 2.3 liter automatic car for $100 long time back. Poor little bugger had oil-fouled two plugs, was running on 2 cylinders, and would barely move. "Mechanics" had diagnosed the problem as everything from carburetor to engine needing a full rebuild. Put new valve stem seals in it, drove it for about 6 months, and sold it to a new home for around $600. Good little car.

Well, if they've got the tooling in good shape lying around just getting rustier and dustier, running off one run of kits to test the waters for a potential market for others in the series makes pretty good business sense. IF it's a decent seller, more in the line can be put out. IF it's a flop, the expenditure can be written off. WAY cheaper to test-run one of these old tools that probably didn't get too many runs in the first place than to restore the tooling for something lots of US might want.

Correct. If you look carefully at the door details like the handle recess, its relationship to the character line, the shape of the side windows, and the shape of the windshield, it's pretty obvious what Zimmer started with here. The Revell kit would give you doors, roof, front and side glass, a firewall, floorpan, etc. Most of the rest of the body is fairly flat panels relatively easily scratch-built from sheet styrene. Even the grille shell is pretty simple. The fenders, as suggested above, could be sourced from a cheap Ebay gluebomb "classic" and modified to look right. Zimmer has also used other Mustang tubs for the basis of their gaudy, tasteless cars.

This question has come up before when a member was trying to model a particular Anglia gasser that ran Crower injection. There's lotsa Hilborn-look BBC stuff out there, but to the best of my current knowledge, the only 1/24-1/25 Crower-look injection setup is in the Accurate Miniatures 1/24 McLaren kits. They're kinda big for a 1/25 model. The slightly splayed injector bodies of the Crower units make tooling more difficult, in order to get the parts out of the dies after molding. Most of the "Hilborn" units in models have straight bodies (and many lack detail too) that makes them easy to de-mold from a simple die. The Accurate Miniatures injector bodies are molded lying on their sides in a split-die with details on both sides. This requires very accurate tool registration, and accounts for what passes for Hilborn in most kits being much simplified.

Excellent procedure, Barclay (road). I've used a very similar method several times and got results I was happy with (and I'm a picky SOB). What you say about "extreme caution" is true. Warm the model too fast or unevenly, or get it too hot, or tie it down too tight...plenty of ways to do more damage than good.

Great looking projects, both. Love 'em. Glad you're feeling somewhat better. I've had a few times when it seemed like a real challenge just to make it through the day, and getting back to modeling always gave me something to look forward to that didn't involve pressure, deadlines and other people's needs. Hang in there. I really like the old Offy powerplant.

Man, that is some rework. Looking great. Like the folks say, this needs to have molds pulled when you're done. Way too much work on this to be only a one-off.

I kinda like these Buicks...

So there's, like, a lot of quality and reliability differences between GM's lines? Really? Oh, riiiiiight. The people who answered the POLLS said so. Gee... how we perceive reality boggles the mind.

70 deg F yesterday, 23 forecast tonight. And most of the early daffodils didn't make it through the icy snots last week.

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