Ace-Garageguy

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet " Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet And I'm pretty sure dog vomit would still smell like dog vomit even if its translation in another language meant "essence of springtime in paradise"

Just beautiful !! Biggest grin I've had all day.

Are your great "Betty" decals going to be available, or is this a one-shot deal for this model only?

I have a recently acquired female friend who's into the '50s look, but she does the big-girl, grown up and sophisticated thing, like this... rather than the poodle-skirt thing, like this... The whole nine yards too. She makes me very happy I can still see. Oh yeah...and smell her Chanel.

LeMans was a tough nut to crack when Ford went up against Europe's best back in the '60s too. GM's best guys have done a pretty impressive job steamrolling everything else in the Corvette's class for years, and one big reason I'll probably try to find a clean-one-owner C5 in not too long. It'll be great to see what kind of rabbits Fords magicians can pull out of their hats with the new GT.

Really nice. Love seeing somebody take time and effort to save a nice old model rather than just tossing it. Looking great. (I have one too, just for a diversion).

I used to have a split 55 gallon drum lying on its side, 3/4 full of the solution, behind the resto shop. Lockable, hinged steel lid. Used it to strip grease and paint from ferrous parts prior to bead- or sandblasting. Wonderful stuff...if you're careful with it. Destroys aluminum, though.

Poor little car. That's about the worst I've seen.

Yes. But definitely worth a Google search, you know, just to make absolutely sure... PS. You guys know there's a full-scale flying replica of the R2 built in 1991, right? Also, the Lindberg / Pyro kit that is listed as 1/32 actually scales out to about 1/26 (only the pilot figure is 1/32). The L/P model has some glaring inaccuracies like ribbed wings, but it's a great starting point for a fine model.

Made me smile too. Cute little bugger.

Alex, try clicking this link. It should give you a bunch of topics to read on ways of doing these things. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amodelcarsmag.com+opening+doors&oq=site%3Amodelcarsmag.com+opening+doors&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.5932j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

VERY nice.

Dude...teleportation went out with, like, V8 engines.

Welcome to the forum, Alex. Glad to have some younger builders signing up. I assume you mean opening the trunk, and it's not hard on any styrene model body if you take your time and work carefully. All you really need to do is to repeatedly score the molded-in lines with the back of an X-acto blade, or my favorite, the tip of a razor saw. Be patient, being careful to not cut yourself in the process (we ALL do it sometimes), and eventually the lines will get thin enough to allow the panel to come out. Depending on the class your mythical car might run in, hinges could very well be necessary for the decklid, and there are several good threads here on making them.

Also the active ingredient in most commercial drain openers, also known as "lye".

Beautiful model. I love seeing warbirds built. but for some reason rarely frequent the aircraft boards. You're re-kindling an interest I've had for a very long time.

Great idea, and a nice acknowledgement that this is a worldwide hobby, with international representation on the forum.

Whoa. Beautiful rework.

And some grumpy old fossil will be complaining that the old-school electron beams were much better than the dang new-fangled neutrino beams...

Pretty cool. We used to have a similar plastics supply outlet nearby, but they went bust during the recession. Glad your guys weathered the storm.

Thanks Carl. Seeing that made my day. Every other Seafire I've ever seen has been a bubble-canopy type. I wasn't even aware a razorback model was built. Great stuff.

Thanks for that, Snake. I'll for sure give it a try. Well thought out, with the dishwashing liquid to break the surface tension and the coloring. Genius.

4 reasons: 1) I get stuck where my vision has overreached my skills, and I have to let the skills develop. I'll fiddle and work on other things, and sneak up on the required ability. 2) I decide to make a somewhat major change away from the original idea. Usually, rather than hacking into the thing, I'll put it aside and ruminate on it, to be sure I want to un-do work that is already complete. 3) The most fun part of the build to me is the "imagineering", the creative design phase. When it gets to be more like work, final fitting, finishing and detailing, my interest declines. I need to work on my self discipline...a good character-building side function of the hobby. Though I often use the excuse "I enjoy the building so much that I don't need to finish anything to be happy", I think I'd look back and feel my time was better spent if I could see a few more finished models on the shelves. 4) Real life gets in the way. For well over a year, I've been so immersed in taking care of things that shouldn't have been my problems to begin with, that I've had zero bench time until a couple of weeks ago.

You are correct, and I also mentioned split or offset crankpins in my post. The 60 degree (or multiples thereof) V-angle between banks is still the preferred layout. All you have to do is look at the beautiful symmetry of the Lambo crank, and you know why. Split crankpins and "ignoring minor vibrations" just aren't parts of my particular definition of good engineering. Your opinion may differ.