Ace-Garageguy

Somebody must be cloning those women and distributing them all over the country. They're everywhere. Come to think of it, I see a lot of women driving Jukes too. A smiling frog. How cute.

Correct. The "7/8 scale" thing was myth. Nascar had templates back then too. From the article Greg posted: In truth, if Smokey’s Chevelle were a true 7/8 size, it would be almost 10 inches narrower and more than two feet shorter than a full-scale version. The wheelbase would be only 100 inches; the track 50 inches. The car would be Vega-sized, not Chevelle-sized, and the scam would be obvious in a rainstorm at midnight. But Yunick WAS a genius with car prep and trick mods.

Yeah, great color scheme on that car. Really brings out the lines. Aggressive, but still subtle. Nize.

Cool little bucket. Very nice. Good to see some torsion-bar suspension on a hot-rod for an interesting change too. And great use of the Touch-N-Flow tube.

Clean build, slick paint and foil work. And I really like the color blend. It reminds me of some of the colorized CFD airflow simulations. Pretty cool.

Great concept. I really like "alternate reality" ideas.

By "regular" Testors I assume you mean the ones that say "spray enamel" on the label. In that case, brake fluid or purple goo or oven cleaner should work fine to strip it. If you're using Testors "Model Master" line products that say "lacquer" on the label, stripping may be a little more difficult. There is an entire thread devoted to paint stripping here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83153 Whatever you do, DO NOT use any hardware or big-box store "paint stripper". It WILL RUIN your model.

Two questions. 1) What year was the stock frame requirement dropped? The '67 NHRA season allowed the Malco Gasser Mustang to compete as a gas-class car, built on the old Willys frame, modified and stretched. 2) I'm not understanding what was "so called" about FX. If I recall correctly, it was a specific class for "factory experimental" cars. Granted the rules were few, but there WERE rules stating the car could only be built from major parts available from the manufacturer (parts could be swapped between model lines, which is how Mickey Thompson got away with a solid rear axle and a 389 in an early Tempest shell).

Maybe on a generic rectangular tube frame, which I think would have been class-legal in 1965 or thereabouts...recall that the Malco Gasser Mustang was built on Montgomery's old '33 Willys gasser frame...

The invasion stripes would imply the aircraft took part in the D-Day operations of June 1944...but I thought the Mk 22 came later than that (being basically a bubble-canopy Mk 21, which saw very little service in the Second World War). Are the invasion stripes for a tribute paint scheme, I wonder?

I've been wondering that too. How much did the chassis really change later in to the '60s, and how similar is, say, a '65 Falcon? Would the Trumpeter Falcon chassis be close enough? After all, the Mustang was built on the Falcon platform.

Cool. Can I borrow a million?

There's a Franklin Mint 1/24 diecast. Kinda pricey to cut up though.

Here ya' go. If you can't read it on the board, save in on your hard drive and open it in your photo viewer. The resolution is high enough to read it just fine with a little magnification.

It kinda depends on your definition of "girl" I guess. I used to know a beautiful woman who drove a lipstick-red '57 T-bird, one who drove a 450SL Merc, one who drove a series 3 E-type convertible, and one who drove a 289 4-speed '66 Mustang. Not your typical "girls". These days, I see a lot of women driving these... ...How boring. I kinda like this though...

For some odd reason, I can only take 1/32 scale seriously for aircraft models. I just don't think I could get up the steam to do a custom in so small a scale. BUT...you say there's a resin body? 1/25 maybe?

Very nice. Another one of my all-time favorite warbirds. Gorgeous, sexy airplanes.

Nice !! I didn't know there was a 1/32 bubble-canopy Spit available. Gotts ta get one.

I wish somebody made a styrene kit of the Mark, so I could easily build Harry's version.

Welcome to the forum. That's an ambitious project for a first-time paint job. I would tend to think you'd need to make custom masks, from frisket material or some other masking material first. You should probably practice drawing exactly what you want, to fit the model exactly, first. Then practice cutting and applying your masks on scrap plastic or plastic sheets before you try to paint your model. There are some guys on here who do very nice custom flame jobs, and I'm sure someone will jump in to help you more.

I started to recommend the AM Hewland, as I've seen 1:1 Panteras with that gearbox. I looked in an AM McLaren kit however, and the 1/24 Hewland LG 600 looks to be pretty huge compared to what a scale-correct ZF would be. Besides turning it over, you'd also have to add an engine mounting flange and remove the control-arm mounts from the side covers. If your Pantera kit is 1/24, you'd probably be better off installing the Hewland right-side up, and letting it just be a Hewland rather than trying to hack it into a ZF. With the 427 you want to use, the big Hewland would be just right (too much is always good). Hewland LG 600 Now that I'm really thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I've seen a gearbox in some obscure kit that would make a quite-believable stand-in for the ZF. If I figure it out, I'll put up a photo.

That's a real eye-catcher, for sure, a really unusual car I don't recall ever seeing in full scale. I'd always wondered what that primer would look like as a glossy color too. Nice choice, looks great, as does the rest of the car.

I saw coolant on the road...coming from my water pump seal. A lot of it.

I tend to say GO$%^&#$@@#$((^&$$*&%%$#$$#^&*&*&MUTH&^**$#%%$^%$#ER !!! As the arterial blood sprays across the shop.

You did see some fenderless metallic-painted cars in the '50s (metallic paints were available on high-end cars as far back as the 1930s) but as Snake says, the metalflake was a '60s look. Getting a scale-correct-appearing metallic particle in your paint can be tricky, as most of the metallics look like dune-buggy or bass-boat HUGE metalflake when applied to a model. You tended to see more solid colors on hot rods in the '50s because by far, most of them were built on a budget, and solid color paint was simply cheaper.