Ace-Garageguy

"Made in China" stamped on any manufactured item is your assurance of the absolutely highest quality possible in the known universe.

Interesting related aside...Bill Cunningham's spectacular 1/24 "birdcage" Maserati is flawless blown up on a computer screen (I'm sure he knows where the imperfections are, but no mere mortal will ever spot one), but on a contest table it will simply blow you away.

Why did the chicken cross the road? He didn't. He just sat and complained that it was way too hard.

It's OK. Mommy or Uber or an autonomous transport pod will always get you there with no icky "effort" from you.

Yup. If something looks pretty good blown up to several times its size on a computer screen, you can be confident it'll look great on a shelf or contest table.

As the meanings of words continue to become more arbitrary...

When this is the guy driving the bus, you might want to rethink your destination...

Excellent. As a builder who posts detailed descriptions to accompany photos of my WIPs, I occasionally get questions about aspects that are fully covered in the text. And sometimes I've been tempted to be kinda rude when it's obvious someone just didn't bother to read the text. But as you say, there have been times I've overlooked something clearly printed right in front of me, so I tend to try to be a little nicer these days, having accepted (somewhat reluctantly ) that I'm not always perfect in my perception either.

Capital NICE. Really glad I bought one these kits after seeing yours.

Thanks, guys. They look a little better than I thought they would, actually, and when you consider they look pretty good blown up to over 3 times their actual size on my computer screen, I'm sure they'll look fine on a 1/24 scale curbside model (and this is one big reason I'll really miss Testors buffing metalizer).

It was an experiment. I've wanted to use a primer that looked similar to zinc chromate on several models that would have had alloy bodies in reality. I've used a hot self-etch green primer before, and found that though it might craze terribly, it was also easy to correct with some effort. I've also seen the arguments about "red bleed" for years on all the forums. So since I had two red bodies from different manufacturers, I decided to see 1) if either or both of them would craze, and 2) if either or both would bleed. The results: One bled, one crazed. The one that crazed didn't bleed, and the one that bled didn't craze. The morals of the story: 1) all kit styrene IS NOT CREATED EQUAL 2) red-bleed IS A REAL THING and not a myth as some insist 3) TEST FIRST.

Thing is, Scarlett, I don't give a diddly-squat.

I'm going make a mold of the original hood, then make fiberglass a copy and do essentially what you suggest to the copy, then make a mold of the modified copy, and then make another very thin copy of the modified hood in the second mold. Stay tuned. All will be revealed.

Models, models, models; we gotta limit the use of that word or we're gonna be inundated with the X-rated ads again.

Thanks for your interest and comments. The QC is in several of the old Revellogram show car hot-rods like the Paddy Wagon, Ice T, and Pie Wagon. It represents the big 301-series "champ car" Halibrand, and is larger than the model-A (101 series) and V8 (201 series). These kits are marked 1/24, and the unit may be a little bit on the big side, but it looks good. (not my model) There are a pair of beautiful 1/25 champ-car Halibrands in the Revell Tommy Ivo Showboat kit, and they're easier to use in a rod, as the axle bells are separate parts. I haven't measured any of the QCs to check the scale dimensions.

Aha!!! That explains it. The location tracker automatically assumes a local accent and autocorrects the spelling to match, further assuming the query is from a spelling-challenged common-core grad with a hillbilly background. Got it.

Guy sounds like a butt to me. You asked legit questions that you didn't feel his copy and photograph adequately addressed. How hard is it to answer "yes (or no), there is a black line around it" (or not) and "the decal is very opaque so it should look the same applied over any color" (or not)? Even if he felt his photo and description were "perfect" and self-explanatory, his response could have been polite. Courtesy costs nothing.

Just a little on the goofy dwerp narrator side, but overall pretty good...

You know a search engine has been programmed by idiots when you type in "pander" and you get dozens of cute pictures of pandas.

Two emus mewing would be two too many mewing to you.