Ace-Garageguy

Nice !!

I found a benefit for topcoating models with mayonnaise. The cat likes to lick them, and cleans the dust off in the process.

Anybody noticed the prices for mayonnaise, or eggs, or meat, or everything else recently? Can you say "ram-pant in-fla-tion" boys and girls?

Used to be great. It got reformulated and is now garbage...if you can even find it.

Looks great. Definitely worthwhile underhood upgrade if somebody has printing capability. Not many kit distributors respond well to drilling, and many aftermarket ones are huge and/or klugey.

Huge improvement on the headlights/grille/bumper assembly. That's been my SOP on chrome-headlight and one-piece parts like that.

Another non-question. Word meanings are hard. Must be as hard as understanding a 46% increase isn't "double". Only thing I'll miss is the buffing metalizers, but their demise is ancient news anyway. And...ummm...what was the question?

Yes...but it cures much harder than the surrounding material, so something like a Dremel has to be used to rough-shape it. Here's an application similar to what the OP is asking about. The blue hood surround section was bonded in with epoxy/flock, shaped, then the grille section was put in, and more epoxy/flock used to form the fender cheeks below the headlight sugar-scoops.

^^^ Damm. That is absolutely wonderfully beautiful.

I would have to disagree. "Wild" or "outrageous" show cars can be built while still demonstrating good design and taste. There are lots of them. The Golden Sahara exhibits neither. It's an apparently random collection of disjointed, unrelated elements and gaudy ornamentation...kinda like what we see from some mainstream OEMs lately. EDIT: All that negativity aside, I still like the thing for its unabashedly horrible over-the-top-ness. I agree the first iteration is cleaner, and hangs together much better as an all-of-a-part piece of work.

I'd never heard this thought expressed so succinctly prior to today: "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"

https://alsacorp.com/product/easy-chrome

Nothing too exciting today...just an oddball version of the AMT BlackForce kit, cheap 'cause it's an oddball, primarily for the wheels and tires... ...but I needed another shell to put together the Carson-top version shown below. I like 'em both.

Yup...and it was detail like that that got me hooked on those "awful" "fiddly" Revell kits from the period.

Geez. Seems like only yesterday it was 2022. They must be right about time flying when you're having fun.

Looks like nice clean work, and the subtle flames look great. I've always likes this kit as a donor for other projects too, the frame in particular.

I typically use a slow curing epoxy (30 minutes minimum, though what I use takes 24 hours to full room-temp cure) plus cotton-flock to adhere dissimilar materials. Lotsa people think my approach is overkill, but my stuff never cracks and falls off...or cracks during sanding, polishing, etc.

Yeah, I got lucky. But I need to get on the stick pulling molds. I don't know how it survived so nice for so long; I can almost hear it warp and shrink as it sits on my desk.

Pretty cool, but I'd still have to go with Tony Stark's setup...though I believe I'd need to lobotomize Gwyneth.

One of my all-time favorite truck designs, the White 3000...

Bottom line on this kit...and I've built several including the very first release when I was young and the Nomad version...as with older kits in general, it'll make a beautiful model with applied thought and skill. But if you just want something to gloo together with minimal effort, this isn't the ideal candidate.

Compare previous box-art re: Scalemates. Pretty obvious what kit this is. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/atlantis-h1371-57-chevy--1402839