Ace-Garageguy

THANKS !! I didn't realize they still sold those (of course, I never looked). My father used to bring me odd sizes from time to time, leftovers from developing piping runs in the days way before CAD.

I've had some luck buying cheap, broken diecasts just to get the rolling stock.

Sounds like me 'til I hit about 45. Figured if I wanted to make 50, a few things had to change. 25+ years later, the revised dietary strategy seems to be working well enough.

Thing I hate most about this site is that every time I think I have every car model I could possibly want for the next 100 years, along comes a thread like this that reminds me of another one, and down the rabbit hole I go.

Beautiful little car, unusual combo. Looks very clean and professional. Super nice.

Couple days back I had a fat slice of cherry pie for dinner, then about a third of a pack of generic Oreos for dessert...with milk, naturally. I almost always eat healthy and get lotsa exercise, but once or twice a year I indulge the 5-year-old-me still lurking inside. Keeps him quiet the rest of the time.

He does resin body conversions and kits as well. I have his Corvair rampside pickup, among others. All absolutely first-rate.

Holey moley.

If you really want curved zoomies, you can make a bunch of identical bends by tightly wrapping styrene rod around a dowel, securing the ends, and dipping the whole thing in boiling water for 10 or 15 seconds to set the curve, then in cold to temper the plastic. Allow it to cool, and cut it into appropriate sections. Then drill 1/16 or so into the open ends. For much less effort, it may be possible to get a perfectly functional looking exhaust setup using straight styrene rod, drilled on the ends...something like what I did on this one.

Perhaps a 3D-printed scanning electron microscope would be in order for identifying those pesky "spots that the human eye can't detect"? Coming soon to a desktop near you...

Looks like they're still included in MCG-2203.

Lower is always better.

Me too. The '63 has particular appeal for me, as my parents really wanted one way back then. I don't remember what happened, but we ended up with a '63 Olds 88 convert instead, which I still have (after tracking it to Texas and bringing it back here). The clean styling of the '63 is so different from what had been expected from Pontiac just a few years earlier, with a ton of ornamentation.

But it's generally preferable to edit the quote down to just enough so it's obvious what's being responded to. Lotsa times, quotes will include all the photos as well as the complete text. Entirely unnecessary.

So much for a late lunch. Back to the mines...

I have the Airflow, and something about the Silver Arrow doesn't look quite right to me...but more suggestions are always welcome.

Just a thought...always try to get your putty, especially one-part lacquer putty, applied in one continuous pass without going over it again. The one-part stuff surface-flashes quickly, and going over a pass with the spreader again is a good way to work dried material, and air-bubbles, into your filler. It's also preferable to use a two-part catalyzed filler if you're doing any fills thicker than about 1/32 of an inch.

Bummer. Would have been a nice one to have out where you are now.

I'm sure you'll like this one:

Too bad. I'm not taking on any more customer work. Try to cope with the disappointment.

I do so love to be appreciated. I live for it, actually.

I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

Or perhaps this one? Maybe this one?

Surely you're familiar with the term "Karen" referring to a particular personality type? They're everywhere.

Yup, no "glass". My first one was molded in dark brown. I tried to brush-paint the light colored wood trim with Testors "flesh" enamel, and got it everywhere, naturally. Then tried to wash it off with thinner. Not enough thinner by far, and a much bigger mess. And on, and on. When I look back, it's kinda amazing my parents allowed me to work with tools and paint and glue at a relatively early age. Probably wouldn't find much of that today. I actually kept the poor thing for years, until it was disappeared from a mini-warehouse when I was out of the country and my useless girlfriend missed a few payments on the space...though I sent her plenty of money.