Ace-Garageguy

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.

I'll need to study up on wood-graining techniques, but if I remember correctly, there are multiple threads on this site by guys who have it down.

Agreed...understated elegance:

Finally got a decent restorable one of these for reasonable money. As it was the very first car model I ever got my grubby little gloo-smearing paws on, and made a truly horrible mess of, I've been kinda wanting one to see if I can do any better 60 years on. I also love the looks of all '57 Fords The one I found was built and painted inside and out some awful baby-exhaust brown, apparently trying to look like something it wasn't, but I rolled the dice anyway. A few hours in warm oven cleaner removed every bit of paint and oddball non-solvent gloo on the test parts, so it looks like I have a nice rebuildable and unbodged kit under all the nastiness. And it came with lotsa extra vintage Revell '57 Ford bits.

Thanks for the info.

IMHO, Raymond Loewy, the Avanti designer, got it right...round headlights and all. Every subsequent "improvement" was about as aesthetically successful as this:

Actually, the head was cast iron unless it was a Cosworth. Cast iron head, alloy block...backwards from every other engine on the planet. Semi-experimental no-liner silicon-impregnated engine block, iron-sprayed pistons, all intended to achieve a lighter, simpler, cheaper assembly; not a very good idea in the long run, though I've seen well maintained Vegas that ran fine until they rusted to non-economically-repairable swiss cheese. Porsche 928 (and others) used the same Reynolds 390 or A390 aluminum/silicon block material, again linerless, and got it to work well enough...though rebuilding an alloy engine using a linerless block can be problematic. https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/830010/

"Surely you jest, sir!!"