Ace-Garageguy

Very nice. The added details really bring it to life. Exactly what I need for an HO setting I'm designing.

Very nice. I love seeing unusual heavy equipment models. This is really something special.

One of my personal favorites in Harry's collection of absolutely outstanding models.

Very nice roofline. Frankly, I think your roof looks a lot better than the real ones from every angle. It's more graceful, and the proportions work much better with the rest of the car. Excellent work.

Perfectly said, Tulio. Exactly how I feel, and a very eloquent statement as to the kind of impact he had on this community and hobby.

And designer. He had a great eye for proportion and line. Much of his restyle work was far better than a lot of what's coming out of the car manufacturer's studios, or the big-name custom houses. I had hoped to collaborate with him on a 1:1 project sometime down the road, and just never imagined he'd be gone before me. His seven-part Photoshop tutorial series shows what kind of guy he was...somebody who would take the time and make the effort to share his knowledge, and try to teach others that they could master new skills and techniques.

I'll bet $100 that any number of "well known conservative writers" have said "I like pie". However, quoting that sentiment does not make a political statement OR reference. This is especially true when the quote is taken completely out of context to illustrate an entirely different point.

I'll miss him.

Very interesting. I didn't realize the showcar was ever kitted, and I see a few minor proportion and line discrepancies from the real one. Potential to make a very special model of one of my favorite concept vehicles.

Thanks to everyone again for your interest and comments. I've been traveling a lot for business lately, but I'm back in town for a while and should be getting going on this one again shortly. November deadline. Maybe I can make it.

Nice topic. The body does indeed look pretty good. I'm not much of a fan of 1/32 for cars, but some decent models could look great displayed with aircraft in the same scale.

I usually follow the USPS tracking info when I'm expecting something in the mail, and I've seen some pretty bizarre routings. Following the tracking info can be helpful when dealing with the PO employees when a package goes MIA (which doesn't happen often, but HAS happened twice so far, and both times the item was found and sent on its way again).

One method that's always worked for me...assuming you don't have other details on a panel you don't want to drown in primer...after removing molded-on detail, I'll shoot the panel with a relatively hot primer like Duplicolor. The first couple of coats will swell the old detail areas, and the ghosting will be very obvious. Sand it flat and reprime, as many times as is necessary to kill it. The hood peak has been removed on the Revell '50 Olds hood shown below. Once it stops ghosting through the primer, it won't ghost through paint. Here's the proof (even though this part was shot with hot Duplicolor green, and cleared with Testors lacquer).

Just a thought...this old AMT parts-pack has four, 7" headlamp buckets in it, 2 of which are the tri-bar style. No lenses, and they are often available pretty cheap. You can use the ends of Bic-style pen caps for the rear section...

Back in the mid-1980s, I owned a fleet services company. My largest client was a nationally-known pizza delivery franchise that had 60+ vehicles, mostly small pickup trucks (because they were about the cheapest vehicles available at the time, and the franchise fleet manager thought small trucks should be tougher than small cars). They bought manual gearbox-equipped trucks on the first go-round, Mitsubishi, Ford, Toyota and Isuzu. The twinky kids driving the things abused the snot out of them, and were going through clutches in under 20,000 miles. We could do a clutch in those days for about $250. The fleet manager thought the recurring expense was too high, so in his infinite wisdom decided to buy automatic-trans-equipped trucks when the first units began coming up for replacement. The jackass kids would throw them into reverse before coming to a stop, hold them in gear until the engines were screaming, and try their best to trash them in general. So now, instead of replacing clutches every 20,000 miles for $250, we were replacing automatic transmissions at 35,000 miles for $2500. You do the math. PS. The only trucks that stood up to the constant abuse without ever really wearing out or breaking were the Toyotas. Even the clutches lasted until the 85,000 to 100,000 mile replacement. No wonder the third-world warlords like them so much.

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Very sad news. I had high hopes for Harry's full recovery after he seemed to improve dramatically after the radiation treatments, but he's been going downhill ever since the botched first round of chemo that trashed his heart. Very very sad. I'll miss him. A lot.

HellifIknow. But it's kinda growing on me. If it wasn't for the fake patina, I think it could make a pretty cool little shop truck.

Rattlecan Ace-Hardware white lacquer, sanded and polished...but not too glossy. Too much gloss at this point can make it a bugger to get the PVA mold-release to lie down slick. Masked for pulling molds for front sheetmetal, with a coat of PVA sprayed...

Bugger. I'm going to be in Az. the week before that...but I can't stretch the trip out that long. Damm damm damm. All I really need is at least one set (or 3) of their "medium duty truck tires and rims". I'd happily pay a generous premium if somebody could grab me a set or several...if any are available.

Should be a good choice too. It's the longish cellulose fibers that give certain types of paper their strength and flexibility, especially when supported by a matrix of some rigid material (superglue or epoxy or polyester resin) Interesting related historical fact...during WW II, Britain didn't have a lot of aluminum to make airplanes. As an experiment to find a viable replacement, a Supermarine Spitfire fuselage was constructed with parts made from linen cloth (also cellulose fiber) saturated with phenolic resin (think old-school brown circuit boards with a visible weave pattern in them). Though the plastic fuselage never flew (to the best of my knowledge) many Spits were delivered with plastic seats made with the same material, and these paved the way for the composite materials and related construction techniques we know in aircraft and race-cars today.