Ace-Garageguy

Over-reacting to stupidity is not constructive: you can't fix it, so why give it power to ruin even a few moments of your life?

Over-reacting to stupidity is not constructive: you can't fix it, so why give it any power to ruin even a few moments of your life?

Another point: "cold rolled" is nice, but unnecessary. The process does toughen the surface somewhat, and improves the surface finish, but when you consider how soft annealed copper and brass are, plain old hot-rolled steel is fine. Any "mill scale" can be easily removed. AND: you WILL want to anneal your copper or brass prior to trying to work it. Annealing softens the metal so it shapes and stretches more easily, without cracking. It's also necessary to periodically re-anneal it, as hammering on it causes "work hardening", which has to be relieved.

Don't overlook home improvement stores like Lowes and Home Depot, or well stocked hardware stores. Many of them stock mild steel rod and shapes and plate for making all kinds of stuff. I've bought 1/4" plate frome HD, and it's more than adequate for hammering copper and brass model body parts on.

Any fabrication shop or welding shop or machine shop will have all manner of scrap, cutoffs, etc., for little money or nothing too. OR...if there's a Metal Supermarkets store in your area, you can get anything you could possibly need for what you want to do. Small quantities are their speciality. https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/

They made both a kit with a metal die-cast body (everything else plastic), and the same kit with a plastic body. Same body tooling for both, which accounts for the huge mold seam running the length of the body shell. It's a great kit either way, but needs some heavy bodywork. EDIT: Beautiful work on yours, by the way.

It's the car Steve McQueen drove in the film LeMans.

A piece of old railroad track is good for making a small anvil, or look for a cheap cast iron vise in a pawn shop. I've made several "slappers" for doing real car sheetmetal work from sections of old leaf springs, and secured in a bench vise they'd work fine for hammering model car body panels on too. Old scrap leaf springs are usually available cheap or free at 4WD shops, or bodyshops. Other possible tools would be body-work dollies. Lower quality cast-iron ones are available inexpensively from "offshore" outlets like Harbor Freight, and they're plenty strong for hammering copper and brass stock on. You can find body-working tools in pawnshops too. Honestly, it doesn't take anything special to make anvils for doing what you want to do. Steel bar or sheet stock from 1/4" upwards will be PLENTY strong for hammer-shaping annealed brass or copper sheet. You'll be gently tapping very soft, thin metal, not vigorously hammering resilient steel. EDIT: Real-car hammers and dollies for sheetmetal come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from which any imaginable model-making tools can be fashioned.

"Day jobs" often allow wannabe-entertainers, politicians, and artists to feed themselves until they hit the big time.

Quiet and thoughtful is the way I like my women.

Master's voice made the puppy curious.

1959. It was actually raced too.

I'd halfta go wid dis wun...

While waiting for Godot, Vlad and Estragon had time for a Lucky Pozzo pizza.

Morning sickness may be a sign your life just got a lot more complicated.

Dinosaur meat tastes like chicken.

Blade Runner cop cars... Two Lane Blacktop '55... ...and the tanker from Duel.

There's a lot of useless 3rd-rate mediocrity celebrated on YT, but there's also some good info if you dig for it. These appear to be the latter, perhaps:

Over and out, Gracie; just say good night.

"Retired" doesn't describe me as well as "retread" does: same old carcass going round and round, but with a thinner skin.

Shaping up to be clear and mid-60s this PM, so maybe I can get another hike in a little later.

Weekend warriors often need painkillers to make it through Mondays.

PM'd (not all of 'em)

Thanks for the heads-up on that one.