Fat Brian

The big towing company around here told me if you need a rotator to get you its $500 to start the engine then either hourly or mileage depending on what exactly you need.

It should fit, it's no longer than the straight six Cummins the kit comes with.

I picked up the Long Shot kit after your other thread about Monzas and want the Super Spyder as well. I really like the flares and fins and stuff and like to build the engine and chassis to justify the outlandish bodywork.

True, those usually don't get included because they aren't full detail kits though they are good for what they are.

No, the Revell Harley-Davidson F150 and Lightning are the newest Ford trucks that have been done and both are 99 and 2000 model years. There might be something in diecast but I don't know.

Building and detailing engines is number one, to me the engine is the soul of a car and it tells you so much about what a vehicle is capable of. Least favorite is probably all the little final details to get a build on the shelf, headlight lenses, door handles, mirrors, all the little fiddly bits that can wreck a build.

Black is tough, I wish I had put a second coat on but I didn't want to add another step that could jeopardize it. Thankfully there's no bare metal foil to do so after the decals I won't have to handle it much.

That there is no polishing at all, just Duplicolor primer and Tamiya paint with Mr Super Clear gloss. Hopefully I'll get it decaled and in a final coat of clear by this time next week. I still need to build the light bar and push bar, I'm hoping to find a kit piece for the push bar in particular.

You're welcome.

#16 I think I've finally gotten a paint job I can use. This is the fourth time I've painted this body and if didn't take this time I was probably going to chuck it and buy another kit.

Definitely, probably 10 to 20 percent of the kits I buy are parts donors for others. It's Dr. Frankenstein's lab over here.

Fireball Modelworks does a 4x4 kit that might have some stuff you can use.

If you search for Coleman 4x4 conversion you find all kinds of neat stuff. The axle used in the light to medium duty trucks is their 1.5 ton unit, they also made 3 and 5 ton axles. It looks like you might be able to convert a Ford 9", especially if you can find a 1/24 one. The rear end from one of the old Monogram stock cars should do just fine with a bit of putty to round over the diff cover and bolt heads around it.

The new record set in the fall is 27 hrs 25 minutes, beating the 2013 record by over an hour.

I'm good on 71 Mustangs unless there's new parts in this one but I'll take a couple Rabbits. I will stroke him and pet him and call him George.

One of the biggest early converters of GM trucks was a company called Coleman. They manufactured their own front axle so you'll end up having to modify an existing piece.

Thanks guys! To me the camping gear was part of the challenge, finding a way to carry all the stuff you need to race across two continents.

It looks like the main body of the truck us real but most of the wheels and the rear portion of the front fenders are shopped. It will be interesting to see the source image for this.

It's been a while on that one but the 390 66 Fairlane was out recently.

Would it possible to upgrade the fan on the Testors unit? It looks like it just uses a small PC type fan, something a bit bigger might help without replacing the entire booth.

Yeah, I won't be using it again. I was stumped for a color for a beetle and asked my wife to grab a can of whatever color she liked at Walmart. It stripped surprisingly easy for something that's supposed to bond to plastic, a few hours in LA's Totally Awesome and it was gone but it looked like you dipped the part in acetone. The finish came out pretty good though, it dries really hard so it doesn't get goopy feeling if you handle it a bit.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with it, it definitely stands out on the shelf.

I've never had success spraying Krylon or Rustoleum over Testors, it wrinkles almost immediately. They also seem to etch the surface of the plastic badly too. I had to strip some pieces of a beetle I painted with Krylon Fusion and the surface of the plastic was so pebbly I almost had to throw them away.

Ok, that's why I thought they ran it again, because you could still get the roadster for over a year after the coupe was gone. It seemed like it hung around longer than a normal run.

Okay, I couldn't tell from the picture if the seat was wide enough to go over the rails or not.