Fat Brian

My apologies then, that's going to be something else.

Swap the nozzle for one that accepts the little plastic tube. Put the tube down in a small jar and wrap a couple layers of paper towel around the tube/jar mouth joint. While holding the paper towels to keep them in place and the tube in the jar use your free hand to operate the nozzle.

There is a company in Australia called BNA Model World. They have a large selection of wheels and tires and their shipping to the US is pretty quick. The US dollar is also strong against the AU dollar so you get a bit of a discount too. The have a website and an Ebay store so ordering is fairly painless as well.

I think you might want the other thread unless you're planning a 4x4 conversion for the Z.

Yep, and going back to a points system where leading laps builds championship points instead of just winning races.

I like what you're cooking up there, that's going to be a neat build.

I'm just going to say it, one of the best things about racing years ago was the wrecks. It made the race seem actually dangerous and gave the drivers a daredevil aura. My grandpa and I thought we watched Richard Petty die in the front stretch at Daytona. I'm not saying make the cars less safe but there's got to be a way to get back to a more aggressive style of racing instead of riding around for 499 miles and fighting it out for 1.

As much as we joke about the quality of these builds I don't see a mental handicap here. My nephew has special needs and he loves cars but there is a level of understanding of the rules of what makes up a car that he just doesn't possess, four wheels, an engine, exhaust pipes and so forth. I'm not trying to get on my soapbox or anything, it's actually far more interesting to me that a person of sound mind looked at this stuff and said "yep, that's good enough". With the amount of toy parts used I would almost speculate that these were built by a kid transitioning from toys to models but there's just so many of them and the kits span such a long period, there are lots that haven't been out since the seventies but the bottle the tractor is made from has only been around for the last ten or so years. Maybe a kid was given a relative's model collection and plowed through it with childhood gusto and no appreciation for the value or rarity of some of the kits.

Jim, you're not wrong. I live near Charlotte and Bruton Smith holds Concord (pronounced CON`-cord, not "conquered") where the track is actually located over a barrel and Charlotte to a lesser degree. After a tiff a few years ago with the Concord city council in which the city eventually bent over and took it in the hind quarters they renamed what had always been Speedway Blvd to Bruton Smith Blvd in an effort to appease the Emperor of Brutonia. Any time he's unhappy about something he threatens to move the track to South Carolina and the politicians throw more buckets of taxpayer money at him.

I heard that the France family wants to sell their majority share which effectively sells the brand. Maybe somebody who can rebuild it will buy them out.

Another thing that gets me is that the diorama is pretty good so where do these horrible builds come from?

That is seriously amazing, I want that in my house.

I've seen that guy, the worst thing I ever saw posted was a "tractor" made out of an empty 20 oz soda bottle and some you wheels slapped in it. It was but it now for like $40. Some of the builds look dirty enough to be old but some of the kits are pretty recent, I have no idea what's going on.

Thank you, a few more hours in the tank and I'll be able to redo the putty work and hopefully start painting again tomorrow.

Yes, the top is really what kills it, it's too thick and doesn't have the slight rake the original did.

They're mostly on the other side and roof. By the time everything was dry they weren't as visible but it still looked pretty bad.

The cab is going in the dunk tank due to some wrinkling but I wanted to show the color combination.

My sealer coat wrinkled so I've got to strip the cab but I still wanted to post a shot of the color combination.

You're weathering is amazing, very realistic.

I keep my small parts in little bead separators my wife got me, bigger parts are in about a dozen Avon boxes from when she used to sell it. They're like what printer paper comes in but beefier. I also have a set of plastic drawers from Walmart with partial kits in gallon ziploc bags.

That's an interesting arrangement but I guess we all have to share space a bit. My hobby room currently also contains the cat litter box, which is why I do most of building in my recliner.

That is very neat, great work!

The kit was just going to be a corrected nose and 302 engine for their existing 69 Mustang kit. The tooling work appears to be done because they've got a built example in the first quarter announcement. It will certainly be delayed but I don't see a reason it wouldn't ever come out.

It had a bed, I just robbed it to make a long bed for another build. I wanted to a flat bed for this build either way.

Yeah, I really hate that they cheaped out on doing the tires correctly. They removed the lettering from the tires in the most recent camo version of the kit so at least you can turn them around right now. I'm going to fix it before I mount them up permanently.