ScottsGT

Hell, couldn’t get it off clean even using 2000 grit sandpaper.

Not so fast….. I got red overspray on the bottom of the wing.

Not the cleanest edge, but if I try to make it better it will get worse. And wish me luck. I still have to tape off the tips and paint them blue.

And we’re off and running….

Yea, 20-30 years from now? Who knows. Maybe my kids and grandkids will still be working on my stash! I was there too for the film to digital change. I worked with a wedding photog that taught me a lot about lighting, fill flash, etc. Man, you’re right about those early digital cameras. He bought one of the early Fuji digital cams. When it started taking off, he retired because the investment wasn’t worth his time left in the industry. I have an old Canon 5D classic I haven’t taken out of the bag in 4 years. I should be ashamed. Small collection of L glass to go with it. I really need to get involved again with photography. What pissed me off was Canon quit supporting the old bodies in their editing software. All it did was auto download when you plug in. Now I have to pull the card and put it in a reader and download images manually. And now the price of any basic full frame Canon body is out of touch with the occasional hobbyist. But living out on a lake now, I could get some spectacular wildlife and sunset pics. I decided years ago sunrise pics are too early in the morning.

I remember hearing film cameras are dead too. There’s a big resurgence in film these days. I see maybe a few companies putting out files for kits, but are you (the average modeler) going to invest in a printer, gain the knowledge to run it, space to put it, clean it, etc…vs. opening up a new kit? I for one would never go that route with all the kits in my stash. I do however see a market for obscure kits printed by a vendor and shipped like a kit.

Exactly what I was thinking of using. Today I was just taking the Tamiya tape and sticking on my shirt 3 or 4 times. I tried rescribing one of the lines and my scribing tape lifted another 3” off the wing. Out of respect for Paul Fisher I restrained from hurling this out into the middle of the lake. I did get the gray repainted today.

Rob, if memory serves me correctly, the 1965 and earlier 289 motors were black. Went blue in ‘66 And Ford did have chrome valve covers on them. Here’s a pic I stole off the WWW of a ‘65 Of course old Carrol wasn’t happy with those cast iron intakes and Motorcraft 4 barrel carbs (One of the best designed carbs in the history of mankind as far as I’m concerned!) so everything he built got a power adder. GT 350’s got an aluminum high rise and a Holley carb. Exotics got the Weber stacks.

My tiny spot on the LE? Yea, it grew. I taped off the red to sand the gray paint. Peeled the red off half the wing tip. 😡 I am so over this model. I just want it done now. It’s going to be a long time before I start another resin kit, and instead of standing over the sink washing it, I’m going to wash and wet sand every nook and cranny I can get to.

Now I’d have been tempted to paint the covers gold because that’s how my Fairlane was originally. Funny, one year change to ‘66 and the Mustang engine was the traditional Ford blue. But the ‘65 Fairlane was black and gold. Well, by the time I got it, grunge and gold! Of course I wasn’t having any of that. I painted that thing blue and threw on a set of go faster aftermarket covers. 45 years later and I still have those Cal-Custom valve covers in a box somewhere.

Well the back yard is finally safe to mow. I got my lazy retired butt out of bed yesterday morning and today at 6:30 am before the heat set in. Humidity was much worse at 97%. But temps were 73. I had to go over and around all the trench work area with a garden rake to not only smooth it out, but to get the rocks up. Big rocks. Like the size of a baseball or bigger that would surly destroy my mower. I’ve already done about 90% of the front yard as well. I have a half dozen piles of rocks still out in the driveway I need to shovel up now. Needless to say, I’m wiped out and bench time just isn’t happening because I’d fall asleep! My wife is a bit upset because I think I dozed off about 4-6 times yesterday and she couldn’t get there. She envy’s my naps and ability to sleep through the riots brought on by the grandkids.

So true. Also along those lines, a few months back my son that’s building custom Corvettes now asked me, “Dad, how did you do it before the internet?” From finding obscure parts or fittings to just knowledge how to do something. How to do a motor swap, how to find used motors, what transmission will fit the car body and motor…… He about died when I told him at one time we had to fill out order forms and mail them in with a check or CC number or pay for COD.

Thanks Maru! All I have to say is….”But it’s a dying hobby!”

biggtim hooked me up with some resin goodies.

Better? I do have some rework areas now. One was very bad prep on my part. Deep sanding gouges from squaring up the vertical stabilizer on one side. Ugly!! After lightly sanding And the infamous primer lifting off the resin. Two steps forward, one backwards.

Yep. Story of my life. Go to needing one certain color and OOS at all of my usual online sources. Check the 2 Gundam stores and one of them sometimes has it. I think that’s why I have so much paint. Not paying shipping for 1 bottle. Might as well get a half dozen colors. One reason I shop Sprue Bros mostly is their email notifications when something comes back in stock. I keep a “grocery list” on my phone for when those OOS items show up. Now aside from the hobby, I order car parts online. One of my go-to vendors is Rock Auto. Gotta be careful with them too. They will show everything in stock, but it’s from different warehouses. Yep, you get to pay separate shipping for items split between warehouses. It can add up fast. As far as aftermarket, I am now trying to buy for kits I have because here today, gone tomorrow. Cutting Edge, DMold, Fisher, Rhino, Zacto models, G Factor- just to name a few greats gone now. Eduard makes a production run and never again. Buy now or cry later!

Tim, you can later swap it for another subject you need to make parts for. That’s how I got my Kinetic F-86 from Harold. He needed a Hasegawa kit and we traded.

Hubert, I hate to say it, but I did find a glaring mistake though. I found a pic of this plane online where it looked like it was being decommissioned. It had silver landing gear. Yea, I’m not attempting to repaint the legs and wheels. I’ll correct that area behind the cockpit. Thanks!

Few more details painted today.

This looks like as much fun as getting to build a 1/1 replica! I’m going to have to live vicariously through you on this one Rob. Way out of my budget for kits. I love the rocker covers! Even has the two holes stamped for the wire loom mounts. I had those same covers on my ‘65 Fairlane and my ‘66 GT Fastback when I got it. Hmmmm…if I was to sell that Thunderbird kit and maybe a few others……🤪

Kevin, I’ve got a 1990 F-250 with the 351W and auto. Had to get the trans rebuild Oct. of ‘22. I picked up when it had only 55,000 miles. Got right at 58,000 now. Sorry to hear you had to let go of the Garand. It would be a cold day you know where before I sold mine.

I was telling my wife what an incredible deal this was. She threatened to drag my boxes of kits out of the garage and light them on fire if I bought it. I LOL’d at her and told her I’d have to just buy everything again, and besides, I already have that kit.

As I was sitting at my bench, the wife, daughter and grands were coming in and out of the sliding door right behind me. They were down on the dock playing in the lake. Well, not the wife, she’s not even one week post surgery for her reconstruction from the double mastectomy. She was just torturing herself in the heat. But they would all come through the door talking about how hot it is outside and down on the lake. LOL! It’s 72 in my man cave. And the wife wonders why I don’t want to go “spend fun family time” with them outside. She complains we haven’t gone out in the boat in weeks. Yea, because it’s 100 degrees on the boat. It doesn’t have AC because it’s a wide open tritoon. If I’m going to be out in the heat, I’m going to be floating in the lake, not on top of it.

Paint day!