ScottsGT

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Wow Peter! That is gorgeous! Looks like you might be the first post under completed wet builds. Speaking of oral surgery, mine called the other day about my follow up after a molar extraction and bone graft for an implant. Told me they needed to reschedule. LOL! I didn’t even know I had the appointment. Told them no problem, as I wasn’t going for the implant anyway. Back molar, not visible so not spending $5k on it. Feels a little funny chewing, but I’ll learn to embrace it.

Welcome Luke! But what’s an LAE?

And now we finally have some paint!! Almost an entire bottle of Mr. Color FS36622 on just the bottom. Found a spot or two I might go back and fix. But going to wait for it to dry first. Looked bad under wet paint. Let’s wait for it to flatten out.

Paint arrived from Sprue Brothers and I’m happy to say that the colors look perfect! I guess it’s such an odd color that it’s hard to judge by a computer screen or recreate in a pic.

Gosh, I hope no gerbils were harmed in this story!

Uh oh! She’s stepped up her game….. I kid! We bought this some time back to use as a TV stand on the screen porch.

I tried with my boys. Just didn’t take with the competition from all the video games that were coming to age in the ‘90’s and early 2000’s. At least the youngest got bit by the car bug. Oldest is a 1LT. In the Army and wants to get back into building another off-road truck. I had a Suzuki Samurai I handed down to him as his first car. He’s got a transfer coming up at the end of the year to Captain’s training and then off to a new duty station where he‘ll probably start looking for a project car. My grandson is not quite 2 yet, so no modeling yet. Kid eats like a horse. I’d have better luck teaching him how to grill a steak or smoke a butt.

My understanding is the front of the fuselage is too wide. Paul Fisher had been planning on a correction when disaster hit. I’ve got two kits in the stash. One of them was actually my first NIB large scale kit I ever bought. The first few were all second hand eBay purchases. I still have not broke the seal on the box.

All’s good! I’m happy to report that it looks like I’ve managed to muddle through the worst of the build by getting the joints blended! WooHoo!!

Just got the stain done on the base.

Man, that’s some dangerous looking evil tool right there! Definitely would require some skills to run it safely.

Yea, I think I built half that car with him from all the phone calls I got. “Hey Pops, what about this, or that? Should I ….” One of the best was the LT4 corvette style exhaust tips. He bought a bunch of stainless U shaped tubes, stated cutting them, got angles all off and called me for advise. I simply did a Google search and found dual tips on line and sent him the link. Why make it when you can buy premade if you’re under a time crunch? He was literally still bolting parts on the car in the Mecum tent where cars are displayed before the auction. He did get to meet Bruno Massel from Garage Squad at Mecum. It was kind of funny because Bruno is the spitting image of my wife’s brother. I’ve always told my son he’s his Uncles son because he favors that side of the family. He told Bruno I’m always telling him he’s his Dad he never met. The guy he works for is a very wealthy dealership broker that is living vicariously through my sons skills. But now he’s branching out with putting my son to work (and paying him very well too) and sending him all over the place doing work on restructuring dealerships, transporting cars across country, etc. I keep reminding him he also needs to focus on the builds because his boss is in his upper ‘70’s and won’t be around forever. Focus on that resume building. Funny thing is, he got his start working the parts counter at Advance Auto while taking an auto tech class at Trident Tech in Charleston. His boss came in and asked if he and his coworker could help him run some brake lines on a Factory 5 kit car. They got there and realized they needed to blow the project all apart and start over since half the stuff was done wrong. A few months later he got fired from Advance for doing a brake job on a friends car in the parking lot off duty. I told him that was the best thing that ever happened to him. He went to work for the guy full time.

I did my one and only SEA scheme in my display case using the silly putty method many years ago. It’s the old Hobby Craft/Trumpeter F-105. Only reason I’ve hesitated doing another was because I was shooting enamels and hated dealing with the dry time between colors. I welcome my new lacquer overlords to start another SEA one day soon. I’m predicting it will be my Fisher fat face or a Vietnam era Phantom.

My youngest drives a manual 2002 Mustang he built from two cars. He said I’m to blame for his career of building really nice custom cars. He’s got a hell of a career going already at 27. I think I posted a pic from Mecum here last year with an LT4 powered ‘62 Corvette he built. Aww, screw it. Here it is again I keep teasing him that it would have pulled another $50k if they didn’t black out all the chrome 😁 Just yesterday I was trying to drive my 1990 F-250 to town to help a friend out. Barely made it out of the neighborhood with zero acceleration and it got worse as I added throttle. Truck only has 57,000 miles on it. Put a new fuel filter on it today and it made a great improvement. Now my catalytic converter sounds like it has a hundred marbles bouncing around inside it. Trucks so old and we have no inspections here, so I was throwing around the idea of just putting in a bypass pipe, but man, I really hate the smell of a car now without a cat.

Thanks Peter! Did a little sanding, putty and priming on the sub. No real progress to show model wise. But I did quit the procrastination that I love to do so much and jumped back on the base woodwork. Man, procrastination really is my first hobby! I got the first layer of trim around the edges with a lip to build up the sea bed. But before the clay slinging starts, I need to prep the wood and stain and clear it first.

Chris, why the 3/4 cam? Couldn’t afford to buy the whole cam? Man, that’s some real old terminology back to the Ford flathead days! I always thought that was some street slang until I looked into the history of “1/4 race cam” or “1/2 race cam”. I was an old hotrodder from the ‘80’s. We cut our teeth on things like the Duntov 30/30, Competition Cams 280H if you had an auto trans and couldn’t afford a stall torque converter or a 292H if you were rolling in the dough! When I built the 5.0 in my ‘66 I was hit with questions like “Are you running the stock ECM or will it be tuned?” How about no ECM? I wound up using the Trick Flow Stage 1 cam that is their mildest cam that matches their heads. But I am running aftermarket EFI that has turned into a major PITA. I’m going to play with it a little more this spring and if it doesn’t straighten out, I’m yanking all that crap and slapping on a Holly 600 cfm carb.

Hey Rob, similar life learning experience with me as well. I was in high school taking a printing and photography course at the trade center. I was running an AB Dick 360 printing press and I was in the process of cleaning the rollers. We were warned about getting over zealous cleaning the top roller and getting too close to the roller below it as it was running. Me being the hard headed kid I was got my finger in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lucky for me there was a built in safety feature that ejected the top roller straight up into the air with a loud banging noise as it smacked the ceiling tile. Instructor came over and in his very calm demeanor, “Well, I guess you learned just how close to not get?” I still have all my digits! I just pulled the table saw out Friday evening to cut down the edge molding for the base. It was about 3/16 too wide. First one went through and using my push stick something wasn’t right. Wood kept lifting. Closer inspection showed my push stick has too deep of a notch for thin wood and it was hitting the table top. Taped a piece of scrap wood to the push stick and all was good!

Just shot more primer. More primer = more bad spots I’m seeing. Ugh…..

I’ll add a little tip that might come in handy for y’all. I wanted to make damned sure I didn’t get dust up inside the model through the open bay on the bottom. Each time I do some sanding of filler or primer I’ve been using my small Milwaukee M18 portable vacuum to get the dust off and not simply wiping it or blowing it off. It has kept my work area surprisingly cleaner as well. I think I found a new home for the vac.

Oh man…. If any of y’all ever decide to take on a huge model like this or say that big B-36 Ernie is working on, make sure your meds are in check and your liquor cabinet is stocked. Just taping up the sub bay and the bottom flood lights is an exercise in swinging this thing around from one side of the bench to the other. Look out work light! Here it comes again! Im now at that fiddly stage of checking every seam and making sure it’s filled all the way, block sanding all the hull seams to make sure they’re flat and straight and finding minor errors. I need a nap! I’m getting grumpy.

Got the email last night. Use code PaintApex as per the email. Sale ends on 2/12. Prices a bottle of Mr. Color lacquer right at $2.25 I’m going to unnecessarily stock up! My past experience with my one order was good other than a little slow to ship. That being said, it was right after the last hurricane went through Florida. They are in Daytona. EDIT: just placed an order. Saved about $10 on a good size order.

I was looking at the 1/72 kit thinking it was a bit too large……

I just stumbled across this website on Cybermodeler. https://www.cybermodeler.com/resource6.shtml C026, Duck Egg seems to be a Pre-WWII color. According to the charts, C368 is supposed to be it. I have noticed that sometimes Mr. Colors caps are a few shades off of the actual color. I’m in no big hurry, so I’ll probably throw a bottle in my cart on my next Sprue order just to see how it looks.