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Sounds like a good idea---EXCEPT if I don't have a 54 Merc IN the yard how did he buy any parts for one? Don't fret it will be quite a while before I work my way down to a sweet car like this Merc of the other stablemates by the same maker. Here are a few of the ones I plan to work on (...

Well, not having found my floquil paints yet , I went to the Dollar Store today to get a bunch of the craft paints that a friend told me they had. 4 oz bottles of acrylic at a buck each, got 24 of em --- hope they work, I'm going to try thinning them with windex like someone on here suggested...

Very NICE . When I read the intro , I was hoping you had found a way to build a REAL injection machine -- I was all set to build my own & MAKE ALL my parts from now on!!sign1

Thanks MasonJar --- I just realized that there were TWO types of corrugated metal on this building & they were not treated the same way. The pieces on the WINDOW were treated in Ferric Chloride etchant , it is made by Archer & available at Radio Shack. The aluminum foil is imersed in it...

Thanks, Yeah they weren't good for a hell of a lot else except to use for parts now & then.

You are not alone in that boat. A while back I got into a bit of a tizzy over something mountain man said , at the time i had not read much of anything he had posted, actually most likely nothing. At the time I was pretty hot & showed it, since then I have come to see that Mountain man is...

What you do is coat the foil with olive oil , then hold it over a flame ( gas stove) till the heat makes the oil smoke , when it reaches the color you want --it's done . Really simple & quick. Nachoman --- I guess the era would be the early 50's ,thats about the period I strive to portray.

That is one of Classic Metal Works Mini metals cars. I don't know if it is still in production. They make very good HO vehicles. http://www.classicmetalworks.com/default.htm

Ok , I'll try & do something about the tire treads next week/ As far as the corrugated metal -- I posted a picture & description how to build a tool to make all one wants using aluminum foil Heres the thread.http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162184

Does it sort of remind you of a beached whale? stooges8

"Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... WOW! What a ride!" -Anonymous- Well ,with a signature like yours , you of all people...

I do too. But tell me how I am going to find the nerve to make something like this into a resident of the yard , it's one I just got yesterday.

I've got it --somewhere for sure . I'll check & see IF I have it in the houe OR in a huge rental storage unit where I have Box after Box of magazines, most all Model Railroader from the late 30s on ----many years complete --along with airplane mags, car mags & even some real books --about 300...

As I recall, I used a .003 strip of copper sheet that I hid the seam of under the band around the tank. The convex ends were formed by squeezing a piece of stryene between two concave freeze plugs & then heating it with a butane torch till it took a set.

I just realized , I still have the jigs I made to make the hand rail supports!!:p

When I was searching for my floquil yesterday I ran across my first ( adult) scratch built railroad model. I built a couple things for my Marx set when I was about 7 or 8., but then moved into aiplanes & cars. I built this to prove a point , I was in a hobby shop one day in the early 70s &...

I have just found another use for it --- in my junk yard cars. Early cars had a fabric roof instead of a solid top they had an insert in the center, it had a wire mesh support. Some of my cars will now have the fabric rotted & torn off exposing the mesh support.

Moral of story :: Go shopping with a dictionary?? :cry: Why didn't I think of that ?wall1sign1

Yesterday while I was trying to find some of my hobby items I have in storage --- did not have a lot of luck --never found any of my Floquil paint -- got about 75 bottles somewhere, some of it MIGHT still be good , I hope . At 4 bucks or so a 1/2 oz bottle for polyscale or whatever they sell now...

Thanks , always nice to hear people like what one does. Tread?? I just give one of my little people one of those electric re-grooving tools & put em to work!!sign1 What I do is heat up a piece of screen wire or a file that I don't care too much about with a butane torch till its hot...