color choice UPDATE: forget it...

[TsgtRet]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I started on the spare body, and sure enough, I didn't get enough of that thick clearcoat off that they put on Scaley white kits and it rejected the primer. Back in the alcohol again. The good news is that I actually found the same shade of red in Duplicolor today, so I can paint the dang thing 20 times if I need to.

What happened to the first body was that the drill bit snagged and caught, twisting the car to pieces. There are still pieces from the front that I can't find.

Oh, and before I forget, Bill, I have used that technique when drilling through a finished piece, too. This was bare plastic that had already been scribed for the circle. I suspect that the bit wasn't coming in at a dead 90 degrees. Its interesting how many of us in slot cars have a long history in woodworking. I have been building furniture, boats, houses, built-ins and art pieces for 45 years, and my first project was helping to build a shrimp boat on the Gulf Coast when I was 12 years old. As soon as I grew up, I was buying tools, and I still have most of them.

[bill from nh]

I grew up on the coast of Maine. I never built a boat, but I had an uncle who built several. My dad built our house & a barn, a neighbor drove truck for a local lumber yard, so there never was a shortage of tools & wood when I was a kid. We usuallly built camps we could sleep in, towers, & buggies when we found wagon or baby carriage wheels. I still enjoy woodworking because it's something I can do by myself, if necessary, & do for the rest of my life. I have an assortment of power tools down cellar. I also inherited a few hand tools that belonged to my dad, his father, & his grandfather. Today, I'll build furniture, toys for my grandsons, & whatever else that should come along. I have to admit that slot cars have cut into my woodworking time the past twenty years. :)

[bdsharp]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

This was a brad point, sharpened waaay past normal, to a mirror edge. I suspect that the stripping operation made the plastic brittle. I must have done this with Scaley white kits a 100 times before. This one, since its expensive and hard to find, decided to P*SS me off. I'm still looking for the lost pieces. When I find them, I'll run it so hard I break it to pieces again! HA!