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  1. CDW
    I decided on a Gray-Green two-tone paint scheme for my '48 Chevy, which was one of the color combinations offered on the 1:1 car when it was new from the factory. My paints are semi-gloss and I may or may not use a gloss clear coat. Something about the semi-gloss is appealing to me for a car of this vintage. In case you're interested, I included a photo of the paint color jars I used.
  2. CDW
    I learned a lesson the hard way with Splash paints. It's imperative to mist on those first coats and not flood them on in any way because as you said, they are much too hot and will cause all kinds of problems, even on bare plastic. If first coat goes down lightly it will dry quickly and cause no issues.
  3. CDW
    Have you used Splash primer and activator? I wonder if the activator is required, as I don't see it offered any longer. My bottle of activator completely set up before I ever used it.
  4. CDW
    Happily following along. Love the subject!
  5. CDW
    Checking the body-on-chassis and ride height. This seems to be good to me. Not too high, not too low. Hits the sweet spot.
  6. CDW
    The chassis all built out, in black primer. The chassis in satin black lacquer, lightly dry brushed in neutral gray, with drive train in place. With the wheels in place, you can see the suspension has been lowered for a custom look.
  7. CDW
    A few more details to work out on the engine, then will move on to the chassis.
  8. CDW
    Was going through some storage boxes and came across this Aston Martin DB5 I started building back in the early '90's. It was painted in enamel with some metallizer paints on select components. It was surprising to see how well the red enamel body paint held up over time, but the Bare Metal Foil used for the chrome trim shriveled up like a prune. I don't own another surviving model of this vintage that had the chrome foil treatment and wondered if any of you have had a similar experience with it over a long period of time?
  9. CDW
    My '51 Chevy with the six cylinder and power glide transmission got around 10 miles per gallon in town driving. It could do better on the highway, but cars back then just weren't built for fuel economy. By the time I graduated to a '64 Nova with the six and power glide, my fuel economy was much better. About 25 miles per gallon on the highway. But heck, we were paying pennies per gallon back then.
  10. CDW
    Beautiful model. With that big V-8 engine, the car could pass everything except the gas station. Remember when that was the saying at the time?
  11. CDW
    After the Christmas festivities ended, I was able to spend a little time today with a start on the stock engine. After taking a close look at the stock and custom pieces, decided to build the engine stock. I have other variations of the '48 Chevy, the Fleetline and Coupe versions, so will save the custom features for one of those at a future date. Still more work to do detailing the engine, will continue the process tomorrow.
  12. CDW
    Looks great Rob! Looking forward to more.
  13. CDW
    Wow, what a gorgeous engine. Merry Christmas Andy.
  14. CDW
    Great looking model, Dan! Merry Christmas.
  15. CDW
    Merry Christmas OC
  16. CDW
    Search for the 1:350 Merit International kit version of the Ark Royal. Alternatively, the 1:700 Flyhawk Hermes is an amazing kit.
  17. CDW
    What a nice haul! It’s a bummer you have to swat down that bug over the holidays. Take your vitamins and supplements and you’ll be good to go in short order.
  18. CDW
    American iron. Big iron.
  19. CDW
    The Aztec color combination is interesting to me. This two-tone green combination looks like the actual factory paint on a '54 Pontiac Chieftan I once owned. I guess nostalgia makes this combination interesting to me.
  20. CDW
    Some examples of the model all painted up will help me decide how I might want to do this one. I don't particularly like either choice of body colors used here, but the chassis and running gear looks real nice.
  21. CDW
    Post WW2 Chevy model cars were few and far between (maybe nonexistent?) before Galaxie Limited came out with the '46-'47-'48 Sedan Delivery, the Sedan, and the Coupe models in the late '90's. Besides these Chevys, the company out of Wisconsin also produced a series of single, double, and triple axel trailer models. Other than that, I'm not aware of any other kits they produced. The company disappeared almost as quickly as they came upon the scene. Their Chevy models are excellent IMO, and the same goes for the trailers. There are not a lot of quality plastic injection molded trailer kits out there so the Galaxie Limited kits filled that void very nicely. You can still acquire their kits on sites such as Ebay as well as swap meets but you will be lucky to find one at a hobby shop. I don't know a thing about who currently owns the molds or if there are any plans for these to become available again one day in the near future. For the quality of their products, I am surprised someone else hasn't already run another production line of them. Here, I'll lay out photos of the instructions, decal sheet, and parts trees for you to see before I start taking the parts off the sprues. Very cleanly molded, nice, thin plastic with no flash.
  22. CDW
    Very good idea, Bruce. Indeed I do have a trailer.
  23. CDW
    Batter up! Next up is the 1:25 Galaxie Limited 1948 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery. I may build this as a mild custom. Will make my mind up as I move along on the build.
  24. CDW
    Beautiful model!
  25. CDW
    I didn't expect to find the time to do what I did today, but since I did, I'm going to call this one finished for now. I yet need to install all the plumbing but that will be a little tedious and time consuming and I want to do it when I'm good and ready to sit down a few more hours to finish that task. I can always update the post with some more photos later if they seem worth posting. There are some other things I want to move on to soon.

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