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[A Reeder]

Plain old baby powder will take away the shine also. Mix it in the paint or sprinkle in on after painting (while the paint is still wet).

[MSwiss]

Allan, Noose,

Thanks for the advice.

Also to Jairus who PM'd me with a lot of good info.

PS: Noose, notice how I didn't mention Dave Bloom's name once?

[Noose]

Notice how I didn't mention Dave Bloom's name once?

You were taught well.

Actually, back then Dave and I used Floquil paints to letter with. They don't stick anymore cuz they done took all the xylene or toluene out of them.

[Larry Mattingly]

Why not just use flat paint, and be done with it?

The $0.79 acrylic craft paint from Wally World works very well.

LM

[Noose]

For interiors it does work well but I wouldn't use it on the outside for lettering. Would take too long to do lettering for one. That's why One Shot is One Shot!

[MSwiss]

The acrylic craft paint I tried wasn't good enough to deface someone's car with, let alone
paint a slot car interior with.

[Larry Mattingly]

Many people use it. It works well. And it looks more realistic than One Shot.

Ask Cheater and Lou Cicconi what they thought of the interiors I painted with Wally World craft paint.

LM

[MSwiss]

If you're happy with it, great. My experience with that type of paint was so poor, it sent me off to buy $45 worth of One Shot.

We don't have a Wally World here in Chicago. The stuff I got from Jo-Ann Fabrics covered so poorly you needed three coats to just get it to the point of looking crappy.

[Noose]

Ah hum... now back to the regular scheduled program of painiting.

These are for Retro East's own "Flying Scot" Matt Bruce. Both of these were Matt's choices for his two wins where I donated bodies.

His new O/S Ferrari:





And his new Red Fox Cooper F1:

[MSwiss]

Killer colors and lettering on that Ferrari.

[idare2bdul]

So is the driver wearing a kilt?

Very nice work as usual.

[MSwiss]

Looks like with the new IRRA JK Spec Class, Noose is going to "do" some JK Ti22s.



Good timing. I get to send them to him in one of my new shipping boxes.

[Cheater]

FWIW, I think the "scrapple talk" posts can be deleted.

I agree and have done just that.

[Tex]

Sheesh. What killjoys.

[Cheater]

Tex,

Look at the masthead: it says "Slotblog", not "Foodblog", doesn't it? LOL!!!

I hope you feel we're not real quick to punch the delete button here, but when a thread starter asks us to clear out off-topic stuff, we usually will accommodate if we feel it is appropriate.

[tonyp]

1984... Big Brother is Watching!

Free The blog!

LOL...

[Cheater]

[The admin shifts to center a new target in the crosshairs...]

[Tex]

I know you weren't too quick to delete the posts; it took four days before Joe was convinced to ask you to do the deed. I communicated with Joe. I know the more complete sequence of events. You and I both know who REALLY instigated the deletions and it wasn't the thread starter. It's one thing to ask you to delete posts in their own thread, but asking another thread-starter to ask you to have posts deleted... (insert expletives here).

[tonyp]

So I guess discussions on Spam are totally out of the question?

[Tex]

Tony,

Please take "spam" references to the thread I created about food at DA Sano II. Thank you.

[Noose]

Yeah... no "Spam Mail" here.

[Noose]

Doing a bit of catching up. With Hanna hitting here today... well... good time to do it.

Tony P has a new fleet for the dark tracks. His new O/S Cooper F1:





His O/S Ferrari:



His O/S Ti22 Long:



His Ti22 Short:



His new Difalco controller handle:

[Noose]

Next up is an O/S Ti22 for the Zombie Winner Duran Trujillo.





Basil in ol' Chicagyland won a Noose interior and here it is...



Billy Walker of Team Krash fame here in Retro East™ ordered up a TrueScale Ferrari F1:

[Noose]

Liquid Lou has been waiting a while for this one. It's a TrueScale Porsche...

[Jairus]

Wow, that Porsche is a lot of work and very nice! Three thumbs up...