 espins1 wrote: |
| Oh man, I would sooooo be in heaven! And
getting to BS about the hobby all day is icing on the cake!
:) |
|
The day at the hobby shop I met the guy who let me spend the rest of
the day testing his AB's at his bodyshop was kind of like that for me.
The guy lined up a few hoods against the wall, had some pre-mixed paint
on the bench and just sat there BS'ing about what we've done and the
types of cars or custom work.
He told me he's been going to the LHS for years. He thinks the guy
stopped selling Badger AB's and switched to Azteks because either he
wasn't moving enough stock or not enough profit. He also told me to "be
careful of what I buy at the HS, some of the stuff there is REALLY old,
just look at the dust, it won't come off".
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Any way, besides the guy working in a bodyshop and doing some custom
work. He has a heck of a collection of model cars too. The wall in his
office behind the desk has shelfs filled with them. I didn't count them
but I would guess at least 200, 4 shelfs with around 50 on them. He
told me he has much more at home and he's been building since he was a
kid. Mostly now though he tries to find a model and test out a color on
it before he sprays it on an old car.
I stopped in to see him a couple of times already at his shop. Learning
a few tricks with the AB and picking up a few pointers for my models
too. He's got some killer colors kicking around the shop too. I might
have to re-think my idea of factory stock or by a few duplicate models
LOL.
Oh, one thing he told me... I probably should have saved some money, or
get it later, and use a cheap single-action for spraying my car models.
Especially since I'll mostly be spraying them one solid color. He said
it would be just like using my spray gun painting a real car. Hummm...