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My Wife's First Try At Modeling

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My Wife's First Try At Modeling
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 19, 2005 5:58 PM
This is my wife's first try at our addition we call Modeling. She has asked me to post some progress pic for the rest of the members comments on how she is doing.

This is the Revell 1/12 Chevy Coupe kit # 07489. She is doing the Street Rod version of the kit. She is trying to do this kit as a copy of the 1957 Street Rod that her father had as a young man befor she was born.

She is going to give this kit to him as a late Fathers Day and Birthday gift.

Please keep in mind this is the first time for her to do this and it is a SKILL LEVEL 5 kit.

Thanks for the good and bad words you have to give for this build. I do have to give Digger and his wife thanks from my wife. The build of the 1970 VW camper is what got my wife wanting to try this.










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  • From: Paarl, South Africa
Posted by SeaBee on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:26 AM
Tell het she's doing a-ok! Way better than my first kit!
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  • From: CANADA
Posted by Kelly_Zak on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:18 AM
Well, if this is her first time, I congragulate her, she's doing a great job so far!
"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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  • From: Cleveland, OH
Posted by RadMax8 on Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:14 PM
Well, she is doing a great job. Tell her she might want to scuff the tires a bit, they are afwully shiny!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:28 PM
RadMax8 we are going to scuff up the back tires for they are drag race slicks. The front tires are just standard street tires.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:27 AM
Looks Awesome!
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  • From: North East Texas
Posted by roadkill_275 on Saturday, July 2, 2005 6:29 PM
Looks good Lisa.
Kevin M. Bodkins "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup" American By Birth, Southern By the Grace of God! www.milavia.com Christian Modelers For McCain
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  • From: Valley Spings, CA
Posted by Tigertankman on Saturday, July 2, 2005 6:34 PM
Your lying! thats not her first kit! lol just kidding looks excellent for her VERY first try!
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 3, 2005 9:31 AM
Thanks alot for all of the good words she is VERY proud of all of your good words.
Tigertankman This is her very first kit. That is why she went with the 1/12 scale for the size. She sees all of the ones that I do and she did not think that she could do all of the detail that she wanted to do for her Father. Look for progress pix on the Hot Rod and Muscle Car GB. We will post finish pix at the end of this build. Time line for the finish date will be July 28, 2005 for we are going to Dayton, Ohio to give this kit to her father personally.
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Posted by DURR on Monday, July 4, 2005 10:48 AM
lookin good
real nice
but ...that looks like my wifes car after she drives lol
just kidding
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 4, 2005 12:08 PM
Progress pix will be posted later this week. At this time I am having to replace my roof on my house and progress is slow on all builds at this time (model builds that is!).Disapprove [V]Sigh [sigh]Yuck [yuck]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 4, 2005 2:29 PM
Oh! You mean BUILDING models. Oops! Looks great!
DanBLOCKED SCRIPTinsertsmilie('Cool [8D]')
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 4, 2005 3:37 PM
Yes I do mean BUILDING models. The wife said that the house and the HONEYDOS come first.
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  • From: Second City
Posted by arki30 on Monday, July 4, 2005 7:22 PM
Great looking build. She's doing much better than I did on my first.

Building Now:

1/48 Academy Bf-109G6 - 100%

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Upcoming:

1/48 Revell F-14D

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 18, 2005 6:44 PM
Thanks everyone for all of the good words of wisdom to my wife. She is glowing with joy to all of your good words.

THANKS
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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:22 AM
Add one more to that. Excellent job.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:41 PM
At this time the car is almost finished she still has some things to do on it but here are some progress pix at this time. Keep in mind I had to remove the rear window for her and try to fix some FOG that the glue left on it. the repair did not go well so I had to scratch a new rear window for her. It is not in yet. She has 4 days left to finish it for we hit the road to take this kit to Ohio from Texas to give it to her father on Friday. I hope that you all like the progress on this, My wifes first attempt at ths addiction, we call modeling.




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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:52 PM
Fantastic work! Hope you two know how to compromise, or you'll both be fighting over the kits! Wink [;)]
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  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:40 PM
That's much better than my first try! And second, and third and...

So long folks!

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 8:53 PM
Where are the finished pix of this build.








So I hope that all of you will enjoy this build and give good words on it for it is my first build.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 30, 2005 8:46 PM
She rocks! :)
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:22 PM
A really great Job! We'll be seeing her at the Nats in a couple of years!Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 3:42 PM
looks cool Cool [8D]
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  • From: Phoenix,Az
Posted by 9x19mm on Friday, August 5, 2005 7:08 AM
Nice work, she did a great job! Thx for sharing.
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Posted by DURR on Monday, August 8, 2005 11:20 AM
can i have the keys i want to test drive itBow [bow]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:44 AM
the few things i can say are this. 1 i've been building car models since i was about 6 (for 13 years) and rarely do i have one come out looking that good much less a skill level 5. and 2 that car would wipe the floor with nearly all the car models i've seen in my life. Keep up the great work. and try not to fight over the next few kits.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:05 PM
Well, great start! I hope you know there is no going back now...
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  • From: Texas
Posted by painklr on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:45 PM
Looks great. Congratulations.
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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:23 PM
Tell your wife she did a great job. HOpefully it'll be inspirational enough for my gf to start as well.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:20 PM
Come on you can tell us the truth. She's a pro right. Great job on the first build.
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