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Pat, so use to seeing your work over at Scale Auto. Glad you're  over here now to share your excellent builds. Too bad they shut it down , but we go on.

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Thanks MarkJ. Yes the closure of Scale Auto was a big shame. I've tried to recover my subscription, although they've said OK I've had no refund as yet! 

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Thanks Jason. Yes they were especially when after building and painting the body, you look at the decal sheet and realise that the advertising decal at the  front of the doors is one piece . So therefore being shocked that the rest of the decal starting with the number 29 is one piece right to and over the rear wheel arch! Plenty of soaking in warm water and using a large bristle model brush also soaking the side of the car to stop the decal snagging on a dry surface during the lay-up! Then breathing afterwards!

I normally lay-up all decals on a body before fitting to the chassis. In this case realising that some of the decals overlap the glass, fit all windows first then fit the body to the chassis. But I normally clearcoat before assembly to make sure the decals don't dry and fall off! I've had a few older kits do that in the past. So lay up all decals, await to dry, find a large head craft brush and carefully paint on the clear coat from a small Humbrol tin! 

And it worked far better than I first imagined!  

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Very nice! One of my all-time favorite NASCAR schemes, being a long time Scooby Doo fan. I built one when they first came out and the decals got the better of me. I'll eventually try to do both the purple and black versions, maybe in a couple of years.

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I loved the Cartoon Networks cars - I had 3 of them, this one, a yellow one, and a snap #9, I think?  Red Taurus.   Built with one of the kids, later attached to a slot car chassis and raced for real.  

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On 11/17/2020 at 2:29 PM, randyc said:

They were fun to run for sure.

Yes I bet! We only had 1/32 Scalextric or 1/64 Aurora here in the UK, nothing as big as 1/24th.

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I still have a bunch of Scaley track I need to sell someday.   You can fit 1/24 on it, but no passing!!!  lol  I eventually routed a 6'x 12' layout, 3 lanes.  It was designed for up to 1/24, but there were some squeezes that 1/32 wouldn't make so you have to plan a bit.  BUt 2 1/24s would fit and be crazy enough.   

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