5 Things I Do Before Starting a New Project

Several people have asked where I got the tray seen in this video. We've left three Amazon affiliate links in the description to search results of office, makeup, and jewelry organizers, to help you find just what will work for you. Someone gave mine to me a long time ago, I don't know the origin and have not been able to find another one just like it. I like that the inner corners are rounded; make it easier to pick up small parts. Office drawer organizers often have rounded corners. Makeup organizers are often clear acrylic. Jewelry trays are shallow, with many compartments, but are often lined with felt; more protective but harder to clean.

Great advice 👍
I agree with the clean slate idea. I do that too.
Colour influences, are big.

I forget cars based on their colours.

The car can be right infront of me and another car grabs my attention because of it's colour.

How do you get out of being an adapter to everything.

Everyone's buying random collections and I find random feels terrible after 10 years.

OK Doug, got the compressor thing complete, got the spray booth thing done, now ready to finally ready to build my first car. I say car but actually the Jeep truck. Any hints? How 'bout tips on details on things like spark plug wires, vacuum pipes and fuel line for the engine. I think I've got all the colors I need to start. Now, let's get started!

Doug, an update. Finished the air compressor/ tank addition project. Works real good. The tank is ~ 3 ltrs, not quite a gallon (3.75 ltrs). The reserve tank is just great for keeping the cooler. If you'd like, I'll sent pix.

I love your work spaces! Thank you for sharing your planning process. I am only on my 3rd model (Revell 1956 T-Bird) and am finding that to be a critical component in the hobby. I look forward to watching your other Jeep videos to see how it comes out.

Doug, I just found this out today. Instead of buying bare metal sheets that appear to have a shelf life, I saw how some buy an alternative to this product. a roll of foil tape used for furnace duct work fixing leaky duct seams. It come at about 1.88" wide by many yards long for about $9.00 a roll. Looks like the same stuff.

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Scale modeling is expensive and needs lots of space.

GREAT ADVICE DOUG !!!!

Do you primer before you paint?

Great vid and great content. I searched all the comments and you didn't put anything in the description as to where we can get the black ice skating locker room flooring mat. Can you Please Post the info where we can get it?

I’m getting ready to start a build on a Mark Martin #6 Folgers car. My question is would you happen to know where you can get Matching air brush body paint? The use to be a website that made nascar matching car paint colors. But I can’t find it anywhere. Thanks, Jeff

I would have never been able to build a model without this information

Hello Mr.Whyte. I'm a big fan of your work and love your personality I hope you see this comment/question. I am starting on a AMT 1958 Edsel Pacer kit.
I bought it at a Car Museum/Car Model show in South Philly.
Simeone Car museum? Very nice place. Anyway, I decided to go the extra mile on this kit. So I mail-ordered a Photo-etched metal
kit made for 58 Edsels . My question is this. The word EDSEL on the Photo etched kit has individual letters. You need to place one letter at a time which is extremely hard .
I had a idea I want to run by you to see if you think its a good idea.
My idea is to take clear cello-tape and score a line across with a very thin marker. Then turn the tape sticky side up and fix it so it doesn't move. Then take one letter at time and line it up with the marked line and place one letter at a time.
Next. With a toothpick, apply a small amount of thin CA glue,and lay it over the area where the letters are suppose to be,carefully burnish in ONLY the letters , let the glue sit for awhile, then carefully pull the tape up, leaving the letters glued to the body . Doug, is this a good idea ? Does it sound like a method you would try ? Thank you for your time

Great advice by a seasoned model builder.

Thanks for sharing your process for model building, Doug 👍 I generally try to follow most of the steps you have laid out, but I learned even more tips today! Best of luck with the Willys Jeep 👊🏻👊🏻 Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏

Where did you buy that tray to hold your parts?:

Great Share

How do you dust your models without breaking off any parts.

I've remembered Doug very well from the pages of Scale Auto Magazine. Absolutely Amazing Builder.

The very early CJ`s had a steering column shifter ,# on a Tree

Haven't done this since I was a kid. I'd love to find out where to get a bunch of extra parts of miscellaneous cars, trucks, or whatever is in the pile. Thank you for this idea to be creative and finding something to focus on. Love the content. I have no social media but would love info on more. Thanks

Lol yea I always jump right in to a build keep them coming

Nice video. I love that tip on separate project trays. Now if I could only convince one of my kids that I still love them even though their bedroom has been converted into my dream hobby room. Maybe this video will convince them. Maybe it might be easier to convince them if I waited until they graduate from high school…

Thank you so much for sharing your valuable advice on scalemodeling, it's greatly appreciated. I particularly liked your idea of keeping parts in a tray, it definitely makes the building process more organized and efficient! I will definitely put your all advices into practice! :)

Nice project.
I cant wait to the final video.👍

Thank you for doing this project, I have always loved Jeeps. I'm going to try and follow along with this project

Great planning tips. I love organized model making.

Getting all the reference material for your builds is part of the fun of the hobby. It's also a great motivation to finish a project as opossed to putting it to the side because of the lack or better yet, difficulty of acquiring what is needed to finish off a project. Thanks for the motivation always my friend....

ACE!
Bob
England

great video

1st time viewer here I am amazed so well done! Do you take orders for builds? I have two requests please if possible!! Best wishes

Might want to dust your shelves as part of your prep 😆

Great video, your workbeng is very impressive

As someone who doesn't have a permanent place to work, it's always interesting to see how people organise their workbenches. You're definitely right that having a commitment to the build and doing research is super important. Personally I love to visit car museums or shows and take photos and videos. Thanks for the video!

All great ideas! I do some research with pics and colors. Never did a binder like yours. Impressive! I recently built a 53 Studebacker for a patient. It was a car he had in high school. So much fun! I had to modify the chassis because they 3-1 build was really meant for a drag car. So I used parts off an old truck model. Worked out well.
Thanks again for the ideas.

I love building models. I took a break for 25 years as I became an auto mechanic. Now it drives me crazy to see a model that is not to exacting specifications. Thanks for the ideas.

Good video, great workbench! Lots of good tips but, do you have fun building?

I really like how you are set up and work! No wonder you build AWESOME models!

Great video. Interesting I also have two work areas on my bench. I call them the "clean" area and the "dirty" area.

Love watching your vids, well put together, informative and enjoyable. Thanks for keeping the hobby alive.

Thank you for sharing these tips, really helpful!

Just discovered you...I'm an old guy that has recently taken up model cars again.(stopped in mid 70's). As an old guy,I can put into these what I didn't have the patience or ability to do as a kid. Everything you touched on in this video made sense and is highly inspirational information. You've really gotten me excited... Thanks so much...For the education and for jogging many dear memories. I'll be doing Roger Penske's L-88 but not yet...GREAT VIDEO!!!

Awesome video Doug!! I do the same thing. I call mine "Project Boxes". (just don't ask how many of these boxes I have! LOL)

Thank you For Showing your Methods for Hyper Detailed Builds and Exact Copies it's Great. I approach mist of My Builds Differently which is Neither Good nor Bad. I start by Unboxing kit Body inspection and Sharpie marking for mold lines, Ejector pin Marks, and body flaws like low Spots & imperfections. Next is Engine planning looking Carefully at parts, Anything I'm not happy With I make written note of on lined paper so I Correct these as I go often Deleting poor Detail & Fabricating replacement detail or improving detail by modifying Existing part planning Tires n Wheels Comes next often Rears require Widening if both Rims & Tires as well a Time Consumptive Task but highly Rewarding when completed. Chassis Building Next and So on

Awesome video!

I’m curious as to why you would file away unused parts from the previous project instead of adding them to the spares box / boxes. Seems like that’s a needless memory test of where they’re located and would take up a lot of space too.

Great tips. I like going a totally different direction. I start with a loose idea of what I want it to look like but I flow through the project without a specific course. Every part of the model gets plenty of attention and at the end I feel satisfied with the results.

Great video and great setup!

Thanks for sharing