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Apart from the front suspension this is the part I was most concerned about making, the headers. They're making good progress as you can see. Dave B

I picked up two NASCAR bodies on Etsy. A Granada and Fairmont......lots of clean up....but nice

Since it's taken me 40+ years Mark you'd better start now!!!! Dave B

I've purchased from JackModeling several times - top notch guy.

Like my UPS packages that leave Charleston WV, come within a few miles of my house, go PAST the local UPS office (within 50 yards) to Roanoke VA, only to turn right around BACK to the local UPS depot. Logistics is the modern day 'Emperor has no clothes'.

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I don't know which one of those wiley little bastards did it, but one of them knocked a Flintstone Rambler off the shelf. It's currently in the body shop getting mended. 🤣

Thanks for the heads-up...especially for JackModeling.

but still juicy

So I got an hour, mounted a few bits and bobs, have things mounted and will paint tomorrow. Will mount the bed and cab, and then do door handles and license plates. Plus I got a ton better shot of the interior too! Will dust things before I take final pics for Completed post! Here is some more progress:

A while back I stumbled across Etsy while looking for some 3D parts. I usually go through eBay, but Etsy seemed to offer several things I'd been searching for. The site is easy to use and I mostly just search 1/24 and whatever I'm looking for. Here are some vendors I've had good luck with. https://www.etsy.com/shop/MeanMachineModels https://www.etsy.com/shop/HooliganScaleModels?ref=nla_listing_details https://www.etsy.com/shop/JackModelling

Very nice work, well thought out.

Remember, too, that the quarter windows are different from the '71 / '72 - the '73 / '74 quarter windows are the "same" as the '71-'74 Road Runner ( Satellite, et alia ). Seems like a fairly monumental undertaking to update the AMT '71 to 1973/74 cosmetics. I have a beat-up '72 Rallye Charger ( MPC annual ) which I was thinking of bashing with the AMT '71. My plan is to splice the doors' "dents" from the '72 into the doors of the '71 . I haven't actually compared proportions ( i.e., will it be a simple grafting or more involved ).

We've been lectured here before about being too stoopid to grasp the fine subtleties and complexity of "logistics".

Thanks everyone!

Congrats. It's still a kinda shame when people just doing their jobs is news though...

There is always a pet needing a home and love. In Tennessee it open season on coyotes all year I would thin them out…

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Texas floodwaters rose over 30 feet in one hour, and the National Weather Service (which was fully staffed, contrary to many media reports) was sending out evacuation messages the whole time...but unfortunately, it happened in the middle of the night when most people were asleep.

I haven't found them yet, but for stock appearing fenders for the Fiat body I'd start looking at 1/32 scale kits. The Fiat is small compared to virtually every other car out there. I thought the Revell Anglia front fenders would be a good starting point, but even they are too big.

Great job on a less than stellar kit.

Toco bell rusty -

not everyone, does that, but to get down to the honest answer its about money. I can say that its very profitable at 1:25/24 easier to make in bulk and cheaper to ship than any other scale out there. The demand is greater and the profit margins are much greater.

Evolving in warning system for flash floods could have saved more children in Texas..

Flea market yesterday...got these from a guy I occasionally deal with. These were in his sale pile; he didn't hold on to them for me, they were all available to anyone who walked up. Tony Nancy double kits: if you are into early Sixties drag racing, you know this kit is a gold mine of parts. I'm pretty sure one is complete, the other is missing all of the tires, front wheels, and some chassis parts. All of those choice engines are all there. AMT '34 Ford coupe: I'm pretty sure it's all there except the bumper brackets are busted off of the frame, and I'm not sure they are still in the box. I was looking for a cheap one of these to cut up and make into a sedan, using either a '32 sedan or maybe the poorly executed AMT '34 sedan for the back half of the body. Monogram Slingster: I'm pretty certain everything is there, though all of these kits were marked as "parts" kits. I wanted another American Bantam coupe body, to combine with a second one to make one with an unchopped top. Too, with Revell under German management now, they might not do anything with this kit as it might not fit with the kinds of things they seem to be doing. It's not the greatest kit, but it has a bunch of good parts in it and it's a neat copy of the original Sizzler kit. Switchers '32 Ford: this is a parts kit, it's missing a lot of parts. But it has nearly all of the plated parts, all of the wheels, the whole engine (not the greatest small-block Chevy, but not the worst by a long shot), and the phaeton body. I'll probably cut that to get the pieces to fill the sides of the Bantam coupe body. All of 'em for thirty bucks. He had a few more good parts kits, but I don't need to own everything...at least this month.