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So, decals are on and they look okay to me. I also did the foiling of the trim, added the hood pins, and painted the grill. I still need to add the clear coat. I had some fine mesh I was going to use in the grill, but I can't find it. Maybe the Hobby Lobby or Michael's has some. Added some roll bar padding using heat shrink tubing. I was hoping to get more finished, but had other things to do. Anyway thanks for looking, more to come.

Sanded the wrinkled gold finish and repainted those areas. It's not perfect, but better than it was, and I won't be stripping and starting over. Finished the engine, but I might add wires yet. Looks kinda naked. I mocked up the rear suspension and finished the tires. Hopefully I'll get decals on it this weekend and get the chassis together. More to come. Thanks for looking!

Sort of but really an unassembled promo. many years ago AMT had a three in one snap fit set with a purple ranger in it. All of those are really just unassembled promos, and technically they're 15 inch wheels for the 4X4 instead of the 14 inch on the rear drives, but you can't tell. You can see the wheels on the promo in the first picture with the mud tires that come with it. The regular tires will fit.

It's two cabs, sheet plastic, putty, and lots of sanding. I cut the cab of the one kit behind the door. The other kit was eyeballed, not calculated, just were it looked right and cut through the middleish part of the door to match. Sheet plastic reinforced the inside and top and lots of putty, scribing and sanding until I was happy. The cab wasn't that hard, neither was the interior. The chassis was the most difficult. I had to hack a section in and make it look like it was supposed to be there.

The scoop was more bulge because when I was originally conceiving this, I thought and it still may, the Boss 429 would be sitting up too high to fit under the hood. It's all just for fun anyway. The final coat of paint I think was too heavy and it started dissolving the paint in those areas. I'd put on two lighter coats and waited around twenty minutes before the next one. Most times when I'm spraying Tamiya, because it's like a lacquer, I only wait about five to ten minutes between coats. What I'll likely do is sand the wrinkles smooth, tape up the red, decant some gold, and spray the areas with my air brush lightly until its blended.

All major painting finished and I've started doing some detail painting. My usual reliable Tamiya paint let me down. I'm guessing i went a little to heavy on my last coat and it reacted to the Valspar paint I'd used for the red. It's only on a few surfaces, which is kinda confusing. I'm going to give it some time to cure then sand the areas and respray. Anyway, more to come.

Add Art Malone US-1 to that list

This would be cool! I customized a diecast of his car a long time ago.

I finished my initial primer and painted the few parts that needed only gold paint. A YouTuber recommended Duplicolor Multi-Purpose Filler Primer and it's a little heavy, but no issues with the plastic. I'm going to try a hot red paint on another part I primed to see if it is a good barrier. Fingers crossed. I did get the fuel filler hole opened and a piece of 1/4" tube and flat stock glued in. I have some areas on the body that need filler and cleanup, then more primer. More paint to come. Most of the black parts will get a coat of gloss black. The red primer will be red. Silver will get different coats of metallic finishes. I'll have to look at the decals to see what shock manufacturer Bobby used to determine shock color. Door handle and sail panel need work. The parting line on these rear quarters were terrible A little more filler here I didn't even know these holes were here, more filler More filler Turned out better than I hoped, but still needs more filler My filler is a 1/4" tube with a piece of flat stock glued on the back. I'll fab a tube and cap from parts box stuff. Like the rest of the car, this area need more filler Door handle, window frame, and sail panel work. looks like the front door parting line need work too

I've finished all the mods I think I'll need and just finished washing all the parts. Next is primer and then I'll see what's needed for the body to get it ready for paint. I ended up cutting off the rest of the stub on the wheels to narrow the track. I'm using the 429 Boss from the Mustang kit with some parts box items like the intake, exhaust, headers, and transmission tail. I added some sheet plastic and filler to the rear parcel shelf. More to come. Ready for primer. You can see where I cut down the cage to fit in the lower Mustang. I just hacked off the same amount off the firewall and renotched it for the cage tubes. I'm likely going to remove that safety net because it comes from a much later period. The intake manifold is an MPC generic bathtub from the old Stock Car Series kits I opened up the stock hood scoops. and filled some gaps in the hood bulge. I added the front bumper. the valence, and filled in some gaps. More sanding after primer. I just realized I still need to drill a hole for the fuel filler. These are pictures of the 1971 Mustang Wayne Andrews drove in the Grand American series. It looks like a stock mustang seat in the pictures.

I've been working on aircraft since 1983. I obtained my A&P in 2005 and gained employment in the aircraft manufacturing and testing around 2008. I'm one of the people who are an expert at drilling offset, square, tapered, snowman, or just plain buggered holes. I'm better at removal and replacement, inspection, testing and troubleshooting. I set back and awe at the masters of fabrication and their ability to smith aircraft.

I had this AMT 1971 Mach 1 that's really sad in comparison to the Revell version. What to do with it? I had leftover parts from an AMT Quaker State Thunderbird, mostly the chassis, cage, and suspension. Maybe. Turns out they have same wheelbase. Track is wider, but I can work around that. The cage and cowl were too tall too. I cut them down. I've had to cut the rear bit off the chassis, and cut down the rear wheel tubs. Body mods so for are only to the hood and radiused the front fenders. This idea came about last December. Then it went on hold for a new member in the house. We got a tiny kitten. She's great! But! She wants to be everywhere I am. She also wants to climb and play with everything. And she's grown huge! So, no model building until she matured or I came up with something. Well, I came up with something and she has sort of matured. Cries just a bit outside my jail. This is after about a weeks work a couple hours at a time. This Mustang really pales when compared to the Revell kit. The giant hood scoop has become a giant bulge for the planned Boss 429. Those wheels came from the AMT Malibu NASCAR from the seventies. Might exchange them for something else and need to narrow the track. Tires are PPP I'm planning a red and gold Coke scheme typical of Bobby's from the early seventies. The fantasy is after he had run the #49 Mustang Pony Car in the short lived Grand American series for car owner Melvin Joseph. He was contacted by Ford and given a newer Mustang body, a Boss 429 and Ford money to run this car from his shop in Alabama. Bobby's Grand American Mustang that he was finally given credit with a win at Bowman Gray Stadium after 53 years. I plan to use these Mercurys paint schemes as an example to paint the model and decal it. I always like this look. A frustrated Junebug. She's been a great kitty, but there's no way my hobby room is safe from her 12 pounds and still growing curiosity. This gate keeps me in jail as my wife calls it and the cat out. Yep, that's a dead spider in the corner. We have a zillion spiders in Kansas. I have traps everywhere and I need to do some good vacuuming in this room.

The 65 El Camino has them too

I built this decades ago. The box is from 1994 so some time around then. It suffered damage and lived in the box for many years, I pulled it back out and repaired it when I finished my hobby room a few years back. It's on display now along with this 51 Chevy that also suffered damage and was repaired.

Can't wait to see yours. I started on one twenty odd years ago and never finished

I hope you guys realize this is Paul "Lil Bud" Moore the driver, not the car owner with this Cougar. He was competing in the Grand Americans in NASCAR, the owner was Bob Wilson

I have too many unbuilts too want more, but I lean to getting releases from Moebius and Salvinos JR occasionally. Otherwise, it's the rerererereleased stuff that don't have from the domestics. I've built Tamiya and Hasegawa, but there's no real challenge from those.

I'm fortunate I have a whole room and capability to add some shelves. Those shelves in the middle are the majority of my built models.

How I built mine

Very nice! Great detail! I built these Testors Lincoln Mint Harleys many years ago. They're not well detailed, but big and look good on a shelf!

I use Krylon pewter gray color maxx. These are the same color, but different cameras

Nice Model! looking forward to the end result! Mike Alexander's Late Model Sportsman from Nashville 1978

I built my first model kit in 1970, and it was a Monogram Thunder Bug. I remember it being green. My mother has a picture of it in her home in one of he many albums. I'm wondering if the old molds might still be around and we might see it released from Atlantis one day.

1975 Ford Granada Ghia Four door, white with turquoise trim, vinyl top, and interior. 302, auto, power everything 105K. $500 in 1982 drove it for almost three years, rebuilt the transmission, and traded it in on a new Escort in 1985. Drove that for ten years. Looked like this with Turquoise top and trim

One of the first cars I ever rode in was a red 1960 Dart Phoenix 2 door. I was a baby. The 4 door Phoenix was created from a 2 door by some modeler in the past. Johan never made a 4 door Phoenix and Chrysler never made the Dart or Fury with this roof line in a 4 door.