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  1. With the '57 Buick, Modelhaus supposedly unearthed a couple of AMT promo bodies molded in styrene. AMT is said to still have had possession of some early promo tools back in the late Sixties, and (then) in a search for "new" items to produce on the cheap, shot some of them in styrene to evaluate them. The '57 Ford two-door sedan promo was one of the others. No word on whether or not the Buick got any consideration, but supposedly the Ford was looked at, only to discover that the 1:1 sedan is on a different wheelbase from the existing hardtop kit. That would prove an obstacle to combining parts from the hardtop kit with the sedan body. Somehow the Modelhaus sedan body got cheated a bit in order to make the hardtop chassis fit. That must have been done along with incorporating the hardtop kit's engine compartment detail into the sedan body.
  2. As often as we've seen them, the engines are great too; the only nitpick being the magneto location on the supercharged Ford. The dragster spoke wheels are among the best ever done in plastic. The other wheels are pretty decent too, though some sandpaper work is needed to knock the ejector pin marks off of the exposed areas. I do wish they'd run the suspension pack through the metallizing chamber though.
  3. When it comes to photoetch emblems and scripts, there's MCG, and then there's one-off items that are here today, gone tomorrow...IF you can even find them.
  4. The body, being a copy of the AMT piece except for the 1950 front fender trim, is as good. It doesn't have an opening hood or trunk, or engine compartment detail though. I haven’t looked at one in awhile but I remember the skirts being molded as part of the body also. It also lacks the '49 rear window dividing straps as the '50 had one-piece rear glass as opposed to the '49 three-piece. With the "police" version you also have the accessory holes to deal with. But overall body shape compares well with AMT's body, the AMT chassis ought to swap in easily, and you also get bumpers without molded-in guards.
  5. I don't think many people here are refusing to buy the parts pack-based kits just because of the box art. The point is that Atlantis could do a better job of promoting them by using box art for these, and a few other kits that more closely resembles the original Revell box art. That's to get the point across regarding the origins of what these kits are, to potential buyers who might be looking for these items but aren't convinced that what Atlantis is selling are the real thing. The funny car kits will sell regardless of box art, as long as the chosen subjects are good ones. The Tom Daniel and Ed Roth stuff will sell because they have a built-in following of builders and collectors. The parts packs have to find the builders who remember them. The box art would help in that regard.
  6. I too picked up two cans. The "high build" is useful for bodywork areas, you don't want too much of it around detail areas. What has worked (for me) is: "filler primer" or "high build", with a light blast of "sealer primer" on top of that. The "sealer" seems to prevent the color coats from burning through and raising scratches in the bodywork areas. I still go light on the initial color coats though.
  7. How old are the single moms? If they are anywhere near 40, tell them to enjoy their box of wine and their cat(s)...
  8. When any of these paint makers change the formula, like most other things, it's to trim the cost of the product. With primer, it's more solvent and less "solids". What was once "primer" is now "filler primer", what used to be "filler primer" is now "high build primer". Pre-Covid, but it has changed in the last ten or fifteen years.
  9. Sometimes, on occasion, the problem with junk coming through the spray can nozzle can be the result of the can not being shaken thoroughly enough. Who knows how long ago it was made, how long it sat on the rack at the auto parts store, or how many cold trailers and warehouses it sat in on the way there. Before even test spraying it, shake until the agitator ball can glide around the bottom of the can freely. This applies to paint as well as primer. It won't solve all problems (sometimes the paint is just bad) but it will at least give you a chance at the right results.
  10. The hood scoop on the Cougar is an option. The hood does have a "cut line" on the inside that should be filled if you don't use the scoop.
  11. They don't use the barcode readers because they carry a lot of items in all departments that are made by outside companies specifically for them, and only appear in their stores. To inventory those with barcodes, they'd have to set one up for each item, meaning they'd have to buy a barcode for each one. It's not because the barcode system has "666" in it, or anything like that which the haters often throw around. On the flip side, their stating that they want the cashiers to be more familiar with individual items doesn't quite ring true either. They just don't want to be beholden to the bar codes so they instituted their own system. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
  12. Check: autocolorlibrary.com by year, for both Chevrolet and the make you wish to use the color on. I used Duplicolor auto touch-up sprays in the Seventies, the ones for GM cars often used different names for the same color on different GM makes.
  13. The reason HL buys at a good price is that they buy large quantities. To sell off the large quantities, the same items keep appearing on the shelves until they are sold out.
  14. Around here, the stock varies wildly between the two stores within my reach. One had a pretty decent assortment until a couple of weeks ago. It looks like someone came in and cleaned out the "better" stuff, I'll probably be seeing some of that all summer at the outdoor automotive swap meets at double the price until they get tired of lugging it around. Meanwhile, at the other store...a bunch of Monogram '82 Corvette snap kits...but in the paint section, they had Duplicolor filler primer...
  15. Until you read all of the side effects at the end of the commercial, or can manage to listen to the rapid-fire vocal delivery of same. No thanks, I'll live with the headache for an hour or two, it'll probably subside...
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