Safire6

I'm thinking about doing the Blue Crush car using the AMT '61 Impala SS kit. Never done any weathering before so it'll be a first for me.

Beautiful model, great job on it!

Looks fantastic, nice engine details and stance!

Beautiful build and great color choice!

Very cool!! Does it have landing gear underneath?

Really cool! I especially like the B58, great job!

I'm a Pepsi man too but that Coke looks mighty tasty also!

A friend had a 1:1 ‘66 Chevelle SS back in the day so he gave me the Revell kit to build for him. I picked up the ‘61 Impala and paints today at HL. The Torq Thrust wheels in the Impala kit will be used on the Chevelle, I think.

These are my 3 jewels:

That's cool! Well done!

Everything is just beautiful about this, the subject, the build, the colors and the photography. Congrats!

Very cool-nice job! Is that 1/25 scale!

If it weren’t for randyc on this forum I wouldn’t have known about this kit also. Thanks Randy!

I need to build something like this. What kind of wood did you use, if you don’t mind me asking?

Nice Pintos! Great job!

Great subject and great execution building it!

Thanks Plowboy! This one was molded in silver and had a vinyl top. I sanded off the “vinyl” texture to make it into a “steel” hardtop. This TR8 kit is really a TR7 because it has a single exhaust (like a 1:1 TR7). Also there is “TR7” molded into the glove box door but you would never know it without a strong magnifier. The decals are about the only thing that identify it as a TR 8 and not a 7.

Thanks everyone, appreciate the kind words!

Thank you. Advertised as “the shape of things to come” back in the day. I personally like the coupe much better than the convertible. Compared to the earlier TR3, 4, 5 and 6; the TR7 and 8 were radically different designs which turned off a lot of potential buyers.

According to Richard Newton’s “Illustrated Triumph Buyer’s Guide”, less than 3000 TR8s were produced and less than 20 of them were available in the home market. It’s no wonder you never knew it existed!

I bought this last year from randyc here on this forum. Thanks Randy! I just finished it yesterday. A friend of mine had a TR8 coupe in the same colors so this is a tribute to that car. Hope you all like.

I have the Ecto 1 kit also. Someday I'm gonna build it as a hearse I think.

Thanks for the suggestions Snake and Peteski!

I tried a bath of Zep Industrial Purple degreaser and then tried a bath of Simple Green to remove Model Master Lacquer over Tamiya primer. Neither one had any effect on removing the paint after soaking for a day and a half. But after couple hours in some DOT 3 brake fluid, the lacquer and primer came right off.

Looks good! I like how you scuffed up the slicks.