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With a little break from the pool rooms (billiards) Bell has been getting a little bench time in herself, getting towards the tail end of the Joker Mobile and she has started working on a VW Bug, I'll get some updates posted!

Sweet start, look forward to following this build!

With a slight break in the rain and cold, got some House of Kolor platinum Pearl down, paint laid down nice, not overly happy with a new primer I tried, but overall, once the ralley stripes are down and it’s all cleared, I think it’ll look decent

Here is where it is for now

Cold and rainy here, little progress made with what I could do. It’s looking like this will be a very basic build, initially I planned on modifying the interior tub and firewall to drop in a different engine as the version I’m building leaves no room for a distributor.

This is looking good!

Just wrapped up some work in the interior, should look good in there!

First few coats of primer down, it’s been a great winter, need it but it’s made painting very difficult, took advantage of a sunny day today and got some spraying done

Getting the stance down a little

Initial clean up and fitting

Happy New Year all! Aside from my ongoing projects, about a month back I jumped into an online (Instagram) build-off, Mustang vs. Camaro. I jumped into it for a few reasons, one I had been looking at the AMT 68 Camaro kit for a while, growing up, back when I first started building as a kid, a fellow club member had built one of these kits and I loved the way it came out, I must have started and attempted at least five of these way back in the day but I was never happy with them and they never got completed. When this contest came up, figured this would be the time to try and get one of these together, similar to the one my friend built and one that I'd be happy with. Well, what I've got so far is a way off from the initial plan I had going into this but for the sake of finishing and having a completed model for the build off I had to make some changes. As the model is now coming together, I'm a lot happier with it than I was about a week ago. My initial plan was polished aluminum wheels, low profile tires and a nice pearl white paint job, I ended up cleaning up and doing a little paint work on the kit provided rally's which I am happy with but will go with a more era fit paint scheme, I think. I spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the body and parts I'll be using, lowered the stance a bit and tonight got a bit done on the interior. I've added some old detail master photo etched parts I had, flocking and kit provided gauges. I'll get some progress pics up here, enjoy!

That is looking sharp, like the color combination and detail work!

Great looking build, color really looks great with the style of build, wheels and tires!

Yes, I’ve been keeping pretty consistent with my bench time and really enjoying it, between picking up in old projects and building some new ones.

Thank you all for the comments, I want to build another one for myself, but will definitely make a few changes.

Finally got this build wrapped up, started this a couple of years ago, then it sat for over a year. I want to build another one now knowing where some issues were, there was a lot of sanding and filing yet still needed much more for a better fit. Overall box stock, color is actual AMC Blue, this build was for a friend, their first new car was a Gremlin, different year but overall close to the pic I had to go off

Very nice build, came together very well!!

Very nice builds as always my friend! Happy holidays and look forward to seeing the next group of builds!

Been back on the Gremlin last few days to wrap up for a friend, nothing fancy in details, lot of fitting and cleaning, not 100% happy with some things but my friend sure likes it so far so I’m happy

Wow, love the attention to detail!

I’ve always liked them as well and wanted to build some, just never did, this should be fun!

Have been looking at this for a while, started cleaning the body up some time back then put it on the shelf. Should be a fun build, haven’t done a Gasser before! Body has been scribed and cleaned up, shot some Tamiya primer over it all. Started fitting some of the suspension and cleaning up the chassis. Should be a fun build!

Thank you all for the kind comments, went back and touched up a few more things, fun build!

Looking good, paint and clear came out really nice