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Something to try if you're wanting to make the clear plastic lenses standout, most modern kits headlights have A small bump at the bottom of the lense housing. Staying with the silver or stock look just a tiny dot of silver paint on the top of that bump will give the lenses a different look when the clear plastic kit lenses are installed. You can try different clear color paints depending on the effect you're after. Fog lights are fairly easy with some clear yellow or orange on the inside of the lenses. For the Gasser Look use a clear red or whatever clear color works with your paint scheme.
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Had a crown break while eating a sandwich at lunch today. I had broken one on the other side of my mouth a couple of weeks ago and the dentist did the impressions and sent them off for a new crown and installed a temporary crown on that side. Now I have to go get another temporary crown for the side that broke today. Thats the one. Good old PEP BOYS. The rear seat speaker had about a 10 second delay on the sound and sounded very unique at the time. I had load leveler shocks on the back and when you went over a bump a certain way or at speed the rear seat speaker would make a noise like you had crashed into something or bottomed out on the road.
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Anyone else remember the Verbasonic rear seat speaker from before the '65 GTO made them popular? Also had a 45-rpm record player that mounted under the dash, all before 8 tracks became the thing to have.
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Great looking paint finish and color. Like the Kustom body work and the roof line looks like a later model GM roof around the rear window opening and the C pillar.
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That shade of gold was a popular color on GM cars from that era. Interesting, looks as if they left the convertible boot on the parts tree.
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Great paint work and chassis. Like the wheel and tire combo.
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Great paint finish and clean body trim.
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Great looking paint color and finish. The Flat Head engine and its detailing look great. Like the pin striping decal on the rear deck.
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Beautiful looking roadster enjoyed watching your build. Fitting the engine and drive line looked like 8 gal. going into a 5 gal. can. Paint and interior look great together as does the chassis.
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Great looking body work and interior. Like the T-Bird? wraparound rear seat.
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I like the real story better than the Petty one.
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Scribing body lines AFTER a few coats of paint
espo replied to Hawk312's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Using stitchup suggestion, starting with a sharp blade may also cut the paint enough that it wouldn't chip the paint as you move up to a scribing tool. Try working up from the blade in stages. -
Depending on which kit you are using for the base, you may want to find a Revell '66 El Camino kit as well for some parts. That kit would provide you with a correct style grill and hood for a non-SS car. The other part you might want to find if your son's employer doesn't have bucket seats would be either a rear seat from another '66 Malibu or the Revell '66 Malibu station wagon. That seats would have the correct seat pattern for a Malibu level interior trim. The front seat back would need a little modification to replicate a folding seat back. For the small block Chevrolet engine, the 'Revell '69 Nova SS kit has a very correct looking engine and even the correct exhaust manifolds for the '66 Malibu.
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Beautiful looking paint colors and finishes. These cars had very elegant body lines and the engine is well detailed here as well.
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Great looking finishes, and the Turbo engine detail makes you wonder "why not".
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Great looking paint color and very smooth. Like the engine detailing and the stance.
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Beautiful looking pair of Vettes. Great looking paint work and trim details. The SCCA style Vette has realistic looking racing dirt on it.
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The changes to the roof, besides the chop, flow smoothly into the rear deck. Beautiful looking paint work and patterns. The use of most of the stock body trim looks great. The interior is all so well done, it's a shame it isn't more visible.
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Great looking bright blue paint and finish. Clean looking body trim and interior.
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Beautiful looking paint colors and finishes. The body work is very subtle but give the body a much newer look. The chassis and engine changes as well as the interior look great as well.
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I remember trying to build these many years ago. You are right about the detailed bodies, but as a very young builder at the time keeping all the body panels lined up until the glue set was a challenge.
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Like the body and interior colors. Many times, GM as well as others would use a material much like a very thin vinyl blanket with a design of some sort to cover the trunks metal interior floor. Probably more to protect objects in the trunk from rolling around and prevent the metal from getting scratched and starting to rust. Your pattern looks very much like the real thing.
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Far too many Ford owners would use a tire tool inserted into the rear leaf spring shackles and push the spring end down and the shackle would "flip" so that they were pointed down instead of up. This would raise the rear suspension just enough to give you about a two-inch lift and could also offset any sagging of the rear leaf springs. Don't ask me how I know, just know it did work and was not an uncommon thing to do. As for the Ford Y-Block engine. Properly maintained and modified in the same manner as a small block Chevy provided very similar results and would catch more than a few off guard if they thought the Ford would be easy prey.
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Nice looking vinyl roof treatment. Like the color and it goes well with the black roof and trim.