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Bob, I looked at the whitewall inserts in my kit and determined that the relief is too low, at least on the ones i have, to be of any use. i tried to bring out the lettering with craft paint and couldnt do ____ with it. i have built 2 of these and had not even noticed the lettering. how about sanding off the lettering and hit them with some flat white and call it a day? i cant say i have ever seen white walls with raised lettering.

pins, Mike, the long ones for making dresses and such. just cut the heads off. drill firewall and radiator shell, slide them in. theyre nice and shiney ?

what about a weak thin brownish wash just to make it visable? who had clean whitewalls all the time anyway?

Good! Keep 'em comming! I gotta make a list...

Thanks, Greg, but that black beauty isn't mine. ?. Mine is the oxide primed, bondo splattered, nose high cluster ______ above.

In '74 I drove a '56 DeSoto that I bought from a friend of a friend for $175.00. It ran well and rode like a dream. It had a little rust in the lower rear quarters but was solid otherwise. It was a great car....until I was rear-ended at a stop light by a stoner on our way to work. Anyone would have considered it a total. Cops had it towed but after work I retrieved it and drove it home, about 20 miles. The frame was buckled and it rode like it had no springs in back. I sent it to the boneyard and replaced it with a '55 Dodge Coronet 4 door. No cigar. I have immortalized the Gray Ghost in styrene. See below. It's a combination of the Moebius '56 Chrysler 300 and a 4 door promo I bought on ebay for $70.00.

Has anyone tried Ace Hardware Premium? I have had very good results with it and it has a really good nozzle/valve that gives a nice fine mist that's adjustable for a vertical or horizontal spray pattern. Decent variety of colors too. No "spray any way" nonsense so you can clear the nozzles. Not being able to clear the nozzle kills a lot of spray cans prematurely unless you clean them as stated by others here. Boosting the pressure with heat always helps as mentioned by others. Sometimes I use a hair dryer . I try to avoid anything that says "spray any way" on the label. Krylon "Cover Maxx" has the good valves also but check before you buy - not always true ?. Testors paint is good (the "Extreme Lacquer especially) but the cans suck. I have trouble pushing the valve down and sometimes they leak out the bottom very slowly ? Anyway, that's my 2 cents.?"

I tried this on tires with acrylic craft paint with decent results but have not tried scripts with Molotow chrome. Good thinking, Bob! Gonna try it?

Greg, thats a really nice color combination and I especially like the two toned wheels. Very clean build!

Consider yourself fortunate, Bob, my father was a very practical man. When he realized that the family car was in peril from me ('65 Impala convertible..... my mother's actually) he found a decent '61 Rambler American wagon (of all things) for $150. My first car! Try driving that to high school, Bob.? Now, I'd like to have it back - it would be a great gasser ? Studes were way ahead in styling through the '50s, but thought odd for that time. The Hawk was like nothing else on the road then. Should have kept it!

Yes, I like it! It's PG. I came up with one our vets would probably like - "Watch My Six"....and on the trunk lid "Thanks for Watching my Six !" As far as the roof goes, I would have liked it a bit less subtle. When I look at it from all angles, it's not as much of an improvement as I wanted. I wanted the profile to match the quarter window arc. Maybe it will look better in finish paint. After I started this thing I was perusing the net and found this (below) awesome thing. Roof problem solved ?g

Not exactly a silk purse, but that kit is definitely a sow's ear. ? it felt toy-like mostly due to that horrible red plastic. The front end was way too thin and fragile. I'll probably use it in a gasser. Someday. The engine is completely useless and the wheels...... ugh. I really only wanted that 3W shell but I expected more from Revell.

Slight update: created tube axle from evergreen, etc- brakes from ZZ Top '33 (?). Aluminum tube in modified wheel backs (Rev. '32 5W ?). Fabbed up ladder bars. Inserted aluminum tube I to rear axle. Modified unknown wheel backs. Mocked up to see stance. ? opinions? To high? I think so. Re-do. ?

As for the flattie in the '29 .....YES!

This is one of those aforementioned Revell 33s (I think the Beach Boys kit was a '32, but a 3W). It didn't matter how bad the kit was because it ended up like this:

While we're reminiscing, I remember going to look at a '53 convertible for sale with my dad. The price was around $200 and it was sporting a transplanted 390. When Dad looked under the hood, it was over. He wouldn't let me have anything with that much "potential ". It was a sad day. I think I ended up with another Rambler. He loved Ramblers..... For me. I went through a bunch of cars before I was 18.

This one came with kit# 72172. It shows the cross-over tube and single system. ok, I'm a little late ?

I found the convertible instructions in the hardtop box( my kits are mixed up a bit) and they show the same dual system. All three of my kits are Lindberg packaged and the one I'm working on now had only single exhaust. It was the one with the red car on the box. The Lindberg with the black car has duals. So I have a full custom '53 Vic with one pipe out the back. Another re-do for me. And as I recall, fitting the cross-over pipe was trouble.

I just peeked under my 1:25 53 Convertible and it has duals. I wish I could find the instructions for that kit. I'll keep looking ?

Bob, have you heard of "Japan Drier" ? I've never used it but maybe it's time; I've noticed lately that Testor's paint doesn't dry like it used to. It's worth a look.

Agreed! My only '33/'34 3W choice was the ZZ Top Eliminator kit. Oh, and the Beach Boys too. Not the greatest. Absolutely couldn't build those oob.

I couldn't agree more, Bil. I figure whoever designed the kit was stuck in the '70s. That or they never drove a stick.

.....like a surgeon ?

You might cut up an old windbreaker

Got a little bit done the past few days. I've got the engine mounted and drive shaft extended, running boards cut out but not cleaned up yet, started putting the nose together in preparation for lopping it off to build the flip-nose. Not much, but better than nothing ? Also, started some ladder bars....it's all pretty rough at this point. Thanks for tuning in.