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  1. customline
    Great classic from the '70s. They were everywhere. Lined up at the fast food drive-ins. Beautiful job on your rendition, great color choice! I have one of these kits in queue. Hope it turns out as nice as this one.?
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    RUST.

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    Originally I am from Rhode Island where road salt takes a toll on your ride. I hated rusted out rocker panels. Things have changed and the manufacturers are much better about rust protection now. BUT I MISS IT! Rust is now, for me, nostalgic; below are my attempts at rusty rides. Please feel free to post your rusty rides here. I would love to see them. ?. LET THE RUST REIGN! I actually drove a car like this back in the '70s...a future posting in WIP
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    My thanks to all ?
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    Yeah, It wasn't clear. That's okay, we got a lot of agreement ??
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    Yeah, I got caught up in the moment. Sorry about that. ?
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    Dave, I'm not sure I understand your point about consumption of light beer. Light beer is a refreshing drink for those who don't like beer. Those who drink light beer are not "beer drinkers", per se. They just want to be seen as such. Real beer drinkers want the body and flavor that only real beer provides. Light beer is not considered beer by real beer drinkers. It's just that simple. If you want real beer, you drink Samual Adams Boston Lager or the Devil's Backbone varieties, or any number of American micro-brewed IPAs. I'm sure our friends in the land north of the border have their real beers too, like Moosehead and Molson. Bud light and Miller Light are an embarrassing blight on the USA and anyone who drinks that garbage needs to turn in his man card. Light beer is for the ladies, period. ? Note to admin....just playing ?
  7. customline
    Awesome treatment of an old favorite kit. This kit is a blank canvas and you have painted a masterpiece on it!
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    Thank you, gents ?
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    Yup, Keystone Classics! My all-time favorite ?
  10. customline
    Yup, Keystone Classics! My favorite!
  11. customline
    Nice build, James, great color choice! Its very early '60s. I would love to get my hands on that kit again. Just that big Lincoln engine with the Latham (?) Supercharger is worth the price.
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    Thank you Phil & Ray, a deuce was meant to be chopped and channelled; why else would there be so darn many of them? Phil, I really don't recall what chassis went where but it is probably the one that came with AL Jardine's ride (yup, read the box ?). As stated above, that kit was very disappointng. Or maybe it came out of the '29 roadster kit. I dunno. I mix stuff up so much anything's possible ?. The big thing with the "Beach Boy" body is the A pillars. They bear no resemblance to those of a 1932 ford. None. That kit was a dog, full stop.
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    Merci, Philippe!
  14. customline
    Thanks Dave & Glenn, the maroon coupe is the revell. It's an older build that I did before I found out that model putty shrinks. After that I became a fanatic for Bondo. The roofs are quite different. Not sure how far back the "Little Deuce Coupe" kit goes, but the Revell kit is pretty much the same e kit as the 5W kit. Different body, but it came with most of the other stuff. The engine in my version is from the 5W. The "Rockin' Rods" series also immortalized the ZZ Top "Eliminator" '33 coupe, also in red styrene. Also toy-like and not well detailed. But I digress.? Nothing looks right on the Monogram body; it all looks distorted. But it's a 3 window coupe and that's all I care about ? Looks more like a Plymouth ? Below is a shot of the roof that was filled with Tamiya putty. Thanks for your interest.
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    One of these coupes is the Revell kit. The other is a 1:25 Monogram "Rockin' Rods" "Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe" rendition, an older kit. The Monogram kit is a bit toy-like in that the kit is molded in red. The Revell street rod is a very good kit. This is how I see them. Thanks for looking!
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    WOOD IS GOOD! You could stop right here, RRP, and call it done! I love it ?
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    Best Model Car Parts. He's on ebay. He makes photo reduction dash panels on photo paper. You just cut it out and glue it in place. I love 'em.you can also just cut the kit decal out too but not dip it, just glue it in like I did here.
  18. customline
    Bud Light is for little gurlee men ☺️
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    A bit of progress. Engine mostly assembled, ladder bars painted with attached shocks, slicks sanded, a little more bondo work done, flip nose work progressing. I'll explain the nose work...sheet stock added to both sides of fender mating area- the body side is flush; this will more or less make up for the ker. Magnets will be hidden behind the .020 material. On the nose side the .030 sheet is recessed enough to accommodate the magnets that will be set there. The nose will be held closed by the magnets. When the hinge is finally set, the nose will be positioned closed. The hidden magnets will be located and glued according to the positioning of the nose magnets that are glued beforehand. Don't worry, I've done this before ?...
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    "Favorite" is clear but it doesn't cover the why; my favorite paint jobs for purely selfish reasons are the ones here. ☺️ No polishing! Easy prep! You can't screw it up!
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    Appreciate the comments, Mike. I learned about Createx a few years ago and bought a set of iridescent colors and have not had the courage to try them. I know, that's irrational. The burgundy paint on the '40 may not be as stated. Its possibly Testors dark red gloss. I experimented with Krylon burgundy gloss over black on an interior for an oxblood leather look. See below.the model A is done over bare plastic and the '53 is over black. Big difference. I knew this to be a method used to affect the shade but now I think about it when planning a paint job.? I wish I had painted those white wall inserts ?
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    Yeah, right ?
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    I was just bloviating. I need some ?
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    Wow, progress! I was caught up in the paint job thing and this thread got away from me?! That hardtop is a foil pig, ain't it? Good thing they provided the side chrome. It looks great! Party on!
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    Bob, it's not the paint as much as what you do before and afterwards. The '56 pickup you posted on 5 September (above) looks pretty shiny to me. Some pearls don't have a mirror look and indoors they just look dull. Out in the sun is where they come to life. I don't think a "wet" look is appropriate for 1:25 scale. If you micro polish, reducing grits all the way down to 12,000 without skipping any, you will get a really nice finish that looks in scale. But you already know this. I can't get a really good finish on black no matter what I do. So I keep black paint jobs at a minimum. Black may need extra care and even then a clear coat. The prep work is where you have to put in the work on a dark color. I'm not willing to go to those lengths. I don't like that phase of the build. Use Tamiya "Fine Surface " primer just before color, but give it a couple of days to dry first. If you don't have this stuff, get it! It's sah-moooth! Beautiful paint. Pricey. OK, I'm done.?
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