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Looks great, Bill. I'm gonna send all my masking work to you. 🙂

Well you certainly had your way with this one, J D! What's the name of that paint? The kit needs more than a Duvall to get it to "GREAT" status but I like most of what I've seen so far. I won't be using the Moon tank. My spin this time is "Rod Shop Special ". I see you mounted the Rat Roasters. How did you deal with the mufflers? I went with the newer ones but I thought I would try to fill the seam and then Molotow it.

I decided on the exhaust. Drilling & pinning everything, big fat distributor cap (I thought maybe 1:20 scale?) has tempted me to do the firing order...well, it's a legit point-getter, right? 🤣 Guess what color the body is gonna be....🙃

Oh.....I think you must have me confused with .....how's the rest of that go?

Actually, Andy, I like the Duvall unit. They seem to be relatively rare in the real world and it gives a roadster a touch of class, IMHO.

I really wanted to cut that pan off, David, and replace it with one from the stash but skinning it is just a simple solution and makes use of my extensive scrap styrene collection. 🤓

So that answers my question. Thank you, DJ! "Skinning" is an easy cure for many ills. GMTA? 🤔

Like DJ said, it's a SBC with a street blower setup. It looks okay to me, just not great. The distributor is unusually large, making 9 separate holes easily "drillable". You can get a few more of these if you hurry 🥴.

The engine in this kit isn't the greatest. There's one option on mounting the air cleaners directly on the carbs, which are poorly represented, or on velocity stacks. The entire intake assembly consisting of twelve pieces, all plated, was, for me, a tedious operation and kept me busy scraping plating from all the mating surfaces. I chose Testor's liquid cement to allow a little adjustment while fumbling with parts that have no alignment features except on the ends of the blower. I thought seriously about using the engine from a '29 roadster kit but decided to build this one anyway. One reason for my attitude is the split oil pan, which is rendered as a high volume, racing style pan. I'm not sure how I should paint it. After sanding to try to make the seam disappear, I "skinned" over the pan bottom surfaces with scrap .010 or .015. Bonded the scraps with thin cement, let it set up a while, then trimmed and sanded the edges. I suppose you can just use a filler to smooth things out but my method is quick and done. The "False bottom" is in place and sanded on the front portion. This piece of scrap, I discovered, had white paint on it 💩. A nice clean scrap piece is shown bonded to the sump. I can't be the only one who does this. Ta-da ! 😊. The T-bucket headers are in the kit but not on the parts list, holdovers from a previous version. I like them, it's just the plumber in me. They must be assembled. That leaves a visible seam on the muffler that will need to be tended to. The kit also includes a set similar ( but not identical) to the ones from the '29 kit. Not sure which ones end up in service yet. 🤔 I will try to get it painted today. Thanks for looking in. 🤓

I know some will hate me for saying this but the iconic Milner coupe was kinda strange looking with the sectioned grille not aligning with the cowl. The car pictured above looks much better, IMHO.

OK. Here it is. I've been shamed into it.

NO! .......uh.......well, maybe I could just put the engine together....🥴

Yeah, it's like the stores get a case or two of these kits. My local store also had Revell '56 T-Birds and some military stuff. There was a Camaro concept and a big rig item. Always check!

Sorry to hear that, Topher. Maybe some ebay seller got there ahead of you. Keep checking cuz things change often.

Well, Ollie's isn't a normal retailer. They sell stock they obtain as buy-outs, close-outs, discontinued, salvaged, stolen property, etc. at sometimes surprising discounts. I like to get my K-cups there. $20 USD for a box of 80 - I drink a lot of coffee. 😳

That's a very positive attitude, Bob, thanks. I plan to try a repair. Till I run out of Glacier Blue. 🥴

I have the Chevelle kit. It looks pretty good. Bob. 😅

I needed coffee, so off I go to Ollie's to pick up a box of K-cups. I was alone (no wife-like supervision) so I wandered over to the toy area just in cas......woah! Look what I found! 👇 How could I not? I should have bought all the ones on the shelf but my kit storage is kinda full right now. This kit looks a lot like the '32 coupe and the Model A kits. I'm impressed. If you don't like the Duvall windshield, (and I know some of us don't,) there is a chopped stock frame (but no glass) you can substitute. There is no flash. The plating is top notch and the scale of things seems right. If you are considering this kit, you may be able to score a few at a good price at your local Ollie's. The instructions are in line with the rest of Revell's "good kits". I won't start this for a while but I may follow the squirrel to see where he goes. Looks like a pretty good kit.

Surely you jest, Bob but, If not, thank you!

Thanks for your encouragement, Dennis. This little paint problem I'm facing is a test of that. I will not put the body in the pond. Yet. It looks like a do-able repair. I could be wrong, though, but it's worth a try. If it doesn't work out, I have another body I can use and this one will become a weathering project 😉.

Mrs. Murphy did this one. And she's a mean, mean woman with no sense of humor (like Wifey 🤣) Actually, I consider myself an impatient person, hence the masking tape mishap but who knew. I'll give it a week to cure more and then try to feather it out and try out my new Iwata to do the paint. I get a nice break at the trunk line. The damage on the backlight trim is going to need some very careful sanding but I think I can fix it. Solid colors are easy enough to repair. 😕. We shall see.

Today the RH was below 50% so I figgered I'd get this puppy painted. I forgot what kind of paint I was spraying and I couldn't get a good wet coat after several attempts. MCW paint comes with instructions on how to apply it but, like I said, I forgot 🤓. I waited a while and gave it a couple of coats of Tamiya clear from the can. Better but it's there for the rub-out. I was excited to see the blue against the Corinthian White. How long should I wait? An hour? .....now! 😵 oh $hit!

Kind words are always welcome, Sean. Thank you!

Now that idea has merit, Greg. I can try some things to see how they fly. Thanks for helping.

Ooooo.....alternating lavender and white rolls! Let's see....hmmm....maybe 😏. Could be a bit of a problem masking.....yeah, this could work 🙂.