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Ted Nugent would love this! It reminds me of his Bronco that Stacy David did on Gears. I'm not a Dodge fan, but I love this!

Now that's a great idea! I was just, last night, trying to think of something to do for a head liner for my 50 Chevy truck.

You need a color that will accentuate all of that beautiful body sculpture. Dark green may take away from it. Silver, metallic gray, light blue, or a silver with a smoke tinted clear should do it. Maybe a pastel light green.

There are a lot of nice colors available in acrylics. I prefer them for flats and for brushing larger areas of interior parts as they lay so flat and streak free, they also dry so much more quickly than enamels. I use a rattle can of polyurethane clear that is intended for jamb work on real cars since it will not craze or otherwise act adversely with the acrylic, plus it dries like stone.

I took it as pure acrylic. My real car was done with acrylic. Though I used polyurethane clear.

I have the 308 B.B. kit and was thinking about flares and big wheels. I'm liking what you're doing here

This is so true for my area too! I wish I had some capital to put on a show, I'd LOVE to! My Church has a really nice gymnasium with a kitchen, tables, chairs, and restrooms all at the renter's disposal and $200/8 hours isn't that bad. Only problem is that it's 35 miles outside of Oklahoma City. Well, I guess I'll sell a few of the kits I'm not going to build, unless one of you has a lathe they want to trade! ;-)

it is no doubt a unique part of automotive history. I'm sure it will look great with a line of other concept cars from the '80s. I've always loved the boxy squared off cars like that for some reason. Looks like something Pontiac designed

I can see parting out a kit if you were to have used the body or other crucial part on another build or if you just want to clean out your parts bin

I think these guys parting out kits for ridiculous prices are just ripping us off. Sure there are a few parts that may be needed for some rare kit like a bullet nose off a Studebaker or a hood for a Pontiac J2000 that someone may need to restore an old kit, but I keep seeing readily available kits being parted out and for the price of a chassis and a hood, you can get an entire model. I really appreciate all of the input. I would really like to just trade someone for a lathe, but that just doesn't seem possible.

I was looking on ebay to get some idea of reasonable prices for model kits so I can clear out some of my stock that I will likely never get around to building. Most of the kits I'm seeing are around $20 with a shipping of around $10 for a standard car model. I want to know what people are WILLING to pay (total cost of kit and shipping). Now granted, most of my kits are fairly common and most are opened but complete, which as a builder, I do not value the box or collectability of the kit so I look at a kit as if I'm going to build it. If it's an out of production or super rare kit I can see paying a higher price but $40 for an AMT Ford Ranger? I'd like to get as much as possible, but I don't want to want to wait for months. I'd like to buy a lathe asap.

I am awestruck. Some of the best bodywork I've seen. I cannot wait for more updates. Honestly, the progress of this build is so inspiring, in don't know if I would like to see it finished! Lol

I really like this one. The obscurity of the subject makes it that much better.

Holy giant rear dashboard, Batman! I bet one could park a mid size sedan in the trunk of that car! Lol Looking good! I've always loved Torinos, you're doing a great justice to this one.

I've always been a fan of the split bumper Camaros. I have never built one...as a Camaro...but many have gone into Novas, Venturas and custom pickups. One of the better AMT small block chevy renderings. I hate the fact that they put trailer tires in this kit. It's one of the reasons I never built one. There's a fella running around my town with a 71 that is super cool. Next time I see it, I'll snap a pic and post it for some motivation

On such a small face you will be better off just doing a light wash to bring out the shadows. Look at someone from a long distance, you won't really see their subtle tones of lips and eyes. Don't try at all to paint the "whites" of the eyes or they'll look bug eyed.

Quoted for truth. I have something like 10 gig of photos on photo bucket and am nowhere near my limit of free hosting. They also have it set up so you can post the image as a thumbnail for avatars, quick links for posting in forums, or email, HTML and several other formats.

You can find created at hobby lobby in the airbrush section. I have several colors I am waiting to shoot on some customs I've been working on

I really dig it! The wheels look great.

Holy cow! This is gorgeous! I am in total amazement with the style. Doesnt seem like you really had a plan of execution, kind of letting it tell you what it needs. I can relate. That's how most of my builds happen. You do have an eye for style.

You will find that the air dry red glazing putty will be more brittle than the 2 part stuff. I would test some tamiya 2 part clay type for adhesion to the resin and use it if it sticks well. That stuff is great. Another way would be to use some ca adhesive and glue a thin wire to the perimeter of the door as a substrate and then any type of filler or even building up the ca and shaping it would work. Also, I have used the "cat hair" fiberglass reinforced bondo for areas that need more strength but it is really difficult to work with in smaller areas such as ...well...anything to do with modelling.

I saw that car when it was originally being built and it was at one of the shops I delivered parts to getting some final touches worked out. The air to water intercooler set up was very intriguing since it went all the way to the back seat area and they used dry ice to help cool it.

They did, its called a Thunderbird. And its available in kit form as well. I have one of each and to this day don't know why I don't build them. They're great kits and you are doing a great job so far.

If your gonna build something from the seventies, you sure dont do it right unless you go huge with the metal flake! I would've love to get one but I must have missed out when they didn't get any at hobby lobby.

casting parts so as to have exact duplicates or multiple pieces of exact detail is an essential part of custom modeling. I've been casting parts of my own for years now. In fact, it's actually almost as addicting as building and customizing models. I find myself, at times, making molds of parts that I don't have any intention of using right away so I can later cut them up and use them as parts for other builds. Simple castings such as window cranks and door handles, I find, are more difficult to cast because you need to be so much more precise in measuring out your resin since you're mixing such small quantities. To alleviate that, I tend to make tons of extra parts all at once and either give, trade or sell the extra parts and get more resin. The Alumilite kit at hobby lobby is a great starter as it is readily available but don't get your hopes up for the longevity of the molds, it shrinks rapidly and your parts will distort and not fit after a short while. I have been using SmoothOn brand silicone and resin for some time and have some molds that are several years old and still cast as good as they did new.