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THarrison351

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  1. I'm pretty happy with my results so far, but I haven't tried to use it on very large surfaces. Like this emblem Or the polished edge of a wheel
  2. OK, whatever. I see shades of grey paint and you see polished stainless or chrome.
  3. So, this to me is a first. It's a stock car with hubcaps and they are not chrome plated. The stock hubcaps were polished stainless steel and a brushed middle. You can't do that with paint. The black and white photos on the instructions look terrible and they don't represent well. Here's what a new hubcap looks like:
  4. It would depend on what decade I built it. My detailed Bill Elliott Bud 11 car took two kits, aftermarket paint, decals, and various photo-etch bits and accessories. I built it in 1993 and it cost probably less than $70. Kits were cheap at Walmart, maybe $5 or 7 each. I think the decals were maybe $5, Tru-Match paint was less than $5, each one of those bags of Detail Master sets were less than $5. Each decade the price of kits went up a little, but right after 2010, wow! Double! and every year it seems a few dollars, not cents more. I'd say to try and build the same type of detailed car today (not NASCAR, because you can't give the '90s models away), I might have to spend twice as much, depending where the model was purchased from.
  5. Well, at least yours plans to sell them. My wife will give my son first dibs, then goodwill, and finally trash. She has told me I better not instantly die either. I need to sort and box everything before I pass. Besides plastic models, I have a pretty large collection of diecast from 1/64 to 1/18 scale.
  6. Looks great. I had a whole bunch of these up until last year. I never built them and I felt I never would, because it's an odd scale for me. So I sold all but an MG TC because I built it when I was a kid and want to try it again as an adult.
  7. Hey, I built one with a color similar to that back in the seventies. Except it didn't turn out nothing near as good as yours and had the sick cylinder in it. Looks great.
  8. Try hot water, finesse and patience.
  9. I buy my cases by the case, no pun intended, the same ones that Hobby Lobby sales, directly from the manufacturer. https://www.pioneerplastics.com/ It's cheaper in the long run. This was before I moved. I haven't put anything back out since I don't have a room to display my cars anymore.
  10. Your Dodge mini truck would be originally an MPC 1981ish D-50 which is really a badge engineered Mitsubishi truck. The pink version was released when AMT/ERTL had MPC's old tools. I guess Round2 has them now and we'll see this kit again. Maybe with the four wheel drive?
  11. Yeah, go ahead and build them. You can't sell them for more than a buck on eBay. Believe me, I've tried
  12. I don't know if they are still available, but when that kit was originally issued, you could contact Revell and they would send you a set of pad printed white walls. I got a set for mine several years ago.
  13. 68 GP drool My favorite year
  14. Back in the '90s when I was building all the time, I was crankin' out Monogram's and AMT's NASCAR kits every few weeks, and had a little production line for myself. I guess I've built around 20-30, but it's been so long since I've un-boxed them, that might be wrong.
  15. I think the Baja Bronco was previously covered in this thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/115085-revell-4q2016-release-annoucement/?page=4 It looks like paint cut rear wheel wells with fender flairs, chrome wheels and bigger tires
  16. I went to Photobucket after right clicking and following open link in new tab to FloydMarsee2s Bucket. Then I clicked on recent uploads and page 2 is pictures of his beautiful model. Great looking model.
  17. Looks like your steering wheel was broken. I hope that isn't typical of whats found in the kit.
  18. Well, I just finished transferring all my pictures to Fotki. Now all that's left is repopulating all my old posts. Yeah, what fun.
  19. I was just notified by PB that to continue to use them for 3rd party hosting I would have to upgrade to their plus 500 membership at $399 a year. I'm only at 10% of use on my free account so I don't think I was using too much bandwidth. I've gone back and checked my posts and it appears all pictures are gone and replaced with PB 3rd Party Hosting has been temporarily disabled. So, I'm not going to pay $400 a year and I guess I have to find another website for my photos.
  20. Different. I like it.
  21. Will the tires interact with the wheels if the wheels are painted?
  22. Uhh...Why? Well, it's their money, I guess they can waste it any way they want to.
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