THarrison351

OOH the green one! Turned out really nice! I have the maroon one with the silver dusting. I used it as the basis for my Joe Weatherly NASCAR #8 I just repainted the body and changed the interior to NASCAR specs. Left all the other painted parts as is. I really liked all the ProShop and CustomShop cars. I built a lot of them. Only missed a few.

Not sure if I picked this up from HL or Wal-Mart when it was reissued twenty odd years ago. I started it, changed the tires, and put it away. It's finished now. Easy kit other that the typical flash removal and trial and error fitting. The latest issues have better decals. Needs wider rear tires. If I come across some I like, I'll swap them. There were none in my parts or any of my unstarted kits. Swapped the bug catcher too. The original was just sad. The only other modification was the forward chassis to interior tub mount. There was too much space, so I added a couple of interior retainer washers to fill the space. They fit perfect. All paints were Rust-O-leum 2X How I found it in the box. That was the original bug catcher

The Galaxie decal sheet has the "C" stripes and the gills to do the GT version, but no GT badges that I can make out on the sheet. Still a nice sheet. Would be nice to have correct mag hubcaps and a 429 4V engine instead of the two engines that were never made available for it. Not looking at the kit, the 428 maybe made to look like a 390 seeing how they share everything externally.

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I built an AMT Custom Shop when they first came out in the 2000s. Really easy kit to build. Foiled over the printed silver trim. Had to paint the roadster deck black. I can't remember what color it came painted, but it was wrong.

Yes, but for the exterior color of iris mist and the bucket front seats covered in expanded morrokide, there were only three color choices. I believe that would be the letter code P for the color choice in your display

Thanks! This is an original color, and for the interior color choice there were only three, parchment, black or plum. I tried to match the plum, but came up short. Here's what I was shooting for. Thank you! Thanks! Yes it is except, for the carburetion and the drive is a chain instead of a belt Thank you! Yeah, the axles are too narrow and so are the wheel backs, I added pieces from other wheel backs to widen the track. If you look at the picture of the car with no paint, you can see how narrow the track is before I modified the wheels.

Thank you! Thanks! It looks better assembled on the shelf without a flash from a camera. Still not as dark as I hoped Thank you! Thanks! Thank you! Thanks! Thank you! Thanks! Thanks! Thank you! Thanks! Thank you! The intake was in the kit on the chrome tree as a part of the GMC blower and Weber carburetors. I just painted it silver. The rear panel/bumper was all chrome. I scribed a line with my scalpel were the trim should part on the trunk lid and the taillights separate from the diecast panel first. Then I used Tamiya black panel liner and after that dried I used Tamiya red clear for the taillight area Thanks! Thank you! Thanks!

Simple kit, typical AMT promo chassis, low parts tub interior, metal axles, and an engine with a hole for the front metal axle. In other words, something that looks good on the shelf. This is the second effort painting with MCW paints, but I can say I'm much happier with the results this time. The first time was over a decade ago and well I ruined four models in one day. Lousy primer I guess. Anyways, I chose their evening orchid to represent Pontiac iris mist and because the trim was already present for the vinyl top, painted it as such. I did forget the seam strips, did not realize it until after the black was sprayed and well, it's my shelf. The interior is Rustoleum 2X satin aubergine to represent a plum interior. I should have used black primer, but did not expect the color to come out so light. The cap was much darker. Some things I did change were the wheel backs, I added some material to increase the width of the track. As they are the wheel tracks are too narrow. I also deviated from the stock build with the small supercharger and twin Weber side draft carburetors. The pulleys and the drive belt are so wrong, but it looks cool under the hood of the stock appearing car. Overall, it was fun to build and looks good next to my ancient build of the AMT Prestige 1965 Bonneville from the eighties.

A green Monogram Thunder Bug. It was 1970 and I was 5. My mom has a photo of me waking my dad up to show it finished

Looks good so far. Are those the old MPC GTO graphics?

Stephen King's The Dark Half Richard Stark drove a Toronado. Timothy Hutton played him in a movie

Oooohh, Sparkly!

Thanks, I built these right after 9/11 when work was on hold and I was just going in to fill time while they tried to figure out how to schedule us. I had time to kill and built all three in around a week

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These are the other two I completed at the time. I have all the rest to complete, with exception of the GTO due to it never being rereleased.

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I started this when it was released in 1988. I had also started another sprint car, the #11 Coors Light sprint car. I ran into problems building that one. It never was completed, due to a difficult landing after a short flight accross the room. I did keep the never installed wheels and tires and also the engine. I'm not sure if I never finished the Luna kit because the sprint cars were hard to build, or the disappointment of a Chevy small block were a Ford Cleveland should reside. Anyways, I have muddled, persevered, modified, and walked away many times this past month, but here it is. I was surprised the decals were OK, not great, but they stayed together. Paints are all Tamiya, including the wings I used piano wire to create the missing struts It sits completely flat despite the huge rear tire stagger. Those tank decals were just awful and barely responded to Walthers. All my other decal solvents were inert The Ford conversion is not perfect, but it's better than the obvious siamesed Chevy Not much room in there for a full sized adult. Steering wheels are only installed when driving and I need to add belts I did wire the magneto What was in the box save the NASCAR Ford Cleveland cylinder heads I'm mocking up Close up of the NASCAR Ford Cleveland cylinder heads that just fit. Yes the intake is wrong and the water pump, etc., but you can't see it when it's finished One of the pictures for inspiration. I can't believe they had a Coors Light car, but wouldn't put the Skoal and Copenhagen decals in the kits. They were a major sponsor for WoO at the time.

Nice Merc! I had one for a couple of years. Then I ran across a Merc woody wagon that needed love, so it went to eBay. Mine had a bit of rash too.

It says in the description BLACK General Lee. Pretty clear to me they will have a black border

Looks great! Always liked the "Sneaker" and his "Bluebird" cars!

Great job! Yep, I will agree a crappy kit and one that when I was building one almost became an aircraft multiple times.

Not sure how rare it is, but it's been in my possession the longest. I bought it in the late seventies from a toy store in Hickory, NC. I've never built it for some reason and never seen one built by anyone else. It was issued in 1971 and never rleased again

My store in Wichita has some of these kits, but they have yet to discount them. I did see a trike with torn celephane discounted to $13.?? It's like a three dollar discount.

I have a large collection of unbuilt kits I've been collecting since...well, the oldest was bought in the seventies. I thinned them a while ago by selling on eBay just before the fees went stupid. Over the years I've started many only to put them back on the shelf. Also, my son and now his wife have gifted me models. Now that I have dedicated hobby room, I'm building the gifted and started kits as quickly as I can. I just alternate gift or started ech time. Otherwise it's kind of eeny, meeny, miny, moe.