ERIK88
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nice model, I have the same one that came in the super street machine set. I love the look of this one.
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way cheaper, and some say its more up to scale than flocking.
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Just came off the bay. Now the dilemma, resoration or leave as is. I do have a set of decals for it in case of resto.
Thats a tough one, it looks nice as it is already. Not too bad
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Nice clean model wow . I like the classic paint
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This Chevelle of mine has been consistently overlooked, and (like customsrus) I've also been told some judges thought it was simply an out of the box build with painted bumpers and nice paint. It would be good to be judged by people who had enough knowledge of car design to recognize a 4" top-chop, and enough knowledge of model building to realize the level of difficulty in chopping this particular car. It would also have been nice had anyone bothered to actually read the data cards with the model that explained all of the mods, including the full-custom C5-R derived, road-racing chassis. But hey, it's not a perfect world, is it? So far, best it's done is a second in a minor hobby shop show. Lost out to a box-stock build of a Hurst Hairy Olds because the judges saw TWO engines in the Olds and didn't realize the OLDS was a straight kit build. Oh well.
wow who are these people judging contests? lol . U can clearly see the top has been chopped and the custom exhaust coming out from the sides
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If you build it the way you intend, you might want to check out the hub caps in the Revell '62 Impala. They seem to be smaller, and a better scale fit on the AMT wheels than the ones that come with the AMT kit.
Oh ok thanks for the heads up
. Yea i intend to build one stock, one lowrider, and one muscle. Oh ok thanks for the heads up
. Yea i intend to build one stock, one lowrider, and one muscle. I really like the stock look of these though. Specially in gloss red.
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Here's one I did a few months ago. Not my best work. The paint was a very old spray can, and came out sort of lumpy, but I was tired of messing with it, so I left it alone.
It still looks nice and I actually want to do a red with the rims or hubcaps outlined in red like you have done with the blue. How did you achieve that if you do not mind me asking? Im sure I can find a way, but If there are shortcuts, that would be nice. I have never done that.
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Just to clarify, do you want pictures of the 409 engine, or pictures of the built '62 Bel Air bubble top? I can't provide photos, but I've built one of the stock '62, and one of the Hayden Proffitt super stocker, and both came out to my satisfaction...one of AMT's better creations.
well i originally wanted pictures of the model as a whole, built. But the recent engine pics have provided some reference for me to go off by as well. Either way , is fine
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That's a really nice bel air
thanks for sharing your pic.I've posted this one elsewhere, recently, but here's my interpretation of that great kit:
love the weathering , really convincing.
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I got two chevy bel air 409s for $22 . I love the bubbletop on these.
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I was just wondering if any of you can share a few pics of a few chevy bel air's 409 stock, lowrider, muscle or drag. I would just like to see those beautiful cars built up, I have 3 waiting to be built. I
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I think im done in this thread, I have explained a lot and still won't get my point across to those nonbelievers of the ability to learn from model building. I didn't expect too anyway, but I liked expressing my point of view on a topic that is very special to me, which is the automotive world and model building,
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Because it will develop your curiousity to want to know how a car operates when your building it, putting it together. You want to learn what a v8, v6 means or what all those numbers crunched out in the model's instruction manual mean explaining its horsepower that you wouldn't much do so without ever having built a car. It develops your mind to explore into other areas which in turn leads to maybe wanting to know why some of the 50s era vehicles depict rockets or space ships so much, or why the end of the muscle car era came which then leads to a connection to sociology, Its all inter connected.
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Tell me how building a model car will teach you how a real car works.
If you have no idea how a car works, how will putting together a model car change that?
What you will learn is how to put a plastic kit together. That hardly relates to the function of a 1/1 car.
Because it will develop your curiousity to want to know howa car operates when your building it, putting it together. You want to learn what a v8, v6 means. It develops your mind to explore into other areas lmao.
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Nice chevy No Go lol
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There's plenty to learn by doing models. We even learn about how to model safely and care for our health.
Caring for our health knowledge can be helpful when doing a home project or you might know proper painting techniques in another area, handling humidity, spray patterns , different paints, sanding techniques, etc
Nothing is educational to a "know it all"
Very true lol
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. Couldn't have explained it any better, there is rich history behind every car built.Hmmm, questioning whether model building is educational?
From a personal point of view, it's been very educational for me, and I don't mean merely "how to build, and how to build better" either. Model building of all subject areas has opened up a lot of education, not only for this now-white-haired developing geezer, but countless others. When you think about it, many of us have learned not just about cars, but how they were/are designed, much of "the how's and why's different types of cars and trucks developed as they did; even a lot about the history of our country in the 20th Century.
If one, as an automotive model builder does any research at all (online, in print, or even "asking the man who owns one", exposed me to far more than the shapes, colors, engine types. What about the environment in and surrounding the real vehicles of which our model cars and trucks are miniature representations?
I'm rather amazed how, over these past 61 years (and counting still) I've learned FAR MORE about all the things that existed around the cars I build, the companies that built them, the people who sold, serviced and drove them. In short, a lot of history, even sociology (not to mention the science and engineering behind automobiles and their supporting infrastructure (and even the infrastructure out there that automobiles themselves support).
So, educational? You bet!
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I agree, I knew more than any grown adult by the age of 7 about different car parts and their function. It helped me gain knowledge of how each system operates as a whole and shocked my fathers buddies when I knew what part they were replacing on xyz car. . A little help and explanation from my step dad who is a auto tech, went a long way too.I can only speak from my personal experience. I built all kinds of models as a kid; ships, planes, cars, Oddly enough, no armor. but from that I learned how things were put together. It wasn't perfect and some of my attempts to build flying airplanes were doomed from the start, but I still learned. It probably helped that my dad was an engineer and could answer most of my questions. Most people have only the vaguest notion about how cars work. They'd almost certainly get a much better idea from building a model.
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I wonder if they can maintain being innovative or adopt to current circumstances when baby boomers are gone, since I can't imagine how you can improve this hobby really. Besides better tooling and such things , which the general public wont be able to notice anyway. Another thing to ask is if model cars of the future are even going to be cool? Lol. Is it going to be fun building that Eco friendly car, gas efficient , and compact as well? Lol.
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Prices would probably be cheaper if they had a younger audience target.
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No, I was not joking
That contest is nothing more then a way for Revell to drum up sales , nothing more, nothing
All I was saying is that the hobby is aimed at the baby boomer generation, which, it is.
I agree Martin 5 it is catered to the baby boomer generation now more than anything. What will happen when there gone????
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Its people from my generation that can still save this hobby!. There should be many out there, I mean when I was a kid is when the model making industry was at its best 90s and early 2000s. I would see many models of every kind at just about any brick ad mortar store at very reasonable prices.
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I don't think this hobby will be able to attract youth like it once did before. There is just too much technology out there that kids rather be utilizing as it is fast and quick to play with. You don't see many youth being very interactive, taking hobbies of any sort, and being imaginative. It's all about the next shooter game or zombie game that does not involve much thinking. Then Xbox runs ads catered for teens on their Xbox home pages to join the Army and how they can get ahold of the greatest technology by doing so, figure that one out. Games like Civilization or Europa Universalis are rocket science for most kids I know jk. I embrace technology, but I miss the simple ways were it seems like families were more interactive and had things such as family game nights, riding bikes, hiking, camping, etc. I think the hobby will probably grow slighty while there are still baby boomers retiring but drop steadily once that stage is over, probably marking up prices very high in order for the model making companies to survive and only be catered to the serious hobbyist. That is why I am stashing as many models as I can! lol. I might be wrong though, just my opinion.
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I want to know what "skrinking" means.
yes i was thinking the same , what exactly does skrinking mean ?
. Yea i intend to build one stock, one lowrider, and one muscle. 
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beautiful paint job, excellent perfect , clean model. I really like the goodrich tire decals gives it a real muscle car feeling.
Yea i dont think shabo makes dry transfer decals anymore