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I would love to see the decals for this kit with the mouse. Courious is the "mouse" anything like that one don't by the guy competing with Ed Roth's Rat Fink back in the 60's? Was it called Stan the Mouse? Or something like that?

Looks great.

As nice of a build of that kit as I've ever seen.

Exactly what I was going to say.

Good, Bob it is for sure then.

After the gray of coarse.

Again I'm going with your suggestion on that one too. A fairly bright red is what I want. So a white prime it will be.

It's your model. But, I hope you still decide to build it stock. I don't know why? But, to me it doesn't seem right to modify this one. But, again it's your model. So build it the way you'd like. And not the way I'd like it.

As long as both guys came out okay! As noted the car can be, and has been repaired in the past. It is kind or cool to watch. Funny? I didn't laugh. But I can see where others might find it funny.

Of course. But, I also trust the advice of the guys here. There are some pretty knowledgable people posting on these threads. Who seem to be more than willing to share their wisdom. And you get to know who's advice you can trust here. And who's you can not. For example, despite the fact that I may not agree with Snake's views on everything here. Over all I've found that he seems to have a pretty good grasp on what works well. And what doesn't. His advice of laying down grey primer over black plastic makes sense to me. Whether I agree with his conclusions on whether red plastic bleeds through paint or not. I don't know? But, it sure seems like it to me and other I know. As far as Snake being right or wrong on the issue red (or any other color) bleeding through. I really don't care in the long run. The more important question is how to prevent it? I've heard many different theories and suggestions on solving this problem. I just want to know what works? I hate any plastic molded in any color other than white. 9 time out of 10, one shot of a good primer has solved the problem for me. But red and yellow at times does seem to be the exception.

I like your suggestion of laying down some gray primer first. That makes a lot of sense. I've used both Tamyia's white and grey primer with very good results. Recently somebody in another thread showed a Tamiya red or pink primer. I thought this was a little odd. When asking the propose of this colored primer, I was told it was best for use under red paint. So I'm wondering if I should lay down one coat of Tamiya grey primer over the black plastic? Then the Tamiya red (pink?) over that? And finally a Tamiya red? Or rather than hunting down the Tamiya red primer, which I've never seen available around here, I just stick with Tamiya white primer for my second coat?

Not everybody uses, or even has an airbrush. 99% of the time I get great results using lacquer paint straight from a can. Especially Tamiya. Though I've had pretty good luck with Testor's One Coat lacquer too.

Being a big Buick fan I need a Skyhawk. So other than wheels and engine it can be built to look like a fairly stock Skyhawk? That's okay with me. i don't need other Monza. I've got a '79 promo. Which is good enough for me.

Stunning! Very nice.

Very nice. Reminds me that I need to build mine one of these days.

Was this plating done through the guy at the NNL North, Steve?

I need to throw a little twist into this. I have the Ertl reissue of MPC's 1/16 scale '63 Corvette molded in black plastic. I want to paint it red. Because of past problems with colored plastic I am a little worried about this. I plan using Tamyia's white primer. Then a Tamyia Red. Any thoughts on this? Will I be okay? Or will I have problems?

Great story on the Grand Prix Steve. Sad story on the Caddy. But both worth telling. I'm glad you did.

Nobody has any suggestions or advice for?

Very nice!

Oh.... To answer your question Snake, yes they were an Aston-Matin (black for some reason) and a red '65 Mustang fastback.

Here's two more toys I would have like to have had, but didn't. Let's see if anybody remembers these? The one many of you may remember is Remco's Mr. Kelly's Car Wash. You put a car on the chain and its dragged through the car wash, using real water if you wanted to. Or your mother would let you. It had cleaner rollers, and a so called dryer. It also came with small cloth and small tins of car wax. Plus a stand alone sign advertising the cost of a wash. The other one was put out by Remco too. And that was Barney' Auto Factory. There were 6 step in building a car in Barney's factory. First you put the chassis on the motorized conveyor belt. Second you put an engine in the frame. Third, you dropped the body onto the frame and screwed it down. Forth, insert steering wheel and install the roof. Fifth, place wheels on the axles and thightn the nuts that hold then on the right side. And sixth, there is an automatic turnaround so you can do the same on the left side of the car. Kind of cool. I wonder how much time you were given to preform each task? And I wonder why they picked the name Barney's Auto Factory? Buy a car called a Barney doesn't sound all that glamours to me. Still I want one.

As far as I'm concerned the 1960's were a golden time to be a kid. Especially if you were a boy. So many cool toys came out at the time aimed at kids like me. And since it was a less polically correct or fearful time, we had a lot of guns, and things that could blow up or burn you if you weren't careful. It was fun and cool! Here are a few toys I wish I had when I was kid. In some cases wish I had today. And most of them are both safe in general and polically safe, I'm sorry to say. The one I always wanted, and still do, is Mattel's astronaut figure Major Matt Mason. As a kid I was madly in love with the space race. Major Matt Mason, and his other astronaut pals, had some of coolest equipment to explore the Moon and beyond with. Don't know why I never got a Major Matt Mason at the time? It would have been a prefect gift for me. By the way, on at least one of the US's Shuttle missions they took a Major Matt Mason figure with them into space. How cool is that? Spys were a big thing in the 60's. Especially James Bond. Had a friend who had Gilbert's James Bond Race Set. Never got to play with it. Gilbert who manufactured it, and Sears who sold the set, had a lot of troubles with them. Most did not work. I don't know if this was the case with Dirty Dave's or not. I didn't see his set until the early 70's. And by that time many pieces were missing. This is another one of those toys that has a very high collectors value today. Well, that's two for now. There are many more. But, I've got other things to do right now, so it will have to wait. Plus I want to hear more from others. I'm sure many of you agree with me. The 1960's were a great time to be a kid.

The toy from my childhood I wish I still had? Christmas 1966 Batman toys are all the rage. And I was Batman crazy. In fact, I still am. More than anything else I wanted the Ideal Batman Playset as seen in the Sears Christmas catalog (Wishbook) that year. It came with 3" tall hand-painted figures of Batman and Robin. Unpainted villains, a plastic Batmobile and Batplane, miscellaneous Batcomputers, and things like that. Sad to say, I did not get that set.... Instead I got the holy grail of those Ideal paysets. And one that was not in the Sears Wishbook. I got the Justice League of America Playset! Besides Batman and Robin, the Justice League set also came with Superman, Aquaman, Flash, and Wonder Woman. Plus seven villains. The Batmobile, Batplane, a Batcomputer, and a "laser ray" weapon. And what I assume is Superman's Sanctuary at the North Pole. Since the plastic cave said "SANCTUARY" over a wooden door. And the door accepted a giant weathervane key like Superman's Sanctuary in the comic books at the time. Very, very cool. It turns out that Ideal's Justice League of America Playset was not made in large numbers. So it is very rare and valuable today. Of course at the time, it was just a toy to me. And a toy I had a lot of fun playing with. I took fairly good care of my toys, but never with the idea that they would someday be valuable. Heck, I don't know what ever happened to my Justice League set. I outgrew it. So it was either tossed out or given away. But, back then who knew? Speak comic book characters. Several of the comic books my sisters and I had as kids have survived. Again, we were taught to take care of our things as children. We did read them. A lot. So none of them are in "mint" condition. But, they are still there and still readable. The last few years they have been stored up at my youngest sister's cabin. (Comic books are prefect cabin reading material.) But now, that sister is selling her cabin, and moving to Florida. She e-mailed me just the other day, asking if I wanted to take the comics? The collection is mostly things like Archie comics, etc. ( I had kept my own superhero comics I had as a kid in a separate collection, at my home.) But, that is okay. I told her I'd take them.

That happens. Bummer.