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Very cool Mark. Nice job. Scott

The three Chevys in the background are Revell die casts. Right to left, you are looking at a '59 Impala, a '61 Impala, and a '70 Monte Carlo. And do buy the AMT Willys kit. Again as noted, it was a lot of fun build. Scott

Very nice Rick. Clean looking build. Scott

Very nice. I like it. Scott

Just finished building AMT's '40 Willys Coupe/Pickup kit. As you can see, I build the pickup version. And for comparison here is Monogram's '41 Willys Street Rod kit. This I built about a year ago. But, I think this the first time I've posted pictures of this kit. Both were very fun kits to build. In some ways the newer tooled Monogram kit is a better kit. But the old AMT kit is still a nice kit to build. Scott

I wish somebody would put out a book of Krass and Bernie comics. Scott

Very nice. Scott

For what ever reason, can't see the photos. Just boxes were they should be. Scott

Nice to see a 510 for the street. Not the track. I really wish Revell would bring back their stock 510 kit. Scott

I agree. Go for it Tom. Scott

I like the Robert Williams picture above. As for hot rod comics, there is a reason you don't see many today. The only good one was Cartoons put out by Petersen Publishing. And really only Krass and Bernie were all that good in that with any constancy. I do miss Cartoons though. And wish it was still around. Scott

I built several, before the intervention and lock up. I'm better now. So they tell me. Scott

Plenty of info on striping paint on other postings within this area of web site. Good luck. And have fun. Scott

Looks good. I'd like to more. But, it says the other photos were moved or deleted. Too bad. Scott

Fun story with the second set of photos. By the way, I like kit more after seeing second set of photo. Both a good and fun. Scott

Tell us more about your model. I know of Skylines. But know very little about them. Scott

Fun collection. Nice job. Scott

Looks great. A cool car. Scott

What Ray said. By the way, what is the body color? Scott

Come on guys. Let's not go after the 'Cuda kit again. I liked the kit and I'm tired of hearing about it by those who don't. If you don't like it fine. We know. It's been beaten into the ground. I like most of Revell's new releases. Compared to what we got back in the 50's, 60's and 70's, the new stuff we get now looks pretty good. Thank you Revell. I like your recent '70 'Cuda kit. And I'm sure I'll like your '67 Camaro kit too. Are they perfect? No. But, they are pretty darn good. Scott

Looks good. Was that built from the Revell kit? Scott

Looks good Scott. Another old favorite of mine. I still like the behaving bad kids window inserts that came with the first and most recent issue of the kit. I work as a sub in schools. And I love my job. But, sometimes I work with kids who behave like those depicted in the inserts. And it's nice to remember that kids back in the day when Tom Daniel designed that kit, when I was in 5th or 6th grade, were perceived at times to be as bad as the kids we see today. There were bad kids in my day too. (I sometimes was one of them.) and most kids today are pretty good. Despite what you hear. Scott P.S. School starts on Tuesday. I'm can't wait. I really like working with kids. Even the perceived "bad" ones.

Thanks Dale. That helps a lot. The trouble with the United States is a lot of people and the press do not look outside of the US. To many, I may even say to most, there is nothing outside of the US worth looking at. Unless it's imported here or threatens our security. Very few American know anything about the rest of the world at all. We even know little to nothing about our neighbor to the north, Canada. And few people here know much about Australian cars at all. There are very few books or magazines in this country that ever show or talk about Australian cars. I have several books. But, they are mostly books either printed in and for, or mainly sold in Australia. The more you Aussies share with us car buffs in the US the better. There were a lot of very cool cars built for the Australian market only, mainly in the 60's and 70's that would blow the minds of US car buffs today. I wonder how many American buffs know that Chrysler of Australia use to offer cars with a Hemi and six-pack in one engine package? Yes a Hemi and six-pack together! In a straight six no less. Or that there were Valiant Chargers. Falcon GT-HOs. Or Holden HSVs. And many other cool cars we know little to nothing about up here. So please tell us more. When sharing pictures, tell us what we're looking at. I may know more than most people here. But, I don't know enough and I'm always looking to learn more. Scott

I use to get orange peel like that on all of my models. And I use to get a ton of advice from other model builders on how to fix the problem. Very little of their advice worked. So how did I get rid of the problem? I quit using enamel paints and switched to lacquers. Especially for painting car bodies. I use to be a cheap SOB. I thought lacquer, especially Tamiya was too expensive. But using lacquer in the long run has turned out cheaper. I have not had to strip one model yet because of a bad lacquer paint job. With enamel I've had to strip quite a few. Recently I built a model of MPC's Space 1999 Eagle using Testors gloss white enamel. The paint came out okay. I had a second can of the same paint. So I went to paint my MPC '75 Dart Sport with that second can. First coat I got mild orange peel and air bubbles along different edges of the model. So out come the sandpaper. Off come the bubbles. Went to shoot the second coat. More and worst orange peel. Showed it to our expert model painters in our local club. All they could suggest was stripping the body and starting over again. So into the purple bath with the body. Now I need to go to a hobby store and buy some Tamiya lacquer. Should have used Tamiya lacquer in the first place. Scott

I have the old Pro-Modeler version. That incorrect body line doesn't bother me too much. The seats always have. I need to finish building the old kit. And despite my dislike of the use of the low back buckets in this kit, I will still use them in this build. They look okay. They're just more right for a '69 Torino, than a '70. If anybody asks, I'll just tell then that my Torino represents an early pre-production prototype built before the correct seats were available. I may have to buy and build a second with correct seats. Painting it a different color. Just for the fun of it. Scott