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Voiding my last comment here.

I like the Caudon Racer. Those between wars racing planes are some of my favorites. And the William Bros have offered a few cool kits of that era/genre of planes.

Bay of Pigs Sea Fury? I'm surprised that a kit using that theme was ever offered. I'm sometimes amazed by the odd things that are made into model kits. A Bay of Pigs Sea Fury?

Thank you Alan.

Thank you Larry. Over all I think so too. I'm kind of proud that I was kind of able to make silk purse out of a sow's ear. Or at least do a decent job on the kit.

A very pretty Bird. I like it.

Great. Thank you.

I know this not an impressive model overall, but not one single comment, good or bad? Wow! This kit is a bigger loser than I even thought.

Have you heard anything on the VW T2 Bus?

This caught my eye in the Revell catalog too. It says "New Tool." Hopefully a improvement over the old Revel/Aurora kit?

Wow! This catalog is better than expected. With covers, it's 164 pages. It has stuff I had no idea Revell offered. And the catalog doesn't just cover the stuff coming out Europe. There's a section on American stuff. This catalog is cool. I didn't know Revell of Germany was selling IMC's Opel Admiral Saloon. I decided to order one. I also see they're coming out with a model of a VW T2 Bus. Part of their "easy-click-system." From searching on eBay, it does seem to out yet. But, as soon as is, I plan on buying one.

Yea. I know, you warned me. But, with my sickness I just couldn't help myself. ?

Beautiful. It looks great.

All the way from Roma, Italy.

Despite some inaccuracies, I like this kit. Have fun with it.

Congratulations. From the pictures, it looks like a very nice car. Beautiful.

This in someways this is a terrible kit. Yet I kind of like it, and the way it turned out. It's Lindberg's old F-94C Starfire. If your looking accuracy and detail this is not the kit for you. I bought in a Lindberg Value Pack, which included the almost as equally bad F-80C Shooting Star. I knew what I getting into when I bought these kits. But, they were cheap and fun quick builds. Something to take me back to my days of childhood, when I didn't know any better. Plus I mainly bought the kit for the Shooting Star. A plane I like much better than the Starfire. And is an okay kit by comparison. I purchased, and almost right away built the Shooting Star a little over a year ago. Since I'm not a big fan of the Starfire, and low level of accuracy with that kit in particular, I wait until now to build it. Again, I'm kind of happy with the end results. One problem I had in painting the kit, was in painting the flat black area in front of the windscreen. I had a little bleed through under the tape, Tamiya no less, I used for the masking. I used a technique I've learned from watching HPIGuy on YouTube. I just touched up the edge with a silver Sharpie. Free hand. It turned out pretty good. And Sharpie a perfect match to the silver paint I had used. I wish every model fix was that simple. And simple is the whole point of this build. Again, simple, cheap, and fun.

Okay, this turd of a kit is done. It looks okay in general. But... The details on this kit are terrible. It's kind of a semi curbside kit. The hood opens, but there is nothing really there. The interior isn't much better. The paint on this kit turned out great. But then I had troubles with the old decals. Particularly with the one that goes on the front of the hood. The only way I could figure to save the decal in the end, was to put Mircoscale Liquid Decal Film on it. This saved the decal, but left some wrinkles around the decal on the paint. So this not a solution I'd try again. Again, the model looks okay.

I understand that. I'm just trying to clarify things, so people know what they're looking for.

Minor point. The 300s, 340s, and 350s could be found in LeSabres. In fact LeSabre wasn't offer with a Buick big block until 1970. Then of course it was the 455. Wildcats, Electras *, and Rivieras * were all big block only cars. Centurion, big block only in '71 and '72. 350 or 455 for '73. * '67 through '76

The oil filter would need to be moved to the front, right side of the block too.

Okay, I'm not so sure how clear things are on history of Buick V8s after reading the above posts. First the Buick 350 and her sisters 400, 430, 455 are not based the same engine. The Buick 350 was based on an engine that first came in 1964 model year at 300 cu. in. This was enlarged for the '66 models to 340. And finally to 350 for '68. This "small block" engine is mainly related to the aluminum 215 of 1961 and the related 198 V6 of '62. In fact the 300 had the same bore and stroke as the V6, and was manufactured on the same line as used for the aluminum V8. The "big block" Buick V8 came out for the 1967 model year, replacing the venerable nail head used from '53 through '66. It looked close to the Buick small block, but was in reality a different engine. For '67 through '69 it came in two sizes. A 400 and 430. In 1970 both of those engines where replaced by a basically bored out 430, upped to 455 cu. in. I hope this clears a few things up. And I'm sorry to say, I do not know one way or another if there has or hasn't been a model of small block Buick engine. One last thing. The "Star Wars" air cleaner. As far as I know, it was only used on the '67 Buick GS400 and '67 Buick Riviera with the GS package. It was first seen in model form in the AMT '67 Riviera kit. And was continued in the '68 and '69 kits. But, not seen on the real cars after '67.

A lot of inboard boats before the 1960's had motors set in the middle of the boat like that. Especially the wood ones for some reason.

My best friends in-laws use to have a boat that looked a lot like that. It was not as fancy as the boat seen with the Suburban above, or in your links Snake. I believe it to be authentic too.

Great box art. To bad the kit wasn't as nice as the box depicted. I found Revell kits designed during this period left a lot to be desired compared to AMTs or MPCs kits of the time. But good box art, like the above could get me to part with my hard earned coins from time to time. Revell's first release of their '57 Nomad was a good case in point.