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The Caddy, Buick, and Pontiac look pretty good. There is something off about the Chevy (other than it being a '65) and the Thunderbird. Recent I've added the Wildcat to my collection. The body looks great. The interior and chassis generic with other Hasegawa kits. I've just ordered the Cadillac and the Thunderbird. I'm curious to see how good they look.

Stunning looking car. Very nice.

Through today's mail, I've just re-added one of the all time great games to my collection. Mille Bornes. First played this game with a cousin and his friend back in the summer of 1972. Being a car nut, I fell in love with it right away. A fun game, and in this edition with its original art work, a beautiful game too. Tire to go racing racing again through the French countryside.

Into today's mail: 1. An AMT '66 Thunderbird. Haven't built this kit since this edition of the kit first came out. What is that? Over thirty years now? Felt it was time to do another. I've never really been happy with the one I did at the time. I painted it with black Testors' enamel back then. I feel I can do a better job today using the newer lacquers. And really want the Bird done in a Dark Blue. 2. Three cans of Tamiya Olive Drab spray paint. I got several military vehicles sitting in the wings, just waiting for paint. They need to wait no longer. 3. I got the game Mille Bornes. Not model related directly. But, it is car related. Being a car nut, I loved this game when I first encountered it back in the summer of 1972. Staying with one of my cousins that summer, we played it with a friend of his quite a bit. If your a car nut, and have never played the game, your missing out on one of best. It's still great.

Ah, so your part of the reason the rest of us can't find one. I too loved that kit. That whole series of kits was pretty good.

Another one that made me laugh out loud.

You know, I'm in the field of education, and I don't even know what "common-core" is?

I like this old ad. Back when $50.00 was a big deal.

To me raisins aren't bad until you bake them in something else. Raisins by themselves. Okay. ? Raisins heated and/or baked. Yuck! ?

By the way, like a real Buick, this Brooklin's model above weighs a ton. Okay, I know in reality a real '67 Buick Wildcat is closer to two tons. And the model does really weight anywhere close to a ton. But, for a 1/43 scale model it's remarkably heavy. It weights a lot! Sorry to say, I don't have a scale to weight it. I'm very curious to find out what it does weight, if anybody can tell me.

Since discovering Tamiya paint, I miss neither Pactra's or Testors' paint. Though I do find Testors' lacquer spray paint pretty good. Enamel it seems, no matter who makes it, to me is junk. Compared to using mordern acrylics and lacquers. I don't miss the brush marks enamel use to give me in my brush paint jobs. Or things like orange peel in my enamel spray jobs. I also do not miss cleaning my paint brushes with smelly brush cleaners or paint thinners when using enamels. Acrylics clean up with water. That is so much nicer. And I love modern hobby lacquer spray paints. I'm getting my best paint jobs ever using Tamiya and Testors lacquer paints. I remember all the hassles of trying to get good spray paint jobs from enamels. Heating up the cans. Putting the model a food dehydrator for 24 hours before painting the next coat. And still getting orange peal or other flaws. Everybody still tell you to heat up the cans of any spray paint. Including lacquer. But, over my years of using lacquer, I've even been doing that less and less. I haven't seen any real need to do it with lacquers. And I can only remember plugging in my food dehydrator once in the last year. And again that was to dry some enamel paint. Not lacquer. Lacquer dries by itself, to where you can shot a second coat if necessary in a matter of a couple hours. Rather than the 24 required with most hobby enamels. Also I use to buy enamel spray paint (read Testors), because it was cheaper than lacquer (read Tamiya). But in the long run it wasn't. Several times using the cheap enamel, I'd end up having to strip the paint off and start new again because of some flaw. Since switching to the modern, more expensive lacquers, I don't think I've had to strip one new paint job I've put on. So the the expensive lacquer is really saving me in the long run. And eliminating a lot of worries and frustrations. Nostalgia is a hobby of mine. Sometimes I have fond memories of old things that were not really all that great. Old paints is not one of those things. I have very few, if any, memories of using paint in the past that is all that good.

I know some friends here in the mid-western parts of the U.S. who would find that funny. Including me.

Here's a couple of bonus ones, not directly related to the Corona virus. But, funny none the less.

A friend just sent me a bunch of new ones.

I love these two. The oatmeal raisin especially. I hate raisins baked into anything. And as the meme says, every so often one gets suckered into thinking your getting chocolate chips, and finding its raisins after you bite in. A major disappointment! The other one tickles me, being a recovering alcoholic. I've been dry for a few years now. Yet I can relate.

I got my Brooklin's '67 Wildcat today. It looks great. As you can see in the photos.

Okay, I don't know why I did it. But, in today's mail I got something I've always considered kind of sacrilege. A four-door Porsche. At the same time I kind of like the car. I may not like the idea. But, I like the car. In today's mail, Revell's 1/24 scale Porsche Panamera Turbo. Thankfully this model's complete, so it wouldn't have to go back to the seller. The second is a diecast of one of my all time favorite cars. It's Brooklin's 1/43 scale '67 Buick Wildcat 4-door hardtop. One of the few things that would be better, would be a '67 Wildcat convertible. Yet I'm just as happy to have any model of a '67 Wildcat.

I like the Ford. It's a very nice kit. The Volkswagen looks pretty cool too.

Thanks again. You know how I love these reviews you've been posting. They're both fun and interesting to see. A couple of things caught my eye in this one. One, it looks like there's a small roadside billboard frame surrounding the custom grill? I saw no mention of it in the instructions. And see nothing on the decal sheet to fill it. Second, it's fun to see the custom parts that come with this kit. Looking at the parts and the instructions, this maybe, in my opinion, the worst looking custom I've seen from SMP or AMT from the period. It's not a pretty one. It's cool to see parts for things like TV, and I believe a tape recorder, starting to show up in these kits. I never use those items in a build. But, I sure like having them. Those little extras made modeling fun back then.

From my understanding the above was made from old IMC molds. So it will be a tough kit to build. Good luck. I hope it builds up well for you. Me? I built the old MPC kit of the same car a few years back. No where the detail of the IMC version. But, no where near the problems either.

I'm very impressed with the service my regular postal carrier has been giving me as of late. She has been doing a great job. She's an older gal. About my age. And despite the extra work she has to go through delivering the amount of stuff she has had to deliver to me lately. She has kept up a great attitude, and is as friendly as ever. She is the best.