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Wow! Not a lot of difference from the '65. Which I knew and expected. But I get a kick they are now claiming Barris designed the custom version. Where the almost exact custom version from the year before was claimed to be designed by the Alexander brothers. Which is it? And what is a differences are there between the the '65 and '66 customs? I only thing I see are the custom taillights and taillight surrounds being different.

I like the custom rear window, with the Thunderbird emblem. Cool! Something as a kid I would have had to use.

I did get the Model Power N scale Farm House in today's mail to go along with the barn and chicken coop. A couple of hours later, it was all put together. And like the other kit, it goes together extremely well. It is molded in 4 colors. So again, I felt it need no paint. No working feature like the barn. But, that's okay. It comes with a nice little outhouse. Naturally with a moon on the door. I also like that it's got a trellis with a bush in front of it. A nice little touch. I'm surprised, I don't remember seeing something like this a front real outhouses. A nice flowering bush would not only hind the building, but hopefully help with the odors.

It looks photoshopped to me too. At least I hope it is. No one of male persuasion has a right to call him self a man driving a truck with those on them.

Yea, the site you provided a link to on the Aurora Postage Stamp Trains is great. I've had a lot of fun on that site. Plus I found it useful in construction of this kit. The instructions that came with the Model Power kit are exactly the same as those used with the Aurora kit. But, they were printed so dark, they where practically useless. So I used the old Aurora instructions on the web site to help with this build. I wonder if I'll have to do the same with the farm house, that should be coming in today's main?

Great looking Chargers. I've always like MPC's '67. It's a nice kit. And it really stands out using those decals with that color.

No offense meant personality to you. But, if anybody sees me putting teddy bears wheels on any vehicle, scale model or real. Please shot me. Put me out of my misery. Senility will have set in... Okay, now that that little rant is over with. I've never in real life seen teddy bear wheels on anything. Scale or full size. They don't make these for real, full size vehicles, do they?

If you read my first post here, you'd see they go back farther than the early 70's. The first date I can for sure find for this kit is 1968, when it appeared in Aurora's Postage Stamp Trains catalog. And as noted, the Postage Stamp Train building kits were molded for Aurora by Faller of Germany. Did Faller offer this kit before 1968? It is based on an American style barn. So was it originally done by Faller on Aurora's request? Or did they do it to go after the American market themselves?

Okay thanks Jim. You just got me to spend a little over $150 on 1/43 scale diecast. Searching on line, three versions came up being available. The blue two-door you show above. A four-door in purple/mauve (?) color with a black vinyl roof. And a Champagne Gold four-door with no vinyl roof. Even though I love anything blue. I saw the two-door came with a brown/tan interior which I'm to keen in combination with the blue. So the gold four-door with a gold/tan interior won out. Now, the only thing I'm worried about is how well those bumpers fit. In the pictures I could see of the gold cars, the bumper fit does not look good. But, on the other two it looks okay. So, I'm hoping the picture the vendors are using are of the same car. And only that one has the bumper problems. And that the ones they sell are better. Or easily fixed.

Wow! That nice. The color is right too. After the two-door convertible, my next favorite body style is the four-door hardtop. I'm going to have to looking for than. But, that color, could swing me into buying the two-door. Thank for letting me know about that.

I've been avoiding the Revell Rabbit. Look at the instructions on line in the past, it looked like they too much fiddle detail in it too me. I'm glad to see the old AMT Rabbit coming back. Though Revell's Rabbit Cabriolet keep call to me. Again too much "stuff" in the kit, but since AMT never did one, it's the only choice I know of out there.

Good looking Vette.

Very pretty. I like the color a lot. It looks really good on this car.

Beautiful.

It reminds me, that I need to pull mine out and build it someday. An odd show rod that I really like. I hope mine turns half as nice as yours did. I'm impressed.

Im not a fan in general of the kit. But, boy did you do a nice job on it. I'm surprised how much I like it.

I use an Apple iPad for 99% of my viewing here. On that device I've seen no chance in the number ads I required to see.

Don't mean to be crass or anything. But who is John Prine?

I know. I've heard it a hundred times now. For me that's not the point. In fact I will probably buy the upcoming T kit just for that glass. Thank you for trying to be helpful.

By the way, here is a photo to go along with my chicken coop joke above.

Below is Model Power's N scale Barn, Silo & Chicken Coop model kit I just got done building last night. What a joy it was to build. It was molded in 6 different colors. One does not even have to paint little things like the white bracing on the doors. Those are all separate molded white pieces that glue into grooves molded right on the doors and walls. I also like that it came with two doors that actually slide open. Very slick. Especially in N scale. This is a very old kit. From my understanding it was originally tooled by Faller of Germany, for Aurora's Postage Stamp trains from the late 1960's. It's been sold under the Faller, Aurora, and Model Power names. And maybe others. For being so old. I was pleasantly surprised by this kit. It went together nicely. The colored plastic looked a lot better than I expected. Enough so I decided to forgo painting it. In fact I'm so pleased, I'm looking forward to getting it's companion farm house model kit, which I already have on order. I also love the chicken coop. You'll notice in the photos of the coop, it has two doors for the chickens to enter and leave (and only one for the humans). Which fits in with my all time favorite joke. "Why do chicken coops have two doors? Because if they had four doors, they'd be chicken sedans." Like I say, that is my all time favorite joke.

Your right Phil, the sport model of the Comet line, introduced midway into the '61 model run was called the S-22. And this remained true in '62, and '63. In 1964 the S-22 was replaced by the Caliente, and later the Cyclone. In the intermediate Meteor line, the sport model was called the S-33. (Later the Canadian Meteors brought back that name for their sporty full-sizer.) The sporty full-size Mercurys (US) for '62 and '63 were S-55s. And full-size S-55s returned again in '66 and '67. Why S-22 and S-33, than skipping S-44 for S-55? I don't know?

These two pieces of poop are slowing coming together. They are both looking okay. But, every turn is another challenge. And what works on one, doesn't necessarily work on the other! I'm amazed, but necessarily in good way.

Snake the first one has become true for me. Or at least pretty close. The third one is just dang funny. ?

Pretty!