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Gorgeous! Like everybody, I especially love the color. Great job!

Beautiful Ludwig! Love it and especially the color choice ?

Love both of these. Anything VeeDub and of course, the "leader's car" ?

Thanks Mark!

After spending some time googling bumpers trying to identify the car these bumpers belong to, I thought I'd ask the experts here. While they look close to the same the bumper guards are spaced different on the two. Any ideas?

The kit I'm referring to is an AMT '66 Impala. Kit is mint otherwise. I can deal with it, just curious If it was something people knew about. Thanks

I wonder what might cause it, or maybe just slipped past the quality inspectors at the AMT factory. It just looks like it was sprayed with dulcote but it's evenly dulled on both sides of the trees.

Is it possible for kit chrome to dull over time? I've seen an AMT kit from the mid 60's where everything looked mint but the chrome tree looked as though it'd be sprayed with Dullcote. I've never seen that before.

Today's mail delivery... complete unbuilt. Never thought I'd like doing convertibles, but they're growing on me ?

Great job!

I might have to agree with you about the late September release, although my school years were early sixties. The grade school I went to in Madison was right next door to the local Chevy dealer and I would daily (after school) walk past the showroom hoping that the new cars would arrive. We knew when they showed up because the dealership would go through the trouble to curtain all their large windows, holding off the unveiling after building some hype. My dad would always take me there within the first week to try out the new "demonstrators". Such great memories!

Past week or so deliveries.... the '62 Bird is complete and not started. The '60 Merc is missing just a couple of pieces of trim and the windshield frame is broke in the middle (actually repairing it today ?), otherwise complete and not started. The '59 Johan Fury is a restoration candidate that I picked up. Not too bad actually.

You guys have convinced me. I just need to get the color coat to lay a bit flatter then. I'm usually pretty good with that, but this one turned out just a bit pebbly. Overall, I'm not terribly disappointed with the finish, it just could've been smoother. Like I said above, I find the testor's rattle cans seem to me to spray much heavier than tamiya's. Not sure if it's the paint itself or just the nozzles. Fine for wet coats, but hard for lighter dustings. Thanks guys.

Still waiting for side view mirrors (thanks Slusher!) to be placed but this one is finished as far as I'm taking it. First, sorry for the photo quality. I use my iphone and it generally takes pretty decent pix but these are kinda grainy after reducing to 880x600. Doesn't seem to have happened before, but oh well. I'm not really happy with the paint job either. I used Testors Mythical Maroon and, while I like the maroon itself, I was surprised with the amount of gold metallic. To my eyes it's way out of scale to have that much glitter. I resisted the urge to wet sand the mildly rough color coat before applying the Wet Look clear, after reading lots of tips on metallic colors not liking sanding. In hindsight, I think I should have sanded. I'm guessing it might have turned out better. From my experience using rattle cans (I spray maybe 50% of my builds with my airbrush, the other half are rattle can) Testors nozzles spray way too heavy, while Tamiya's cans spray much lighter and finer. Lesson learned. Otherwise, considering the condition of the car when I began I'm pretty happy with adding it to my Pontiac collection.

Great job!

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More possibilities.... Thanks Randy.

Ready for chroming and interior work. Testor's Mythical Maroon and Tamiya clear.

Great work as usual Steve!

Might be worth a try. Thanks!

Just some minor stuff to take care of before painting begins. At least the worst of the body repair is over and it's in primer now. Lots of time spent getting the insert between the taillights and the two front grille/headlight assemblies to fit as flush as I felt comfortable with. You reach a point of diminishing returns with stuff like that. When is enough enough? ?

These are the repairs I like to do too, so a great tip! Thanks!

I actually have a couple of pretty good riffler sets in two different lengths that I find I use at least as much, or more, than conventional files. I'm not looking for plastic needle files (found easily and have little use IMO) but rather something flexible in roughly that shape that ideally would come in various grits.

Postman delivery today ?

So I made one from a q-tip shaft. Nice and flexible and it holds its' bend nicely. Trouble is the paper I used is pretty stiff and bulky so it didn't make a very tight circle. Plus, having a pointy tip would be nice. I may experiment more.