Peter Lombardo

This is the kind of work we used to see back in the "Golden Era" of model car building. Back before the internet when you were luck to get a few pictures out of a Car Craft or similar magazine, and you were even luckier to find the pictures printed in color. Very nice group models. I think they meat more to the fledgling days of model building than most of us could even know. Great collection, keep them safe, because they will not be duplicated now.

Did not see this before, very impressive build, I really like it. Well done sir!

Very interesting paint work. Kind of a variation on the Japanese rising sun flag design. The colors look great, and as mentioned before, the engine bay looks really nice. Very well done. Oh, and the driver figure looks great.

I have this kit, started it, painted the body and then it stalled. Nice job. Interesting decals.

Interesting. The toxic avenger. Well done, a festival of green.

Stunning. Great photos too. Oldsmobile's and gold go together perfectly.

First, the paint is fine, dries reasonable quickly and easy to use, but a strong word of caution. I find that the spray can gets "stopped-up" and will not spray any more not even a little . No matter how much you shake it or even heat the can in hot water. And as the spray gets slowed down the paint can come out too sloppy and gloppy, which is dangerous to the quality of the finish. I have socked the spay tips in lacquer thinner, it really does not help. If you have an air brush it could be better to decant the paint and do it that way. Next time I use this paint, as I have a number of the cans because they offer some great "70's" pop art colors. I have had no issue with clear coating it either.

Thanks, It doe look similar, but I have never seen that car before. I do like the tail light and exhaust tip treatment. Had I seen the car, sure, I would ripped off those design ques.

My current eye-sight is so poor now, I could never have seen the difference. Oh well, it stinks to get old. Thanks

These are the latest three vehicles finished. One is basically stock, second is mildly modified and the the third is reimagined as I would have preferred it done. Revell (really Monogram) 1970 Plymouth Road Runner A few years ago, while at a “Lead East” 1950’s party and car show weekend over the Labor Day Holiday, I spotted a lime green 1970 Plymouth Road Runner. That car made an indelible mark on my brain as it struck me as the “perfect” example of the Road Runner of that era. This is something I rarely ever do, I built a bone-stock car. I opened and hinged the doors and added tire side markings. The car is painted in Rust-oleum “Key Lime Gloss” with a flat black hood stripe along with blacked out window trim rather than chrome, and that is it. This is basically the car I saw at the show, which is all that I was looking to replicate. Revell (really Monogram) 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge I still remember when Joanie, an associate of mine at the accounting firm we worked at, at the tail end of 1968 showed up with a bright red brand new GTO one day (her family had “money”). It had a black vinyl interior and black vinyl top and if I remember correctly, it had an automatic shifter in the center console that allowed manual shifting or fully automatic operation. I just loved the front-end treatment with the molded body color front bumper (the Endura option). Being a junior member at the firm back then, more often than not I, and my buddy back then were charged with going to pick up lunch many days. If driving was required to get the food, Joanie always offered up the Goat to me, and well, safe to say, I always took the long way to get the food. I really liked driving the car, and was thankful that I did not have to put gas in it as it certainly had a huge appetite for the stuff, well, at least how we drove it with such a heavy right foot. Great memories, to be sure. I have had this kit it seems like forever. A couple of weeks ago I got tired of looking at it on the shelf in front of me and finally figured it was time to build it. Since I am not a real fan of stock builds, I wanted to give this car a few modifications to put my “stamp” on it. Actually, the only area of the build that I wanted to hold true to the original was in the orange paint and the quint-essential black and yellow stripe, but even that is not quite stock. The body was modified with opening and hinged doors then all of the badging was shaved. I incorporated a lower front air dam and opened up the intake slots. All four wheel wells were given a slight bulge to allow bigger Pegasus wheels and tires and to allow the car to sit down lower, especially in the front. Behind the front wheel wells I added air outlet vents replicating the ones used on the GTO’s little brother Firebird Trans Am. In the rear I added a deck spoiler unlike the wing that the actual car has. I molded in the rear bumper and converted it to a monochrome like by painting it body color. The engine is basically stock with the addition of some wires and detail. The interior is also basically stock with just a bit of orange contrast to the all-black interior and new inside door arm rests were rebuilt and made more substantial. Then I sprayed the rear window with Tamiya smoke to replicate tinted windows. For the body color I started with 70% Tamiya X-6 orange, added 30% Tamiya X-8 Lemon Yellow to lighten up the orange. Once almost dry I topped it with Tamiya X-24 Clear Yellow with micro gold metal flake added to further lighten the orange and add a gold gleam in the sunlight. Then when dry, I added a couple of clear coat top coats. Once dry it was sanded smooth since the metal flake makes the top coat still rather rough. Then it was clear coated again and allowed to dry. Once dry the clear was lightly sanded and buffed and waxed to a nice smooth shine. Then I blacked out all of the trim around the windows and door handles. I did not have very high expectations for this build but I really like the way it turned out with just minor changes to the stock car. I think the lighter paint hue works very well and allows the black interior and trim to stand out. 1971 Dodge Charger (the “Street Machine”) version. This is another kit that has been on the shelf staring at me forever just daring me to pick her up and do something with it. As I said before it is a very rare instance when I will build something bone stock. I just feel compelled to tinker with nearly all builds except for specific street and race car replica’s. Over all, I really like the curvaceous body lines of both the Plymouth and Dodge offerings in 1971 as they were a welcome departure, in my eyes, to their rather boxy and sharp angled predecessors. I really love the GTX’s and Chargers of the late ‘60’s, but I remember being blown away the first time I saw these cars in person back then, I thought then, and still today, think they quite beautiful. First thing to modify, the doors had to be opened and hinged. Then I bulged all four wheel wells and added larger wheels and tires from Pegasus along with their disc brakes to fill up the wells. I added built-in side pipes for the exhaust. Then I added a rear deck spoiler molded into the body. On the hood, I thought the little air scoop for the Hemi looked far too restrictive, so I added a much enlarged scoop on top of the hood bulge. Then added hot air exit vents on the outward sides of the bulge. But even with these modifications I was not satisfied with the look of the car. The rear quarter windows and the roofline still bothered me. Looking it over, it stuck me that a fastback roofline might work much better on this car. So I took a rotary saw to the rear of the car, added material to the sides and modified the roofline into a fastback. I enlarged the rear window and changed the trailing angle on the rear quarter window to flow better, I think, with the new roofline. Both the quarter panel and rear window were painted with Tamiya smoke to replicate window tinted windows. The body was painted with Rust-oleum 2X Golden Sunset Gloss. Once dry I airbrushed on Tamiya Clear Yellow X-24 with micro gold metal flake added for subtle sparkle. Looking at the car painted with the fastback roofline it reminded me of the 1971 thru 1973 Mustangs which made me think the car needed twin contrasting racing stripes. I figured I would follow the lines on the hood around the budge and then take them to the rear. The stripes are Tamiya Metallic Black. Then because this is a Dodge after all, I added the twin Dodge Red racing slashes over the left side front fenders using Tamiya Bright Red. The engine is pretty much kit stock with spark plug wires added and the only change to the interior is a long cover over the rear hatch and a little yellow trim to accent the black seats.

Different and unexpected and very well done

Great looking car, the paint is lovely.

Beautiful, super clean and well planned out. Super sharp build. Impressive.

Very different. Rear engine '32, I never would have figured something like that. Cool.

Impressive save. Great job.

I am confused. In the first few pictures, it hurt my eyes, but by the end, it worked out pretty well. Beyond different and gutsy. Unique and strange at the same time Kinda' like pineapple on a pizza, sounds nasty, but it actually tastes pretty good. Full marks for creativity, that is for sure.

Very interesting and not a build, or "treatment" you see very often. I like it. I like the color better than the same old Cooper/Bronze we see all the time too. Very nice.

Certainly is very different. Nice job Interesting, you said you threw out the empty box, so people actually do that? I guess I need to begin doing that too.

Not a clue.

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About 15 years ago I began working on this AMT 1971 Plymouth Duster 340. I cut open the doors, added a bulge to the hood between the twin air scoops and added a molded on rear spoiler to replace the above the trunk wing that is kit supplied. Then, I added subtle wheel well bulges to all 4 wheel openings and filled in the lower body sculpture to give the side profile a cleaner look as it seemed to flow better now with the extended wheel openings. The kit was set aside as I had lost interest in the build moving on to more interesting builds thinking that one day, I would look to finish it. I had set aside a set of wheels and tires and the engine from the AMT Chrysler 300c kit from a few years ago for this build. Because I planned on replacing the 340 V8, I took that V8 and installed it and the transmission in a Prowler I did a few months back. Well two weeks ago for some unknown reason, I pulled the box off the shelf with the far from completed model and revisited it. First I opened up the fuel door so I could install a round chrome piece. Then I added a roll bar, with additional supports to the interior. I replaced the stock seats with “beefier” units. I added rear brake cooling scoops just in front of the rear wheel openings. Rather than using the newer Hemi from the 300c kit, I pulled a 440 out of the parts box and installed that thinking that going from a 340 to a 440 was more logical and period correct. Then, rather than using the wheels and tires from the Chrysler kit, I took the wheels from a Viper ACR kit (which I have replacement wheels for anyway) for this car as I really like the look of larger wheels in the back and smaller ones up front then added a set of parts box disc brakes. The interior is flat black with a light gray roll bar. The body is done in Rust-oeum Ultra Cover Berry Pink Gloss, top coated with a number of coats of clear which was sanded lightly and rubbed out with wax. I sprayed the interior side of the window glass with Tamiya Smoke for a blacked out look and added the upper tint to the front windshield as they did back in the day. I did all of the window trim in gloss black and the hood in flat black. Then added twin rearview outside mirrors in flat black. 4 hood pins and an outside mounted tachometer finishes the details. By the way, the decals on the two sides and the rear panel with the taillights were a “fitch” to install because of their age. It took a lot of patients and solv-a-set to get them down. Once down and dry, a gave them a top coat of Future to seal them in place. When all that was done, I added a small front chin spoiler and a set of fog lights, just because I could. I never had high hopes for this car which is why it spent so many years in a box on the shelf uncompleted, but now that it is done, I am very happy with the result and it can sit happily alongside the Nova’s and Fairlane’s I built from the same era.

Very nice, very clean and well thought out, and the subdued paint color works very well on it. Sharp build all around.

Very nice, the color works perfectly on this car. Very sharp, and clean. I guess I will have to ge.t one of these

Looks very nice. Here comes the Judge, here comes the Judge! The old Rowan and Martin "Laugh in" bit. Nice job.

Amazing craftsmanship, very impressive with a host of unique features. Stunning model.