satterwhite78

In Hot Pursuit....

I've purchased two about three weeks ago. Completed the engine and got most of the parts painted and ready, Sprayed the undercarriage with red oxide and will do a overspray of the body color to it, Thoroughly impressed with what Moebius has accomplished. What's more impressive to me that Dave Metzner posting a correction ( on a public forum mind you ) that neither has been seen or heard from other competitors when some of their products fell short of their intended goal, Granted this isn't a perfect world by no means. Dave puts a 'face" on a company that in return will promote brand loyalty and quality products with fan inputs. Proud to showcase in my collection and say " That's a Moebius!"

Great eye! I didn't catch that till after I posted..LOL. I promise that is taken care of!

Never been much of a fan of convertibles but have enjoyed riding in them from time to time. Some time back I was looking for the Revell Special Ed. Olds Cutlass issue but didn't have much luck when I came across the Revell Muscle Cutlass convertible (the black top/rose side). Knowing that Missing Link had a hard top version, my plan was to eventually acquire the Missing Link resin and use the kit for a donor. Fast forward to around Nov/Dec 2015. A thread of the Hurst Olds Cutlass featured a picture of a hard top version along with a mention that the top looks eerily similar to a 70 Monte Carlo top which both 1/1 cars seem to have. Having a spare AMT 70 M/Carlo with the intentions of making a nascar stocker, I decided to trimmed the roof off and transplant to the Revell body. I wanted a smooth and seamless hard top without the roof/body separation trim. I trimmed the Revell body to where the C pillar section would go just enough to where the roof was just flush with the body, glued, puttied, sanded, repeat......done. Little to none trimming and adjustment using the kit's interior mated up into the body. I did fab the frt and rear windows because the Revell frt windshield was to small as also the rear window. The AMT frt windshield was to thick for I used the frt windshield frame attached to the body and cut at the base while using the AMT A pillars to connect to the Revell frt windshield frame. Testors One Coat lacquer Pure Gold #1846 accents the body

Awesome...I'm a big fan of stock rim/tires but those make it "pop"! Great work

Sweet!

Sanded the chrome finned valve covers smooth and painted, used a nascar intake and not sure on the air breather, possibly from an AMT 67 mustang

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My heart felt condolences to Chuck's family. Back this summer I talk to Chuck over the phone about some decals that he had just made (The Pete Hamilton King Ent.) and from his energetic enthusiastic tone of his voice I pictured someone who was passionate about what he did and for the hobby that we all enjoy. When I hung up from our conversation, I was thinking that the only time there was a bad day in this man's life was not being able to create something in our hobby of models. When we have extra pieces to a model kit we have more options to create something for our enjoyment and others. By Chuck not being with us won't dampen our enthusiasm for building but probably appreciate him more for what he has done for us while he was with us. There are others in this hobby that I'm appreciative of for their talents and for the sharing of their abilities. I hope that some of Chuck's creativity will continue for future modelers' to enjoy. Chuck Satterwhite

72 Chevelle SS 77 Monte Carlo 75 Ford Gran Torino

I was up in my garage looking over my stash for the next project to start on. I came across the Revell 72 Cutlass convertible (not the special Edition 1st release) and a AMT 70 Monte Carlo body that I had. It appeared to me that the M/Carlo roof and the roof of a 72 Cutlass hardtop are similar.....as to which the question I am posing is....Would the Roof of the M/Carlo and cutlass hardtop of the two actual cars the same or were they different between the two GM divisions? I know that Missing Links offers a resin hardtop and that would save a lot of hacking, cutting, puttying, Etc......but the roof line of the two look eerily similar? Any comments?

Testors One Coat Laq. #1840M Flaming Orange. The rims were out of the parts bin...no earthly idea where from. Thanks for the comments

Before Brad, Brad's uncle Ron raced in the Grand National/ Winston Cup Series from 1970 to 1974. 0 wins, 11 top tens and 0 poles. Most active season was 1972 were he competed in 22 out of 31 races. Most of his top ten finishes came in the 71 season with the exception of the Daytona 500 where he was only able to complete one lap. In addition to be a driver, he was a team owner of K-Automotive Motorsports from 1995 to 2000.

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Recently built..just getting around to posting. Paul Goldsmith #99 68 Dodge Coronet early 68 season. Paul Goldsmith #99 Plymouth RoadRunner. Paul "lil Bud" Moore #1 Dodge Charger Curtis Turner #14 68 Plymouth Road Runner

Any chance of making extra copies and selling? Would be interested in a few. One of my Holy Grail to do builds! Chuck

A great tribute to your brother and nice looking piece of plastic machinery. Welcome to the forum and keep them coming off the assembly line!

Rumors,gossip, innuendos, secret government activity?.......any info.

I think you're on Route 66! Lol! That is sharp!

I wish it was! I came across some Heating & Insulation duct tape that had the chrome foil on it from a friend, thinking , " Hey! this might come in handy with model building!". Once you peel the wax like backing paper off, that stuff would stick to anything. So you had one shot to get it in the right spot. A lot of time the right spot was the exacto blade or handle, which ever finger I used to get it off the other finger or any area that it was not intended to go. Pulling it off was like pulling the Excaliber sword from the stone if you weren't King Arthur, Needless to say the first and last time of use!

Actually it's the AMT 70 Monte Carlo. Used the chassis and suspension (though probably not correct, I believe truck trailing arms were the possibly the rear make up), a donated roll cage assembly out of another AMT nascar kit, the M/C kit engine, fabbed the front engine hoop, Monogram solid nascar tires and Super Stocker rims with Yesterday's decals. It was built a few years ago and "dragged" it out when going through stored away builds. I've built B. Allison's Coke #12, Fred Lorezen's Lemon Tree #28 and Donnie Allison's North Gas #27 with the same set up.