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  1. I spent all day yesterday working on this, and should have it wrapped up in a couple of days. The paint is Tamiya TS-12 orange, with TS-13 clear over top. The wheels/tires are from the Revell ' 32 Ford sedan kit. The scripts on the trunk and quarters were foiled prior to painting, and cleaned off with lacquer thinner.
  2. I love the slightly plain look that those blackwalls afford. All in all, you did a terrific job on this!
  3. Hmm, just noticed this thread had come up again, as well. I didn't mention at the time, but using the engine from the Fleetside kit even makes the powerplant prototypically correct. Canadian built Ponchos with the six got the larger Chevy truck engine. Ours sure had plenty of zip. One of my Dad's favorite tricks was to cut the engine and coast in neutral down the dirt road that lead to our favorite lake, north of the city. Water on both sides, and with the car doing about sixty once it got to the bottom of the hill, he'd turn the key on and let the clutch out in third, and take off like a shot once we were on level ground. Pretty cool stuff when you're six!
  4. Well, kind of surprised to see this pop up after so long, but thank you everyone for your comments.
  5. Thanks, but I'm not counting my chickens just yet. Here's my first and second tries, though I honestly don't recall a thing about attempt # 3. Just seems every time I had one flop, there'd be another one sitting on the shelf at the lhs, taunting me for the low, low price of $19.99. Must be that stubborn Irish streak, I figure.
  6. After several attempts to build one of these kits over the last three years, all of which failed, I thought I'd slap myself in the head and try again. So, this is try # 4. Duplicolor Medium Maui Blue metallic, and Cayman Blue for the interior courtesy of the craft department at Wal-Mart. The foil and black wash are done on the body, and the out-of-box engine is done as well. Now, time to build up the bottom half. And hopefully . . . . . I win!
  7. All these at my lhs, today. I ordered the Gremlin and Pacer, the rest are kits I just had to have.
  8. Thanks all! Here's a few outdoor pics. Pardon the, umm . . . . . snow.
  9. Sure do! See above . . . . . . . .
  10. A six day build, from opening the box to attaching the back licence plate. I used the Buick mill, with the tri-power and the chrome headers. The paint is Testors One Coat Icy Blue and Krylon flat black, cleared with Tamiya TS-13. The body is totally stock, except for the kit mags.
  11. This is shaping up to be the nicest GT I think I've ever seen.
  12. This was Mom and Dad's second and last new car, purchased in December of 1960. A ' 61 Pontiac Laurentian (Canadian), six cylinder and three speed. I used an MCW ' 61 Catalina for starters, and a liberal amount of parts from a whole bunch of other kits. The color is Shelltone Ivory, over Dawnfire Mist. The b & w photo is a picture of my Mom, posing with the car the following spring in ' 61. We kept the Pontiac until 1972, and it literally went everywhere, including two trips to the B.C coast. Then Dad no sooner traded it in, and it was purchased by someone who lived two blocks away. So, I got to see it a few times on my way to school that spring.
  13. Having just done one of the old AMT annual ' 70 Torino kits, I know this will be of interest. It's looking good!
  14. For what my lhs wants for this kit ($90 Cdn.), I can't imagine having a "few more" in my stash. Heck, I'm too cheap to go grab that one, and I'd have to get it right the first time. I wouldn't hesitate, though if I knew I could make it look as good as yours!
  15. I love the color, and the wheels as well. I built one of these kits, and they make pretty nice street machines! http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72497&hl=
  16. Thank you all, I appreciate the compliments. While I didn't turn out as many finished "little toy cars" as the year before, I do feel like I traded quantity for quality. Simply because a couple of these kits were top notch, the way they were made. Of course I loved working on all these projects, for different reasons. With little to no chance to paint indoors in the winter anymore, and a winter that just wouldn't go away, I started with a body that had been painted the summer before, the Moebius ' 55 300. With the exception of the engine pieces, every other part of this build, including the interior was painted by hand. The quality and fit of this kit . Well just build one, you'll see what I mean! I came home from the lhs with this in April, a Tamiya Alpine. Winter was still hanging on, and everything was painted outside, two feet of snow on the ground. It was one degree above freezing, when I sprayed the color coats on the body. The precise fit of the parts on this puppy, is unbelievable. After that ' 70 Monte project flopped, we at least had enough nice weather I colud start working on this Ambassador, and yes I'm drawn to it too! If you take it for what it is, an excellent display model with a toy like chassis, they're still nice cars to look at either in the 1:1 world or in scale. And who would've thought that Gremlin kit had some engine pieces that were not only more accurate, but turned the thing in to a sublime screamer? I've wanted to build one of these for years. before I finally got a ' 62 Galaxie Sunliner. While this one again has a simple chassis, it just needs a little love and some paint to look nice. This kit is actually older than I am . . . . . doubt that'll ever happen again! The ' 70 Torino was such a simple kit to build, the only issue with the way it was engineered was that the interior tub sat too far forward. Problem? The panels insdie didn't line up with the outer door openings, and with the glass in the tub couldn't be pushed up far enough. Solution? Elongate the hole on the alignment tab molded behind the package shelf, with the Xacto knife. Result? Tub can slide back, to where it should sit. Yup, that was it! The parts trees, and even the instructions in the ' 71 kit look nearly identical. So, for what was in a sense a practice kit, my Torino turned out pretty good! I believe I'd probably be wise to start the new year once again, getting busy on something where again, I've got the body already painted. I'm going to try and do as close a copy in 1:25 that I'm able to of a friends' ' 66 Chevelle SS, a car he owned back in high school. The Chevy Engine Red is almost identical to the dark orange his 1:1 was, and I'm pretty sure I've got a 327, and all the correct speed parts. I've even acquired some resin wheels, to duplicate the slotted mags his car had. Wish me luck, and happy building to all of you,in this year ahead!
  17. What they said. If I could finish a ' 68 Galaxie kit like that, I'd settle for doing one model that stunning!
  18. Every one of those looks good. I especially love the Hudson, and the Tim Flock car.
  19. Only five completed projects this year, plus one that crashed and burned. Still, I'm pleased with the results, considering a few were vintage kits. Moebius ' 55 Chrysler 300 Tamiya Alpine A110 Jo-han ' 69 AMC Ambassador AMT ' 62 Ford Galaxie 500 Sunliner AMT ' 70 Ford Torino
  20. Thank you all, and philo that is Duplicolor Bright Calypso. I used the same paint on my ' 64 Galaxie.
  21. Thanks all, and 30ford this takes me back to the mid seventies, when I started enjoying being a subscriber to magazines like Hot Rod and Car Craft. I was around ten, also the age I started building as a kid. Some of the coolest cars to be found in those pages, to me were the street machines with a nice paint job, some trick wheels, and a word or two slapped on the side or the trunk. Building this, it was nice to use a little of that inspiration I'd been saving.
  22. And a couple of rear shots.
  23. Finished this today, and since I wasn't trying to acquire on of these kits in the first place, I must say I'm quite pleased. So why use the vintage decal on what is an otherwise nearly stock looking build? Simple. I didn't build this for accuracy. If I'd wanted an accurate ' 70, I would have bought one of the Revellogram Pro Modeller kits. This kit came to me by a twist of fate, so I said, "ehhh" and built it for fun. And when I do that, he he, anything goes.
  24. The body is 100% done, at last. The panel lines have been darkened, the glass is in, and the cool kit trunk decal has been applied.
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