ChrisBcritter

Plus you can offset the cost by selling some of the leftover parts on eBay. Don't laugh - have you priced a Continental hood ornament lately?

OK, but there's no music like four injected nailhead Buicks (FF to 38:58 if it doesn't start there). FF to 38:58 if it doesn't start there.

^^^ Thanks Mike!

Just got this from a seller in Australia: Hoped it would be a good match for the '58 Ford grille mesh. Maybe a hair small but I'll see if it looks better than what I have now - if not, I now have a LOT of custom grilles... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AMT didn't do much to this engine over the years; the '66 T-bird engine will probably do in a pinch as well. O/T, but are you going to use those wire wheels? Member Brandriet16 was looking for a set a while back:

Just got back from the NNL show/swap in Crystal Lake. Picked up an unbuilt '69 Falcon modified stocker with a badly bent body for a ten-spot; so now that I have the correct shock towers, I guess I have to buy a '65 Comet to put them in . Even better, for three bucks I picked up a salvageable gluebomb Aurora '34 Ford coupe. Last fall I got an unbuilt one at Model Empire's annual sale that was missing some parts; this one has almost all I need to finish the other (just need the fuel pump or a good photo to scratchbuild from), with plenty enough left over to start on a nice hot rod . One regret: I could have picked up the remains of an Aurora 1/32 "Beatnik Box" roadster pickup hot rod cheap; it had a nicely molded 348/409 Chevy engine with a dual-pot Paxton supercharger setup, but I couldn't think of a use for it. Now, of course, I can think of using it in one of my Pyro car kits - or just using the supercharger setup on the Revell '56 Eldorado. Live and learn...

Good to see the El Camino back again; wish they had done some gauge face and upholstery decals, but hopefully the '60 Mercury grille will be there along with the tonneau cover (good source for tuck and roll interior panels).

Happy bidding: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1960-FORD-F-100-TRUCK-ORIGINAL-HOOD-CIRCA-1960-/332326768930?hash=item4d60381122:g:l9MAAOSwbopZf4wL

Even so, thanks for posting the link, Mike - that "Packardski" is a beaut, albeit too rich for my blood.

Preston, you've done this one proud! How about a shot of the chassis, and did you have any issues with loose fit on the front spindles either on the brake drums or on the axle?

Good luck with that, Bill - I had a very tough time with the whole thing. Making the Olfa cutter go through the material and having the beginning and end of the circle meet worked maybe one out of four tries, even when I resorted to using a sheet of brass with a tiny hole drilled in the center to steady the center pin. The vinyl tape bit in my earlier post didn't work out after all; I think the tape stretched when I peeled it from the roll, so the wide whites I made eventually shriveled . I wish you could get a hole punch or a die made to stamp these things.

It might be easier to go over them with a Molotow chrome pen (before you cut them from the sheet, unless they need to be bent to shape first) than to polish them.

And if you want to see the car in action: They used a double for the last scene; too bad it was a real '56 Nomad as well! (Might make an interesting diorama if you could find a '73 Chevy longbed pickup kit...)

AMT Craftsman/Jr. series kits. Expensive comfort nowadays, but I love 'em.

This is turning out like I predicted two years ago:

^^^ Sweeeet... I'd expect Revell to try this rather than Moebius - I don't think Moebius ever made a custom version of anything, and lowriders are Revell's bread and butter nowadays.

That would be something else if all the custom parts could be put back in - although the one-piece glass unit for the chopped top conversion would be a REAL surprise to see... Model Empire's sale last year had a bunch of the front and rear ends and I've been kicking myself for not grabbing a few.

I thought the mold for the original '57 Chevy "Pepper Shaker" kit was supposed to be worn out? Are they redoing the newer kit with the old decals, or ?

This is the clay model of the Nova El Camino, dated July 1961; the roof treatment was transferred to the Chevelle:

Don't give up just yet - it takes practice and the proper tools but it can be done. A scribing tool will get the line started, and the back edge of an X-acto blade will continue it to the correct width and depth. Use a metal straightedge and go lightly and slowly, and of course practice on scrap plastic first. The door on a 2-door Nova should be a hair under 2" long at the widest point - measured horizontally along the body crease (I just now checked this on my '65 Nova hardtop which is the same body as the '63). Yours may be a bit shorter because of where the roof was installed. Here's a quick photoshop of how it could look: Good luck and happy modeling!

Sweet! I got the Christine version at an estate sale many years ago. And it has that same little misalignment on the driver's door trim. They did add the movie car's door lock buttons, at least!

What exactly is this, a miniature drill or ?

And gone. Good spotting!

I'm doing one (but only one!) at the moment, a '64 Coupe deVille I built back in the '70s. So far it's been an excellent reminder of how thoroughly I used to glue things together.

I just deleted everything of mine from Photobucket - over 1400 photos. I'll replace what's gone from my other forums bit by bit, but no hurry.