ChrisBcritter

Hope one of you can get this: Here's the website with location and directions: http://cwsmarketing.com/lacounty.htm Good luck! (Some neat 1/1 cars there too.)

As I mentioned, here's my restored '60 sedan and phantom '61 convertible Corvairs: The phantom '61 also has a phantom column shift - back in the late '70s I didn't know the lever was on the dashboard.

Good luck with it! I also rebuilt an unpainted '60 gluebomb and painted it light metallic green; nice kit. Only problem is that the lower rear pan doesn't fit well at the sides, but a little scrap plastic and filing should fix that. Also remember the rear windows only roll down 3/4 of the way, so you'll need some clear acetate for them.

Back with more. From the 1959 classic The Giant Gila Monster, a rare sight: Promos that haven't begun to warp yet, especially the PMC '58 Ford wagon, AMT '59 Buick and Pontiac, a Hubley (?) diecast MGTD plus the ancient Monogram '32 Ford kit (note the seam running down the deck lid) with fenders, hood and exhaust modified to match the 1/1 car in the movie: And from one of MST3K's greatest short film subjects, Mr. B Natural, this AMT '56 Buick Roadmaster: What else can you find?

Oh, I can think of quite a few: Monogram 1/8 Jaguar and Vette in Superman (1978): Same movie, another Vette painted to match a '74 Firebird: More coming!

Those two astronauts seem quite surprised to see it!

That's interesting to know. Could we see some photos of the result?

I have three of these already; one will get the Jimmy Flintstone delivery body and be curbside, another will get the Shelby treatment under the hood plus I'll cut the doors and tailgate from the spare body, and the third I built stock back in the '70s from the "Baja" series reissue. Then I have a '61 Falcon coupe that I started to build as a contemporary street machine; it's about 75% done. Only thing is it's been sitting that way so long that it's now a nostalgic late '70s street machine... One bit of trivia about that kit: that '61 grille is different from the one in the '61 coupe kit. If you look at the original '61 issue part, the pattern is engraved more deeply than it is on the reissue - plus if you look very closely around the headlights on the reissue version, you can see a remnant of the '60 grille pattern (which must be why they now had to tool a new '60 grille).

Seeing if that's a gun in his pocket or if he's just glad to see him?

"I only had two beers and three brains, officer..."

I've only tried this once, but it seemed to work: I burnished a piece of aluminum foil over a fender and left a lip around the edges. I then removed the foil and bent it, causing it to buckle like sheetmetal does. Then I poured resin in it and basically slushcast a fender that had pretty realistic damage when it set up. Just cut off the good part and replace it with the damaged one.

This should be interesting... but I'd be so tempted to saw off the rear fenders and trunk behind the wheelwells and extend them about six or eight scale inches to correct the length. I think this is why my projects take forever...

That's interesting - I haven't heard of that process. How does it work?

How are you going to build the body? I'd be looking at flat, muffler shaped metal cans (like car wax cans).

Doesn't the AMT Custom Parts Pack reissue have a set of those wheels?

That would be my next option; I have other Continentals I could pull a mold from OR I could get a '65 convertible and swap the rear quarters... Still, with all the years the '65's been in production, you'd think someone would have done a photoetch set by now?

Has anyone produced a photoetch set (or at least emblems) for the AMT '65 Continental? I have a '64 in my current project stash and once I got three coats of paint stripped, found a lot of the emblems were sanded down or off .

Isn't this based on the 1/32 Japanese Isuzu Bonnet Bus kit? Even with the LHD conversion and Chevy nose it still needs a good deal of modification around the windows to look more like an American school bus.

Very nice work! What type of cement did you use to attach the styrene roof to the Cycolac promo body and repair the cracks? Did you have to add gussets under the pillars?

What brand of acrylic paint has been most successful for whitewalls? I need to change some promo tires to wide whites.

Maybe keep me in mind for leftovers too - I bought a gluebomb original issue about a year before they reissued it (thought for sure those molds were gone...). Did the same thing with the '59 Imperial. Maybe I'm cursed?... You think if I spend a bunch of money on a '60 Mercury the molds will turn up?

Be sure to miss every thrilling episode!

That bumpiness issue has made me end up using regular aluminum foil with Micro Foil Cement. Larger trim pieces especially seem to come out smoother.

Elegant job on an elegant car! Looks like a good match for factory Ivory White over Frosty Tan. I've read here that the chrome parts had to be recreated to replace missing molds; they did such a good job that both the original and the reissue have a little gap between the grille/headlights and the fenders/hood! It takes some trimming on the fenders and grinding under the hood but it's fixable.

You could also get some ideas from the Falcon, the streamliner built for the 1936 Jimmy Stewart movie Speed: IMCDb listing here. Great little movie with scenes filmed at Muroc - look it up.