ChrisBcritter

Just wish Jo-Han had hung on long enough to do one of these, even if only as a promo. Peteski, have you done any of the mods to the bottom end of the 4100 to strengthen it?

Congrats! Great deal on a great find! I'm just thankful the only car I'd want from that batch would be the '59 Buick (although I'd enjoy the challenge of turning that '62 Fleetwood into a Coupe deVille using a '62 Buick roof and glass). Got most of the others. If the '60 Buick has its valve covers I'd like to borrow them to cast - they're the closest to correct stock early nailhead covers AMT ever made. Looking forward to a couple dozen build threads!

Dead thread revival time. Found on Facebook (Automobiles and Dealerships of the Past and the Modern Era). Are these Ideal 1/20 models built up? Note they all have tan interiors, and four of them are two-toned (rare in real life; only 64 were done that way per what I've found online).

Began dismantling the '62 Newport; a lot of gentle photoetch sawing to get the hood off and more to get the chassis loose at the front. Two of the wheelcovers are in good enough shape to fix up and cast. Then pulled the new mold for the '58 Ford top boot out of the mold box and poured the first resin copy; into the pressure pot it went and we'll see what happens.

A pleasant half hour of grinding and drilling will fix that .

The AMT Boss Nova had them; IIRC they were sized to fit the compact tires.

Last night I finished detail painting/weathering the '65 Nova's chassis. I used both Testor's acrylic and enamel paints, and some areas ended up semi-gloss rather than flat. If I give the chassis a coat of Dullcote to even it out, will I get any weird reactions from the acrylic paint? Thanks!

Nice work Roger!

I don't care for it either - just as a means to an end of getting a Country Squire .

Just laid down a coat of Testor's Steel on the '65 Nova's exhaust system and fuel tank; this time happily I won't have to do so many flat black touchups. Also a couple days ago succeeded in grinding out the taillight buckets on the AAM '66 Skylark and installing the Acme Resin Casting taillight lenses. (Acme does nice work on these; their eBay name is acme_slot_carz.)

Really enjoying watching this come together, Steve!

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Make it a 2-in-1 (stock Country Squire/Family Truckster) and we'll talk.

Grabbed one the first chance I got, and I'm glad I did. I'm surprised no more have been produced in the past 20-some years. Biggest difference between original and repro is the vacuformed glass with closed side windows.

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JFK himself wanted Warren Beatty to play the role; at least he was closer to the right age.

Too bad if it was; anyone think there'd be a market for it if it were reverse engineered like the Black Beauty was? OR... if it were scanned and brought up to 1/25, like how Round2 brought back some of Aurora's long-lost shop equipment rescaled from 1/16 to 1/25?

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Forgot about that post - got an answer two days later:

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Mostly what I got was "outbid", but I did manage to get a '63 Comet windshield to replace the busted one in my '63 Falcon promo. Been saving a Modelhaus windshield frame for it; I have a vacuformed windshield but I figure a styrene one will fit and support that delicate frame better. Now to find Rangoon Red paint that matches the body...

I'm sure Moebius is thoroughly done with creating variations on this kit - I just wish they'd done a '48-'49 version (much lighter, cleaner look IMHO). I remember some resin outfit did a '54 hardtop - has anyone here built one, and if so how did the fit work out?

Got one of the early issues about 25 years ago and decided to go the Modified Stocker route with it; opened up the wheelwells, dechromed the body with a few dozen trim clip holes drilled, separated the tail panel and sanded it smooth, and found some two-piece deep reversed wheels from the AMT '66 Corvette. Started gutting out the interior using sketches from a junkyard car (pre-internet) and cobbled together most of a SBF engine. Ground out the grille from behind to open it up, and that's about as far as I got. It's going to be finished as a Bomber-class car like those run at the Freeport, L.I. Speedway - which will save the trouble of building a roll cage (not required with non-hardtops ).