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tbill

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  1. That looks fantastic!
  2. That’s looking great, as mentioned, just enough gunk on stuff to give a realistic look.
  3. That is kool! That color is dynamite on that car!
  4. So, spent a little time today messing with this. Grafted the tail light panel out of the 70 superbird onto the body, shortened the height of it a touch, and sanded the outer edges to conform to the body, then cut the tail lamps off the elky bumper, and trimmed that to fit the new panel. Naturally, more body work is needed, but the base is there, just need to finesse it now. I was able to trim down the elky kit radiator, more like cut the mounting tabs off of it, and managed to mock that up in an acceptable position. So after that was figuring out the engine situation. I figured I had to go mopar, and it was a toss up between a 440 and a hemi, well, the hemi won out. Dug thru the spares boxes and found the extra hemi out of the 68 charger kit. So I built that up enough to start fitting in the chassis, then realized I didn’t have a mopar trans. So after some thought, I figured I’d cut the trans off the elky engine and use that. another benefit of this decision is being able to use elky kit driveshaft, and having a reference point for the trans tailshaft. Ok, I got lazy a little, but it’s going to work out nice. I was also able to use the headers from the charger kit after some massaging. So, anyway, progress is being made. Thanks for looking.
  5. Great job on an awful kit, having built one, I know the trials and tribulations of that mess of a box of plastic. Looks great, well done!
  6. Great colors, gorgeous build, whole car just flows beautifully.
  7. They were trying to pull that off in my area, we have no venue large enough to handle the masses......, got shot down everywhere ...
  8. Don’t need the car, but holy cow do I need that golf ball!
  9. I usually wait a day, no issues yet.
  10. That’s horrible, send it to me and I will display it as it should be .......proudly! That looks awesome! You’ve taken a tough kit and made a fantastic looking model. Well done, and as snake would say, model on!
  11. You better get them in line, my elves are about to overtake everything and go on a rampage of plastic slinging......
  12. Looking good man! But, why isn’t this done yet? ?
  13. Dig this idea, and it’s looking great so far.
  14. Best hijack ever if ya ask me ! Guess I’m gonna have to build a fleet of different superbird/Daytona nosed cars, lol. Again, that looks really cool, and I may have to try that at some point....., if this one turns out half way decent.....
  15. Oh wait a minute, you can’t leave a guy hanging with just that one pic, lol. What’s the status on that one ??? That looks pretty cool!
  16. That looks fantastic, great work so far!
  17. That’s looking very nice!
  18. That’s a great kit, and your colors are dynamite on it! Looks great so far?
  19. That is the picture I saw, I’m not good enough to make the charger fenders/hood work, so I just grafted the nose on, lol. Have an idea for the back end treatment, slightly different than what’s in those pics, but it is something I’m still undecided on. I’m sure this will take awhile to evolve though.
  20. The lower front treatment is still being assessed, but ya, some sort of air dam is gonna happen, have a few ideas, but wanted to get the nose roughed in first with some primer on it just to get a feel. Should be interesting.
  21. So, a buddy sent me a picture of what looked to be a chevy elcamino with a superbird/Daytona front clip and the wing on the back of the box, thought it looked cool, so, out came the saw and a half of an idea........
  22. The hood is a kit part. great looking build, I just love this kit and it’s sister variations
  23. Good looking set up! Next one must be orange though?
  24. Looks awesome from where I’m sitting, well done!
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