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That engine is out of the Monogram Paddy Wagon kit.

Now THAT is hilarious right there AND very inventive. Totally awesome work and a BIG congrats to you on the win. Wow!!!

You're gonna get a lot of answers with those questions but here's how I do things.. A lot of the basic stuff can be bought at Hobby Lobby. You know, the knives , files, saws, and basic sanding papers and pads. Flexi files are good for sanding but have to be ordered online. I like Tamiya thin cement and IDN about your Hobby Lobby but I can pick that stuff up here. I tend to like Tamiya rattle can gray or white primer depending on what color I want to end up with. As far as stripping paint off of plastic parts and bodies , I use brake fluid to soak all the parts in but I've seen folks use Purple Power cleaner/ degreaser to strip paint as well. Paint..........................I was using spray cans at first , then went to dispensing canned paint into airbrush cups and shooting it through the airbrush and now I'm using automotive body shop paints here and there. Pay attention to the use of solvent based paints mixed with lacquer based clear coats. Enamels / solvent based paints can be sprayed over lacquer but NOT the other way 'round. The results are disastrous as I found out. That's all I've got for now given my experience. Hope this helps.

Man this is sharp Bruce!!! Wow man!

It's been a while since I've been on this one because I've been working on finishing my OOB Beetle Bus build but we're back at it. Got the side walls installed and the IP painted and slightly weathered. Just gotta pick out some details, do a little touch up and fade the entire IP a little bit and we're good to go it looks like.

Looks great Kerry. Everything about this build just "clicks".

Now this ..........is BAD "A" Nice work.

Maaaaaaaaaaan! It's been forever since I've even seen a Cordoba. Seemed like we were Cordoba poor back in those days though. I'll be enjoying watching this one come together.

Un...............believable!!!

You're a lucky man Steve. I got both of my Badger 200's from Michael's about 4 years ago and they were on clearance for $19.99 each. I read about the clearance over at FSM so I COMPLETELY blindsided the store manager by asking her for two and telling her that they were only 20 bucks each. She argued about it by saying, "Whatever" and "I haven't heard about that! " only to go to the register and scan them for ...................$19.99. She was dumbfounded!! lol. In short..........Michaels has some GREAT deals.

I worked on a few of these in my day at the dealer. That moveable top......... She looks great Jim!!

You guys crack me up. lololol I know I'll be in for an entertaining build anyways. Rich thanks for that info. I think I see what you did. I got my spare parts kit tonight so work will hopefully start to "flow" a little better with some extra parts.

Cool color John! Watching...........

LOL. I hear what your sayin'. I'll in on this build though. Looking forward to more.............

This outta be one helluva project for sure.

That would look cool you know.

There he goes again............with another kick A build in the works.

Ya know..............that's not a bad idea! Thanks Rich!!

That color looks fantastic on that awesome looking Nova. Great work there Scott.

Still on this one fellas. I've managed to strip most of the paint from all the parts. The body turned out pretty good and still needs some cleaning up. I ended up clipping one of the rear tail light openings at the bottom and knocked the thin strip at the bottom of the opening out so I'll have to work some fancy foot work to get that back in line but it shouldn't be all that bad. There are some parts that are missing so I ordered a spare parts kit for fairly cheap. Body paint is all stripped and ready to go... I've got the wheels and tires picked out for it now after a few days of searching. I started setting up two different stances but I like the second one alot better so I think we'll be going with that one. This isn't going to be a "numbers matching Camaro" as I'll be changing a few things up to more of a mild modified street car. I'm currently looking for a blank grille with no Z/28 or RS emblems in it. I had 'em on ebay just last night and forgot to visit when I was supposed to and lost it. Stay tuned...more coming this week.

Heading over to see this one now......! Dude...wow is all I can muster!!!!

Uh Oh! Here he goes again................

I'll second that! I built that kit a while back and it was a real downer. You're doing some amazing work with this car Tim. Love the gloss, the details and especially that 1:1 ride you've got. RB motion stuff rocks as well.

Wow !! I was wondering where you got off to. Really good lookin rig you got there

First off , welcome to the forum Larry. It's great to have you here. Good lookin' project you've got yourself going here. . I will say that you're in for a wild ride with this build. I just got through with the panel wagon/ sedan delivery version of this kit and it has no headlamp or tail lamp bezels. I managed to pick up an AMT 51 Chevy to rob the headlamp bezels from and ended up Frenching those into the body. Here's the kit I used: What I started with: I block sanded it from the front and made the opening larger so I could insert some headlight buckets/ bezels into the cavity to have a mostly flush mount between body and bezel. Here's the openings after I got through block sanding them down: and after I test fitted a bucket / bezel in: NOTE: This is a perfect shot of those nasty hood hinge openings too which I filled in with black sheet stock from Evergreen shown in the pic above Here's a pic of the headlight bucket openings and the now filled in hood hinge openings. A little bit of sanding later and you could never tell they were there................ Hope this'll help you out some.