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Got a few more parts painted for my 40 Willys build and started going through some parts kits I need to do something with.

Should be able to start some assembly this week. Put some color on a fair amount of parts today, need to let them to gas out and dry totally before I go any further with them. Have some parts that still need to be brush painted and I need to finish cutting out the dash panel. I do my painting outdoors and tomorrows weather looks good with temps near 60 and low humidity. Want to get the body components primed tomorrow and hopefully get the first color coat on them on Tuesday.

From a past experience with a 60% off coupon at Michaels. Went to Michaels and went to pull up the 60 off coupon on my phone & it wouldn't load. I told the cashier that Michaels had a 60 % off coupon and couldn't get it on my phone. She said others were having the same problem and proceeded to give me the 60% off.

I need to vent! Started a build on the AMT 40 Willys coupe from the last retro release. I've posted pics in my build thread of what I've encountered. Along with excessive flash on virtually every part (the chrome tree was OK ), I found that the tires fall off the rims, the rims fall off the axles and the axle does not even go into one rim. Now I've discovered the rear window was molded in an oblong shape. Just glad it wasn't a windshield that would need to fit a frame such as in the AMT 34 Ford PU. You have to wonder if the Chinese send a test shot to the states to be looked over or does R2 leave it to the Chinese? I hope they really look over their newly tooled 67 Impala 4 door, 70 Camaro and Vega Pro Stock. I realize the tooling for the Willys dates back to around 1963 but they shouldn't be selling kits without fixing the problems. Rant over

Kits like this is probably one of the reasons so many of us have unfinished projects on the back burner. I build for myself and the shelf but this one has been challenging. Besides all the flash the tires fall off the rims and the rims fall off the axles. Frustrating! My goal is to finish this one before I start something else.

Did some painting of the components for "Flashed", my 40 Willys coupe build. Nearly all the parts have been primed and I've started getting some color on them.

Going to go with the Icy Blue over a Silver Diamond Dust base as the interior will be a dark blue metal flake. The Star Spangled Blue is dark and I want a little contrast with the colors.

I had a 73 340 Duster that I took delivery on 8/31/72 that was the same color. Mine had a honey gold bench seat interior, black rubber mat instead of carpet, 4 speed, dog dish caps and stripe delete. I was 19 at the time and wanted a "sleeper". Quick car, only other options were PDB (required with 340's) 3:23 Sure Grip and an AM/FM radio. Got hit head on by a drunk driver in May of '74 and it was totaled. I miss it, was my favorite of all the cars I've owned.

I'm going to follow this and your Maverick build. All the finished models you have posted are outstanding, hope to get a few ideas from your building process.

Thanks, should help with what I needed to do.

What works best, wash then dullcoat or dullcoat then apply the wash? Thanks

Hobby Lobby for some paint and I bought this 10 well artists palette with a snap on cover at Michaels. Used it yesterday after I thinned out some matte aluminum paint. Painted my parts and snapped the cover on it. I checked the parts I painted this AM and saw that I missed a few spots. Took the cover off and the paint had not dried out. Stirred it and was able to touch up the parts without any problems. A little over a dollar after a 40% coupon.

Memory is a little fuzzy but I believe Bill Geary had a build going on years ago with a working top.

I found some decent buys in a pawn shop when I would visit a friend on Florida's west coast.

I've been following your build to see what problems may arise during the build. It has helped me so far, I may even follow your lead and go with a different blower scoop. I really do not like the kit supplied mailbox scoop. I'm going to do some spoon tests with different shades of blue before I decide on a color. Just went through my paint and have 5 different shades of blue to choose from.

Got a few more parts cleaned up and primed for my 40 Willys coupe build. Also started a WIP thread for it in the Drag forum under the title of "FLASHED AMT 40 Willys coupe"

So far I've primed most of the parts and started painting and some light assembly. Luckily I had an unfinished swap meet glue bomb 40 Willy pickup that donated a few parts instead of going crazy trying to de flash some of the kit parts. I also used the donor parts to mock up the running gear. I am either going to use the Radir rims and tires from the Revell 64 Thunderbolt or the kits rims with M&H parts pack slicks. The Radir rims will require some parts box searching for wheel backs to use with the wire axles. The tires will not stay on the kits rims so a solution is in order. Having a spare dash I decided to cut out the gauge panel and fab one from sheet styrene. The kits dash has six small gauges and two large gauges of which I would assume one would be a tach. If it works out well I'll cut the new dash and use decals for a tach, oil pressure and water temp gauges.

Started on this build last week and have been making progress slowly but surely. I am building the coupe version from the Retro Deluxe release from a few years ago. Needless to say it has been a time consuming build due to the amount of flash I've had to deal with. The front end has about a half hour or more in cleaning the flash and removing the huge parting lines from the fenders. I also have several hours in removing flash, parting lines and ejector marks from the rest of the parts. The easiest task in the build process was stripping the chrome! Color will be either Testors Star Spangled Blue or their Icy Blue over Testors Diamond Dust Silver. The interior will be Testors metal flake blue. The body and all other parts will be primed using white and gray Tamiya primers..

Bill, the email address you gave me did work but it did have a few problems getting delivered. Mike contacted me and gave me this alternate email address to use mkhanson2017@outlook.com Thanks for your help

Thanks Bill. Just sent an email to that address, will let you know if it works.

I am in need of the email address for Best Model Car Parts. I know he sells on eBay but I don't have an eBay account or Paypal and would like to deal with them direct Thanks

PM sent regarding wheel covers.

They are for the driveshaft hoop that installs to the bottom of the interior tub.

Stripped the chrome the other day for my 40 Willys coupe gasser project Lost count of how many hours I had in removing the flash and parting lines. Luckily I had an unfinished glue bomb 40 pickup I bought at a swap meet years ago. I used the ladder bars and front shock mounts from that kit. Got some primer on those parts, will inspect them tomorrow to see where I may have missed a parting line or two.