JTalmage

Neat idea!

^^ I have the 50 olds and 57 Ford waiting in the wings... they're a pretty good kit you say?

I see It comes with the ONE stock dog dish and trim ring wheel.... I could use about 3 more of those. Lol

I keep picking this kit up but never walking out with it. One day I will

I dig it. Gonna have to get a few of them for sure. And maybe experiment with the old monogram 30 5 window body on the Z frame....

NOW THAT is a great looking roadster!!!

use some baremetal foil in those spots, then use a metallic red or turn signal amber and paint that over the BMF and leave just enough unpainted to show the chrome bezel the light is in.

I seen that at the store when I picked up my single part spot putty. Should have gotten that instead of trying to be lazy. Does it sand easier and apply thinner?

Beautiful build

Wow glad I read this. I was thinking of picking up the new Revell Challenger 2n1 and now that I know its based on their metal kit... I may pass.... the '68 Mustang was enough for me... Sad really

I think it would be awesome if I could actually make this thing look good when it is finished. Would be cool to see it resin casted afterwards if it turns out.

So here's some more pictures from last night. Pretty much spent 3 hours sanding on it. Here's the trunk after filling the sink marks on the edge. As you can also see there the roof was turning out better. I worked on the wheel arch a little and added a small strip of styrene to the very bottom to make it line up w/ the front bumper better. Still have to cut off the other 3 flares. I'm dreading it thinking I had beginners luck on the first one. Too bad I dont have a spare body to cut off pieces from. Also didnt like how the hood looked in person. Had some low spots still visible in the filler primer so I spent about another 30mins sanding it to what I think is pretty darn close. Hopefully start on the other flares tonight. I'll be impressed with myself if I can get those accomplished by end of week.

How quickly does the super glue and baking soda dry?? I switched to a flexible finishing glaze, but it is old, and seems to be a little rubbery. Although the roof turned out awesome last night. Posting pictures soon...

You nailed it! what a beauty.

I hate having more than one project on the bench at any given time... but I just can't seem to help it. I pulled my '55 chevy truck out and it's on the bench, along w/ my Rockford Files Firebird... well, I decided that 1 extra kit on the bench was not enough to keep me from feeling burned out on the '55 Chevy truck... So I opted for another. Back story... I've had this one since I was a kid. And I remember my dad mostly building this one for me. Painted it blue... I have no idea what or where the engine came from because it's not the Hemi and it's not the flathead that the latest reissue comes with.. But yet it has the cross ram on it.. maybe it was my dad's Idea of a kit bash back then. I don't recall. Anyway, this kit slowly fell apart as it sat on the shelf and I decided one day in my early days to take it apart and rebuild it. I was probably either a pre-teen or an early teen at the time. lost interest in it after I masked it off because I realized it needed bodywork because of how the testors glue made sink marks in the roof due to gluing the windows in. Well, I didnt know how to do bodywork to a real car let alone a model car back then, so in the parts box it went. Fast forward to Friday. I was looking for some parts for the Firebird and for another member here. I came across the Merc and decided that its been shuffled around from parts box to parts box long enough and now was the time to let it come back to life. Over the past, say, 15 years or so since it's been in a box I've developed a greater appreciation for hot rods than I did as a kid. And one of those things I like are led sleds. So this will be rebuilt as a led sled and I'll drop it as far as I can go, paint it all black, and my friend said he wanted to lay down some flames all over it with some tape and cut them out, and I'll spray on a crazy color over the black. Started by shaving the trim and door handles... Also filled the roof and it still needs more work... Also shaved the hood... Several coats of duplicolor filler primer later... Probably going to go w/ this grille. I am thinking about finding some steel wheels and just using the baby moon caps and thats it... not sure on interior color either.. Engine is going to stay exactly like it is... I will post a picture of it as soon as I take one. So there's my 3rd on the bench adventure in A.D.D....

Cool thanks. I'll see if hobbytown usa has any when I go to get some brass rod/tubing to use for axles..

Basically I have about 80 percent of the old AMT 69 Torino Cobra... I'd like to put it together... but one critical thing I'm missing is a set of metal axles... What have you guys used in the past to substitute? I have NONE in all of my parts boxes.

An old Sears Silvertone amp... this thing Thanks! I cant seem to focus on one project now that I have a desk...

More pictures of the "de-trans-am'ing" Shaving that rear spoiler off gets pretty close to busting thru the styrene... in fact. I threw a line of testors glue on the backside to help it... came back and saw sink marks on the trunk lid from it. Whoops. more areas to fill... So then I decided I needed to jump in head first and start cutting the flares off... I used some zap a gap and glued the t tops in... and then also used some spot putty to fill the gaps. I've never used bondo on a model before. And this stuff doesnt impress me. I need to find an alternative. Rebuilt the front wheel arch the best I could using the remainder of the flare and pieces of old rear spoiler. worked pretty well. Still need to do some shaping but its pretty darn close. I think so far it's turning out pretty good. I need to invest in a new type of filler to really make this thing smooth.

As if I didnt have enough going for me at the moment. my itch turned into something a little more nagging. I've been wanting to build a Rockford Files replica for a few years now and after watching the full series I felt I needed to get started. I started this Revell '78 Firebird Trans Am 3n1 many years ago. I painted the interior red for some reason, and finished the chassis/engine. Well... sorta. And thats as far as it went. I lost interest when the nose, hood, and body didnt line up well, and back in the box it went. Fast forward to friday night.. I was already working on a 10 or 15 year old rebuilder project that got boxed for lack of interest (notice a trend?) and as I started digging thru my parts boxes looking for some things for a member on here, I kept running across random Pontiac Rally II wheels. And parts for my '49 mercury which I'll post later. (the 10-15yr old rebuilder). Well, instead of waiting on Scale equipment to get their pontiac rally II wheels in, I decided to see if they would fit the Firebird. Turns out the old AMT wheels fit the Revell tires pretty well. Just need to throw some whitewall decals on them. So my next challenge was to "De-trans-am" the Firebird... starting w/ the hood. I took the drag version hood and cut out a chunk of it forward of the hole and spent some time getting it filled in just right.

Told my friend w/ an older subaru legacy that if he didnt do this, he's not living. lol

This is turning out awesome. I wish I had as much luck with filler and bodywork on model cars. I'm not doing so well...

Thats beautiful

Thats something I havent looked into... I just have a feeling those arent produced... I'll have to improvise.

I have a chance to get an older Chevy Monza body/chassis/interior tub, and it looks like an older one before the rear wheel wells were widened... I'm going to turn it into the Roadkill leafblower Monza of course! But it's missing a LOT interior parts, hood, other small details... I'll build the rest as needed but was curious of anything existed for a Monza that was pretty much NOT a drag car.