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Sounds nice like you have a "squished" disc in your spine. Surgery make be able to diminish the constant pain but I've dealt with Sciatica for ten years and have learned what helps and what aggravated it. Don't rush into treatment - try a chiropractor before you go under the knife. Good luck. The MRI did not freak me out - I just closed my eyes and thought about model cars ;-)

HRM may cast a curbside kit from and old snap kit body. I'll pass along more info when available.

Looks better than most models I built after 20 years of modeling. The only thing I noticed that kit should not have the Mustang lettering on the fenders on a Shelby. My guess is the kit instructions do not tell you to sand them off. Otherwise, it's a sharp model with the striping nicely done.

Welcome back. MRR was a great magazine and resource for 60's endurance race cars among others. I'm sure you will recognize many modelers on this site that have enjoyed the hobby for decades.

Here is a morbid thought. In the next ten years older modelers with collections of hundreds of models will start dying off. Eventually all those height priced kits will be sold off for more reasonable prices. It's a topic most will avoid due to the morbid thought but it is becoming a reality among the real car hobby with owners of 1900-1930's cars dying off faster than museums can handle accepting the flood of cars the younger generation could care less about. Will this happen with our hobby? Time will tell.

The Historic Racing Miniatures one is the most accurate, The ones from the Monogram 65-66 Mustangs are pretty good.

Very nice paint scheme. The one thing that has held me back from adding a 351C to one of these Japanese kits is there are not many good substitutes for the transmission in this scale.

I know it's going to be real long time before I tackle my 1/12 Trumpeter GT40, 1/12 Doyshua Mach1 and 1/12 Revell 65 GT350 Mustang. With 100 plus 1/24 and 1/25 kits plus some 1/43 ones it's gonna be a while.

Monogram tried the 1/43rd market and made a very nice Corvette and 289 Cobra kit a few decades ago. They were plastic and even had engines and photo etched parts and were reasonably priced. I assume they did not sell very well in the US market which is a shame as they are really nice but perhaps too small for most modelers.

Kits made by Marsh and others are high quality and had had photo etched parts for decades which the plastic kit manufacturers have been very slow to adopt. They also can either be resin or metal and as someone else mentioned are made in limited quantities. The higher priced kits can have hundreds of parts. I've been building them for over 30 years but buy maybe one or two a year as the subject matter that I build is limited and some of the factory built models do not cost that much more than a kit.

HRM Cobra coupe, Trumpeter GT40 and Renaissance MKIV were all $150 or more. I am too cheap to pay more than $50 for a 40 or 50 year old kit as there isn't a whole lot on my list that I do not have and can live without. I did pick up a 1/12 Doyusha Mach1 for about $100 not long ago which was a very good price.

Shame on GMP - that lower trim should be chrome and not body color.

I have posted several pics of this finished kit (GT500 and GT500KR) on this forum as well as the HRM GT350 version that uses parts from the 67 GT350. The engine compartment does not look anything like the real car. I cut out the fender wells and put in inner fender panels and separate radiator, shock tower braces and horns. Other things that could be added are a master cylinder and windshield washer container. If you build a GT500KR you'll need a ram-air style air cleaner. Great detailed photos of a real GT500 can be viewed at https://www.mecum.com/lots/PA0716-250477/1968-shelby-gt500-fastback/?utm_source=InfoNet+Master&utm_campaign=d3a91a0223-PA16_S957_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa410e9114-d3a91a0223-112302805

This is one my long list of subjects I want to tackle someday. I was thinking of using the gearbox fans transaxle so from a GT40 kit. It's unfortunate no kit manufacturer of the many variations of this subject ever did a version with engine detail. Good luck and looking forward to your progress.

Use the leaf spring "helpers" included in the kit.

Is ACME on the same level of quality? It does not look like it is.

I have managed to piece together a buildable model from several glue bombs. It's on my very long list of builds to get to someday. Picture to be posted in a few minutes.

I took the Cobra to the Sully Plantation show. I've been to the Warrenton show but it's about 45 minutes away for me.

I was in the Clearwater area on vacation and went to the House of Hobbies on Route 19. There used to be two locations and they combined them about 15 years ago. I rememer the one in Clearwater on Ft. Harrison St and it was packed to the ceiling with kits and RC cars and trains. The store is a little better organized with a huge model selection including many older kits. There are boxes in every aisle and you cannot even see everything. There are a few rows of diecast models going back to at least the 1990's. If you are on vacation or live down there it is well worth checking out.

The grille may not fit flush with the front end. Sand it down until it fits. Also note that the piece should be body color except for the edges with the grille flat black and the bumper of course chrome. I detest the engine compartment and have built some versions using a resin inner fenders and a more realistic radiator and added a pair of horns.

This article is from July 1997. The full article is nine pages long. Despite the builder Mr. McDonell making a few gaffs (painted bumper - should be chrome, rear panel should be painted black and not have the honeycomb part, and the wheels should be Magnum 500's or trim rings with FOMOCO hubcaps) he did build the best 71 Mustang I have seen. He goes into great detail about all the scratch pieces he made (ram air and lots of other underhood pieces). One other nitpick is that no 71-73 Mustangs came with rear louvers - they were an aftermarket item only. Since the full article is too large to attach here I will email it anyone for the asking. Either send me an email or PM or post your email in this message and I will forward the files (about 8 meg total) to anyone that want a copy. I will be on vacation starting Tuesday for five days so please be patient if I do not reply right away.

I think Leno can afford to pay for the repairs or have his guys do it. He is Mega rich.

I'll preface my comments by saying I have owned five real 72-73 Mustangs. Two (yes two of the fifty) sprint convertibles, two 72 Mach1's and a 73 convertible. As I have mentioned on other threads, there are some resin parts out there from Missing link to fill in the gaps of the AMT and MPC kits. They offer variations of the stock 71-72 Mach1 Grille, standard grille and I believe the 73 Mach1 and standard grill as well as the correct size 71/72 urethane and 71/72 chrome bumpers. So, with the "correct" parts one can build a Standard fastback or a 71 Boss, 72 Mach or 73 Mach1. If one chooses to use the 71/72 stripes (whether an Mach1 or not) the underside should be painted the same color to match the decals. The hood only came in the flat blackout if the car had ram air. All Boss 351's had the hood painted black or silver without the tapering like the Mach1. You can have special ordered a 351 (yes 2 bbl) ram air Mustang in any body style in 1972 with the black hood with of course the NACA scoops. As others have said, you built a nice model that is sort of a mix of a 72 and 73 which is fine - I see real Mustang owners do it all the time. I would dab some semi-gloss black in the scoop openings. The non ram-air cars had a plastic block off plate in the scoop. Lastly, Scale Modeling by Chris has some nice 351 Cleveland valve covers which would make the engine look more authentic. As I was typing this I saw you are in South Africa so is the USA we take a lot for granted but model parts are only half a world away. Keep up the nice work - I wish I had the time to build some of my 71-73's Mustangs to do these kits justice.

That's an amazing transformation and Mr. T would be envious of those guns. Hats off to you and keep it going. God Bless.

Of course that side stripe on the box art is not "stock." Let's just say I'm not holding my breath for any improvements in this version. A set of 73 only factory aluminum wheels would be cool but that's not going to happen.