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No. It's pretty strict. For example, in airplanes, you're not even allowed to cut a canopy that's molded in one piece in two so you can display it open. There's one exception I find hilarious. Over in Model Airplane World they have such a seatbelt fetish that you're allowed to add simple seatbelts made of paper or tape. Oh, "box stock" does allow you to use any decals, though. So there's that.

I looked it up--they weigh about 2600 pounds. Go ahead and give yourself a hernia, I'll wait for you here.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Boy, that cleaned up GREAT! I knew the wheel covers were in pretty good shape, but now they look like NEW! Drive on!

Thanks! If my local Hobby Lobby ever has them at 40% off, I'll pick one up, but I'm not paying full metal retail plus shipping for the convertible. I will if need be for the new hardtop, though.

If not for the broken A-pillar, the Maverick promo would have been a good candidate for full restoration to as-issued, that's how nice it was. (OTOH, if the A-pillar hadn't been broken, it would have probably sold for two or three times as much and I wouldn't have been able to afford it.) I didn't realize until I'd disassembled it and shipped the chassis and interior to Khils that I forget to take a picture of it "as received." Oh well. Well, it should live on in glory if everything goes according to plan.

I ran across a similar hard alloy when trying to disassemble a diecast '67 Chevelle. I ended up using a Dremel cutoff disk as a grinding wheel to remove them. The Dremel grinders either didn't work at all or worked much too slowly, I forget which, but the cutoff disk did the trick. Eye protection is mandatory with these, as they do occasionally break and fling off fragments at high speed.

Very clean! He's off to a great start and tell him Snake says Model On!

So far I haven't seen anything I'd want to own that I don't already have at least one unbuilt copy of sitting in the pile. In many cases, two.

Actually, not very much. My inspiration was one of Car Craft's first Street Freaks, a '65 4-4-2. Wish I could find my issue. It might have been in B&W but it was dark and I always think of it as dark blue. I'm pretty sure it had a BB Chevy and I'm virtually certain it had two big 4-barrels sticking through the hood. Wish I could find that!

Looks great! You're making me want to start playing with acrylics. Drive on!

When I was a teenager I got a builtup '64 Cutlass from a neighbor kid for a buck or something. The body had been brush-painted maroon, with the interior in brushed (Pactra?) metallic blue. The body and hood were downstairs being stripped at the time of our late 1968 basement fire, but apparently I had the rest of the parts upstairs, because I still have them all these years later—at least most of them. I'd been planning to hook the chassis and interior up with a trashed AWB '65 Chevelle body, but about 10 years ago I bought a resin '64 Cutlass transkit from eBay. Don't know who made it or remember what I paid (it must not have been much or I wouldn't have bought it). Also bought a resin copy of the original kit humped hood on eBay about the same time. The original plan was to build it up “Switchers” style—use the resin body and original parts to build a stock “kit” Cutlass, and then piece together a '70s-style street freak on a second chassis with BB Chevy, mags, slicks, etc and use them with the lumpy hood. Now that the HT kit is going to be reissued (and as a 4-4-2, no less!), no need to go Switcher on it. I'll build the new kit when it comes out as a stock 4-4-2, and build up this hot mess of random junk as the street freak. And NOW seems like the right time, before the new kit comes out and I lose interest in messing with the orphaned junk. The pics show what I have to work with. I've just dropped the entire original interior into Lake Purple. Not gonna bother stripping the brushed gray paint off the chassis, just gonna squirt it flat black and drive on. I was sure I had the original glass and might find it yet, but if not, I can steal some from a '65 Chevelle, or scratchbuild it. The original grille/front bumper is in pretty good shape except for a missing chip on the left corner; I can patch that and re-chrome it. Thought I had the back bumper, too, but if I don't find it, I still have the resin part to chrome and use. I'm still missing one exhaust manifold from the original engine but that might turn up, but I'm planning to straight to the BB Chevy from a '72 Nova anyway. I'll dig up some Torq-Thrusts and monster slicks from the parts box. The resin body is VERY nice except for being a little short-shot or something at the bottom end of the left quarter. Pretty sure I can patch that out with Fauxberglass and superglue gel. Color will be Testor Arctic Blue Metallic with a black interior, and the idea is to get it finished before the new kit comes out. Thanks for looking and as always, comments welcome.

Very, VERY nice--I like it! Might look even slicker with a hood, though it doesn't look bad without one. Extremely well done and model on!

Thanks! I started it the day it became available but only made about 15-20 minutes before I was bored senseless. Kept thinking, "I've seen this before when it was called The Exorcist." In search of something else to watch I haven't seen, finally started watching House of Cards on Netflix, which I wasn't gonna do. OMG, whatta ride THAT thing is! I'm at the end of Season 2 now and I'd put it right up there with Game of Thrones, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Justified, or anything else you'd care to name. Wow!

Yes it has. I don't recall him being beaten since this started. But last week he was talking about calling out JJ, but JJ already has a callout on RM. Chucky's still above both JJ and RM, which frankly surprises me. I thought he would fall out of the Top 10 fairly quickly. I was wrong. Then again, I didn't think Murder Nova would last so long near the top of the list, either.

What? Cantu's #10, and I believe Chucky is #6--certainly no lower than #7. Did I miss something? JJ's still at #9 with a callout on RM at #8, which should come up early next week.

No idea, I haven't tried those. Maybe someone else will want to.

I have it in mind that the AMT '68 El Camino is a bit wider than the AMT '68-'72 Chevelles, which would greatly complicate such a kitbash. Personally I'd just go ahead and buy the Flintstone transkit--it's not THAT much. https://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/NB40--1970-El-Camino-kit_p_130.html There's a fairly decent 1/24 '70 Elky diecast available, too. Not perfect, but it's acceptable and it's CHEAP (I think I got mine at Walmart). I've seen them in red, blue, and I think maybe black.

The flyer shows '68 Roadrunner, '72 GTO, '69 Chevelle convertible, '97 Mustang, mentions Monogram and Lindberg, so it might be worth a trip to see.

I wonder what that's about. They're several places apart--JJ and Ryan Martin are between them, just to name two.

Same here.

Well that explains the five, then, but why they're in the Willys box I'm having trouble imagining. I have one of those Hogan Jeeps, but have never opened it.

Just in case you're serious, the smartcars are being used to push the race cars.

Okay, no problem.

AFAIK, Microscale and Krasel have always been one and the same.