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That yellow is wild! What paint is it?

And for only another $29, I'll sell you a brand new unused sprue with the engines on it to put in it!

Didn't know that, Chris! BTW, Meaty once explained that every song Steinman wrote was for a fantasy rock version of Peter Pan. Interesting!

Yesterday just for grins I decided to see if I could find an affordable 2005-2009 Mustang. Checked on several different auto sale/trader sites and found NOT ONE within 50 miles of me, and only a handful of very spendy high-end models within 100 miles.

Thanks. I've seen the ads and it looked interesting. Now I know to save my money till I can see it for free.

Yes. There's also a chance I'll hit the Powerball next month.

How many coats? I recently cleared two very orange-peeled finishes with that and it took six coats--and two more wouldn't have hurt.

Might be the nicest build of this kit I've ever seen. Well done and model on!

Very nice! I see what you mean about the hood. I'll have to watch that when I get around to building mine. Well done and model on!

Me too. I'd build one, and hope it came out that nice.

I've built a lot of models of WWII airplanes and I've never seen lightening holes in the seats of any of them. Don't remember holes in the ultra-detail aftermarket seats, either. So I just google-imaged "pilot seat" for B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, P-38, P-47, P-51, and C-47. Saw a lot of photos of real ones. Guess what? No holes in them. So the holes must have been a hot-rodder modification.

In the early 2000s I was working with a guy who was, like me, kinda into music. We both liked Meat Loaf and had a few cassettes (remember those?) of his stuff on "heavy rotation." One day a new guy joined the team and asked if he could play some of his cassettes too. We said Sure. He put on some ancient Air Supply (yuck!) which we were enduring until about halfway through "Making Love Out of Nothing At All." My friend and I suddenly looked up at each other and said at the same time, "That's a Jim Steinman song!" And we checked and sure enough it was. A couple months later I was in the car when "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which I hadn't heard in decades, came on. "Steinman!" I thought immediately, and checked, and it is. When you learn his music, you can spot one of his songs anywhere. In fact, you can often spot a Jim Steinman song from the title alone. Thanks for a lot of great music, Jim.

I just started watching the reruns of Crime Story on Pluto TV, and I think the hero is driving one of these. Crime Story is a great show if you like spotting cars of the '50s/early '60s. ETA: Just checked the webernets and apparently it was a '57. Sorry.

Sad to hear. Pretty much every Meat Loaf song you've ever heard was written by Jim Steinman. My alltime-favorite Jim Steinman song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJhAycTkbuo

Couldn't agree more.

Maybe it looks better in person, but in the pics it just looks like flat light gray. Looks a lot like the cheap primer I use, in fact. But maybe it looks better in 3D.

Really? I'll agree with you on your first three, but IMHO, the '63 Plymouth was better looking than the '63 Chevy and MUCH better looking than the '63 Ford.

One of my best friend's mother drove one of those, red with a white vinyl top and interior. Pretty snazzy for an old lady, which she was!

I say go for it! Heck, I'm about to use a '69 Camaro interior in a '66 Nova I don't have an interior for (assuming it fits, of course). Improvise, adapt, overcome!

Shot some Krylon Italian Olive Satin on a car interior the other day. The cap color was exactly what I wanted. The actual paint color is several shades darker. Irked me because this interior is supposed to be a light olive green with dark green accents. The dark green would hardly be worth doing on this color. Oh well, it's an all dark green interior now. It's only a glue bomb rescue anyway.

Oh we're doing trucks now, too? That one's easy: '67 El Camino. Y'all can argue about whatever's in second place.

Just re-watched Saving Private Ryan (now on Netflix). Hadn't seen it since it was on HBO after it first came out. I'd forgotten Ted Danson and Dennis Farina were in it, and Nathan Fillion and Bryan Cranston weren't on my radar then, so it was cool to see them too. Pretty good movie--I remembered it as being the best WWII movie since Kelly's Heroes, or maybe since A Bridge Too Far. (Band of Brothers hadn't been made yet.) I skipped the initial D-Day sequence--just too sad and depressing to watch again. There was some stuff in the plot that was just plain silly, but overall, it's a great movie and has held up.

Interesting! I don't remember making a roll bar but obviously I did. I do remember having to make the windshield area (out of balsa) to get it back to a "regular" rail. You can see this in my pics above.

Don't think I've ever seen a model car finished in matte or semigloss silver (deliberately). Should be interesting--I'll be watching. Drive on!