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How about River Monsters? Same thing every episode. In the first five minutes he tells you what kind of scary fish he's gonna try to catch, then he spends 50 minutes (with lots of commercials) not finding one anywhere, and then, magically, in the last five minutes (also his last day in the place before The Floods come or his visa runs out), he catches one. And then throws it back.

Oh wouldn't that be hilarious! Mike and Frank show up at Oak Island, Mike says, "Hey, what's that over there?" Turns over a rock and THERE IT IS!

That box art looks identical to the full-race issues, so I vote OK, if that means anything.

Very clean builds, both of them! Well done and model on!

My daughter was on Househunters. The entire search is fake. You don't even get on the show until you've bought a house. The realtor wasn't even her real realtor, just an old school friend.

Those wheels are in some versions of the Revell '63 Corvette roadster snapper. The tires that come with it aren't very wide, though.

Glad to help, Claude. A couple more thoughts: Both of the models I used it on had heavily orange-peeled finishes. I used the Rustoleum to fill in the pores for a good shine. If you're overcoating fairly smooth paint, you might not need as much as 6 coats. Also, I wasn't able to "spoon test" the paint on either of these models. If you can spoon-test the paint you want to coat, you can probably go without the two dry, "mist" coats I started with and start right in with the first coat being just barely wet. I DID spoon-test the stuff on about a half-dozen already painted spoons I had laying around, with various Krylons, Testors, Rustoleums, etc on them. These each got a HEAVY wet coat for test. The only one that showed any adverse reaction was one that had Krylon Sparkle Orange (more of a copper color). The clear kind of liquified the Krylon paint and made it run, BUT there was still no curdling, cracking, wrinkling, crazing, or anything of that sort. It dried nice and shiny. The Rustoleum does not dry as shiny as Wet Look Clear, but it can be polished out just as shiny, and much easier. All things considered, I prefer it to Wet Look Clear; it is now my go-to clear gloss coat. I'm considering using it to up-gloss some of my ancient teenage builds.

Got in the mail a fairly decent JoHan '69 or '70 Maverick promo. Complete, not bad shape except for a chunk missing out of one A-pillar. Here's the weird part: I haven't bought a Maverick recently. Haven't bought one for a LONG time. The postage label on the box says 9/26/2020. I vaguely remember buying a Maverick like this some time ago but I thought it came long ago. I certainly wasn't missing it. Neither "My EBay" or completed items go back that far. The postal tracking number isn't good anymore. I also don't have emails that I bid on it, or won it, or paid for it, or that it's been shipped, and I usually keep all those. A mystery. Guess I'll call it my Mystery Maverick. BTW if anyone would like to swap a Maverick Pro Stock hood for a stock flat one (which will be carefully cut out of this body), let me know.

I just put "finstone resin" into Google and all it showed me was links for Jimmy Flintstone Resin. As the late great John Wayne said, "Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid." (Also later quoted by Fred Sanford, which is where I first heard it.)

Yesterday I finished up the "rescue" of that glue bomb Fireball 500. PIcs up soon, I hope.

Google zinc chromate primer. Apparently it's still available in several forms. Pick one and order some. You might try an auto parts store. If you're near an airport with an FBO, might want to call the FBO and ask if they they use it and where they get it. They might even be willing to give you a small amount.

Outstanding! One of the best builds of this kit I've ever seen--but why wouldn't it be? You made the Snakemods to the body! Well done and model on!

That's a HUGE improvement! Thanks for the pic!

Hi Claude, good to hear from you! Thanks for the kind words! I've since used the Rustoleum on a second enamel-painted model with equally good results. I used the same routine-- 2 dry mist coats about 4 hours apart, followed the next day by a just-wet coat, and then a wetter coat 4 hours later, followed by two more wet coats the next day. Polish-out was the next day, with Wright's Silver Cream. No problems at all. Temperature in my basement was probably in the low 60s. The Rustoleum isn't as thick as Wet Look Clear, and it doesn't dry as shiny, and it isn't as hard (it polished easily with the Wright's, unlike WLC). It's thicker and shinier and harder than Krylon Clear Acrylic--last time I polished that stuff out, I had about 10 coats on and I polished through in a couple places, necessitating a complete strip and repaint. Last time I polished Wet Look Clear I had to color-sand with 3M Wetordry to get rid of some orange peel spots before proceeding with the polish. It also polished out better than Testor Clear Gloss Lacquer. I really like this stuff. A big can of it costs under $4 at Walmart. My first can has cleared two models and there's AT LEAST one more model in there, probably two, maybe more. I've bought three more cans because, as you know, if you find something good, either they'll stop making it or Walmart will stop carrying it. I should be set for a while.

No problem, I wasn't planning on any such so I'm not disappointed. I really do appreciate you offering and looking for it, though!

Thanks for all the kind words, and yes, bringing one like this back from the dead is always particularly satisfying!

I've never seen the 88, or the '65 Wildcat, but the '66 Wildcat is better than the '65 Impala. I have several '65 Impala bodies and they're all messed up in that window. So was the Modelhaus resin body. So is the Hasegawa ripoff of it. I have a couple '65 Bonnevilles including a promo and they're all messed up, too. Interestingly, the roof was much improved on the AMT '66 Impala. In fact it's better than the later Revellogram '65-'66 Impalas.

AFAIK, the MPC body still exists as the '70. AMT just fumbled the ball on the '68 Road Runner/'69 GTX.

You can use it on a Revell '65 Chevelle. I wish I had a dozen of the things.

Yeah. I've gotta fix that window on a '65 Impala. And yes, Hasegawa copied the incorrect shape on their version, too.

I think at least some issues of the AMT '62 and MPC '60 Corvettes had slot wheels. I'll have to look in some boxes.

Great detail, thanks! Last year I came into a restorable (I hope) '66 body with the Corsa emblems intact, and I'm hoping to restore it as a stock Corsa.

I think you have me confused with someone. Good day to you, sir.

"It's like RAY-E-AIN, on your wedding day..."

I won't, of course. Just hate the idea of even a few cents of my money going to that outfit.