Snake45

Easy polished out. I use cheap Wright's Silver Cream, a silver polish available in the cleaning stuff aisle at Walmart. Also works great to polish paint.

No marked down Testor paints here either. A lot of the paint slots were empty--maybe as many as 1/3. I grabbed a couple cans of a couple colors I might want to use in the future.

Latest eBay arrivals: '92 Corvette promo, which will become the third member of my "Polished White Plastic with Red Interior Corvette Promo Collection." And a '69 Cougar "junkyard lot" I got to be a chassis/engine/interior/glass donor for a '68 full-custom Cougar I'm planning. It turned out to be a complete kit with badly painted body, missing only tires. Maybe I'll strip the body and build it up as a second "switchers-style" body for the build.

Actually it's the AMT lacquer equivalent, I forget what it was called, but I remember it had that sweet smell. Current Testor Mythic Emerald is somewhere in the same ballpark. Yours is cool, too!

I didn't insult anyone else's tastes or skills, I simply said this subject matter wasn't for me. Why does this warrant personal insults?

Did the masking and airbrushing today. Testor #11 wasn't a perfect match, but it's about as close as you could possibly get. If I didn't tell you the fender tops had been repainted, you'd never spot it. Will be interesting to see if the color difference shows up in finished pics.

I didn't say that building a model of this eyesore wouldn't take skill. It surely would. Certainly more than I possess. I just said that I have no interest in doing it, that's all. Different strokes for different folks.

I decline your challenge. What part of "no appeal for me whatsoever" wasn't clear?

I'm currently rebuilding a glue bomb full custom '65 Impala convertible that has them on it. I think they came with the original kit. Of course I'll be re-using them.

Thanks for the kind offer, but I have a plan for it. The idea is a phantom '68 Falcon GT. In 1968, someone at Ford should have woken up and realized that they had been completely ignoring the sporty compact market while Chevy and Dodge were continuing to sell buttloads of Nova SSs and Dart Sports, respectively.

Building a "diorama" of this sort has no appeal for me whatsoever. I'm into creation, not destruction.

Outstanding! Great color and fabulous finish! Well done and model on!

That's different and therefore interesting. Very cool! Well done and model on!

Wow, a lot of GREAT Falcon models in this thread! Very inspiring! Well done, everyone! At the moment, I only have one built, this gassy thing I did in 1969 when the kit was new. It's probably about due for a restoration, with maybe a little "rescue," but it will remain a time capsule of my teen skills. Maybe I'll get to it this year. Here's one currently sentenced to the Shelf of Doom, a rebuild of a glue bomb AWB funny I started a couple years ago. If I can decide on paint and markings, it probably wouldn't take too much to drag it across the finish line. Possible BOYD candidate for this year? We'll see.... Here's a new project I just got last week, a glue bomb '68 I'm hoping to take back to stock. I've now disassembled it (got the glass out without breaking it) and stripped the body. Except for the hogged out rear wheel openings, the body now looks absolutely pristine. I have a pair of stock seats coming, and I found a source for the taillights and bezels. Now I need to come up with a rear bumper and a hood. This week I scored an eBay "Falcon junkyard" that seems to have enough parts to get three '66-'67 models of some sort out of it. Eagerly awaiting its delivery.

New things are no good!

ERTL did an AMX diecast in 1/24, but apart from general shape, it's not that good.

I just tried on Chrome, came right up.

Probably the one you saw. One painted, two bare, but one with enlarged rear wheel openings. Looks like a LOT of fun for the money!

Doesn't matter. Toss it in the garbage and get yourself some CAs, epoxy, and liquid cement.

Might just mean eBay was down for a short time (it's up now), or some ISP server between you and them was down temporarily.

Scored a "junkyard" of '66-'67 Falcon goodies. Looks to be enough good parts to get three cars together, plus there's an extra chassis and interior, and looks like enough custom parts to build a full custom out of the '69 Falcon dirt tracker I've been wondering what to do with. Paid more for the lot than I've ever spent on a model before, BUT there's the potential to get FOUR models out of the deal, making the whole price quite reasonable.

Been working on "rescuing" this toy show glue bomb '67 GTO with what looked like a savable paint job on it: I THOUGHT the biggest problem was a semi-obvious paint run/blob on the hood. but that sanded and polished right out. The rest of the paint polished up to an acceptable shine, too--it turned out to be pretty tough stuff. Next problem was some rather prominent flash running along the top edges of both rear fenders--you can see it in the above pic. I THOUGHT these would be easily removed with a sharp Xacto, and then I'd just touch up the exposed plastic with a brush (just did exactly this on another rescue with excellent results). Turns out those flash ridges were about .010" thick, and I had to resort to sanding sticks to remove them completely. Now I'll have to mask off and touch up the paint with airbrush--I THINK I have a blue that's a close match.

Why--do you want it to rain?

I was looking at your WIP thread last night, and couldn't believe how wrongly shaped those fake vents in the door are. They're not even close! I thought the Revell Chargers got this wrong, but they're not even in the same league. Neither is anywhere near as accurate as the vents in the original MPC bodies. Yikes!

Very VERY cool! I've two glue bombs of these from which I hope to get one complete one together, and one custom Vette of my own design. Well done and model on!