Snake45

Great idea! And stick a ruler in the scan so the new decals can be sized accurately.

I used to put the Superfilm on with a Q-tip, figuring a new one would be perfectly clean every time. But I found an even easier way. Now I just put a finger tip on the bottle top and turn the bottle over and then back again. This leaves a big drop of the stuff on my finger, which I then quickly smear on the decal sheet. I find ONE THICK coat works best--just get enough on that you can see it shiny and wet everywhere at the same time and you're good. It will dry so thin that you'll think it hasn't done anything, but you're good. Two or three coats not necessary.

History has done two seasons of a show trying to find Japanese gold in the Philippines, and two seasons of one trying to find Confederate gold in one of the Great Lakes. I can't recall any History show on Nazi gold, but there have been at least two episodes of Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel about looking for Nazi Gold.

I can think of two. The first was Roger Freeman's The Mighty Eighth, a well-illustrated history of the 8th Air Force in WWII. I guess I chanced upon it as a junior in high school. My local library had two copied and I almost always had one of them checked out. (Years later I bought a copy of my own.) I'd always liked airplanes, but since about 6th grade I'd been mainly into cars, and modeling them exclusively. The Mighty Eighth book got me back into airplanes, and I didn't build another model car for about another 15 years. The second was The Sunshine Soldiers by Peter Tauber, an extremely talented writer's account of US Army basic training. It was SO good that it made me decide to major in Journalism, whereas before I'd never had the slightest interest in writing, and in fact pretty much hated the very idea.

I'll be watching, as I have a Modelhaus repop I want to build sometime. Not locked in on a color, but thinking of maybe Turbine Bronze. A mechanic in my town has a '68 R/T or SuperBee (I don't remember which) that he personally restored in dark turquoise to look showroom new, right down to the overspray on the floor pan. Well he did make one change--the hood has a '60 Six Pack type scoop on it, and the whole hood is the same color as the rest of the car. If you know old cars and know what you're looking at, it's a bit jarring at first, kinda like seeing a cowl induction hood and Rally Wheels on an otherwise completely stock '64 Nova. But I have a feeling I'd get VERY used to the look if I were around it for a few days.

Got that done using the backside of an old #11 blade. Got the firewall out of the body with a razor saw. The real mess was getting the dashboard out of the interior, which took me about an hour with razor saw and #11 backside. But now it's The Big Purple Swim for all of them! Also, got the '62 Nova's interior and engine out of the Purple Pond. Nearly 100% of the black paint on the engine came off, which surprised me. Turns out the glue damage on the seats might not be as bad as I had feared, but will still need some fixing.

Hyperscale.com. Lotta very serious modelers there, but also a lot of laid-back old timers who are returning to simpler, old-school, retro/fun modeling. There's something/somebody there for everyone!

I've been doing that for 20 or 30 years. If I'm airbrushing the color, I'll airbrush the whole top of the cap the color.

I FEEL ya my brother! Took me some effort to get the taillights out of that '62 Nova so I can use the ones you sent me. And my next nasty job is getting the glass out of a '68 Cougar, which will require either the Dremel grinder or a curved photoetch saw.

Very, VERY nice work! Impressive finish! Well done and model on!

Very, VERY nice! Good work on The Gap. Great color and finish, too. Well done and model on!

Oh my yes! 69 cents! I would definitely use them if they still worked. Great find!

I think I saw that offering and gasped. And came here and posted wondering why Trumpeter doesn't reissue this kit. I got a copy of the convertible kit very reasonable a few years ago, but I have little or no interest in droptops, so I bought an MCW 2DS body for it last year, which I need to get around to building. Meanwhile, just a couple weeks ago I scored a nice rebuildable AMT '62 Nova survivor for under $40. I've been catching up on past episodes of Street Outlaws and Memphis Street Outlaws lately and am coming down with a bad case of Early Nova Fever. I NEED to build a couple of them!

I've been catching up on old episodes of Street Outlaws, and have grown fond of Shane's Vega. I might have to pick up an extra copy of this kit to build something along those lines.

They've come as close as they can without all-new tooling.

So maybe this is one time when "free range" isn't better?

Very cool! Different and therefore interesting. Well done and model on!

Magnificent! But then we've learned to expect no less from you. Well done and model on!

More specific on the year, please? You're talking about three completely different generations of Vette.

The Lagina brothers are (IMHO, of course) too emotionally attached to whatever is down there (and its rich history) to want to sell it for "mere money." They'd want to enshrine it in a museum on the island, most likely. Maybe a deal could be worked out for Gates/Bezos/Zuckerberg for that to happen--G/B/Z would "own" it but it would stay right there. IMHO, the Lagina brothers are mainly interested in becoming known as the guys who finally solved the big mystery after over 200 years. (If you ever play poker with them, never bluff. They're the type who will happily pay to see EVERY card to satisfy their curiosity. )

I know, right? I just scored a complete, intact survivor/glue bomb Dream Rod on eBay. IMHO there are only two things I can do with it: Blow it apart and rebuild it completely as the original (which I'm not a huge fan of), or just clean it up as it is and display it as a cool old survivior. It would make no sense to try to improve it or customize it or put my own spin on it, as the common reissue Tiger Shark would be a MUCH better starting point for such a project. (Or maybe I'll run into someone for whom the CCDR is their "Holy Grail" kit.)

Absolutely. And do it before you CUT them off the backing sheet, too, or you'll wish you had.

I've often wondered, how would you monetize whatever's down there? For example, suppose they find the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant. Both literally priceless, but how you gonna sell 'em--who you gonna sell 'em to?

This, or their similar product Superfilm (might be the same stuff with a different name). Ask for them by name. Accept no substitutes.

Tens of millions, I figure. Which means they've sold at least that much in advertising.