Snake45

Very, VERY sharp! Well done and model on!

Finished rewatching Breaking Bad and El Camino last night. Enjoyed them even more seeing them in a short timeframe than I did the first time around. Might be the best TV series ever! Started watching Ozark last night, am almost through the first episode. Looks good! I'm old enough to have watched both Jason Bateman and Esai Morales grow up on camera, now both fine actors. I well remember Morales playing an Iranian kid in a TV movie about the Iranian hostage crisis back in the '80s.

Efficient typist.

I had the same idea. Bought the convertible kit, thinking it might be easier to use the convertible up-top as a base for the 2DS roof.

New SMLs would be ridiculously easy to make. Just foil-copy the SMLs on the body, and fill the backs with epoxy, UV, or even good white glue. Paint the lenses. File/sand off the SMLs from the body. Apply your few foil SMLs after paint and final polish. You can even apply them after applying the stripe decals, if you choose to use the stripes (as I mentioned, not all cars had the stripes back in the day).

Last year on eBay I bought a like-new "official" US government-approved publication on how to build the models. I think it was published in 1942 or '43--all early war stuff. Apparently the book originally came with a set of full-size (1/72 scale) drawings but these seem to be very rare now. The book's still quite interesting--a real window into another time.

1/72 became a standard scale in WWII. The US government bought millions of ID or recognition models of airplanes. Kids and youth groups and so forth built them at first, then they were eventually molded/cast in solid pieces. The idea was these models, viewed at so many feet (I forget the exact numbers), looked just like the real airplanes seen at a mile or half a mile or whatever the number was.

Tim, are they also going to release the '74 as Toy XI? If not, I guess we can cobble it together with Slixx decals.

The one on the left is closest. I have a big can of some kind of dark green I got at an auto parts store--might be Duplicolor. I think it's called Chrysler Sherwood Green or something of sort. It's not too far off the pic of the real Shelby above.

Those were in several of the AMT C2 Vettes--I forget exactly which ones, but I know for a fact they were in '66 Roadster. The AMT "68" Vette carried over the chassis from the C2s, so no surprise it would have had those wheels too. I agree, they are NICE, and you can use them with rims of various thicknesses/depths according to what you need. I'm jealously hoarding a small cache of these, maybe two complete sets, one of which will be used on a "period correct" AMT '65-'66 Vette roadster road racer. Great score! You gonna make resin copies of them?

Other common "8 scales" in modeling include 1/48 (aircraft), 1/64 (Hot Wheels etc.), and 1/72 (aircraft and armor).

If it hasn't been opened, or was opened and resealed well, it should be fine. And it's probably the same thing as Testor/Model Master "Classic Black."

Would you like me to make it happen? I can, you know. I'm planning to build pretty much the same thing by kitbashing a Rat Packer and a bunch of other stuff. If I get it about 90% done, the kit will be announced. Wouldn't be the first time.

Actually, it is. It's the ONLY '66 Mustang coupe on the market. Monogram/Revell have done '66 Shelbys but they're Shelbys and fastbacks. You did a fine job with it. Looks like a lot of cars running around in the late '60s/early '70s. Well done and model on! Hmmm, could be. Or at least back to the original '66 annual kit and promo, which were of course modified from the original '64/'65s.

Very nice! I don't like '58s enough to go out of my way to find one, but if I run across one at a good price, I'll pick it up no problem. I have several CMWs--couple different '69 Camaros, '66 GTO, and '70 Chevelle SS. They seem to be copies of plastic model kits. The Camaro, for example, is a pretty obvious ripoff of the Revell model. I like 'em.

Very cool, thanks!

Great project! I've always liked that green Hertz scheme and plan to build mine that way when I get around to it. The roof louvers wouldn't be correct for a '66 GT350H, only the glass. Does your kit even have them included? I have it in mind that it doesn't, only the glass. But I could be wrong.

It's very glossy. They make a semigloss in the small bottles, too.

Very nice! How did you do the black stripping on the nosepiece?

Looks like a great candidate for our Bring Out Your Dead completion build. You're welcome to join; we'd be glad to have you!

Very sharp both. Well done and model on!

Since I'm the one who used the term "out of whack," I assume I'm the "Revell hater" you're referring to. I don't hate Revell. I buy a LOT of their stuff. I love it when they get it right, and I hate it when they get it wrong. And we all know they've gotten things wrong in the past. Looking again at the built model pics, it looks like the problem MIGHT be that the rear SML is too high, which forces the stripe to sit too high. If the SML is removed, it might allow the stripe to bend downward a bit and intersect the peak of the rear cap as it should. Certainly worth a try, anyway. I plan to buy this kit and if I build it using the stripe, I'll be trying that. Have a great day!

The only one I can think off offhand was Nicholson's. And his was a rogue effort, done without the factory's blessing or input, unlike the Chryslers, which had the AWB Plymouths and Dodges built to order and issued them out.

Put some mufflers on it and call it a street freak.