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Steel is also available in the Testor little bottle line, so that should still be available. I don't like it as much as the old Pactra Steel, which was darker and flatter, but I use it anyway. I've been meaning to try mixing a little flat black into it to see if I can get it more like the Pactra. Jet Exhaust is good stuff--my go-to paint for carburetors and a few other things. I think if I HAD to, I could make it by mixing a little gold or perhaps a brown into their Aluminum or Steel and get by.

Very clean build, great Day 2 look! Well done and model on!

Y'all now have me interested in Ozark. But I'm now all involved in Breaking Bad (again) and am picking up on a lot of little details that sailed right by me first time 'round. BB will prolly keep me busy for at least a couple weeks.

Too bad. I might know where there's one looking to be adopted.

That's pretty cool--different and therefore interesting. Drive on!

That's a great price for those these days--about as well as you're gonna do. Congrats!

Yup. Cheap household kitchen foil and Micro Metal Foil Adhesive work just as well as a fraction of the cost. I've also found that a coat or two of Future or a WATER-based acrylic paint also works well. I imagine that one of the hardware-store water-based polyurethanes would also do good work.

What originally tipped me off was the side windows--obviously a C2 roadster. Fortunately, MPC tooled up an all-new body for this kit and didn't butcher their existing C2 kit (which was of course a coupe, so that might not have been much of a starting point to begin with).

Just putting these three pics in one post to make them easier to compare without having to scroll up and down. You're welcome!

The Turbo Vette's on your Grail list?

Believe it or not, the real car was based on a C2 Vette, I forget which exact year.

Good to know--that one's on my list. Was the '66 Dodge made from the '65?

Finished up season one last night. The Wiki missed a good one. In the episode when WW meets Tuco for the first time, there's a nice bright red '70-72 4-4-2 or Cutlass on the street.

It's certainly not "the best," but it's a nice little model and well worth its modest $10 asking price (Rite-Aid). Welly 427, shown here with a built Revell 1/24 plastic kit.

I have one of these in the Snakepile. I'd like to build it someday. I can't decide whether to keep it a GT6 or convert it to the more common Spitfire roadster. I WILL have to fix that tank-slit windshield somehow.

Very clean build, very sharp! Model on!

Very sharp build, well done and model on!

What cars are of interest to you? Give us some idea what you like and we can point you toward some good starter kits.

Wow! That thing is badass and so is your model of it! Well done and model on!

"Dyno Don" Nicholson ran a '62 Chevy II wagon with a FI 327 in B/FX in 1962. Just sayin'....

Very cool, thanks! Their prices don't look out of line vis-a-vis Model Master, either. I might try some of their black, and maybe even some of their silver or aluminum.

Thanks for the heads-up. I did some research on them. Looks like the "II" is important--it's formulated for use on plastic. They say the I product will damage plastic. I see they also have several different blacks: 2001 Loco Black (Matte) 2118 Engine Black (Satin finish) And glossy and flat blacks too. What do you thin them with? Does lacquer thinner work?

I'd have to research, but I'm thinking they came with the Malibu interiors, which was considered the "deluxe" model of the Chevelle line, except of course for the '69 SS396s built on the 300 2DS bodies.

You speak of all this as if it will EVER actually be finished. And I don't think you have it in you to build a curbside.