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No, but fine-point black Sharpies are sold everywhere!

Fabulous work on those rear opening flares! I just drove on with mine unadorned. As to filling that hole in your hood: Just break down and buy a resin repop Mustang hood. Looking back at how much time and tedious, fiddly effort it took me to do my hood, next time I build one of these things (and I WILL be building more), I'll just buy a resin hood and consider it money WELL spent. Mine's ready for its second coat of primer, and then final paint. Been here a week, in fact--I've just been putting it off. Shame on me.

While looking for something else in the Snakepit yesterday, I ran across this, which I bought a couple years ago and promptly forgot about. It's a recent reissue so should be fairly easy to find.

Sweet! I spent WAY more than two hours on mine and now it looks like this:

"And me...I'm Jerry Hubbard." I never saw Fernwood Tonight but I was a faithful watcher of the follow-on America Tonight. To this day one of my most used quotes was stolen from Martin Mull: "Now, that is just darn close to interesting!" I probably say it twice a week. More recently, he was also the father of the son-in-law on Modern Family, and he was absolutely perfect for the role. They killed off his character in a poignant way in the final season just a few months ago. I'll miss him. Thanks for all the laughs, Fred.

Kewl! B-57's not high on my Want List, but it might be kind of fun to do one in VNAF markings.....

Steven G gets great finishes with that airbrush because he's a GREAT modeler, willing to put in the necessary time both BEFORE and AFTER laying down the paint to get the finishes he does. He could do just as good work with a Badger 350 or Paasche H. More to the point, just because you buy the airbrush he uses does NOT guarantee that YOU will get the finish HE gets. A few years ago I shot a .22 rifle match, 10 standing offhand shots at 50 yards. There were several fancy, expensive custom competition "target" rifles on the line. I shot the match with a field-grade, common .22 bolt action. I took 2nd place. The match was won by a good friend of mine shooting one of those fancy rifles. And you know what? If we had switched guns, the results would have been exactly the same. My friend is just that much better a shooter than I am, as I was that much better than everyone else shooting that day. Here endeth the lesson.

Cheers, Luc!

Good stuff! I've already done one "Soccer War" FAH Corsair, and hope to do at least one more. Hope to do an armed French T-6 and at least one of their AD-4Ns from Africa. I also dig the pre-Tonkin Gulf Vietnam stuff--T-28s, B-26s, and VNAF Skyraiders.

I do too, courtesy of ewetwo, but mine's not in as good condition as yours. Will take a LOT of work to get it back on the shelf.

Oh my yes you're in the right place! Now let's see some of those other beauties, too!

Very interesting. https://www.yahoo.com/now/2020-05-14-jeep-easter-eggs-cars-tiktok-secret-logo-videos-24304001.html

I FINALLY got my copy of the mag in mail (only a week after a guy in freakin' BELGIUM got his! ) Just gave the Impala build review a quick read. The body looks good. Hard to declare the roof/window line "perfect" or "right" from the pics shown (it might well be, I just can't tell), but it's hella better than the Greenlight diecast. And the reviewer didn't note it, but it looks like AMT altered the grille from the standard four black slots in the fender tips to the optional three lighted slots, which are correct for this particular car. That was a nice touch on Round 2's part, and much appreciated. My impression so far is very favorable. I'll be buying at least two--one to do in dark green as a "close enough" tribute to my parents' '68, and one to convert into a 2-door of some kind. If it doesn't look enough like a 2D Biscayne/Bel Air, I'll just call it a "phantom" formal-roof 2-door Impala hardtop. Gotta have it!

The BOP SFs are a special interest of mine. Been researching them for years. VERY little good info on them. I'm not sure the markings shown on the kit box are accurate for BOP. Most of the pics I've seen of them at that time are just hastily-applied camo (overall dark green, or two shades of green), with FAR and a number (541 comes to mind--I'd have to check) in yellow, no national emblems or tail striping, although perhaps a couple of them were so marked. Probably the best book I've found on the subject is Playa Giron by Santiago Rivas, and even it doesn't have the kind of photo coverage of the FAR Sea Furies that you'd wish for. The photos just don't exist in much quantity, it seems, at least outside of Cuba. But if you think those references are scarce, JUST TRY to find a picture of one of the Navy's A4D Skyhawks of VA 34 in BOP markings. Such photos might not exist at all, and if they do, are probably still classified, or in tightly held private collections. Someday I'd love to have BOP B-26, Sea Fury, T-33, and A4D on my shelf....

I just discovered this thread. I really like what you're doing here! I wish I had your attention span and patience. Drive on! BTW, REALLY nice job taking the badges off the rear fenders but leaving the trim strip. That's not easy to do. Well done!

That's not bad at all! It just made my short list. Am also considering Evil Storm and Evil Beast. Thanks!

Absolutely! They're perfect for model car work. Buy whichever you can most easily find parts and accessories for locally. Model on!

Sweet! Would love to run across one of these in my price range. Congrats!

Congratulations on getting that wretched old backbirth together. Every time I've opened that box, I've run away gagging.

So do I. It's pretty much the look I'm going for, except I know my front end will be higher due to the kit front axle. I'm gonna try to get it down a little. But I will NOT have the front end higher than the rear, so it'll be level, however high it ends up, or with a slight bit of forward rake. Also, the dark green is out. I really, REALLY like it, but I already have a dark green '55 Chev gasser, built from Monogram Badman. Thinking of trying to airbrush a nice craft acrylic maroon/burgundy I think I can make work, and if that doesn't work, Testor Arctic Blue (dark metallic blue). It'll be called "Evil Something." Looking for a second word that goes well with "evil." Evil Plan? Evil Scheme? Evil Dream?

I'm beginning to be annoyed by the phrase "so good." It first came to my attention last year in that Toyota commercial with the semi-hot girl in red and the semi-famous wrestling announcer, which I must have seen about 75,000 times. Now I'm starting to hear it other places, as if it's a thing. I'm NOT talking about the phrase as part of a complete sentence, such as "That was so good" or "Their new album is so good." I mean when it's just thrown out there on its own. "So good." Maybe it's the new "awesome."

Too light? If anyone else ever says anything, shut 'em up with "Scale Effect!!!"

After two days of looking, I FINALLY located my first-issue "street machine" AMT '55 Bel Air kit (pink car on box), the one with the original '55 Nomad beam front axle and injected SBC. (Yah, I know it's out again, but I knew I already owned one of the evil things.) For some reason I've been seized by the urge to build a gasser or "gassy" street freak along these lines. Maybe it's because I've been spending a lot of time trying to correct that wretched backbirth front pan on another (stock-body) copy of the kit, and have decided the best thing to do with that pan is just cut it off and throw it away.

Don't worry about Bezos, he's doin' okay, I assure you.

I was just rereading an old Elapsed Times magazine with a nice article about Ford's 1965 C/FX Galaxies (289 Cobra engine with Webers). Might be fun to build one of those, either one of the real cars or a "phantom."