Snake45

I'm not a '27 Ford fan, but I might have to buy one just for the Frontenac engine, which I can see going into an interesting project of some kind....

Thank you for your work and your service! You might very well be saving thousands of lives!

The only thing that bothered me is that the rear corner of the drip railing is just a leeeeeeeetle too squared-off/angular, instead of a hair more rounded. I've never bothered to fix it, but prolly will on my next one. All it would take is a dab of filler (or Superglue Gel) on the underside, and then rounding off the top edge.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Happens every time. Meanwhile, just to get a '69 Bird of SOME kind on the shelf, I Snake-kicked THIS backbirth through the goal posts.

Oh this is so Very Most Most Way Excellent Hella Cool I just about can't STAND it! I'm proud to have been the "inspiration" for this. I wish the pics had come through your "email of death" the other day--sorry about blowing you up about that. If this works out, I'm betting we'll see several follow in your footsteps. Including maybe ME! Drive on, and keep us posted.

Suddenly Spinal Tap's "Christmas with the Devil" is playing in my head for some reason.

Great post, great thread, thanks for sharing these! Just since you invited the rest of us to share.... I especially like your "thrift store time capsule." I have something similar. In 2017, at a flea market, I bought a big box full of "old model car parts" that turned out to be, once I sorted everything out as best I could, the fairly complete remains of 14 cars. One of them was this Vic. The body and all associated parts were off the frame as found. When I'd rounded everything up and put it back together, it looked like this: Then I took it apart again and rebuilt it. I used all the original parts I had, except the tires, and the left rear fender, since the right one was already missing. I had to add a valve cover from a new kit. I polished the unpainted body, and spent a good deal of time chipping and cutting away various tube glue "boogers" with the tip of an Xacto. Chrome was touched up with Silver Sharpie and Molotow. I painted the interior, as it looked too unfinished in the black plastic. Here's what I ended up with, my own time capsule from circa 1962: Here it is with the only other '32 Ford I've ever built, a 5-window I did in the early '90s.

Very cool pics, thanks for posting them!

Another idea I have is a diorama of a small Chevy dealership in the summer of 1969. This would be something like the Motion shop, but out by itself in the Midwest or Southwest somewhere. One-car showroom, maybe a dozen or so '69 Chevies in inventory, several cool pre-'69 cars for sale on the trade-in lot.

426 pack, that's pretty cool! Drive on!

And probably Future least of all. The decals should have gone on after the polish, but before the wax. BTW, I used to use both, but don't use wax or Future much if at all anymore. I find they cause more problems than they solve. I get along fine without them.

Speaking of jobs and working... If you're in a place that's on lockdown, as I am, don't forget to thank the people you run into who are staying on the job, doing their best to keep us safe, fed, and supplied with life's needs as best they can. I thanked the clerk at Walmart today for his service and he really seemed to appreciate it.

I was patronizing a liquor store with a drive-up window in the Babylon-on-the-Potomac area in the late 1970s.

Hear hear, well spoken Bruce!

It was even worse than it looks in the Before pic. As I worked on it, the one that's still intact in the picture broke, too, and I think the already broken one broke again in another place. I butt-jointed the pieces by holding them together and hitting the joint with a drop of FAST-drying, hot liquid cement and pressing together, and then later, when dry, I seem to recall reinforcing the joins with a "weld" of either superglue or Loctite Super Glue Gel (wonderful stuff!). And then I handled them very carefully from then on.

If it had a 350, it wasn't stock. The only original 350s in first-gen Camaros were 4 bbl, and they were in SS350s with domed or ('69) CI hoods. If it was a 2 bbl and flat hood, it was probably a 327 or 307. Unless, of course, it had a swapped or replaced engine.

I want to do a set of nine first-gen Camaros--three '67s, three '68s, three '69s. Three will be red, three will be white, three will be blue. The red ones will be factory stock SS/RSs, and will be based on original annual AMT ('67, '69) and MPC ('68) kits. The white ones will be Bill Jenkins's Grumpy's Toy III, IV, and VI. The blue ones will be the Sunoco Trans Am racers.

I heard that! I've spent many, MANY hours of my life doing the same thing. Also, door lines, and otherwise unrepresented body panel seams.

I'm not against seat belt usage. Use em all the time myself. I'm just against displaying them in a completely unrealistic way in a model. BTW, seat belts are a Major Big Deal over in Model Airplane World. Hard to believe the amount of effort and worry some guys spend getting just exactly the right kind of seat belts into little plastic airplanes. There's even a special exemption in IPMS Out of the Box rules, which are quite strict, to allow adding seat belts made of paper or tape to an otherwise OOB build.

I'd sand that area smooth to the touch with something like #800 sandpaper, mask off the hood, re-prime, repaint, re-clear the whole hood. Don't worry about trying to fix the spot. Reshoot the whole hood. BTW, this is definitely an annoyance, but it's really not that big of a deal. You got this.

Wow. I'd have NEVER guessed that!

Engine parts can never be "square" as in 1:1 due to the draft angles required for injection molding. On the rare occasion now when I do put an engine in a model, I actually enjoy filing and fitting the block, heads, pan, and intake manifold to get a perfect fit. Often the very first step is to block-sand the engine block halves till they fit flush with each other, then just hit 'em with liquid cement. Cleaning up the resulting glue seam when it dries is quick and easy. And so on. A FLAT file is your friend on engine assembly.

Thanks! I didn't "forget" the black tailgate, I just decided not to go to the masking and airbrushing trouble this time around on the quickie rescue. But I will definitely include that on the full rebuild.

I don't recall ever seeing tire melt on a JoHan. At the moment, I'm dealing with a JoHan promo where one of the tires just straight-up SPLIT, though. I think I can get it back together. If not, that model would look better with different tires anyway.

Have you called and specifically asked for your favorite? Offer the guy a deal. What kind of deal? A DEAL deal. Maybe he's a Republican. (DISCLAIMER: That is NOT a political comment, it's a hilarious quote from the classic comedy movie Kelly's Heroes, as delivered by Don Rickles and Telly Savales).