Snake45

Some great stuff here, and what a range! Very well done, and model on!

I'm here to serve.

My Monogram Chevelle is DONE(-ish)! (Couple more pics in the Bring Out Your Dead thread in Workbench.) Darn--just saw that I forgot to hit the door handles with Silver Sharpie. Oh well, it still needs quite a few little tweaks.

Managed to get a couple "proof of completion" pics ready.

Me too. I finished the wretched backbirth today. Hope to have finished pics up in the next day or so.

Finished the '66 Chevelle today; GOTTER DONE! That makes six completions for this round so far. No pics yet but I hope to have some up in the next day or so. So, will we be having a Round Six?

AHA! I THOUGHT it might have something to do with that 1/4" slot template!

The '64-'67 GM A bodies had 115 inch wheelbases. So did the classic '55-'57 Chevies. The Revell snapper '57 Chevy HT (which has an excellent body, BTW) is commonly found at Hobby Lobby.

1965 was also the last year of the FI 327 in the Corvette, also replaced by the 396.

What a great year for you! Outstanding work on all of them. Extremely well done, and model on!

I completed 40 projects this year, about half of them simple diecast “Snake-Fu” fixups, which will be covered down in the diecast section. This was a year of AMT '65-'66 Mustangs and AMT '65-'67 Impalas for me. I bought at least six of the former and seven or eight of the latter. I got four of the Mustangs completed (all survivor resto/rescue projects) but only one Impala, though a second one will probably be my first completion of 2020. I hope to get a few more of them done in 2020, too. I'm gonna break my report into two parts. The second will be posted later, hopefully in the next week or so, as I don't even have some of my late-year completions photographed yet. Thanks for looking, and as always, comments welcome. '67 Chevelle: ERTL diecast, but I have so much work in it—I had to install a full Revell kit interior to replace the toylike guts, and remove a bunch of goofy tampo graphics—I’m counting it as a built model instead of a normal diecast Snake-Fu. Finished Jan. 19. '62 Corvette: Revell metal-body kit built straight from the box. Finished Feb. 19. '94 Corvette promo: Bought at a local flea market for $9, dirty and with some damage. A polish job and a little Snake-Fu got it looking good again. Finished Feb. 24. '57 Corvette gasser/street freak: This is the awful MPC flip-font gasser kit, where the two body halves don’t come close to matching. I wrestled them to the ground and made them work together. Started around 12 or 15 years ago, the paint took more than a year to harden enough to polish, by which time I’d lost interest in it. It served a long sentence on the Shelf of Doom, to be finally paroled for Round Two of the Great Bring Out Your Dead Group Completion Build and finished on March 31. '65 Mustang Henry the 8th: This model was built by Paul Sable and featured in a 4-page article in Car Model magazine for February 1966. I bought it off eBay and restored it to its original glory, or as close as I could get. Finished April 7. '65 Riviera: Dunno what to call this, a survivor resto, a glue bomb rebuild, or just a plain old “new” build. Everything but the body and hood are from the original first-issue kit I built in 1966. The body came from a box of junk at the local toy show, and the hood is a resin copy from Superbird McMonte. Whatever you want to call it, I brought it all back together and slapped it on the shelf as “DONE!” Finished for Round 4 for the BOYD build on June 30. '65 Mustang HT: Bought this one on eBay planning to strip it and do a full rebuild. Then someone suggested a Lee Iacocca Memorial Community Build and I figgered since it was black, why not see if I could “rescue” it as is. I improved it quite a bit, but it’s still one of my least successful rescue projects and someday I’ll blow it apart and give it the full rework it deserves. “Finished” on July 28. '66 Mustang FB: Another eBay buy. Again, I plan to strip it to bare plastic and redo it completely someday, but the paint on it was nice enough that I thought I’d just do a quickie rescue on it and enjoy it as the true survivor that it is for a while first. Finished Aug. 11. '65 Mustang FB: Probably my favorite work of the year. This survivor mild custom came from eBay needing only a thorough cleaning and some minor touchup and repair. A true “survivor restoration,” everything about this one makes me happy. Finished Aug. 11.

Not long ago I got one at Hobby Lobby with 40% off specifically to cut the wheel openings out of it and graft into an AMT '66 Impala dirt tracker body.

I guess we'll soon find out.

I'm working on a model in Testor Root Beer right now--much darker than what you're looking for. But last night I ran across a can of Testor Bronze metalflake in the Snakepit that might be closer to what you have in mind.

Very nice, very realistic! I'm glad I got to see it before it gets moved to the Truck section.

Congratulations on GITTIN ER DONE again, Dave, you have the FIFTH COMPLETION of this round. And according to my records, you've done six of them for the BOYD builds this year, so you must have sneaked another four in! Good for you! Thanks for the kind words, and DRIVE ON! We look forward to having you in the build, DPNM! If there's enough interest, we'll be starting Round Six after the first of the year, completion date will be the end of March. Got anything you can get finished in three months?

Great sentiment! I too have made many good friends here and you, Kevin, are one of the best. And a great trading partner, too--I believe we've made a couple of mutually beneficial swaps in the last year or two. I'm hoping we'll do more of the same in the future!

Pretty cool! I'd paint the wheel spokes flat steel or matte black, otherwise, looking good! Drive on! ETA: I think I've seen these at Hobby Lobby. You're making me think about grabbing one next time I'm there.

Does this look close? It's Testor Flaming Orange flake.

Mine's nearing completion....

The roofline's different between the 4-door hardtop and the 2/4 door sedans, but I'm gonna do it anyway. They do, but to my eye, the top looks more like a '65-'66 2DS top than a '67-'68.

Well done, Bernard! This means you've personally completed HALF of this round's builds! I finally got the Chevelle's wheel/tire problems sorted out, and the last of the chassis bits glued on. The body's all polished and Silver Sharpied. Just have to build the interior, detail the grille, and nail it all together. What a nighmare that backbirth has been!

Absolutely! I have them going back to my first builds of 1966.

Very cool project! Drive on!

More "proof of life" of the Chevelle. After untold hours of work, I finally got the Chevelle engine (with sidepipe headers) into the '64 GTO chassis, and got the GTO chassis and Chevelle interior to work together, and got the whole mess to fit under the Chevelle body. For the first time EVER (and I started this build in the '70s), it's sitting on four wheels (some of them borrowed for the moment). By happy chance, the "sit" is just about exactly what I had in mind from the beginning. I have less than 48 hours to finish this by deadline. Well, come to think of it, as we did last year, we'll accept accept completions for this build right up to midnight on the 1st, since many people have New Years Day off and might need it to GITTER DONE. So I've got less than 72 hours. Should be do-able. Theoretically, all the hard work is done, just need to bring it all together.