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Is that Grabber Green? They only had blue ones at mine.

Very nice! That old kit still build up pretty well, doesn't it? Well done and model on!

Saw that one last week but didn't get it. But I DO like the gray color--kinda unusual for a diecast. I might end up with one of these sooner or later.

Pretty much my glue toolbox too, except I never use "tube glue" (such as Testors) and I prefer the slower setting epoxies to the 5-minute stuff, which cures rubbery and won't sand.

Fabulous! But you can't let us off with just two pictures! More, please!

Good selection at Walmart today! They had the Motor Max '69 SuperBee 6-Pack in both yellow and white (I already have a nice orange one), some M2 Challengers and VW vans, and the yellow Motor Max 2019 Corvette, which I almost bought. But I spotted a Motor Max 2017 Camaro in that pretty green with halfway decent paint. The paint's not perfect on this one, but it's WAY better than the other 3 or 4 I've seen so far, so I grabbed it. Figgered I'll have a better chance of finding another yellow '19 Vette later than another green Camaro with good paint. Just finished the Snake-Fu on the JADA '69 Dodge Daytona I bought last week. Pics up soon.

Very cool! I'll be watching this. I just finished Snake-Fu-ing an ERTL '69 Charger in flat black. Nowhere near the work you're putting into this one.

I think the original annual AMT '63 Corvette Coupe kit had these wheels, too, or something very, very much like them. I have two original '63 Vette coupes but sadly, neither of them came with these wheels so I can't look at them. And the Drastic Plastic instruction sheet site is down at the moment, so I can't check there, either. I could swear I've seen them somewhere else, too--IMC/Testor Mustang II or Cougar, maybe?

Absolutely magnificent! One of the very nicest model rails I've seen in the last 50+ years! Well done and model on!

I thought it looked interesting, but it's getting bad reviews on the Warbird Information Exchange forum. One guy said it makes Pearl Harbor look like a documentary, Ouch. I think I'll wait for it to come on cable, or show up in the $10 DVD bin at Walmart.

The picture on the box seems to show four lugs.

I do that alla time. I find it's helpful to scratch up the back of the foil with a Scotchbrite pad--makes the MMFA flow out better and not bead up and leave dry spots.

I always laugh when one of my favorite talk radio personalities reads a story about some bizarre or outrageous human behavior, and then adds, "See, this is why the aliens roll up their windows and lock their doors when they fly by Earth."

I still have an original unbuilt AMT annual. I'd never have bought it, but I won it in a contest in 1969. If/when I ever actually do build it, it'll be a tribute to my folks' real '69 Impala: white with green vinyl top and interior. Theirs was a 4-door 327, but I'll build the kit in those colors anyway. And no, it's not for sale or trade.

I miss him. A LOT.

Being water-based, I would assume it would freeze. Bring it in.

'69 Impala SS427 wasn't the most common musclecar back in the day, even rarer today. References are not exactly thick on the ground. There's a beautiful restored one in Fathom Green in the latest issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines. Yeah, I know, kits are rare, but there are resins floating around (Modelhaus?), and every once in a while a "distressed," workable promo comes up on eBay.

Agree. I wish I could do a tank that well.

I just scored a '73 screwbottom promo on eBay (don't have it yet). It's a RS so I guess it was made by MPC. It's missing the right A-pillar, but I think I can fix that; otherwise quite workable. Seems to have full wheel covers. Not sure what I'll do with it, but the price was very reasonable.

I have a couple. Unfortunately, I won't be able to bring that one back from the dead.

I wanted to post these pics at the time, and couldn't find them on the puter. Just located them. Monograms. I built the silver one in high school around 1970 and finished it in Rub N Buff. By the '90s, most of it had worn off, so I airbrushed it in Floquil Platinum Mist and gave it new decals. The blue one was built in the mid/late '70s, and all the paint is hand-brushed Humbrol. Main color is RAF PRU Blue.

The AMT annual they pirated it from had the same problem, as did AMT's '65 Bonneville. The '66 Impala and Wildcat (AMT) were a bit improved in this area.

No.

Fred Cady did decals for '70 AAR, probably to fit the old MPC body. These might come closest to fitting the "new" Revell, if you can find a set.

You might be/probably are right. BTW, the Pontiac was pirated from MPC, not AMT or JoHan. And it's not as cleanly molded around the taillights as the real MPC.