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Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying you hadn't worked on this model since 2012. Oops!

MCW does an AWB '65 Chevelle body, but sadly, it's based on the inferior Revell Z16 body, not the original AMT.

It was overall dark green, I think called Sequoia Green in 1968. A similar color should have been available in '67. I think the interior was some sort of medium green, but don't remember that well. They didn't have it long--less than a year before it was totaled in an extremely freak accident. It was replaced with a white '69 with green vinyl top and green interior.

I'll award her the Silver Medal (Salma Hayek in Dusk Till Dawn still takes the Gold).

Stopped at Rite Aid on my way home from work and liberated a Welly '57 Corvette. Wasn't gonna buy it and then I realized it was black and would thus be my 15th black diecast Chevy. The checkout girl even keyed in her own "discount club" card for me on it (I didn't ask her to) so I was out the door for under $9 cash!

Very cool, and I've been wondering what I could use as a polishing mandrel for Wrights to do engine turning. Never thought of a toothpick--that's genius! Now all you need to do is get them closer together (overlapping). Now I NEED a Dremel drill press thingie. See what you've made me do!

Very clean build and I LOVE the color and finish.

Very cool and just badass-looking stance. The fake side pipes (obviously hooked to nothing) remind me of George Barris. Come to think of it, I might have to build one of these and put it on a Camaro chassis, "just because."

Pretty cool and yes, it's a '67. Probably a nod to Supernatural. Reminds me I need to dig out that Supernatural diecast I bought about a year ago and try to fix the windows on it. If you paint it dark metallic green, it would look a LOT like my parents' '68.

I'm thinking about squirting about half a can of Easy Off into the Purple Pond to "juice" it up a little.

Thanks! I was just about to ask [Seinfeldvoice] Who AHhhhHHH these people? [/Seinfeldvoice}

I have both of them, and my intention is to build them both OOB with the plastic polished. The panel lines on these will be a challenge due to their width, especially on the Chaparral, but I'll figger it out.

I only remember two things from that movie: The great Jamie Lee Curtis (in her prime) scene, and the Eddie Murphy line, "This happens to me every week." I've used that one several times over the years.

Think you can get it finished by the end of the month? If so, I invite you to come join the Bring Out Your Dead Completion Build. You CLEARLY qualify. If you can't get it done by then, and we do a Round 3 (ending at the end of June), you should be able to gitter done by then.

If you're asking about 1/24 (not 1/25) specifically, I'd have to say Monogram (now Revell) purely on subject matter.

There's always someone late to the party. (Mike, he originally posted this in the Reviews section. The mods moved it.)

I kinda thought so, too, which is why I left it. I can always paint it black or white or whatever later, if the mood strikes me. I like your Coral color. I think it's more coral-y than the factory color, which means it's even better.

Yup, you're in the right theater.

REVIEWS! We want REVIEWS! With lots and lots of PICTURES! Get on that!

This is the Reviews section, so let's see some REVIEWS of them. Especially that Morgan.

I'd like to thank The Academy.... As promised, here's some progress on my '57 Vette gasser. Engine is basically done and installed in the chassis (I will be refining and Molotowing the injector scoop yet, though). Didn't put a lot of effort into it because the flip-front is now glued down solid, and the hood is just scribed in, so it's basically a curbside--I'm only interested in what pokes through the hood and is visible through the wheel wells. On the body, I got the windshield trimmed and glued into its chrome frame, and the chrome taillight bezels filed and trimmed to where they'd actually fit into their slots in the body--had well over an hour in these two "simple" tasks. I fully expected the headlight bezels to give me similar problems, but to my amazement and utter delight, they press-fit right into the body first shot (they're not even glued), and the lenses fit similarly well into the bezels (secured with white Tacky Glue). The grille, OTOH, is being a royal PITA and I might end up leaving it out altogether. I decided to leave the interior in its nice tan molded plastic, with black floor and dashboard. Tan was not a factory '57 color, but, whatever. I'm in GITTER DONE mode now.

"Look at you now!"

I just ran a quick Google search and was unable to turn up any description of the real car's red paint other than "iconic." Just use your favorite red, I guess.

I recently stripped my first two bodies with Super Clean. The second, an AMT '67 Comet hand-brushed with Testor Purple Metallic, was so clean after 48 hours in the SC that I'm seriously considering just polishing up the beautiful white plastic. The other was a JoHan Rambler with MANY coats of various unknown paint that had already been through about four treatments with Easy-Off which had thus far taken about half the paint off. SC took the rest of it off in 48 hours except for some thin gray primer, which must be lacquer--but rubbing alcohol takes it right off. I once tried to strip a body painted with AMT lacquer that just laughed at Easy Off. But rubbing alcohol took it off almost immediately. Easy Off and Super Clean are basically the same thing--lye. EO works much faster, but with a lot more effort and mess. SC does just as well on enamel with no mess, but it takes more time. I like them both but will probably using mostly the SC from now on, unless I'm in a big hurry.