Snake45

Looks pretty sharp! The Revell Snapper is among the very best of '57 Chevy HT kits. Well done and model on!

Me too. There are plenty of T "pickups" in this section, and they're hot rods, not trucks. El Caminos and Ranchero also seem to be welcome here--have seen loads of both. Personally I don't read the Trucks section at all.

Of course, that's not a SS396, just a modified Chevelle. As I said, it's your model, build it any way you want. (Is this a great country, or what?) Just don't call it "factory stock."

I bought one that looks very much like this (except blue) very cheap at a yard sale a couple years ago, just as a backup for my Walmart Campbell-Hausfeield. It has a small tank. Haven't airbrushed with it, but have used it to pump up tires and it worked great. Not too loud, either. Having airbrushed for about 30 years without a tank, I REALLY enjoy having a tank now and would not willingly go back.

Hasn't been my experience with it. It's sanded and feathered just fine for me. It IS thin; it's not a high-build primer so is not good if you're trying to fill scratches and so forth.

I feel your pain. It would be incredibly difficult to get the MS Skylark kit back to factory stock. It might be possible to get a custom or pieced-together "street machine" out of it. One huge problem is that there is a recessed lip around all the wheel openings, so you can't just fill in the cutout shape and then cut the new shapes out; you'd need to create that recessed lip somehow and that seems quite difficult to me. If doing a '60s-style custom, you could forget about that lip and just call it custom work. (I'm planning to do this very thing on one.) The Skylark has been reproed in resin by a couple vendors. The best was Modelhaus but of course they're gone now. Probably the best way to get a Skylark today would be to search for other resin vendors of the body, and watch eBay for rebuildable glue bombs. I picked a couple of them up that way.

For several years in the 90s I drove a '77 Olds Omega with a 305 Chev in it. I actually thought it was a 350 until I sold it and the guy said no it's a 305. It sure had the heart of a 350, and I actually beat a '67 396 Chevelle away from a stoplight one day. Really fun car I enjoyed a lot and to this day I wouldn't mind finding a nice, driveable Nova or Pontiac Ventura of this vintage. The cops in my hometown AND the place where I lived in the late '70s were both driving 9-C-1 Novas and they seemed to love them. I heard 'em called "4-door Z/28s" more than once.

Lindberg? https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/linberg/lindberg-orange-kra/

How did a purple glue bomb NOT follow me home? I thought ALL the purple glue bombs found their way to me sooner or later!

I believe the SS wheels (Magnum 500s with Argent spokes) were standard on the '69 SS396. Would work for a 300 or Malibu, though.

The person who told you that probably didn't realize that he (or she) was EXACTLY the kind of person who gave you the idea for the name in the first place. That kind never does, do they? "It's like RAY-EE-AIN, on your wedding day..." Reminds me of a couple years ago when "they" tried to remove the word "bossy" from our vocabulary as being not politically correct for some reason. My standard response for that one was, "I can't think offhand of anything BOSSIER than trying to tell me what common words I can and can't use." I don't think the no-bossy movement lasted too long. Good.

I WISH these would show up at my Hobby Lobby. I've been wanting (at least) one. I have some very fond memories of the late '70s Novas.

Awwww, the stance (and wheels/tires) looked SO good before.....

You might have been looking at plain-jane Malibus on which someone stuck SS396 emblems. Lord knows I've seen enough '69s that way--SS emblems on a body with the '69 Malibu/'68 SS chrome strip on them, which is just wrong. Look, it's your model, build it any way you want. Put '67 wheels on it if you want, and paint the lower body sides any color you want. Just call it Day Two or a "custom," don't try to pass it off as factory stock.

Right now, Walmart is showing a 3-pack of their very excellent light gray primer for under $5. See this thread for discussion of this paint and its availability:

I loved it when you used the store sign as your avatar. I think until I was about 14, every stitch of clothing I wore came from just three sources: Sears, Robert Hall, or hand-me-downs from cousins.

'67 Rally Wheel caps are unique to '67, which is why they're in those kits. They're also in the AMT '67 Camaro, one of the Revell '67 Corvettes (the Coupe, I think, but don't hold me to it), and they were in the original annual AMT '67 Corvette coupe and its reissues. This type of cap was also used (with Chevy Rally Wheels) on the '67 Buick Skylark GS340, probably with Buick emblem inserts. Not sure if they were used on the GS400 or any other Buicks. '67 Rally caps on a '68 Chevelle certainly isn't an impossibility, but would have to be considered a "Day Two" mod.

I love the late-war 3-color and Ambush schemes. Sadly, I have very, very little luck painting them.

I think there was a nice set in the MPC '77 Monza. The very best Keystones I've ever seen, however, were in the AMT '69 Riviera annual. I don't think I've ever seen those again since.

I google-imaged that and that's exactly what they seems to be. Thanks!

Yah, those look like what I saw on the video. I THINK. Anyone know what these are supposed to represent? (They'd probably look good on period '60s customs.)

Wow, very, VERY sharp! Well done and model on!

Won't happen. IPMS doesn't care a fig about accuracy, only craftsmanship. (Not that many IPMS members aren't card-carrying rivet-counters.)

I couldn't tell what the mags were supposed to be, even rewinding and freeze-framing several times. He just wouldn't hold them still! And the volume was so low I couldn't hear a word he said. My best guess was Keystones, but who knows? The lower left wheels looked like '63 Corvette wheel covers, but again, who knows?

It might be theoretically possible, but don't count on the minimum-wage kid to be able to reprogram the register to accomplish it. The manager might or might not know how to do it, but is likely to just tell you "It can't be done."