Snake45

Oh my! There's something about triple black that just looks straight-up evil, isn't there? Drive on!

Very nice! I've often thought of doing a "woody pickup." Thanks for showing us what such a thing looks like. Well done and model on!

These are just HELLA COOL and you know I love original survivors! Any of them is worth a good cleaning/restoration/freshening, but there's not one of them I'd strip and rebuild! What are those taillights on the 1G Firebird? They wouldn't be the custom "T-Bird" taillights from the original annual AMT '66 Mustang GT fastback, would they? Thanks so much for sharing these with us! I know that Tim Boyd and Tom Geiger and Mark and many others here will enjoy these, too!

Interesting idea, thanks!

Pretty cool! I'm not a fan of purple but I like this color. What's the paint?

Great save--ya done good! Well done and model on!

My advice would be to get your body sorted out, prepped and ready for paint (ideally, painted), and THEN worry about all the little details you've asked about. Why waste time and money rounding up a couple hundred bucks worth of donor kits and/or aftermarket before you get that far? Get the body done and then both you and we will know that you are serious about finishing the project. Just telling you this because I--like many others here--have BTDT. BTW, Testor Mystic Emerald would be a good match for "69 Chevy Rally green "with a hint of metalflake." They also have a couple different metalflake golds in their line. All are available at Hobby Lobby--go check 'em out.

Yah, I found that too. Pretty sure it's the old Monogram box scale.

Found you a review of the Walthers kit I posted above: https://www.modelingmadness.com/scott/civil/previews/9331164.htm

Do you mean the old box-scale Monogram C-47? It's not bad on shape but is covered with rivets. If you really want an HO scale C-47/DC-3, I could swear that ROCO or the Minitanks people had one in their line maybe in the '80s. I'm pretty sure I saw one in a hobby shop about that time. Just did some quick googling and wasn't able to find it, but I'll try to dig a little deeper. ETA: Found this already: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Walthers-Cornerstone-HO-Douglas-DC-3-Aircraft-Kit-SEALED-NEW-933-1160/143106568090?hash=item2151d0ef9a:g:fv4AAOSwTEZcTi00

Dunno why it wouldn't, but the Revell '67 Vettes come with big blocks, which of course the '63 didn't have, and one of them has only side exhausts, likewise. And then you'd probably want to cut the hood out of the snapper body to show off your work. But yeah, it's all theoretically possible.

I'm now thinking seriously of stealing the decals, wing, backlight slats, and interior from this kit and using them to Snake-Fu this very nice diecast (after I remove all the tampo graphic junk, of course). The kit will then donate its improved (but still not perfect) nose pieces to a Revell Mach I kit. Hmmmmmm....

That one looks close to a Model Master military color, SAC Bomber Green. Also close to RAF Interior Gray-Green.

Took another 20-30 minutes careful surgery with the coping saw but I finally got the interior and the chassis separated. Was pleased to end up with NO damage to the inside of the interior (although at one point, I did see the dark shadow of the saw blade through the plastic), and only one easily repaired little spot on the chassis right wheel tub, which I actually caused when trying to pry them apart with the screwdriver. The underside of the interior tub and the topsides of the wheel tubs are pretty chewed up (the coping saw is the chain saw of plastic modeling), but those areas won't show in the finished model. And now it becomes obvious both HOW and WHY the interior tub was jacked up so high on the chassis: Original Builder had glued the radius rod mounting brackets as far into their chassis slots as he could get them, instead of just flush with the top of the crossmember. Next job will be carefully liberating the left radius rod from the axle and the chassis (the right one fell off by itself), which will probably be another tedious operation. Yeah, I could easily just saw the thing off and make a new mounting bracket in about five minutes, but part of the fun/challenge of these jobs is seeing how many of the original parts I can re-use or repurpose.

Here's the two I've built, both polished plastic. The solid red one is completely OOB. The metallic/pearly red one has wheels from Revell's snapper '57 Chevy.

Is it molded in red or orange? There's also another issue of this kit with large wheels and molded in metallic red.

No, it was definitely a '67-8, not a '69, and it was a tree. Maybe the show was Emergency and not CHIPS, or even something else. I might not know the shows I didn't watch, but I know my cars!

That doesn't look too bad at all. Great stance, too! Model on!

Now there are two names I NEVER thought I'd see in the same sentence! I never watched CHIPS. Actually I did see about two minutes of it once. I tuned in just as they were running a very clean '67-'68 Camaro Rally Sport (red, IIRC) smack into a tree. I was so traumatized I vowed to NEVER watch it again! The horror! THE HORROR!

I've never painted one, just done four in polished plastic. I foiled them with kitchen foil, no problem. For painting, I guess I'd foil them, then just mask off the foil.

Shiny! And also very cool. Drive on!

Lucky you, I still have 'em right here. They don't specify an interior color, just a few black and silver details called out. So it's up to you.

Here's how I fixed one quickly and easily:

Haven't seen that one before. Is that a new boxing, or old? Haven't seen those wheels in the coupe kit, just the purple roadster. Is it molded in orange?

I believe that's a new record for Thread Drift. Maybe two--for Speed and Distance!