Snake45

Okay, Junkyardjeff, I take the posted photo as your declaration that you're in. I believe you're number seven. One more and it's game on!

L88 heads were aluminum. Just did a quick google-image search and most of them seem to be unpainted aluminum but I also found several pics of them painted Chevy Engine Red. I'd say you could go either way, your call, unless you're attempting to replicate some particular car (they were rare enough that this is possible). But many more L88s were swapped into cars than ever left the factory in new Corvettes, I believe, so modeling a "swap" is entirely feasible.

Your color seems to be Saddle Brown Poly (metallic), a carryover color from 1952: http://autocolorlibrary.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1952-Chevrolet-pg01.jpg Ace above gave you great advice. Contact one of the model paint vendors such as Model Car World and they should be able to supply you with it. Model Master used to have a metallic brown in their line that's pretty close, but I believe it's been dropped.

I've never dealt with him, but he's been around HyperScale for years and if he were a bad egg I'm sure he'd have been outed by now.

I do believe you are the first one to get one of these finished (first one I've seen, anyway), so, Congrats! You did your customary sweet job on it, and it looks great! It sure looks better than their old '69 Mach I, anyway. Well done and model on!

Magnificent carb & detail work! But frankly I couldn't live with that gap between the intake manifold and heads. I don't build many engines anymore, but when I do, this is one of the few things I pay attention to--a solid connection between the heads, block, and intake. I'll spend considerable time getting these mated up, even if it involves making "gaskets."

Absolutely beautiful!

Guy on Hyperscale is cleaning out some HO bodies, just pay postage. His email is in his post so you can contact direct. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/free-to-a-good-home-afx-ho-scale-car-truck-body-s--t501979.html#p2630250

Thanks, Tom! I consider that high praise coming from another Glue Bomb Hero! Thanks also for the heads-up on the Fireball door handles. I need to get that order in sometime soon.

That's because on "rescues" I go in with expectations of far less than perfection. I know that's hard to do on a build you've started yourself; much easier "rescuing" Somebody Else's Mess. I'm contemplating declaring myself "in" with an MPC '57 Vette gasser. All the HARD work is done (the front end glued on and smoothed in), the snag has been my dread of building that fiddly MPC chassis. But I've realized that I can pop the thing on a one-piece AMT '62 Vette chassis and GITTER DONE. Stay tuned...I'd like to see at least eight others besides me deal in before I declare Round 2 on...with at least nine of us participating, I figger we'll get at least three or four models done. We're up to six now, so it could still happen.

This kit might well have had a completely different hood. It DID have a hole cut in it for a pop-up Minigun. (I've filled the ill-fitting doors in here, of course.)

Hey, you know if I found that thing at the local toy show, it would follow me home and I'd Glue Bomb Rescue it in a week or less. GITTER DONE!

Okay, Dave's officially in. DNMan, I know you're good for it, so you make six. Personally I'd like to see you drag that '55 Chev across the finish line--should be EASY to do in 2 1/2 months!

I see you did! NOW I'll tell you: This kit has a reputation of being a real b-youknowwhat to build, particularly the fit of the separate cowling pieces. (I know one guy claimed he used half a tube of Squadron Putty on the nose.) But since you'll probably never build it ANYWAY (), what difference does it make? (Or, as you'll soon be saying in your new home, "Lo mismo da?") And if you DO by some miracle actually decide to build it, I figger there's nobody on this whole board BETTER than you to wrestle it to the ground. (That's a compliment, BTW.)

Thanks! I've only done a few vinyl tops, but I was pretty happy with how this one came out. I'll be using this paint and technique again.

Hmmm, I don't think I had that problem with this one. Was working on it again as recently as a couple months ago and I don't recall any hood fit issues (but the windshield frame doesn't seem to want to stay in one piece).

They did in fact appear on SCTV. I remember it because of WOW's outfit, which could only have been shown on broadcast TV after midnight! And I was surprised even THEN!

They did, about 30 or 40 years ago. Believe it or not, you can still Buy It Now at a VERY reasonable price: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Spitfire+22&_sacat=220&rt=nc&Brand=Matchbox&_dcat=220

I might have had that set as a kid. The box looks awfully familiar. HAHAHAHAHAHA! That might be the coolest use I've ever seen of the old Hawk Spitfire 22, a neat little kit in its own way. No interior, no landing gear, just a stand, and they originally sold for 39 cents. I believe the last time it was issued was by Testor in the mid-'90s, and only as part of 4-kit set with the other models in that series, a Bf 109F, FM-2 Wildcat, and A6M5 Zeke. The set sold for $10 with a few little bottles of some kind of paint and a cheap paintbrush or two. Here's one I built and painted in about an hour as a teenager. The only gray paint I had on had was Pactra Steel, so that's what I used. I cleaned it up and restored it as a survivor a few years ago. It's molded in bilious Sub Lime green, if you can believe it. I've picked up a couple more of them over the years, and now have one molded in orange and one molded in burgundy. About the time I restored my childhood one, I built a new one from the 4-plane Testor set (molded in boring light grey) and squirted it Floquil Old Silver just to show off the Spit 22's beautiful lines.

The decals will be yellowed and probably fall apart when you use them, if you don't coat them with Micro Superfilm first. The Testor reissue has beautiful decals.

I like that '66 Olds Cutlass sitting next to it!

It's a very simple kit--what you see on the boxtop is a good representation of what you get (if you want to "rig" it yourself). No interior whatsoever.

Does one of them have a definitive spec on the color? I have an old Brit model airplane magazine that has a feature-length story on that very topic, with references cited giving it as everywhere from about Richard Petty Blue to Blue Angel Blue. No definitive conclusion was reached.

Very clean build, and looks like it would make a great street cruiser. Well done and model on!

Absolutely beautiful! LOVE the color! Well done and model on!