Snake45

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Thanks! And yes, I'm still looking for a Bugatti. Email me with your trade needs: SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com.

Great pics, thanks for sharing! I believe your Funny Hugger is an original, not the reissue. On the reissue, the front wheel openings have been moved forward to work with a new (and age-inappropriate) chassis. It front end is still more accurate than Revell's RS front. It looks like the front wheels openings are moved forward on the MPC Harrell Camaro, too. The fiberglass undersides are a nice touch, but the whole body sides still share the gross inaccuracy of the stock MPC '69 Camaro. But your pics give credence to the idea that this was a unique, standalone body, not modified from the stocker. (It looks like it has a "flat" hood, which AFAIK was never offered in any issue of the MPC '69 Camaro stocker. only the SS and/or CI hoods.)

Pretty cool! I could build a hella rod out of that. (No pun intended. Okay, it was WAY intended.)

Thanks for your nice comments on my diecasts. Oh, wait.....

Fabulous stuff! You know I love the survivor rescues. Well done and model on!

The Dart's a non-factory color, so I consider it a "Day Two," probably a late-'70s repaint, so probably no stripes. It only came with one windshield wiper, which I've left off for now. Came without door handles; I'll be ordering those from Fireball sometime soon. I haven't done the full Under Glass writeup/post on that one yet. Watch for it soon. As for Mustangs, I did three this year--all diecasts. You can see them in the "My 2018 Diecasts" post down in the Diecast section.

Post 4 of 4 ’68 Dart: Got early last year at local toy show. Most of the work here involved removing poorly applied foil and stripping and repainting the hand-brushed vinyl top. Finished September 8. '62 Corvette drag car: Got this year at local toy show. Had to try to repair/match a lot of chipped original paint. Will replace the decals if I can ever find matches. Only parts I replaced were the front tires and the headlights. Finished October 22. '32 Ford Vicky: Bought this year at local flea market for $3. Appears to be an early '60s build of an original issue, molded in black. Replaced all 4 tires and one valve cover, everything else here is original survivor. Finished October 27. Mako Shark: Built by me in 1967, stripped for parts @1969-70, restored this year using the chassis of another glue bomb Mako Shark. All body parts, interior, and paint are original (paint touched up with Testor Clear Blue Acryl). Finished for the Bring Out Your Dead group completion build on December 5. That's all, folks! Thanks for looking, and as always, comments welcome!

Post 3 of 4 ’72 GTO: Got at local toy show this year. After polishing out the flaws in the original paint, I had to touch-up airbrush some areas but at least 75% of the original paint still shows. Finished June 24. ’65 GTO: Got this year at local toy show. Spent a lot of effort reworking taillight area. 100% of original parts used on this one, no replacements or substitutions, though I did spend a LOT of time trying to correct the whole rear end. Finished July 8. ’69 Chevelle: Got this year at local toy show. Had to repaint whole roof area but rest of paint is original. Also had to strip black paint from windows and polish them out. Finished July 29. ’95 Corvette ZR1: Got at local toy show this year or last. When I discovered that it was a rare factory-painted promo, I just cleaned it up, polished the glass, and put it back together; didn't lay my usual Snake-Fu on it. Finished August 12.

Post 2 of 4 ’70 Chevelle SS: Bought at flea market in 2014. All rework done in fairly short order this year. Finished March 19. ’66 Buick Wildcat: Got at local toy show in April this year, all work done shortly thereafter, finished May 5. ’68 Corvette MP 427: Got this one at local toy show last year. My most extensive “rescue,” bordering on a full rebuild, as I actually stripped the paint and repainted (the only full paint job I did on anything this year), and replaced the hood, wheels, and tires, but didn't alter the interior, chassis, or engine. Finished May 20. ’34 Ford Rod: Got at local toy show, all I did was clean it up and do a little detail painting. Finished June 17.

I completed 16 glue bomb “rescues” and survivor restorations this year. Only one of these required a paint-strip and repaint; on two others, I had to repaint about 20-25% to match the original. On the rest, the finish you see is what I got it with. In most cases I polished the paint or plastic with Wright's Silver Cream. The goal in these projects is not perfection, it's just to make whatever I started with look better than it was, and to have FUN doing it. I'll show one Before and one After pic of each. Since this will require so many pics coming from so many different files on my puter, I'll break it down into 4 posts of 4 models each to make uploading easier and less confusing. Post 1 of 4 ’68 El Camino: Got in a trade last year with Bill here (GTX6970), did some work on it last year, finished on February 7. ’66 MPC Corvette gasser: Got as part of an eBay “junkyard” 8 or 10 years ago, started some work on it a couple years ago, finished it February 7. ’70 Monto Carlo: Got at local toy show last year, “rescued” over two weekends this year, finished February 18. Dodge Copperhead Promo: Got at local toy show in 2016 or 2017, just dirty and scratched (no “Before” pic), cleaned and polished and did some minor paint detailing this year, finished March 4.

I agree. That stance is just badass. Model on!

As a friend of mine likes to say, "Anyone who isn't paranoid simply isn't paying attention."

You are not the first I've heard mention this. Nor the second, nor the third.

Beautiful! Again, you and I are thinking alike. In the early '90s I built a '69 GT500 in Grabber Green with white stripe, using then-new Model Car World paint. I forget whether the interior is black or white--it's been packed away awhile. I need to dig it out and take some pics of it. Again, well done and model on! ETA: Just realized, I do have one pic of it on the puter. Looks like black interior.

That's just polished white plastic. I liked it so much when I was finished that I"m considering building a series of polished white plastic Corvettes with red interiors. I have a '59 already under construction, and I think a '63 might be next.

Very nice! Your skill with BMF both awes and eludes me. I'd have done those with the foil-under-paint technique, as I'm more comfortable with that.

1967 was a great year for race cars. What type of racers do you usually build?

Sweet! I picked up a glue bomb JoHan '71 Cuda I'm gonna convert to the '70 using the parts from the new Revell kit, because I consider it more accurate.

Very nice! You are hereby awarded the Black Belt in Snake-Fu!

I too would prefer B with different rubber. As to your pic, I've often wondered about rodding an AmWagon. Hmmmm, doesn't look like too hard a shape to scratchbuild....

Cool! And how else are you ever going to own a model of one of those?

Do it! I just opened it up and read the section on the SOHC Galaxies and discovered that astronaut Gordon Cooper owned a SOHC-powered '66 Galaxie--in Emberglow, no less, one of my very favorite colors! Something else I'll now have to build. (I was already planning to do one in dark green as a phantom, but I might like this idea even more.)

The other one I got is Schorr's Day One, which looks like it's gonna be good too. It's hardback but was very reasonably priced.

Fabulous! You took a very nice model and made it even better! Good for you! I wouldn't have had the guts. I've always thought the Revell body was just too deep, or tall--like it needs to be sectioned an inch or two. I have a nice 1/25 diecast '70 GTX in Go Mango that fits right in on my 1/25 Mopar shelf, but its body was obviously copied from the 1/24 Revell kit and shares the same "too tall" look.