Snake45

Very nice, and welcome back to the hobby! That old AMT '40 Ford's a beast, ain't it?

Yes, it served nearly half a century on the Shelf of Doom!

Yah, seeing that little brochure in the plastic bag is what tipped me off. Even I don't have one that old, though I do have several of them from the mid-'60s.

Ah. Using that chassis under an AMT '72 Chevelle--now THAT I can see.

I don't think it's a "cartoon model, " I think it's just a rebodied Surf Woody, which is actually kind of a cool kit in its way (a parts mine, if nothing else).

Glad to hear it worked out for you, and wow that looks like an original, not the SSP reissue! WELL worth what he wanted for it! And hey, if we can't help each other out once in a while, why are we here? Last year I learned from Gramps46 you could get some great Welly diecasts at Rite Aid stores for just ten bucks, and this week I bought another one--I think it was about my sixth since August. Just today the UPS man brought me a great book I'd never heard of until 1972Coronet mentioned it here.

The two Schorr books arrived today. Fabulous stuff, both of them! I'll be happily reading for a couple weeks! Where have these been all my life? Thanks again for the heads-up!

Good eye! Yes, it is. The vent windows were among the last things I did on the model. The right one just barely went in kinda sorta the way it should have, more or less, but I couldn't get the left one to fit AT ALL. So my powerful brain came up with the idea to just glue it in OPEN. BOO-YA!

Which AMT kit, the '70? Why would anyone want to do that, as the Revell snapper body is SO much better? If you mean the '69, I think Bill (Mr. Obsessive) tried that down in his kit review thread, and it will need a couple little tweaks but it will work.

I've had VERY good results using their Clear Red and Clear Blue for touch-up work (and talillights, for the red). Love the stuff! I used their Acryl Chevy Engine Red on an engine that someone else had already painted (red or orange, I don't remember which). I was pleasantly surprised with how well THAT little experiment turned out, too. I'll be doing it again, as I'm finding it hard to find the CER in my neighborhood anymore.

I notice on this particular piece of art, the artist returned the lower/forward front fenders to more of the stock contours than the kit has.

Never seen that one before--from the fabulous Don Greer! Thanks for posting it!

Very, VERY nice, all of them! Well done and model on!

Great tip! I think with many kits you could accomplish the same thing with a file.

Oh, color bleed exists--from paint. Put white paint over red paint, you're gonna get bleed, no argument from me. Sharpie ink will also migrate up through paint. Seen it happen. I've just seen no evidence that pigment is "leaching" or "bleeding" or otherwise migrating out of solid plastic. No one can tell me the chemical that can do this (that doesn't also dissolve the plastic itself). No one has shown me a red body that's been painted and stripped and is now LESS red than it was.

I just spotted a photo of what might well be one of these cars on page 151 of the Match Race Mayhem book. It's much later, being used as a bracket racer (no date, but there's a '69 Camaro in the background). The car's a medium-light color, and completely unmarked/unlettered, but those front wheels jumped off the page at me!

You must be a real modeler.

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

You can get one from MCW. He's still in business, and his delivery is pretty quick. And his stuff is quite good.

I was wondering what that was, guessed it was probably for an overdrive.

I figured I'd try it this year..."If you can't beat em, join em" and all that. I just finished the '40 Ford on New Years Eve and haven't posted it Under Glass yet, just one pic in the BOYD group build in the Workbench. I'll do the full writeup/posting on in a couple weeks when most of the "My 2018" threads have dropped off....

Yeah, it was painted in either 1969 or 1970, I don't remember exactly when. AMT Burnt Orange Metallic lacquer. I wish I had a case of that stuff today!

See if there's an Erie agent in your area. Been with them for decades, great service, and their rates are WAY lower than the giants who spend spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year with TV ads telling you how low their rates are.

Works for me! Well done on all three and Model On!