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I think that one has more slope to its roof--I'll try to take a look next time I'm down in the Snakepit.

It's bigger than 1/48. I think it might be somewhere around 1/40.

VERY nice work indeed! Not an expert on Russian tanks but your craftsmanship is obvious.

I'd be willing to bet they're '70 Boss 302s. They're pretty nice. I have a Grabber Green one, too. But you probably won't be able to swap the interior panels into the new Revell '69 Boss, because the Wellys are 1/24 and the Revell is 1/25.

Very cool! Have you tried to fit the Revell grille into the AMT Elky body? Reason I ask is, if/when Revell brings out a '69, I'd like to kitbash a '69 Elky. Mr. O already showed us that the Revell grille is wider than the AMT '69 Chevelle body. So is the AMT '68 Elky, so I'm very hopeful on this point....

Thanks for the details. I'm very familiar with the name--I still have dozens of those old mags. Do you have Joe Oldham's book? It's a good one, too. Off to Amazon....

Very sharp, clean build! Bonus points for staying with black plug wires on a factory-stock build. Well done and model on!

Polishing plastic makes for great winter projects, when it's too cold to get a good paint job. I have several lined up to do this winter. Give it a try!

Fabulous project, I'll be watching! If that stinger is from the Revell '67 Camaro kit, you might want to take a look at its shape. I think it's much too flat--look at it head-on VS the pic of the real Chevelle you posted. I'm working on one of those and am planning to work the top of the stinger down on both sides. Good luck with this, and drive on!

I guess, by definition, just about everyone!

It's the old Otaki kit (also boxed by ARII, AMT, and Airfix) in 1/48.

Interesting! I don't have that book. Does it have a lot of photos and a lot of great info like that?

Would take extensive scratchbuilding, including the wheel openings, which due to their recessed contours, are NOT easy to do. Then you'd have to scratchbuild a grille, and a rear panel, and maybe scratch or modify both bumpers too. It COULD be done but would be a LOT of work.

Very nice, and quite an improvement! I've done a couple models that were basically remakes of ones I did as a kid. They were fun! I wonder if there would be any interest here in a "Take Two" group build?

I'll explain. The fat guy's not necessarily a mechanic. Back in the old days, you didn't pump your own gas. There were people who performed this service for you, called "gas station attendants." I worked as one in high school. (Probably many of you did.) Look at the gas pump. The sale reads 00 dollars and 25 cents. Mr. Village Person has just ordered and received 25 cents worth of gas, and is flipping the attendant a quarter in payment. The attendant is dumbstruck as he realizes that Mr. VP probably at that very moment probably has more than 25 cents worth of "product" of some kind in his manly mustache. Every picture tells a story.

True.

Some of their stuff is amazingly nice, easily the equal of at least M2. Others are only so-so, about like Motor Max. Still others, not so much. You really want to evaluate each one individually on its own merits. That said, I bought and/or worked on at least six or seven of their products this year that I liked very, very much.

You can easily skip from point to point on youtube videos. No need to watch the whole thing.

Again, you can build that now from the AMT kit. You'll need a flat hood, but someone makes it aftermarket. Fun fact: Most if not all of the photos in the '69 Chevelle showroom brochure are actually retouched '68 photos. You can actually see where they retouched them if you look hard enough on an original.

IIRC, I used Woodland Scenics dry transfers to create the small number on the fin of this P-51. And I THINK I put them on a clear decal sheet, and then covered them with Micro Superfilm.

Try putting that model in a sunny window and see if the sunlight bleaches out the yellowing. It works a charm on unapplied old decals; it might work on applied ones too.

You can kitbash a model of that car right now, using existing kit and aftermarket parts (corrected taillights). I wonder why it has RS on the grille and front fenders?

Probably not, but you can try it yourself for nothing. Using toothpicks, put one drop of color and one drop of silver (or whatever) on a smooth surface and mix them up and see what happens. I do this all the time to see what various paint mixes will look like.

Very clean build! Who makes this kit?

VERY nice! What's the paint? Well done and model on!