Snake45

Flash shield looks great! Leave the hood scoop, it's right in character.

I had one of those Monroe Mustang IIs at one time. Last year I got in the mood to build it and couldn't find it. I think maybe I took it to a club meeting and sold it for $5 or something. The same thing happened a while back when I got the urge to build a TA-4 Skyhawk jet I'd had in the stash for decades. It's nowhere to be found--I must have gotten rid of it.

Different and therefore interesting! Drive on!

There are so many great projects underway in the "Bring Out Your Dead" thread, quite a few of which wouldn't take a whole lot to get across the finish line. I have a couple in that category myself (and earlier this year, I actually finished up three that would have qualified for the Dead thread). Anyone want to join me in committing to dragging one or more of these projects off the Shelf of Doom and actually finishing it by the end of the year? It could be fun!

Very nice! Don't think I've ever seen a blue '78 modeled. Well done and model on!

Fabulous! "White" lights are always a particular PITA and you've done about as well with these as any I've ever seen. Well done and drive on!

The Nova wagon's now a drag car, and the Skylark is a dirt tracker and bringing either of them back would be nearly impossible. So, sadly, not those two.

Thanks! No one noticed that I hollowed out the door handles? (Perfectly legal within IPMS OOB rules.)

I thought it was Amy Schumer.

Just finished cleaning up the pics. Hope to post them tonight. Oh what the heck. Here's a Preview of Coming Attractions.

That's exactly what I thought the '68 wheels looked like, too! The centers are either Pactra Steel (still available in those days) or some Model Master military gray--I forget. I just detailed the center emblems with a very small brush--my eyes must have been better in those days.

I've had one of these in black with red interior for years, but a few months ago picked up a second one in Nassau Blue with black interior, which I like even more. Last night I got in the mood to Snake-Fu at least one of them, so dug them out. Was surprised to find that they had two different chassis! The old black one has posable front wheels. The new blue one has straight-through wire axles, which I much prefer as it will make wheel replacement easier. One, according the label on the chassis, was made in China, the other in Thailand. The bodies and interiors look identical, right down to the tampo printing. They seem to be true 1/25. At least they are exactly the same length and width as the AMT kit body. Overall shape is very nice. The biggest problem with them is that the El Camino has sedan-type doors, with a window frame. The diecasts have hardtop-type doors, with a separate vent window and its frame. The bodies have the window frame molded in, but of course it doesn't move with the doors, and there's a noticeable gap between the molded-in frame and the vent window frames on the doors. Still, not bad little cheap diecasts. I'll probably replace the wheels on the blue one with something else. Will post photos after the usual Snake-Fu session.

Just read The 100 Hour War, about the 1969 Honduras-Salvador so-called "Soccer War." Probably the definitive treatise on the topic, with lots of great photos, most I've never seen before. Just finished G-Man, the latest Stephen Hunter Bob Lee Swagger thriller. A ripping good tale, as always from Hunter.

Aside from being slightly undersized, the front pan on the MPC '69 looks shallow to me (doesn't come down far enough). Also, something about the shape of the quarter windows strikes me as not quite right. Thoughts on either point, anyone?

Tim, thanks for the honest, detailed and well illustrated answer. Guess I'd buy one if it were available at "popular prices" but won't pay collector tarriff for one. BTW, your pics look fine on my computer, at least all the wheels are round....

I have and have built the Porsche Carrera and the Ferrari 308. Both came out quite nice. I have the 924 still new in the box. Molded in red, I'm going to polish the plastic. No, it's not for sale or swap.

Yeah. I remember when Squadron closed out the WCs about 30 years ago, I grabbed three or four of them for, IIRC, $7 each. Later, but before Testor reissued them, an old guy in my local model club was looking desperately for one and offered to swap me "an old model car" for it (he wasn't a car guy). It turned out to be a mint, unbuilt Sonny & Cher Mustang. I had to keep from peeing my pants at my good fortune! Still have it to this day, still mint and unbuilt.

Looking good! Drive on!

No, what you'd need to do is catch one VW in the background in three different photos, and then post the pics in three different threads.

About as nice a Bullitt Mustang model as I've ever seen, and I've built two of them myself (one resin, one metal). Well done and model on!

She reminds me of Marg Helgenberger in her China Beach days in that pic.

Here's a recent thread on Hyperscale that might be of interest to you: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/a-bare-metal-zero-t499515.html

Here's a couple '69 Chevies in Fathom Green that have been stalled for a while. I must have painted the Nova sometime before mid-2013, because I bought this computer in mid-2013 and this pic was in the files of the old one. It's Model Master paint. The Camaro was painted in the early '90s with Model Car World paint. I really should try to kick at least one of these through the goalposts before the end of this year. Hey, maybe we can get up a "Drag One Off Your Shelf of Doom and FINISH IT 2018" challenge? We have two months left in this year.... Come to think of it, I need to drag this '66 Skylark restoration (also last worked on about 2013) across the finish line, too....

Thanks, that was kind of the idea.

Thanks! If I could find another set, I'd give consideration to using them.