Snake45

Somewhere I've got the stock wheels and tires from the JoHan '69 Maverick promo, and I don't remember them looking like that. But it has been a while since I've seen them.

They both look great, and you are making me want one of those '67 Firebirds even MORE! I MUST have one!

Did this artist just invent the '69 Camaro cowl induction hood?

Me too. I thought the coupes were ugly, but I've come to look at them not as ponycars but as mini-B bodies, which is pretty cool!

Very, very nice! I'm not sure I've ever seen or heard of this kit before. Have to keep my eye open for one.

The Olds was the first thing I saw in it, too.

My HL also had them at the higher price.

Now that is just sick and wrong....

Fabulous! I tried to get one of these on the Final Day Sale. It went into my basket, but by the time I sorted out the checkout problems, someone had plucked it out. I did manage last year to get a '69 Coupe body from eBay. Looks like an easy build EXCEPT there's no glass, and of course that backlight is a weird compound-curve shape. I haven't quite sorted that out yet. Well done and model on!

I see '69 Camaro/Firebird in this one.

I recently scored a very restorable glue bomb of this model with the custom goodies installed.

Great build with outstanding paint and finish! Well done and model on!

Couldn't agree more. Am looking forward to seeing this one finished.

My Ollie's finally got some in and on the shelves. No Garlits, no '29 Fords, no '65 Grand Prix, but I did score a Surf Woody, '57 Vette, '60 Vette (a parts mine!), '75 Vette, Deora, and Piranha.

What he said. Well done and model on!

Yah, after I posted I noticed the sealed-up NACA ducts and remembered reading about one of these cars in one of the vintage musclecar rags not too long ago.

Bill, here's a review of that Big Jug: http://www.hyperscale.com/2014/reviews/kits/kinetcik3207reviewbg_1.htm

The blue car in these pics seems to be the Revell '69 Shelby, which is a fairly nice kit.

In about a year, Walmart will have a Chinese-made knockoff for $39.95. And it'll work great for about six months.

Had this one for more than 10 years. It never looked quite right to me but I didn't figure out why until I started checking into what was wrong with the Polar Lights '64 GTO. It's the same problem: The C pillars are too thick, with the front edge of the C pillar coming down at a too-steep angle. I laid some masking tape on the sides of an AMT '65 GTO roof, which looks right (about the only thing on that kit that does anymore) and placed these on the Welly roof. You can see immediately what the problem is. So I filed the front edge of the C pillars back. This took a couple of evenings in front of the TV. I didn't file all the way back to the tape, but I did match the angle. I was worried about how to match or mate or fix the drip rail at the top edge of the roof. Finally decided to make the drip rails out of .030” sheet styrene, so I only filed .030” past the drip rail. Then I superglued pieces of .030” styrene onto the leading edges of the C pillars, and then carefully shaved/filed/sanded the rail thickness down to match the upper drip rails. So it's not perfect, but it looks hella better than it did. And IMHO it looks better than anything you can build out of a reissued AMT kit box. Standard Snake-Fu applied, of course. Oh, and it's a little small, maybe 1/26 or so. As always, comments welcome.

Take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. If you have a Dremel, you can grind the offending item off, and a little into the meat, and if you don't, you can accomplish the same thing by scraping/carving/gouging with an Xacto. Then you fill the gouge with superglue or superglue gel, file/sand flush, then prime and paint as normal. This might also work: Sand the thing off. Prime. If it ghosts, hit the ghosted area with superglue, sand flush, reprime, repeat as necessary.

That's not a great looking Camaro. But you know what, if I ran across one, I might buy it just for the cool '68 Corvette Bronze paint. I have somebody's '67 Camaro diecast that had what looked like the same problem with the windshield frame as you're talking about. It had its own frame molded into the glass, giving the whole windshield a double frame. I took it apart, got the the glass out, and filed/sanded/polished that frame off. Looked about 100% better. That might work for you too. If/when I get one of these, I'll be making some other changes too. The grille is inset much too deeply. I'll see if that can be mounted out a bit. The front bumper is too low. I'll have to move that up. And the black stripe is WAY too fat around the nose. That will be coming off with acetone-free nail polish remover. Might see about painting the rocker panels black, too. Fixing the flat engine is easy. Shut the hood and leave it shut. I don't think I could get this thing looking as good as I'd like, but I could get it looking quite a bit better.

I was pleased with the final look of mine.

Very nice! Well done and model on!

But at least it's in Hot Rod Brown.