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Evel DID make that jump. He just didn't stick the landing, is all.

Very nice! I wish these were available in 1/25.

Yup. Same error as on the Polar Lights '64 kit. I made a pair of masking tape templates from the sides of an AMT roof and stuck them on. Will be filing the window line back to match it, hopefully in the next few day.

Very nice. Love the color!

I agree--as it sits, it would be kicked into Altered. But it would only take fenders and seats to fit A/SR. (Many of these things I've seen just used small cycle fenders on the front.) Tim Boyd's a big fan of the SR class. He might have some ideas/suggestions.

I'm going to fix the roof on that Welly, and then I think it will look as good as any reissue AMT ever built.

They're also a bit too shallow. Though it might be possible to glue plastic on backside, too. But you've given me something to think about.

I'm working on a resto that had white residue on the sidewalls of the tires (old skinny Firestones, not the common Firestone Supremes). Dish soap didn't take it off, nor did Windex, nor did rubbing alcohol. Was about to try leather saddle soap, and then Armorall, but while looking for the Armorall, I found my wife's Shout stain remover, and tried that. It seems to have worked. If the tires aren't still black tomorrow, I'll let you know. Just realized I hadn't tried Goo Gone yet. Or Hoppes #9.

Yeah, there's still a lot of good work that can be done with that kit, unless you had your heart set on a Black Widow or 150 specifically.

Hawk, I just used it for the second time. The first time I used it, it was to touch up some small areas, and for this it did a superb job. I just used it again, this time for touching up a much larger area (an entire model car roof). Didn't like it as well for that. The pattern is pretty small, and what would have been three or four "passes" with my beloved old Badger 350 became more like 10 or 12 or more with the C-H. In the end it did the job, but I'm not sure I would want to try to paint an entire model car body with it. Still a VERY nice airbrush for small areas and detail work, and I'm sure sooner or later I'll be doing some model airplane camo with it. But for a typical whole model car body, I think the Badger 350 or Paasche H is a better choice. Just sayin'.

Well, THAT's different!

Beautiful concept and workmanship, but for A/SR, doesn't it need fenders, and a second seat?

I own several original '67 Corvette boxes and they were all still taped. You could be right about AMT starting shrink-wrapping in '68, I don't remember. I do believe that MPCs and JoHans were shrink-wrapped before that.

Well, that's one way to build this kit. I have one, but haven't figured out what I want to do with it. Sometimes I lean toward doing it as a custom.

Me neither. Very different looking. Nice clean workmanship throughout.

I think of lace, cobwebbing and fish-scaling as more of a late '60s-early '70s thing, but there's no reason someone couldn't/wouldn't have done it in the mid/late '70s. It wouldn't have been as out of place as, say, '50s-style scallops on a Monza.

I thought of that too. The Welly diecast is a little bit narrower than the AMT body. I think it might actually be 1/26. If I ever do another one of these, I think it would be easier to make a couple solid styrene "billets" to fit the taillight spaces, and then work those down into the taillights. Couldn't be much more work than all this putty jive I've done. And I might even be able to take molds off those pieces to make copies, who knows. Attention, World: We NEED an all new kit of this iconic musclecar!!! And I say that not even being a particular fan of the thing. (I prefer the '66s and '68s.)

I've got the Modelhaus repop of the original promo front bumper/headlights, which is correct. Was saving it for a "good" build of a new kit, but frankly, who knows when I'll get around to THAT. So I think I'm gonna go ahead and stick it on this one until the time comes (if in fact it ever does) that I build my own. This will hold down the '65 GTO slot on my shelf until that happens. I could even scrounge up a set of Rally Is and take this model back to factory stock, but I'm gonna leave it as a late '60s-early '70s street fighter. Its sit and attitude were what attracted me to it in the first place. OB sure got the stance right!

Does this help at all? http://www.tpocr.com/67-68fbexhaustipc.html

Okay, I'm trying to fix the rear end to a somewhat more accurate shape. Workbench thread started here: Comments as always welcome.

This built reissue (molded in tan, so I assume it’s the ‘80s boxing) ’65 GTO followed me home from the local toy show last month. Seemed to be a good candidate for one of my quickie “rescue” jobs. If it had been almost any other kit, I’d have reworked it and had it back on the shelf in just a few hours. But the more I looked at it, the more I simply couldn’t live with the kit’s taillight treatment. Here’s what the kit rear end looks like, which bears little resemblance to a real ’65 GTO. Even Welly’s cheap diecast got this area right—or at least a lot closer than AMT. At first I thought I could fix the problem by filling the gaps between the too-small taillights and their trim with Elmers Sandable Carpenter’s Glue, applied in several stages over several evenings. The plan was to sand everything to shape (and I was hoping to avoid even that) and then paint the taillights and fill glue with Stop Light Red paint. However, when I got that all done, I still didn’t like the shape. So I just puttied up the whole outer peaks of the taillights with Sikkens (tan/khaki color) and worked that down to a satisfactory shape. At first I was trying to do all this with the rear panel still attached to the rear bumper, but finally broke down and razor-sawed the rear panel free. This was a LOT easier to work with. When I got the taillights where I wanted them, I taped the panel to the body and worked down the fender tips of the body to a more correct shape. Out of the box, the contour is more ’64 GTO than ’65. The tan body shows where/how I recontoured the mess. As always, comments welcome. More to come....

Dick Cheney was on a TV show?

I'd assume Firebird undersides were similar/identical to Camaro: medium/dark gray primer with body color overspray along the edges, and semigloss black front subframe. I'll see if I can find anything out about OHC6 exhaust. I have '67-'69 showroom literature, maybe it's mentioned in there somewhere.

That was a semi-common custom paint technique from about the same time as lace, spiderwebbing, and so forth, so I'd say that was exactly what he was going for.

The girl who got mine out of the case told me it was on "closeout." Dunno if that meant just that model, or all Paasche, or all airbrushes. I don't think ALL the airbrushes or their accessories were marked down.