Snake45

I've noticed that some of the Testor colors can look quite different depending on what kind of primer they're over. Icy Blue comes to mind. Very soon I'm going to try their Fiery Orange over black primer and see if it looks passably close to '68 Corvette Bronze. It'll be a semi-custom car, like yours, so it won't really matter if it's not a perfect match. Yours looks quite nice in that color, BTW.

That came out quite nice. I'd be proud to have built that one myself. Well done and model on!

I guess I could do a collection called "All in All, Another Vette in the Wall." Or if I can put together 5 Maroon ones, call the group "Animals." I'll stop now....

You can see a comparo of the AMT/Ex-MPC and Revell '69 Camaro bodies, here, along with some discussion of WHY the MPC is so hosed:

Aaaaaaaand, my point is made.

That's actually a better place for them. If you think about it, there's little to no room between the parking lights and the front tires to mount a machine gun. But you might be able to slip a couple of them in beside a straight-6 engine, and they'd come out, I think, just about where the box artist has them.

Yawn.

I'm not having any of it. Last water heater I bought, I had to get the cheap one. I wanted the next size up because it had a better warranty, but (aside from the higher price) it had a touchscreen. What dahell does a water heater need a touchscreen for? It doesn't, that's what. I refused to buy it.

Good heavens, I own several of the things, then. Didn't even know it!

Thanks. I'm glad you weren't offended. As to C6, you'll have to school me. I know C4 is 1984 to 90-something, after that I'm a little fuzzy on C5, C6, and C7. I've bought several "late" Corvette promos and diecasts in the last year or so but I'd have to look at them to tell you what they are. Not sure if I have a red one, though. I've kind of been concentrating on the metallic maroons and rust/brick reds. I know I have another 2005 diecast just like this one in the pretty metallic brick red. Come to think of it, I could do at least a trio of Corvettes in maroons and brick reds. I did a '62 in Honduras Maroon and a '91 (?) ZR1 in metallic brick red. I did a '67 roadster in Testor Mythic Maroon, which isn't really an authentic color, but I"m planning to do both '67 Coupe and Roadster builds in Marlboro Maroon. Pretty sure I have a C5 or C6 diecast or promo in the metallic brick red, too. Man, I gotta get all that stuff sorted out sometime soon....

I have a glue bomb original '70 with the standard front I'm working on. It comes molded with vinyl top, which I wish it didn't, but I'm going to work with it anyway.

Because I'm right-handed, as are most people, and right-eyed too, which is better yet. I've actually done a lot of shooting left-handed, and can probably do it better than most, including probably most left-handed people*. But I'm quite sure I couldn't shoot left-handed, out the left window of a moving car, using my left eye, anywhere near as well as I could with all those things on the right. *I can actually completely run, including reloading, both a double-action revolver and a 1911 entirely with my left hand only.

Is that what's in the common AMT '25 T? I know it has some kind of non-6-71 blower....

Pretty cool! Reminds me a little of Gas Ronda's. I like the color--what's the paint?

What are you complaining about? You did good with it and it looks FINE. Model on!

This is the first time in my life I've ever seen any advantage to right-hand drive!

I believe he used something called a JATL. It was a new 9mm submachinegun at the time, and I don't remember hearing too much if anything about them since. No doubt they went OOB.

Interesting and clever idea--a slick-top '69 and a vinyl-topped '68 Bullitt. How are you going to handle the side marker lights? I think I'd just chop those sections out of the body and swap them. Will take a little filler for the kerfs, but should be do-able.

Well, that's one way to dodge (no pun intended) troublesome licensing and royalty issues.

I've been using a Silver Sharpie, but those Molotows have gotten such rave reviews here that I had to break down and buy one (they're expensive and not easy to find), though I haven't used it yet.

Jim, I like these so much--especially that '63--that I've returned to this thread several times to look at them again. Today I realized it might be fun to pay tribute to your collection by trying to replicate this photo with three of my own LRCs. Mine are all stock and not nearly as nice as yours, but it was fun to try to try to replicate your pic. Hope you don't mind! Revell '63 Snapper, unpainted polished red plastic; AMT '70 snapper curbside, unpainted polished red plastic; unmodified 2005 cheap diecast.

Fabulous idea! I'm going to look for one of those next week. Thanks!

I've spent somewhere around 20-25% of my time at work this month fixing the work of people who either don't know how to do their job, or simply refused to do it correctly. There's always a case or two of this each month, but I've never seen it as bad as this month. I've even seen cases where I did the job correctly the first time a few months ago, and then somebody came along behind me and screwed it up or undid my work completely. All this of course means completely wasted time/effort on my part. I SHOULD be spending 100% of my time solving NEW problems, not cleaning up after others' dog-dirt mistakes or incompetence. Unbe-freakin'-lievable.

I like those a little better. At least the tires aren't quite so "rubber band" looking. Oh, forgot to mention: The light blue one I saw at HL yesterday had Rally wheels on it, not the Super Sport/Magnum 500s that mine has. What wheels came on yours?

Seriously, check out the Krylon Sparkle. Their green breaks my heart. It's almost a perfect match in color to 1972 Chevy Spring Green/Pontiac Julep Green, but it's SO over-the-top flaky I couldn't possibly use it on a stock or stock-ish build. Wanted to use it SO bad I experimented with it. Shot a spoon with it, then masked half of it off and shot a flatcoat on it. The flat toned down the sparkle to where it looked no "flakier" than most commonly used model "metallics." So then I either gloss-coated or polished (I forget which) the flatcoated half, and, sadly, it was now absolutely indistinguishable from the sparkly, flaky, shiny side. So I can only use it on a '72 Chevy or Pontiac if I want to flatcoat it and build it as a weathered beater. Which I just might do. I have a surplus of MPC '72 GTO kits, and a reissue '72 Chevelle I don't think very highly of. But I WILL paint a dune buggy with the stuff.