Snake45

Very clean and very cool. Great color and great finish. You can be proud of this one! Model on!

Very different and very interesting and very cool! I'll bet we don't see another one of these all week!

Sounds like SNJ powder which airplane modelers have been using for years. I got some and tried it and it works as advertised, but I haven't used it on a full project yet. I think it's aluminum powder, which is one of the most dangerous things you can breathe in, so DON'T use the stuff without a good dust mask!

Last month at the local toy show, I bought (cheap) this sad-looking but intact and complete MPC '69 Charger apparently built at some point from a DOH reissue (orange plastic). It has the 500 rear window, hood and trunk pins, no body emblems, and no vents in the cowl (!). I thought it might might make a good, quick, easy “winter beater” or "barn find" project or something of the sort. For whatever reason, it just had to follow me home. I tore it apart and cleaned everything in dish soap. The paint was in better shape than I expected. There were a few scratches and scuffs, and a couple runs on the passenger side, but it still had some shine and I thought it might respond well to a LIGHT polish, which I did with water-diluted Wright's Silver Cream. The paint seemed to be very thin so I had to be careful. Looks like one coat of something—if the OB had used three coats, I could have polished it normally and gotten a showcar shine on the thing. Interior had been spray-painted to about 90% coverage with a thin glossy black. I just shot the whole gut with one coat of Krylon Satin Black and drove on—no detailing whatsoever. I removed and polished the (tinted) glass, which miraculously hadn't been damaged by the half tube of glue that had been used to install it. When I went to reinstall it, I had to chisel great globs of the stuff out of the headliner to get the back window into something close to the right position. I could/should have used a Dremel, but didn't want to spend the time/effort for that at this time. It's a miracle that there was no glue-shrink warp damage to the exterior of the car from all the mess. I reinstalled the glass with Tacky Glue for easy future removal. I detailed the grille with flat black and Testor Steel paint, and Silver-Sharpied the window trim and door handles. Cut the license plate off the front bumper and reinstalled it at the rear. I didn't put too much effort into the rear of the car, as it's all pretty hopeless back there, and I had a LOT of trouble reinstalling the rear bumper (which came loose in the plastic bag the model came in). Ah shucks oh well. The only parts I replaced were the front wheels. As you can see, the left front dish mag was ruined, so I replaced both with a pair of odd, mismatched Keystone Klassic Kustomags in my spares, the theory being, they don't have to match 'cause you can't see both sides at the same time anyway. I reused the given rear wheels, but since I don't care for 4-slot mags, I painted the centers black to disguise the fact. I reused all four tires after sanding the treads. I'm fairly pleased with the finished project, for the five or six hours and couple dollars I have in it. It's a build style I call “Somewhere Between Day 2 and Joe Dirt” (expressed mathematically as D2>X>JD) and could represent a mid-to-late-'70s driver. It actually looks like something I would/could have built around 1968. Speaking of 1968, here it is alongside my genuine Surivior MPC '68 Charger, which I actually did build in 1968. I recently blew it apart and cleaned it up, but decided that the original candy blue paint was in such bad shape that it wasn't worth a full restoration/refurb. It'll stay as it is, a relic of my youth. Comments welcome, and Model On, everyone!

Very nice! I've been working on one of these off and on for several years. Thanks for the inspiration to get back on it!

Nice! That White Lightning pearl came out great. I've been wanting to try that on something for a while now--I just need to find the right project for it.

Very slick looking! I can almost heat the 007 theme playing in the background. Nice color, too!

I really like the color. What's the paint?

You've got a pretty good "patina" look going here. Your first time trying it? I'd say you're off to a flying start!

I'm not a fan of '48 Fords but this thing is just plain old cool! Imaginative, different, and interesting! 99 views and NO comments? C'mon, guys, show a little love here!

Very imaginative and VERY cool! And, I might add, one of the cleanest builds I've ever seen of this kit. Well done and model on!

I believe I specified NON-acetone nail polish remover in my first post. I wouldn't let acetone anywhere near model paint.

Very sharp looking!

Very nice, very clean, very well done!

Very clean and sharp!

Do you have Walmart in Puerto Rico? Look in the housecleaning supplies aisle for Wright's Silver Cream, a silver polish. This is as good a polish for plastic (and paint) as anything you can buy. No Walmart? Check grocery stores, drugstores, dollar stores, anywhere that sells housecleaning stuff.

Different and therefore interesting! Drive on!

Fabulous clean build, and great color too!

One really has to wonder what somebody thought the market was for this thing. 1/200 isn't even a railroad scale, is it? Or is it? Hey, is this the same thing that was in Ripley's Believe It Or Not in yesterday's Sunday comics?

I use aluminum tape for a few things, but it's too thick and too rigid for most foiling use. Not comparable to BMF at all. Thin (cheap) household kitchen foil with Micro Metal Foil Adhesive is very useful. It doesn't replace BMF entirely, but I find that it works at least as well maybe 75% of the time, and a lot cheaper too.

They could also include the sand dragster parts in the kit. I was kinda wanting to build one of those. Might yet.

The van does nothing for me, though if the set with the boat were available today at a reasonable price, I'd buy one just for the boat and trailer. Is the Vega wagon only a funny car? If so, no interest, but if it can be built stock or stock-ish, I'd like to have one. I WISH the '72 Red Alert kit were available again--I'd buy two or three. It's much superior to the MPC-based version available lately.

Ditto. I honestly didn't know if this was an AMT or Monogram thing from the misguided '70s, or it was entirely yours. Good to know it's the latter. Nicely done!

Very nice! We don't see these built that often. Good to see one.

Square corners aren't much of a problem. Just take take not to "go over" in either direction. Round corners benefit most from the tape-dam trick. Experiment to see whether you prefer to scribe inside the dam or outside it. (I prefer inside.) There are scribing templates made for Model Airplane World with round corners in various sizes. You might find these helpful. You can also make your own by cutting, say, soda-can aluminum and taping it to the plastic.