Snake45

Very nice! I did one of these not long ago and I just polished up the kit silver plastic. I recall it as a completely painless, troublefree build until it came time to get the chassis into the body, and then it gave me fits! I hope yours went together easier.

I tend to agree with you because of the look of the paint and the decals. I THINK I have at least one reissue with the 427 still on it, but I could be wrong about that.

I've soaked primed, Testor lacquer-painted bodies in rubbing alcohol and the lacquer came right off leaving the primer absolutely pristine underneath. If I'd wanted to take that off too, I'd have tried Easy-Off but I didn't. IIRC this was the delightful cheap Walmart primer in gray.

Those bodies are exactly the same, differing only in minor emblem trim and such. I'm still trying to figure out why you want/need to switch the fenders. Is it that you have one body with a messed up front and one with a messed up rear, or what?

Easy one. MPC '67 Corvette coupe, possibly an original annual issue, but also just as likey from one of its many reissues.

There's a quite decent new '64 Nova hardtop diecast out now (1/24). I hit mine with some Snake-Fu and it looks very nice sitting on my shelf.

I would. Shocked, in fact.

That was pretty much standard procedure "back in the day" and for many, many years. It was only in the late '90s or early 2000s that people started discovering the real cars often/usually had primered floor pans and black frame rails. And then modelers started trying to replicate this. My standard procedure is to shoot the whole chassis in flat or semigloss black and then do the gas tank in flat steel and the exhausts (if molded in) in flat steel or flat aluminum. But then I only build for my own enjoyment.

Yup. Best looking pickups EVER! And this might be about the nicest one I've ever seen.

Tim Boyd, you are a kit-tease.....

Because I didn't collect Hot Wheels as a kid. I built AMT and MPC and JoHan model cars.

Beautiful color! I gotta get me some of that stuff.

You might be surprised at how many of us just shoot the whole chassis in flat or semigloss black, call it "undercoating," and are done with it. (At least on less-than-"special" builds.)

Testor old-school chrome silver was infamous for never fully drying. Looks like gold was the same way. Strip it and start over.

Common household rubbing alcohol will take off most if not all colors of Testor Lacquers. But as Ace said, if your previous stripper ate into the body, that color might be in there for good now. Only cure would be sanding.

Now, where else on Earth are you gonna go to get an answer like that?

The frames still have their own problems. You can hardly put a big enough rear tire on the Double Dragster for the whole thing to look "right."

I knew that! It's a problem in 1:1 world, too. Real restored '69 Camaros and Chevelles in Hugger/Monaco Orange often look bright red in magazines. But the real '69 Chevy Garnet Red was actually fairly dark. So...if you're looking at a restored '69 Chevy in a mag and can't tell if it's red or orange, it's Orange. If it's Garnet Red, it'll be very apparent.

Yup. The big chisel "Professional" one seems to be loaded with a gloss black paint, not ink like the pointy ones. And it doesn't have the blue/purple tint, either. It's so nice to work with, I've given thought to seeing if a whole body can be "painted" with one, just for the helluvit. (I wouldn't try this on a project I really care about, though.)

It's not just you. More like purple to my eye.

Thanks for those pics. I'm going to do the same thing someday. I was thinking of making the cut at some point at the top part of the front wheel opening. I even have a plan for the leftover pieces.

I think part of the problem might be that the frame--particularly the cockpit area--is just too BIG. I know this is a problem with the Double Dragster frame and I think to a lesser degree it is with the Slingster, too.

Not really. Basically all the HORIZONTAL surfaces--header panel, hood, cowl, glass, roof, tulip panel, trunk lid--are interchangeable all three years. The VERTICAL surfaces--fenders, doors, quarters, valences, grilles, taillight panels--were new for '69.

Cool! Not too many Mosquitos around anymore. I think they just got two flying in the last year or so.

Very nice, and I like the way you painted the stripes on the cowl vents. Lotta guys ignore that little detail. Since you said feedback welcome, you missed one detail. All RS Camaros included Style Trim Group, which means chrome trim around the wheel openings. Revell molded this in. It's an easy fix at this point with a Silver Sharpie. (I use them for this and window trim all the time and just love them.) But still, overall, very nicely done! Model on!