Snake45

You just know SOMEBODY is gonna put a blown Hemi in it....

That was exactly my thought, too.

I like it! Cool idea!

Yup. Of course, it could have been built in '68, from about July or August on....

Also, simple thing: Make sure the paint bottle is NOT sealed airtight. There should be a vent hole in the top. If there's not, make one. I once had an airbrush rig that would only spray if the bottle was about 1/2 turn loose. Tighten it up and it wouldn't work at all.

I got you. But then I minored in Sarcasm at university.

Very very nice, and I hope it doesn't get moved to the Trucks or Other sections. One question: Aren't those round things behind the rear wheels reflectors and should be painted red? Or did I do that wrong on mine?

Aha! Since they had to tool up a new body anyway, maybe that's why they decided to fix the nose while they were at it.

But wouldn't you also need new grille, bumpers, etc to go with it? Dunno if just replacing the nose piece will get the job done.

Same here. Went back to enamels for airbrushing. I do use some of the Tamiya lacquers straight from the can, though.

You are right on the money on both counts, my friend. I've actually fixed the Nova back end problem on one, but it's not finished yet. Body is painted and ready but I still need to do everything else. I'm giving SERIOUS thought to replacing the body in a Revell '67 Camaro with one from their '68 Firebird, which seems to be more accurate at both ends. Yeah, I know, lotta work to convert it, but not much if any more than fixing the Camaro.

Agree completely. Except for shaving off much of the chrome gingerbread, there's little you can do to make it look better, IMHO. But hey, let's see what happens.

Normally I don't like those wheels, but you know what, they kind of work on that antique. They look both old-timey and ultramodern at the same time, somehow. "Everything old is new again." I say Drive On!

If the cloudiness is just on the surface and not all the way through, you can polish it out with Wright's Silver Cream silver polish. If it's internal as you suspect, I don't think there's any way to undo that. Those windows look fairly "flat" (simple curves, not complex), so you should be able to replace them with plain clear plastic of some kind without even having to vac-form, if you have to.

My first thought, too. Take a look at Model Master Jet Exhaust. It's kind of a metallic goldish/bronzish/steelish color that might be a good starting point. I've often used it for carburetors.

ASSUMING they finally get the front end right (and I'll wait to see the pics), while y'all are building Boss 302s, I'll buy one just to whack off the front end and graft it onto the Mach 1 I just got for $5 and paint it Silver Jade. And later, maybe I'll kitbash up a Maroon Boss 9.

Blasphemers! Heretics! Next you'll be complaining about too many '57 Chevies and '63 Corvettes and '66 Mustangs!

Your "wood" looks really good! Well done and model on!

Just saw this on a model airplane board. This particular page seems to be about military and/or general colors, but let's home some nice car-usable colors won't be far behind. I'll be a customer! http://www.track-link.com/forums/modelling_finishing/13050

Well, Ron I consider you one of this board's top builders, so there. I have one foot in Model Car World and one in Model Airplane World. Things are a lot freer over here, I assure you. Over there, everything's about accuracy accuracy accuracy. A "custom" model airplane is almost unheard of. Over here, we can choose what we want to do, and we don't have to lock ourselves into any one lane for all time, either. Today I might build a thoroughly researched, 100% accurate factory stock car. Tomorrow I might build the exact same kit as a rodded-up "Day 2," or a racer or wild custom that existed only in my own imagination. And it's all good. Yay us!

I have the black one with argent trim. I recently spent a couple hours Snake-Fu-ing it and now it's fit to sit on my shelf. Barely.

I thought in that old, old joke that the "ex" was a has-been.

Very, very nice, and yes that color looks very close to Honduras Maroon.

Preach It, Brother Jim!

Most of my interiors these days are either black, black/white, or tan. I'll most often just rattle-can the main color in either gloss or flat, then coat it with a semigloss clear. Then I'll hand-brush the trim and details.