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    No boats were missed.
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    Loctite for the gel-type--much better than anything else. For regular superglue, I'm not picky. I buy the cheap 4-packs at Walmart when they have them.
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    The HUG kit comes with stock glass. If you don't have that, I'm pretty sure you can make the back glass from a piece of flexible clear plastic. It won't have the very slight convexity in it of stock, but it might be close enough to get by. (I have an original old HUG body with no glass and I'm gonna try this to make at least a funny car out of it.
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    No markdowns at mine, everything at regular price.
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    Second trip to mine. They still had several Jawbreakers (which I needed another one of), couple '53 Vettes, big stack of cop cars, big stack of Tee Vee dune buggies, big stack of the stock-only T vans. No more '63 Vettes or Fruit Wagons (which I'd decided to grab at least one more of). Oh well.
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    I happen to have a '64 or 5 Valiant front end (grille, bumper, headlights) that I'll work in. The double windshield nonsense has to go--will probably use a windshield from a '69 Camaro, just since I've bought several of those kits just for parts. The hood goofiness and the lake pipes will hit the spare junk box, too. Whatever happens, it almost has to look better than the original.
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    Very nice! I don't think I've ever seen this kit built. It's not half bad looking!
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    I bought a couple of these last time they were at Walmart. I think I've figured out how to de-uglify one and make it look like a factory concept car.
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    Ace just saved me a bunch of typing. That's exactly what I do, too. Also, I make sure the intake manifold and the heads meet tightly with no gaps. And if the intake manifold is the same color as the block/heads, it gets glued on before painting, too. (I'd be willing to bet that Ace does these things as well.) Don't forget that you want to remove the glue seam on the block halves, and usually on the bellhousing, but some (manual) transmission cases will actually have a "mold line" running down their centerline, so you don't necessarily want to remove that seam completely. (Check pics of the real transmission you're modeling.)
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    Very nice! Is that the Testor kit? I think I have one of those in the stash, but I think the barrel on mine is much shorter. I think I have that thing in ROCO HO scale, too, somewhere.
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    Semigloss black for the running boards. Your wheels look fine to me. Not everything has to "pop," you know. You could try doing the rims in a lighter/brighter silver/chrome-y color and leaving the spokes as they are, or lightening the rims and darkening the spokes, maybe even all the way down to black.
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    Not sure when the Revell 1/32 P-51B came out, but 1969 could be about right. But long before that they had a 1/72 P-51D in the catalog. Most experienced airplane modelers have that kit very high up on the "Worst Kits of All Time" list. It's just horrendous.
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    I believe this is the correct answer.
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    You've just re-invented candy paint. I'm not sure, but I think the definition of "ghost flames" pretty much requires candy (or some kind of transparent) paint.
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    I think it pretty much does.
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    Very nice! And I don't usually like the Big Wheels, but they don't look TOO horrible in this case.
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    Now that's just old-school cool!
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    Respect for your correct use of the word "gauntlet."
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    I went on a Javelin buying jag on ePay 6 or 8 years ago. I ended up with three or four '68 promos and one builtup '70--all restorable (I've got one done already) but was never able to score a '69 (promo or kit) or a '70 promo. Oh, I'd SEE them, they just went for more than my high bid. (At least I made somebody else PAY for them, bwahahahahaha.)
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    I have a vague memory of seeing the box. I think it was a "large, flat" box, like the Javelin that year. Also like the Javelin, it included a complete Logghe-type funny car chassis. Of course, I could be wrong....
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    Few years ago I was lucky enough to score a mint, unbuilt '66 HT/Conv off eBay for a reasonable price. Some fantastic parts in that kit, including the half-top and a full-width "grille" taillight. It give me such pleasure unbuilt in its original cardboard womb that I will never build it.
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    Agree completely. Well done!
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    I've always taken them out with pliers, but I've never had any indented/recessed like yours. You might try cutting or filing a slot in them, then turning them out with a screwdriver.
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    It was well over a year. They stopped taking orders on July 5 or 6 2016. I got in one of the last orders and heard recently from Carol that I'd probably be shipped next spring.
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    That was exactly my first thought too.
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