Snake45

Nothing here I need. Oh well, time to rescue more old projects from the Shelf of Doom.

Chevy had a light green kinda sorta somewhat like that in '69. I think it was called Frost Green.

Those are easily scribed in. Thanks for bringing them to my attention--I might have missed them on my next JoHan RR build!

Well, THAT's a different take on the old chestnut! Not bad, not bad at all!

I never knew that!

What are you whining about? It came out very nice indeed! Model on!

A "sandy" semigloss sounds like a perfect finish for a suitcase. I say just lean into it!

Sorry no in-progress pics of this one, but it's my latest Camaro build. Bought it for $10 at the local toy show, and just laid 8 or 10 hours of Snake-Fu on it, making it presentable. Well worth the time and money for the result. This is my first attempt to upload a pic direct to the board (post-BotoPhucket debacle). Let's see if I can make it work. My apologies if it doesn't.

Somebody painted those backwards--dark where they should be light, and light where they should be dark.

All those and more. Clear plastic is everywhere if you watch for it. Last month I discovered that the bottles from my cheap mouthwash have just the right amount of curve to make LOVELY side glass for a number of models.

Since the thread title is YOUR old builds, that's what I'll discuss here. (I LOVE restoring and rebuilding others' builds, though.) YES! I've "freshened up" quite a few of my old builds, including a '68 GTO, two '69 Chevelles, a '69 Maverick, a '68 Javelin, a '66 Skylark, a '56 Chevy street freak, a '69 Road Runner, a Monkeemobile, a 289 Cobra, a '66 GTO, and probably a few others I can't recall at the moment. And I have at least a half dozen more to do--maybe more than a dozen. These are all old originals I built before 1972. I've also stripped several back to bare plastic for eventual complete rebuilding, including a '66 Riviera, '66 Bonneville convertible, and '69 El Camino.

Well, that looks a little better.

There are a couple in the new-ish Landy book, that's all I have. If you have that, you have what I have. If not, I can scan them for you. They didn't run the car that way long before going to the blue. Why Landy gave up his trademark, "branded" Mercedes Silver for 1967 is a bit of a mystery. Only thing I can figger is Dodge wanted to tie his cars in with their "Good Guys in White Hats" promotion that year (the blue car had a white vinyl top).

Will that sheet also have the markings for the early silver car, or just the blue ones?

Very nice! You are the envy of many here today--I know a lot of guys are looking for these.

For some reason I'm associating these with a weird manifold that hung them off a 6-71 (or perhaps another type of blower), but I can't quite remember which kit that was in....

Another super-clean CJ build! Well done as usual, but why isn't the hood closing?

I wouldn't be surprised to see BotoPhucket say they've "reconsidered" and will now allow the image hosting for the $39.95 a year. If they'd just announced that to start with, there would have been much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but NOW, that sounds cheap (compared to $400), and tens of thousands of people will go for it. I know I would.

Nice clean build. Well done!

You have to get used to the idea of the engines protruding farther forward than the fuselage. Once you accept that idea, it's a thing of beauty! (Still not as pretty as a -3 Tigercat, though.)

Yup, planning to trim off a bunch of that overhang back there, too, back to stock-ish '66 GTO proportions.

Funny you should say that. I'm thinking of building a custom Monkeemobile, and one thing I want to do is chop that ridiculously long front overhang back to more like the length of a '65 Riv. (And I vote NO to a continental kit on your Villa. I don't think that anachronism would add a thing to the clean lines of this car. ).

If the bubbles are the issue, I'd be interested in one without them. I'm not a big fan of bubbles in the first place, and I've got several C2 custom windshields that might look better anyway. It would look cool in my collection of C2 Vettes..

At a flea market, scored a Trumpeter 1/48 NIB kit of the DeHaviland Hornet, a really badass looking post-WWII airplane (google it if you don't know what it is). Got if for under $20, a real bargain!

What he said. If you wanted the filler to be permanent, you should have used an epoxy product. Although you could TRY coating the putty with superglue. I always do this anyway, as it seems to harden and stabilize the putty (and I do a final sanding on it, of course). I can't promise superglued putty would stand up to stripper, but it might be worth a try.