Snake45

WOW, you did a FANTASTIC resto job on this one! One of my favorite kits of all time, I've scraped up enough parts to make maybe two or three of them, though maybe not completely stock. Looks like you correctly did the side trim as a double white pinstripe, not as a strip of chrome as so many erroneously do. Am I right?

I just took a sneak peak--you got it for LESS than a Modelhaus repro kit just sold for on the Bay! Ya done good! I'm waiting patiently for my Modelhaus kit to arrive, and trying to decide what color to paint it when I build it....

Very cool, just the kind of information I'm looking for. I'll go check 'em out!

I looked at a lot of that stuff and didn't see anything small and fine enough. But that's been a year or two ago, maybe they have some new stuff in.

Several of the AMT '69 annuals came with lace panels. Pretty sure the Riviera did, I think perhaps the Mustang too. I'm looking for whole sheets of the lace I can cut up and use generically. As I said, Lucas had these on their website for a brief period (in a number of colors), but they seem to have gone bye-bye.

Very cool! One of the best Badmans I've seen. You did it a favor leaving off the front spoiler. Judging from your recent builds, it looks like you, like me, are in a "simpler, more fun" stage of your modeling career at the moment. And that's a GOOD thing!

Well, here's a lace paint job on the Harrell Camaro, for example: https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2012/05/22/very-first-zl1-camaro-sells-for-400000/

Is anyone offering lace decals for '60s-type paint jobs? I know Lucas did for a while but they seem to be out of business. I've looked in craft and fabric stores and online for real lace for airbrushing (including dollhouse curtains), but I have yet to find anything nearly small enough. It's all WAY too big for scale.

4-doors are of no interest to me. There are quite a few cars, though, that I'd like a 2-door post sedan of, starting with the '62-'65 Chevy II.

I think there's a whole thread on paint stripping down in either the Questions or the Tips forum. I usually use Easy-Off oven cleaner, but sometimes rubbing alcohol works, such as on old AMT lacquers.

Yup! Here are four original 1966 Monkeemobile seats, molded in RED, from a quickie resto I'm doing. I originally hand-brushed them with Testor white back in the day, and I didn't strip them, but I DID file off all the molding marks, leaving bright red corners exposed on each one. This is two just-barely-wet-coats of Walmart Flat White, then Krylon Matte clear. You see any red "bleeding" through on the corners? Me neither. Great stuff.

Half the time I end up cutting or filing alignment pins off anyway, because they're not in the right place to start with.

Very nice, very clean, one of the best builds of this kit I've ever seen! Model on!

It makes absolute perfect sense to many of us.

Shouldn't be a problem. I'd prime it in white. Been having real good luck lately with the cheap Walmart Flat White primer. Cheap, thin, covers well.

Well THAT's different!

Very nice! Ron, you know I love your "resurrection" work. Drive on!

Very nice! You're off to a great start this year!

T.H.E. Cat '67 Vette. Was once available as an AMT kit but that's long extinct and way collectible. But it shouldn't be too hard to kitbash with modern available stuff. In fact, there was an article on how to build it in one of the old-school model car rags before the kit came out.

Mainly Elmer's, but I've also done "all of the above" at various times.

Different and therefore interesting. Nicely done!

Just walk into any drugstore, Walmart, dollar store, etc., and try to NOT see a mountain of the stuff!

For an alleged crapbox, that's a pretty cool looking little car. If I happen to run across one, I'll bet I could do something with it....

Some progress. I disassembled the interior, masked off the brown carpet, and shot the upholstery (right over the original hand-brushed Testor White) with two barely wet coats of Walmart Flat White Primer, followed by a wet coat of Krylon Clear Matte. After removing the masking, I touched up the edges with Model Master Leather, the closest brown I have on hand. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Monkeemobile/MonkeemobileA32_zpsylaonpgy.jpg.html][/URL] I decided to keep the original hand-brushed top as a relic, and assembled and painted the reissue's top with the Walmart Flat White primer. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Monkeemobile/MonkeemobileA23_zpsfteshgzh.jpg.html][/URL] I didn't strip the orignal brushed Testor white off the seats. I did file the molding seams off the edges and corners, then they too got two slightly-wet coats of Walmart White Primer. Then I did the chrome trim with Silver Sharpie. Notice that though these seats are molded in red, quite a bit of which was showing on the corners after I filed off the mold lines, there is no “bleed-through” or “color leeching” of the red visible through the great Walmart Flat White. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Monkeemobile/MonkeemobileA34_zpspnunvwev.jpg.html][/URL] The body has now been cleaned and is ready for further improvement. I made some chassis adjustment for fit and sit. Setting the whole mess together just for a preview of coming attractions, here's where I am at the moment. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Monkeemobile/MonkeemobileA27_zpsx7mphwwp.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Monkeemobile/MonkeemobileA30_zpsjta0ocia.jpg.html][/URL] More to come, soon, I hope....

Over the next few days, keep your eyes open for that cool ruby-red cellophane (or maybe some other kind of plastic) that many boxes of Valentine's Day candy comes wrapped in. You can use it to make great custom taillights--any shape you want, as long as it's flat. One good piece of the stuff can last you for years!