Snake45

Congratulations!

Sweet! Is that paint Lime Gold Metalflake? I painted several models in that back in the day.

Very very nice! Well worthy of a Survivor Resto. Clean it up, touch it up, fix it up a little, put it back on the shelf for another 50 years!

Very nice! First one I've seen built.

Lots of great models were built from this kit back in the day, including IIRC at least two (one drag, one street) by the legendary Don Emmons.

Not what I was expecting when I clicked on this thread. Pleasantly surprised! Good concept, great execution, clean (ironically) build, what's not to like? Well done and model on!

What? Have you never heard the truism that "You can't polish a turd!"?

The body is too fat, specifically between the fender "speed lines" and the tops of the fenders. And the grille isn't shaped right, either. On every example of this kit I've seen, the roof is too flat, too, but that can be helped a little by bending it up a little. (The Monogram '66 Chevelle and '65 Corvette have the flat roof problem, too, maybe others.)

Same here. But this one looks like a great candidate for a "survivor resto"--clean it up, touch it up, fix it up a little but basically leave it as built--or as you WOULD have built it if you'd had the skills you have today. I've done several of those recently and they are a LOAD of fun.

I would change your "sometimes" in that sentence to "usually." In my experience, wet-sanding or polishing bare/raw metallics or metalflakes will "splotch" them far more often or not. I HAVE pulled it off successfully with a few paints, but I usually count on having to clear-coat metallics.

Very, very nice! Very clean and real looking! Well done and model on!

That looks great! I've seen many "Camino-versions" but most of them just don't get it. Yours is one of a very, very few I've ever seen that works. Nicely done and keep us posted on this!

I don't know exactly what you're asking. Maybe it would help if you tell us what you're tying to paint and/or the exact effect you're trying to achieve.

Now that you mention it, I don't believe I ever have, either. Shame about the 90s issue of the '57 Ford. That's the one I have, and I don't think those wheels are in it. I have a set of very similar (possibly identical) deep opens I almost used on my '65 Chevelle dragwagon. They're molded in light blue. I don't remember what kit I took them from, but I do remember the only kit in light blue that I've actually built was the AMT '72 Chevelle, '80s release. Did open wheels come in that?

You're about to talk me into buying a second one, even though I literally haven't even opened the first one. I was at Hobby Lobby yesterday with my coupon and couldn't find a kit to buy that I didn't already have, so I came home empty handed. Good thing you only posted this now. (If I'm in the same boat next week, I might have to own another set of those injector stacks....)

Okay, 'stang, as promised, here's a few pics. Tried to clean these old crocks up a little for the pics, but I warn you, they're filthy. The one on the left I built in the mid '70s. didn't like how it turned and in fact never really finished it. Then I did a second one (right) which came out a little better. I don't remember exactly what I did to the front end but I know it involved narrowing the front pan a little and "tucking in" the end pieces a bit. Here's the rest of what the all-gray one looks like. That body could really use a section job above the accent line. But with the "new" Revell kit available and cheap, why bother? And then here's one I built in the mid or late '80s, inspired by a real Pro Street that was in the car rags of the day. I made the same mod to the front end of it.

Well, I was kinda telling you what not to buy. Yesterday my Walmart had SOME Krylon paints back (not the whole line, though) and I got a can of Cover MAXX Matte Black. It might be the same thing as their old Satin Black with a new label, or it might be something new. I'll try to test it soon and let you know.

I think GBO built one of these as a Yenko a couple decades ago, and he used the right half of two grilles to get one with no emblem. Since you've now got a spare, you could do the same thing.

I have the Che Riviera and it's molded in white.

Last year I got a tax bill from my state for two cents. The letter threatened all sorts of dire and horrible things they would do to me if I didn't pay by such and such date. Funny thing was I had actually overpaid and they owed ME the two cents. They obviously paid more than two cents in postage to send me the letter, plus several dollars of somebody's time on the phone with me to straighten the whole mess out. And you wonder why every government in America is billions of dollars in the red!

They look familiar, but the color is a clue that they might well be JoHans of some kind.

I don't have any '78s, but I do have the beautiful Ghosts calendars (WWII airplanes) going back to the early '90s. Maybe even late '80s.

That's interesting. I was a moderately big S&H fan back in the day, and I don't remember a single one of their "catchphrases" ever catching on with anyone, ever, here in the states. Closest I can think of is, if someone's wearing some outlandishly flamboyant get-up, you call them "Huggy Bear," which can still get a laugh to this day. ("Hutch" carried a 6" Colt Python .357, which is now an iconic gun on the current #1 show on TV, The Walking Dead. Some things never go out of style.)

Bought this slightly “distressed” Franklin Mint ’68 427 Vette at the local toy show last year for $25—no box or papers, and a few chips in the paint, but hey, I’m a modeler, not a collector, so no problem, right? Touched up the paint chips (though the closest blue I had on hand is a little dark, so I’ll have to redo that if/when I can find a better match), painted the chrome Rally Wheels argent (Testor aluminum) with black wash in the center “splines,” and touched up the grille. Also highlighted the side marker, parking, and backup lights, and painted the chrome rocker trim Black Chrome Trim. But the biggest visual change came from painting the whitewall inserts (separate pieces which popped right out) satin black—suddenly the thing didn’t look like a toy anymore. This one goes in my book as $25 and a couple of hours well spent. [/URL]

Wow! Roscoe got hold of a rare, birchwood-stocked AR-15!