Snake45

Looks like a shock absorber, but that's so easy it might be wrong....

Your decals are going to "silver" if you put them on over that paint.

AFAIC, white is white, except for Ford Wimbledon White, which is noticeably off-white. Use whatever white paint airbrushes and finishes well for you. As for the red and blue (interior and engine), look at lots of pics on the net (Google-image) and then pick the closest craft acrylic paint you can find.

Agreed. I like the stance, and your finish is fine, even the foil work. Well done and model on!

Your Cobra projects aren't restorations, they are complete rebuilds. You're completely free to do anything you want to them.

Saw a Porsche Boxster S. I think it might have been my first one. Only know what it was because I have the cheap diecast of it.

Same here. Mine might be even older. It's filthy, but the only weakening I've noticed is, it seems to take about three times as long to strip paint when it's cold. (I keep the tub in the garage.) I'll save you some misery, as I once tried to mask a painted area I wanted to save with aluminum foil and sprayed the rest of the model with Easy-Off: DON'T mix lye and aluminum unless you just love the smell of rotten eggs!

Yes. Actually, the Czech-built variant. (The art is based on a photo taken at a Czech museum.)

Funniest 3rd Rock from the Sun line ever, from John Lithgow: "The same thing happened to ME!!!!" My nomination for all-time best TV meta/in-joke.

Yes, but IIRC Palmer's got five of the vents, and the real car only had four.

Yes. I'm thinking that's what the new kit will be.

According to Mark, the super-deep Americans originally on the rear were from the AMT '69 Daytona. They're now destined to be used on a '66 Nova pro street. The slight mismatch between the wheels on this one doesn't bother me, all things considered. Thanks for the kind words!

Very sharp, very cool! That was a VERY popular color combo back in the day--saw many gold cars with BVT. Well done and model on!

Yes. I consider my glue bomb rescues and rebuilds as "plastic recycling." I should be getting a tax break for it.

There's something similar in Ronin. And a Civil War diorama figured prominently in several episode of the Netflix series House of Cards.

Yes, especially in the tailgate and backlight areas.

Just since it got so much attention/comments/suggestions earlier in this thread, here's the '64 Dodge after Snake-Fu. More here:

Bought this very cleanly built JoHan '64 Dodge at this month's local toy show for $25 from a fellow modeler. Much too nice to call it a “glue bomb”--it was actually nicer than most of my rescues after I've rescued them—but I thought it could still stand a little minor Snake-Fu. The chrome spokes of the wheels had to be painted, of course. The comically jacked rear end could have been left alone as a period-correct '70s street bomber, but I decided to see if I could get it down to a more timeless (and sensible) stance. The rear tires/wheels were much too wide to fit into the fenderwells, so I replaced them with wheels and tires I took off a recently rescued glue bomb Cobra. Wheel spokes were painted with Folk Art acrylic Brushed Dark Gray Metallic from Walmart. The rear tires got the lettering detailed with Folk Art acrylic flat white and the point of a toothpick, one of my best tire-lettering attempts ever. Sanded all the tire treads, of course. Wasn't much to do elsewhere. I painted the backup lights with acrylic Pearl White, touched up the grille a little, then went around and cleaned up a few slight overages of the foil with a new Xacto blade (it wasn't bad, but now it's just better). And that was pretty much it. Only had about 4-6 hours total in the whole thing, including finding the new wheels & tires. I didn't even have to take it apart. Back on the shelf! Thanks for looking and, as always, comments welcome.

Very sharp, very clean! Well done and model on!

Plus which you're expected to spend at least as much as the kit cost on aftermarket resin, photoetch, white metal, "canopy masks," and so forth. Apparently no model airplane or tank ever released is fit to build using the actual kit parts.

It's a shame you didn't post before starting. I'd have gladly swapped you a white body/hood/etc for that lovely metallic blue one. (I'd like to polish that plastic out and see how it looks.)

It would work better using the 2DS body, then you won't have to correct the doors and quarters.

Since spaceships and trains have crept in....

There's what looks like a 1/18 scale E-Jag in the office on Chicago PD.

Would seem like a natural for the nice Revell kit, if they'd want to do it.