Snake45

I love the color! What's the paint?

It receives ZERO air time, as it's on cable.

Just discovered this thread due to today's bump. This vid is the coolest thing I've seen all week! Dunno if anyone's posted this but here's my contribution: Meat Loaf covering the great Warren Zevon's Lawyers Guns & Money. The redheaded (or strawberry blonde, hard to tell from the lighting) backup singer is Meat's daughter, Pearl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_k44Lqs60

Your first pic is the second car, with what I'd call the "medium" wing. Your second pic is the first car, with the BIG wing. That's the car & wing that build the M&B reputation and legend. This is a fairly late pic of it, when it was carrying the Winged Express lettering on the "doors" instead of the M&B names.

Interesting! I don't trust box art, as I know that MPC retouched some of this. But your second pic proves that such a wing did exist. I'll still scratch the smaller wing, just to be different.

I believe Grumpy's Toy V was a '68. It also wasn't a full SS. It was originally a factory test mule.

One problem I have with the MPC kit is that the wing just doesn't look right at all to me. I dunno if M&B ever ran a wing like the one in the kit, but every pic I've ever seen of the second car has a wing like this. Maybe it's just me but I see a LOT of difference in the two shapes. I'll be scratchbuilding a wing when I get around to building mine.

Fabulous! I wish all my junk would turn out at least 80% this good. (Fat chance.)

All the stuff I didn't get finished this fall. Lemme see what's on the short list: 1/48 P-51H 1/48 F4U-4 Corsair 1/48 F6F-5 Hellcat MPC '69 Camaro Revell '70 Chevelle SS Snapper Revell '66 Chevelle wagon Monogram '29 A pickup Monogram '34 Ford AMT Parts Pack T Altered MPC '32 Ford Altered But you know me--something shinier could grab my attention at any moment and jump to the top of my list. ADD is a terrible, debilitating disease.

All the shows about Alaska and/or gold hunting blur together for me now (I think the VeryDisco Channel should just change its name to the Gold & Alaska Channel). But for some reason I'm finding Airplane Repo to be fascinating.

You gotta love a 1G Firebird in Verdoro Green! What he said. Pontiac Rally II wheels are a very dark gray overall, with flat silver (argent) spokes and chrome center caps and trim rings. Google-image and you can see what they should look like. Doing this would REALLY bring your model to life!

Yeah, just take all the Future off the glass with ammonia or rubbing alcohol, and re-apply it if necessary. Frankly, I can't think of any reason to use Future on model car glass. Airplane canopies, sometimes, yes, but it's easier to just polish up model car glass, inside and out. I did one just this afternoon, removing some almost 50-year old scratches.

If it's for first-gen Vettes in general, I'm in. Been wanting to do another old MPC '57, and could be talked into bashing up a '61. But not if it's just '60. The '58-'60 Vettes have never interested me for some reason. Speaking of community builds, think there would be any interest in a '63-'67 Vette group build? How about if it were nonstock only (customs and racers)? That could be interesting....

Wow, I'd never seen a comparison between kit and real like that before. You're right, those kit coves are whack. Just for giggles, here's an interesting comparison. Top to bottom: AMT/MPC '57 flipfront gasser bodied I glued solid and then spent a lot of time mating up; OOB '57 flipfront body; original MPC one-piece '57 body; AMT '57 body.

If you know Steinman/Loaf songs, you could almost guess that was a Steinman song just from the title. Steinman doesn't do short song titles.

Pure ammonia removes Future completely and immediately. It also damages or removes kit chrome and some kinds of acrylic paints. Rubbing alcohol will also remove Future immediately and completely. It doesn't damage kit chrome, but can damage or remove some acrylic paints, and can damage or destroy some decals.

I see the logic of that. And I've often done things that way myself, though I've never really rationalized it the way you did. One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is, I like to gang-build/paint when possible. For example, if I'm building a Chevy, when it comes time to paint the engine, I see if I'm planning any other Chevy projects in the foreseeable future so I can build and paint those engines at the same time, long as I have the airbrush fired up.

And I believe it was written by Jim Steinman. He's the guy who wrote almost all the Meat Loaf songs.

Polka dot shorts?

I did it that way too, when I was his age. Still do sometimes, such as if I'm doing a one-piece chassis and/or a curbside build. Not every build I do these days gets a full ration of my awesome styrene skillz.

Just for giggles, and since I happen to have the pic on p-bucket already, here's an unbuilt kit I bought off eBay (fairly spendy) five or six years ago. Many of the parts were off the trees so I set it together just for fun. The optional humped hood was painted, and that optional oddball intake setup for the engine was missing, but otherwise it's a nice complete unbuilt kit. Shortly after buying this, I found a nice resin repro on eBay and bought that too. I'll build the resin repro and leave the original in its box for history. I just happen to have an original chassis and engine left over from "back in the day" and my plan is to build the repop up box-stock, but to ALSO build another "street racer" chassis/engine/wheels for it ('67 Chevelle chassis), along with the humped hood, so I can display it either stock or street rat as the mood strikes me. How's that for a plan?

My paint and assembly sequence is on a case-by-case basis and is based on about 55 or more years of experience in building these things, both airplanes and cars. For more of my insights on this issue, see my sig line.

So what's a "truck"? Are El Caminos and Rancheros "trucks"? How about 29 A roadster pickups, 34 Ford pickups, or Fad Ts with short truck beds? These are all street rods to me. Model "truck" to me means semis, firetrucks, commercial haulers, commercial-use or beater pickups, and so forth. Am I wrong? Is this a "truck" or a normal "Under Glass" street cruiser?

That was a great show. So were Tour of Duty and The Unit.

You mean this one? (I scratchbuilt this around 1969 or 1970).