Snake45

Which did more to kill the Corvair--Nader, or the Ford Mustang, which dominated the same market (sporty compact) without further competition for a good two years? Discuss.

The paint job died today. Was polishing out the clear and went through in three different places. The first two, I figured I'd just touch up but third time was the deal-breaker. Fortunately this paint won't be that hard to get off--it should come right off in rubbing alcohol. I'll never use that clearcoat again (Krylon Crystal Clear). Next time around I'll clearcoat it with Testor One-Coat Wet Look, which goes on pretty thick, or my old standby, Model Master Clear Top Coat Enamel, airbrushed. That Krylon clear is nice and clear and dries fast but also dries VERY thin. I had at least eight coats on this thing but it wasn't enough. Sigh. Well, I got the interior finished, anyway. The paint job re-do will just set the project back a week or so. At least I didn't have any extensive puttywork that I might lose in the strip. The primer underneath should stand up to the alcohol (it has before) and even if the putty gets wiped out, it's only in a couple simple places.

Looks good so far! Those early door-slammer AWB funny cars, most of them didn't have fancy aluminum panel interiors; the guts were stripped factory stuff painted black or sometimes with that "spatter" paint. Also, I believe blue plug wires were about a decade away.

Number on the bottle is 1193-RM11931-0711, Gloss Teal. Doesn't say it's metallic but it sure is.

MPC and Airfix marketed many of each others' kits during the late '60s and '70s. AMT had a similar arrangement with Hasegawa and Frog.

I have a can of that I'm planning to use as an interior green on a '60s Chevy.

One of the first two AMT kits I ever bought was the '66 Corvair Corsa (the other was the '66 Riviera--I honestly don't remember which came first). It's long gone but I still have the instruction sheet and possibly a few random parts. I bought a Yenko Stinger reissue in the '70s, and I think I've bought at least one of every reissue since. I think I have about five of them now. I really must get around to building some of them one of these days.

I have four or five airbrushes, and the cheap little Badger 350 is the one I use for more than 95% of my model work, especially on model cars. If yours is worn out, and it's worked well for you, why not just get another? That's what I'm going to do. Unless you're going to get into all sorts of fancy effects, you don't need anything more complicated or expensive for model car work. And 350 parts are cheap and easily available.

Scratchbuilt bigass disk brakes installed, paint and clearcoat on, still needs to be polished out.

Okay, got the brakes all finished, painted, and installed. Do I have the placement about right?

Ain't "gassy" at all. Looks like it would be a legal /Stock entry, or Modified Production at worst. Nice model, too!

I use the Testor decal stuff (the world's most expensive white vinegar) as a wetting agent under the decals. Most of the time, that's all that's needed, they suck down real good. Be sure to wash all of it off after the decals are dry, because the stuff turns brown over time, and you don't want to clearcoat over it and have it do that. Don't ask me how I know this.

Ron, if you want to go Tahoe Turquoise, I just found out that Testor has a Teal paint in the "little bottle" line (available at Hobby Lobby) that's a near-perfect match. It's not billed as a metallic, but it is. I'm planning to do several '65-'67 GM cars with the stuff, including a '66 Bonneville convertible resto I've been putting off for some time.

If they came out with that again, I'd prolly buy one, but truth to tell we don't need it. There are aftermarket true FC Nova bodies available, as well as the Revell '69 Nova. It's not difficult to get a '69-'72 Nova funny together for anyone who wants one.

I had the '66, '67, and '68 as a kid. The '67 got lost somewhere along the way. I should still have the '66 but I haven't seen it in a while and I've been looking for it. I DO still have the '68. It's pretty dirty and the paint is in bad shape. If there weren't the nice Revell kit available, I'd strip and rebuild it, but I'd rather just leave it as a relic of my childhood as-is. I should clean it up, though.

Heart's "Alone" is one of my alltime favorite songs. It had just about receded into the bowels of obscurity when Carrie Underwood blew the roof off the dump with it in the fourth season of American Idol, prompting Simon Cowell to predict on the spot that not only would she win that year, but she would go on to sell more records than anyone else in Idol history. He was right on both counts and remains so to this day. Since then, "Alone" has become a staple on the various singing contest shows, with someone performing it pretty much every year. I've heard it done many ways, including as Italian opera by a male contestant, and I can't say I've heard a really bad version yet, but none have come close to Carrie's--which was almost as good as the original, which is still and always will be the greatest.

There are no colors that "bleed" through white, there's only white paint (or the primer under it) that's insufficiently opaque.

I bought a Best of Heart 2-CD set and was AMAZED at the amount of good music they did. They were the absolute masters of the Power Ballad--nobody does them better and nobody has done more GREAT ones. That's right I said it: NOBODY.

Very, VERY nice! Surely one of the top four or five Altereds of all time!

Ron, Model Master Olds Engine Blue does a very credible impression of '67 Marina Blue. I did a Chevelle in it and I'll be doing more '67 Chevies in the same stuff.

Yup, that's shinny.

At first I thought it was based on a Citroen 15 CV.

He's also credited with being a co-writer of Kid Rock's All Summer Long. (As was everyone who had anything to do with Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London--nine writing credits altogether. I guess those guys could take their annual royalty check on that one and buy a package of gum with it.)

The story I've heard for years in Model Airplane World is that Monogram bought Aurora's tooling but much of it was lost in some kind of railroad wreck. Back in the '70s/'80s, they reissued a few of the Aurora kits. They did some upgrading and improving on the airplanes, I believe. Here's a list (by no means complete) of the Aurora-based Monogram (or Revell) models: Airplanes (1/48) Sopwith Camel Fokker D.7 SE.5A Vought A-7 Corsair II GD F-111 Cars 1/32 '65 Barracuda '65 Mustang 2+2 (at least once with Shelby decals) '65 GTO Cars 1/24 Aston-Martin DB4 Jaguar? Maserati 3500 Ferrari 250 GTO? Ford GT40 There might have been more. Somebody reissued the Carl Casper Undertaker AA/C dragster, but I'm not sure if that was Revellogram. (I keep trying to come up with SOMETHING to do with that kit. Don't like the Undertaker but the chassis etc is pretty cool.)

Wheels is an awesome song. And I don't use that word often.