Snake45

Welcome aboard, Mike! Good to have you here!

The tops of the front fenders and the front "header" panel are bloated and fat looking. This has been discussed here many times. The coupe's okay, as are the two '63 snappers. It's just the '67 roadster.

Since it's supposed to be a jet engine, I assumed the headers were representing fuel lines or air ducting or some other jetty mumbo-jumbo.

With the SS396 hood, kitbashing an SS350 would be no problem at all.

What's that cowling, 1/48 B-25?

Great color and shine! Drive on!

Saw the new movie Reminiscence today on HBOMax, starring Huge Akman. VERY good old-school noir, even though it's near-future sci-fi. It put me in mind of such films as Chinatown and Blade Runner. If you don't have HBOMax, it's in theaters today and if you're going to go out and pay to see a movie, this is a good one! Recommended. Yesterday I re-watched Inception. Very confusing movie; this time I understood a little more than I did the first time, but there's no denying that it's all first-rate cinematography, stunts, and CGI. A real thrill ride.

VERY clean! Probably the nicest build I've ever seen of this kit. Well done and model on!

That looks like a fabulous "survivor resto" project. Clean it up as is, maybe do the chrome window trim. Or if you want to blend the custom parts in a little better, you could do that and then easily re-shoot it in the satin black. Great find, congratulations!

Here's what I'm thinking at the moment. One of my very first model cars was the AMT '66 Riviera. I thought the white plastic looked nice, so I just brush-painted the interior blue and the chassis black and put it together like that and put it on my dresser for a while. A year or so later I had some experience with spray painting, so I painted it Candy Tangerine to match a pic I saw of George Barris's daily driver, with a (hand-painted) white top and white interior. The Tangerine came out beautiful on one side but kind of splotchy on the other, and of course the hand-brushed white never looked good. In the late '80s or early '90s I decided to strip the paint and restore the pristine white plastic. Sadly, the strip job went very badly and while I got all the paint off, the surface was slightly crazed with remnants of the paint slightly fused into it. I wish I'd left it alone. I still have all the parts, and will probably end up restoring it in the Tangerine, if I can ever find some (Tamiya transparent orange, perhaps?). Last year I scored on eBay, for a reasonable price, a mint unbuilt AMT '66 annual Riviera kit. I'm planning to polish the body white plastic and paint the interior blue, but of course much better this time and replicate that model from my summer of 1966. Sounds like this project would fit right in here. Thanks for the incentive to GITTER DONE!

Not only that, but the coupe's body is accurate and the roadster's isn't. If I ever build another Revell '67 roadster, I'll convert a coupe body (or maybe just start with the snapper).

IIRC, Glenn Beck was a big fan of them, and played a couple of their songs on his radio show a good bit. But they didn't like him and hated that he was playing them for some reason.

Also, from the pics I've seen, a lot of old street rods, or unfinished rod projects, or random junk chassis pulled out of the weeds in the back yard. As I said, an amazing variety!

Here's the box and instructions for Sand Hog, the stripped down Surf Woody: https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/1-sort/amt-sand-hog/ Still looking for the Sand T box on my puter....

I had DOZENS of ROCO minitanks when I was a kid. The cheapest of them were only a quarter and even the biggest, most complex weren't much over $1. They're all gone now, but I've managed to pick up a few, maybe a dozen or so, in the last 20 years. Some of them are still made but are kind of expensive. (Do you remember the old M47 and M48 Patton tanks with the wire barrels?) Like you, I model to feel like a kid again. I think that's why I'm so drawn to my beloved "glue bomb rescues." I don't expect perfection from these, just a few hours of cheap, fast-moving fun. They're a great preventive or cure for the onset of AMS.

I've got a bunch of late '60s issues of Rod & Custom mag, which gave a certain amount of coverage to sand drags and other sandy fun motorsports. There was a WILD variety of machines built and used for these games. Just about anything AMT could have or did cobble together wouldn't have looked out of place in these venues. I'm looking forward to building a few of these beasts!

Pulled the body out of Lake Purple. It took off all the trim paint and decals, and the flat black from the hood--silver chrome and flat black don't always come off but they did this time. The body looks almost pristine except for a couple glue boogers, which should sand off. Next step will be to scribe out the door and trunk lines, and then on to polishing it up. Beginning to have hope that this might come out pretty nice.

Thanks for the great pix, Rodney! Much appreciated! This series also included a version of the Barris Surf Woody, and a stripped-down version of the '25 T with giant sand tires but much of the street equipment like headlights gone. I have the Sand T and restored it a few years ago. Still have the box, too--I thought I had a pic of it on the 'puter but I can't find it right now.

I don't have that many Heller kits, just a few. I built their first-gen 1/72 P-51D and P-47N, both of which were basically garbage. Their second-gen 1/72 P-39 and Spit XVI (as seen above) were darn nice little kits. I have their 1/48 F-84F and RF-84F, which seem pretty nice, and their 1/50 Cessna O-2, which is a bit of a mess. (Haven't actually built any of those yet.) I did build their 1/48 F4U-4 Corsair, which was basically a Hasagawa F4U-4 simplified to snapper specs, and their AU-1 and -7 Corsairs, which were okay, not great, but fun to build and look good on my shelf.

Here's my "Then and Now" '69 Chevelles. I built the one with black top in 1969, the other one around 2014. And I bought this AMT '66 Mustang FB off eBay last year because it looked AMAZINGLY like the one I built in 1966, right down to the hand-brushed Pactra Leaf Grean paint. Cleaned it up and performed some Snake-Fu on it, but mainly left it alone. I still have my old original, but I repainted it many years ago (around 1969, I think).

Took me a minute there to figger out what I was looking at VERY hella way cool!

That's basically the old MPC Switchers kit (which has its good points) with good wheels removed and goofy wheels added. I have one and wish I'd bought a couple more when they were cheap.

Very, VERY cool! You've just reminded me I have a couple of these I need to get to work on. Well done and model on!

I like this idea too, and in fact have done it at least twice. If you get enough interest for a group build, I'm in--I'll come up with another project idea.

I think they only cancelled PT due to heat once, maybe twice in June and July! Was that called a Black Flag or a Red Flag? Some kind of flag was involved, I think. I believe we had to wear our field jackets once or twice in my last week there (first week of October), and it seemed like it was cooling off. Hard to believe it got that hot again after that!