Snake45

Nice start!

Come to think of it, I HAVE a 1/12 Mustang. A '67 Fastback. My grandfather gave it to me back in the day--I think he paid $5 or something for it at the Ford dealer. The go dear today.

They also scramble police radar, so you can never get a speeding ticket if you have them. (They CAN, however, arrest you for DWT--Driving While Tacky.) You just read it on The Internet, so it must be true!

Next time somebody gigs me for no rearview mirrors on one of my models, I have my answer ready: "Some dooch-nozzle stole it and bolted it on a POS tackymobile Rolls!" :lol:

I once built one in black with gold trim and gold "snowflake" wheels and a gold hood decal from a GMC Diablo and it was amazing how similar it looked to a '77-'78 Trans Am. Got a lot of laughs and dropped jaws with that model. I don't have any pictures of it loaded up, though. IMHO, the rest of Detroit didn't catch up with the '53 Stude until 1963, with the Sting Ray and Riviera.

My daughter would have all four of those mirrors set up so she could see...herself. Besides curb feelers, it needs 22-inch "rims" and rubber-band tires. Preferably with spinny wheels that keep going even when the car is stopped.

For jobs such as this, I've often used carpenter's glue. It's like Elmer's but it's yellow, it sticks better, dries harder, and is sandable. It goes right into small areas and excess wipes away with a wet finger. It might work for some of the kind of jobs you're talking about.

"For The Man Who Wants His Insurance Agent to Stop Talking to Him." :lol:

I just looked at them vice a showroom brochure and a good Camaro reference book. The upholstery pattern is actually pretty accurate for the '67 Custom interior. The seat parts are also good--bolsters might be a tad high but they could be sanded down. But there's a shape problem with the outline of the back part. Nothing that couldn't be fixed by filling the seat back with J-B Weld or something of the kind, and then filing it back to the correct shape. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've got one of these on the bench and I'd have happily used the kit parts as-is if I hadn't looked at them. Now, I HAVE to fix them.

Good heavens, I'd think either filing the kit parts back to single leaves, or scratchbuilding monoleaves out of sheet styrene, would be a grand total of 15 or 20 minutes' work.

I'm hoping to do that conversion myself sometime. Did you post any in-progress pictures of it here? I'm particularly interested in how to handle the taillights.

I now have a brand new standard and mental image for the word "tacky." In fact, I know tacky people who would call that thing "tacky."

Gave the basic chassis a squirt of paint yesterday—Model Master Olive Drab. While that dried, I tore the engine apart, scraped hideous amounts of ancient tube glue off it, filed away mold marks and more glue, superglued it all back together, and squirted it black. While all that was drying, I went exploring in the Snakepit and managed to discover the original kit's other two Cragar wheels, and its big sand tires. Amazing! Looks better now in OD than it did in its original black and gold, dontcha think? Those sand tires look almost comically large, like a farm tractor or something. Maybe they'll look better after they're properly painted. We'll see.

Paint on—two coats of Model Master Nassau Blue. I bought this paint for another project and then didn't like the color for that after I tested it. But it does seem reasonably close to '65 Chevy Nassau blue for this project. It'll do. I think I might like the Cragars on the rear better than the open wheels. Opinions solicited on this point—black open wheels or Cragars?

If you just can't wait for the Custom interior, the AMT kit has it now.

Get the Modelhaus RS grille for the original annual AMT '67, modify the body slightly to take it, and drive on. That's what I'm gonna do. I have my doubts that Revell's RS grille will be any better shaped than the current one. But the old AMT '67 SS/RS grille looks the part.

That's why they taxi in S-turns. To someone who doesn't understand what's going on, they look like drunks. Also, they landed them on the carriers while in a continuous left turn until just before touchdown, so they could see where they were going. Before they figgered out that little trick (actually, the British figgered it out), the Corsairs weren't cleared for carrier operations, which is why the Marines--who usually in those days only got second-line and hand-me-down equipment--got them first, as they were flying them off land (island) bases, not carriers.

Silver Sharpie is now how I routinely do my window trim, and has been my go-to method for several years now. I think I've used up four of five of them. They're also great for wheel-opening trim, too. I dress up cheap diecasts with them as well, and even use them to re-do crummy window trim on my old, old builds. Screw anything up? The silver Sharpie comes right off with rubbing alcohol, no problem. If they quit making silver Sharpies, I'd have to consider giving up car modeling and go back to "just" airplanes, that's how much I love them.

I haven't seen the latest issue but one I bought at Walmart a couple years ago seems to be in good shape...I don't recall excessive flash or any problems with the molds. As to your chop job, I'd think that between the two roofs provided, you could achieve any level of chop you want. A little cut 'n' paste here, a little skill there...you're golden!

That's more easily fixed (in a couple different ways) than the grille, which IMHO is completely unusable and unfixable..at least not without extensive rebuilding.

And when you reinstall it, cut off the front strip, just use the bottom and rear strip. The frame itself is the front edge of the vent wing.

That is ALWAYS good advice. Thanks for the reminder.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I've never tried decanting and airbrushing it. Might go on thinner that way, especially if I cut it with lac thinner as is my custom. The engine I posted above was shot from the can. I've mainly used the canned stuff for convenience, but now that I have no local source for Testor MM CER anymore, I need a source of airbrushable paint for my "A List" builds. Thanks for the idea!

Well as my Dad used to say, "You learn something new every day if you're not careful." I've been wanting to do a "phantom" '69 Stinger, based on the idea that when DY heard the Corvair would be discontinued at the end of the model year, he did a limited run of 50 more. Gonna use the kit spoiler trunk lid, and Yenko Camaro decals. Prolly gonna be Lemans Blue with white stripes.