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Someone mentioned Black Summer, possibly in a thread that got deleted for some unknown reason. WOW, what a thrill ride this thing is! I'm up to episode 5 and I'm hooked. Makes The Walking Dead look like a soap opera. (Which, come to think of it, it is, in more ways than one.)

Based on both of you, I watched it too. Pretty entertaining! I can sum it up in five words: Kill Bill meets John Wick. With maybe some Coen bothers thrown in. Snakeworthy!

You're kinda in the right ballpark. It's a '66 Olds F-85/Cutlass.

I have an inexpensive '70 Boss in Grabber Green--Welly maybe--so I know they're around.

Somebody else mentioned this a couple hundred pages ago.

Very nice! Good to see such a rare model in such good hands. Drive on!

Finally saw Talladega Nights. Luckily Netflix gives you the option to watch at 1.5X speed. Still a silly and stupid movie. I only laughed once--at something one of the snotball kids said. OTOH, at the moment I'm about halfway through Horrible Bosses. I don't remember if I saw it before or not, but it's hilarious.

It comes right off with rubbing alcohol.

Hmmmm. He's still go the Bel Air trim on the door, which makes me question the accuracy of the rest of the thing.

Disagree. That kit's a hardtop too, and not even the best one of those available. And it's 1/24 which complicates everything. Good assessment. But when you graft the '56 2DS roof on, you'll also have to take the tops of the doors and the quarters and probably the whole trunk area. The AMT '55 Bel Air 2DS body isn't horrible except for the whole front end, which will be apparent when you leave the bumper off as the 2LB car has. An easier way, especially if you want a flip front end, might be to graft the Revell HT (or convertible) front clip onto the AMT 2DS body. I've considered this very swap and have procured the necessary kit but haven't yet gotten around to seeing if how well the two will actually mate up. The old Revell diecast AG 2DS body is pretty nice. I built one and like it a lot. Haven't seen one for sale for a long time.

Good price! I think I have a blue one of those, and I paid more than $10 for it. Yah, most if not all diecasts are made in China now. At least any you can afford.

Thanks for the kind words! I always wonder if anyone actually bothers to read my deathless prose, and it's good to know that somebody does. Thanks so much and model on!

This seems to be in the ballpark: https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/duplicolor-perfect-match-paint-aerosol-intense-blue-pearl-8-oz.-bcc0422/99984941-P?searchTerm=spray paint

No, not at all. The item is a CO2 powered air rifle. The first one I got wouldn't "fire" with a fresh CO2 cartridge in it but no BBs, and neither would this one. I got the idea "Maybe it HAS to also have the BBs in it to 'fire'," and darned if that didn't turn out to be the case. It works fine as long as there's at least one BB in the magazine! The manual/instructions don't mention this at all, and neither did any review I read of it. Every other CO2 airgun I have will readily "pop" whether it has BBs or pellets in it or not. Only rationale I can think of for this "feature" is that it prevents you from wasting CO2 if the magazine is empty. I'm still not sure how they managed to achieve it.

Update: Got the chance to run a brief test on the new unit today. It actually works, but only if you do something that is NOT mentioned in the instructions that definitely should be. DOH! Since I'm now happy with it (more or less), I suppose I should move this conversation over to "What Pleased You Today?"

One of my favorites is "Just One Look." It was so iconic that it was eventually picked up as the jingle for a major auto manufacturer's campaign. (I don't remember who--was it Mazda?)

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

So true, and yet she made every single one of them sound fresh, new, and up-to-date for a new generation. Probably the closest thing she had to an "original" hit was "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." It was on Warren Zevon's first album (actually his second), but virtually no one had heard of him or heard his music at that point; he wouldn't break out for another two years (with "Werewolves of London," of course). LR actually recorded four of his songs, but the other three never got any airplay/fame/love.

Mine's not clear-coated or polished at all, as I was going for a 5-7 year old factory paint job that hadn't had much love. I think the MM paints do a nice job of this out of the can.

Thanks! Interestingly enough, Oldmopars recently started a "barn find" build of the 1/8 '65 Vette, which kind of spurred me on to get mine done before he did so I wouldn't be accused of copying him.

Very cool, very sharp build! Well done and model on!

Some months ago I bought this Monogram '65 Vette off eBay under embarrassing circumstances I detailed on page 1182 of the “What Did You Get Today” thread. Put it away waiting for inspiration to strike. It did last month at the local toy show when I bought a cheap Monogram '57 Chevy with the rare and very cool American 200-S “Daisy” mags on it. Bought the whole model for $5 just to get the wheels. I have a bunch of “distressed” AMT '63-'67 Vette coupe bodies and have long thought of Snake-slapping one of them into a street goon model wearing gray primer. Lately I've been binge-watching past seasons of Street Outlaws on Discovery and have become fond of the flat black look as seen on Murder Nova, The El Camino, The Crow, and Shane's Vega. So when I tore this glue bomb apart, I had it in mind to either polish up the black plastic if it would take it, or if not, just squirt it with cheap Touch-N-Tone black primer. After stripping and close examination, the body turned out to have some glue damage that would have been too much trouble to fix (for a polish job), so murdered out it would be! Most of my model cars have a “storyline,” and here's this one: There's a guy who wanted a Sting Ray coupe from the day he saw his first one as a kid in 1963, but was never able to afford one. At the absolute low point of C2 values/prices (late '70s—early '80s?), he lucks into a '65 that's been parked on blocks behind a garage for a few years. There's no engine or tranny, wheels or tires, and the paint is weathered and shot to hell, BUT it's in one piece, no animals have been living in it, and the price is right—less than a used but running Pinto. He trailers it home and is just an engine, tranny, wheels, tires, and a case of Sherwin-Williams rattlecan flat black primer away from from having a cool badass street ride! Could life get any sweeter? Back to the model: I carefully removed all the body molding lines, and then corrected the too-flat roof by holding it over a steaming teakettle and pushing up on the underside with my thumbs. Didn't get it quite up to where I wanted it, but made a noticeable improvement. The front turn signals didn't come off cleanly so I drilled 'em out and am calling the holes brake cooling vents. After prying the glass out, had to file/sand/polish a few stray glue marks off. Didn't come out perfect, but more or less okay. The body got one wet coat of the Touch-N-Tone Flat Black Primer, which I then rubbed out with an old flannel shirt for a slight sheen. Disassembled the interior, filed the glue seams in the seats, and then squirted the whole interior with Krylon Saddle Tan covered with Krylon Satin clearcoat. The dashboard got the flat black spray and minimal detailing was done with Silver Sharpie. I'd planned to use the '57 Chev wheels with the Vette's tires, but the wheels were too big to fit into those tires, so had to use the '57's tires too. Unfortunately I didn't have the '57 wheel backs, so had to re-use the Vette's too-small wheel backs, shimming them up to size with about five wraps of masking tape strips. (Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!) I brush-painted the wheel spokes with Folk Art Brushed Pale Silver Matte acrylic paint, one of the better “flat aluminum” paints I've found in a couple decades of searching. I'll be using a lot more of this stuff! Body trim was done with Silver Sharpie. Reassembly of the whole hot mess was a lot less trouble than many of these projects are—everything seemed to want to go back together just for a change. I kinda dig the look of the evil thing, for no more work than I have in it (maybe 8-10 hours total). Thanks for looking and as always, comments welcome!

VERY nice, both of them, and your photography is very imaginative and just flat hella-cool! VERY well done and model on!

Would you believe, I went to add this one to my list last night and found out I already had one! Bought a white one last year, which, annoyingly, is also missing the left side mirror. Ah shucks oh well, I like this one better, so the white one can go on my "possible trade" pile.

Saw Jack Reacher Never Go Back last night. Very disappointing. Basically Tom Cruise in one of those stupid Bourne movies (in other words, a live action Road Runner cartoon). Weak plot, and a hundred "Yeah, right, THAT could happen" moments. Even lamer than the John Wick movies. Not recommended.