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Store opened bottles in a screw top mason jar with a few silica gel bags tossed in. The silica gel absorbs ambient moisture that would have been otherwise absorbed by the CA, which has amazing moisture absorption qualities. Storing CA in such a manner greatly extends its useful life. I have several Bob Smith Industries CA which are approaching their tenth birthdays and they're still good.

That X-Acto customizing tool kit looks like a junior version of the Christian Szell "Is it Safe?" Dental Interrogation Tool Collection endorsed by Larry Olivier and the Toy Council.

The Tom Daniel Super Digger Dragster was a 1/12 model produced in 1971 by Monogram when the company was owned by Mattel. One sold for $499 on ebay in July.

Thanks, Pete. I should have been clearer.

Arts & craft stores like Michaels, from numerous online shops and such.

Dencon folded like a cheap suit. The dude had loads of customer complaints before he closed up the business. You can't find any of his old products anywhere because he was notoriously lame about filling orders and maintaining anything even remotely resembling inventory. I defy you to find any Dencon products on ebay. Your grandchildren will probably have great-great grandchildren before that happens.

You might want more; but, you ain't gonna get them. "Colors by Boyd" bottle paint was discontinued back in the late 1990s. Testors dropped its entire hobby paint line earlier this year, with the exception of the cheesy little 1/4 oz. square bottles.

Considering that the first five kits you listed were, in my opinion, essentially junk boxes with a couple of parts and weren't worth the 1971 prices. They're definitely not worth the inflated 2021 simoleons.

A lot of the internet search results will provide links to items that are no longer available at the time of the search being performed. I ran across a number of searches which came up for Model Roundup and the items were no longer available. BTW, the conversion set was made by Dencon Resin Specialties which has been dead as a doornail since at least 2011. There was a sold set listed on Worthpoint.

Don't bother. It was an old listing. It's no longer available. What you'll see when you click "add to cart": Sorry, the following item is currently out of stock: 1971 Chevy Chevelle SS 454 Hardtop (1/25) (See Description)

Why remove the trim? The military Chevys are 150's, as is the Black Widow. Both use the same spear trim. The Black Widow kit can be built as a bone stock version.

Yeah, you could; but it wouldn't represent an actual vehicle. The rear sheet metal and bumpers of the '55 and '57 models are completely different and incompatible. It'd be the equivalent of the Manufacters Hanover Trust AnyCar Anthony is correct about the side trim on both the '55 and '57 150 and 210 models. The spear trim for the '55-'57 Chevys was the same length for 2DR and 4 DR models. It only appears to be longer on the 4 DR models because the front doors are shorter to accommodate the rear doors. If Anthony was talking about using the trim from the relatively recent Revellogran '55 Chevy kits (Convertible or Hardtop) won't work because the spear trim is designed to fit into the the channel found on the these particular kits which would require a lot of tedious thinning because they are too thick. http://images33.fotki.com/v1074/photos/1/10655/5741271/DSC00003-vi.jpg Additionally, the spear trim from these kits has the paint divider molded on. The best sources for the spear molding are any of the old Revell "H" series '55 and '56 Chevys. The side moldings are very thin and detailed. If you can score one of the "H" series '56 Chevy kits, even better because they contain separate side trim for series 150, 210 and Bel Air models. I have these kits and the trim fits the newer '57 Chevys. After all of my rambling on the subject, I believe you'd save a lot of work by converting the Revell '57 Chevy 150/Black Widow into a 4 DR sedan.

From what I remember reading about this very topic HERE, Johan used injection molding equipment which was incompatible with what was used by the other kit manufacturers. This is probably why when Johan was folding, the molds which were still extant weren't purchased by the likes of Revellogram, AMT, etc. The extra money required to buy an injection molding machine which could only be used for the limited number of Johan tools available wasn't worth the trouble.

Don't sweat it, Doug. It's just hypocritical double standards and virtue signaling being put into play. The same people have no problem with casters who make resin copies of bodies and other parts using kits produced by assorted kit manufacturers and sell these items at ridiculous markups. Their justification is that the casters are providing a "commendable and necessary service" to the modeling community by making items that are hard to find or no longer available.

That was the original name of the band which would be known as Strawberry Alarm Clock. The members wanted a name that made sense.

Even idiots are entitled to an opinion. He's probably hammering nails with his forehead after checking the present value on ebay.

Don't feel that way. If you waited to find the the "correct" corresponding interior tubs just to be rivet counting accurate, you'll never get anything done. The correct interiors aren't going to magically appear on ebay.And, if they did pop up, they'll cost more than what you, or any reasonable person, would be willing to spend. Sure, you can do as Mark says and utilize the interior from Lindberg '64 Mopars. Ido that only because I got lucky that Model Car Mountain had a c_rapload of the interior/suspension/chassis trees on sale for under five bucks. That was over four years ago and I've never seen those parts available that cheap by anyone anywhere since then. I'm not a cheapskate modeler by any definition; however, I'm not going to buy a kit which for 15 bucks just to get a couple of parts and the rest will be nothing more than junk and unnecessary clutter in my home. I don't hoard junk. Just build them with what you have and enjoy what you create. Nobody's opinion here matters.

Unless you feel like performing surgery to make them correct for a hardtop; besides yourself, who's going to know or care, right?

Those tubs are correct only if they're used in '62 convertibles. If you have the hardtops, SOL.

The 300ZX s a really nice kit. Whenever I get around to it, I'm going to use the engine from a second kit and install it into an American Satco Nissan Pathfinder.

The Recharged Dodge SS Hemi Drag Car is a Dodge Polara 440. 1964 Dodge Dart.

It's a vicious circle. So you'd have to buy clear coat.

The front end of that Renault is almost a dead ringer for a 1942 Plymouth.

I pulled this from an ebay listing. It's a jpeg 1600x1200 pixels. If you zoom in, the text is legible and easy to read.

The tire size is 7.35-15. Shelby Cobra 289 tire and wheel sizes