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Alpine, Moosehead ??? 😁

Bill, I let it dry for a week and then put one coat of Future on it. Had a time finding the Future too, A fellow builder in my club who builds planes had a little of the original left. I tried a second coat on a different part and it did fog up I think I didn't let it dry long enough though. Still experimenting.

I've also had some luck coating the Revell spray with a coat of Future. It's thin but seems to be doing the trick with the grille shell for my '32 Chevy. I've been handling it normally so far during the building process, test fitting, doing mockups and such and it looks pretty well the same as when I started

Ok, so, here's what I'm starting with for the first truck. It's missing a couple suspension parts but I can cast copies from one of the unbuilt kits I have. It'll be a silver over white build with a traditional 4/6 drop. Gatorback tires on Ferrari wheels. Probably keep the 454 but swap the intake out for a F.I unit. I'm definitely going for the '90s "Sport Truck Magazine" look with this one 😎 Gotta love that air dam used as a visor glued on with a 1/2 tube of glue. 🙄 Anyway, this is how it's sitting as of an hour ago.

That sounds like it'll be a pretty impressive rig, Dan.

Well you can just glue the engine block halves together and call it good, Bill. 😉 But seriously, love to have you join.

If I had started the thing a bit later or had taken a bit longer to build it I would have participated in the build, if you would have had me. 😉 As it was, I was just finishing it up then the build started. 🙂 This is referring to my '29 pickup build, of corse I would have done a couple things a bit differently.

Um, OK. 😐

,,, plus the foot wells at the doors.

I dug my old '90 longbed out of storage a couple weeks ago and managed to pull a couple of resin copies from that grille I had scratch made for it around 30 years ago. Unfortunately, it came out of the mold in pieces and it no more. I don't think I'll redo this one but I have blown apart an old 454SS gluebomb I picked up a couple years ago and will be rebuilding it in a late '90s style.

Wondering if there'd be any interest in a build now that are easily available? It would be for , ,, , '88 to "98 Chevy and GMC pickups Suburbans, Tahoes etc. could be in the old school "sport truck" style from the '90s and '00s or more modern style with larger wheels, etc. The kind of truck you'd see at a show, not a commercial style or daily driver. AMT/MPC kits or Lindberg "Boyd's Hauler". Snap curbside or full detail kit. I have a couple ideas I'll be starting to work on soon so anyone else ? BTW, no deadline.

Gee Kit, I think this is the first time I've ever finished a model too early for a buildoff. LOL 😲😉

Ya know Mike, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Round 2 comes out with an older 2 wheel drive square body based on their current kits in the next year or two. Maybe even a long fleetside, who knows.

Yup, it's as it's always been since its original versions were introduced over 40 years ago. Ya gotta remember back then model kits were primarily aimed at kids, especially the Revell ones Proper front suspension, stock bumpers and a better engine would go a long way to improve the kit , , short of a brand new kit.

Man, those decals sure are retro. Very '90s vibe. I bet they'd look right at home on one of the new AMT OBS Chevys.

My wife worked in the Teamsters office for the #2 guy in the union back when they were putting a pipeline through here. She has a world class mouth on her when she wants. 😧

True, but there is potential there.

I'm kinda surprised that this kit and it's variants didn't get passed off to Atlantis.

Fantastic ! 👍👍👍

Jonathan, did you get the correct rear box piece and tail lights on there? There's 2 different tail pieces and 2 different pairs of tail lights in the kit. I didn't notice until too late and had to rip it apart and swap them out. 🥴

I can see a mod such as that in the interest of driveability. I'm not keen on having to let the T/A warm up in the morning before I take it on the road ,, and the carb was set up by one of the best, if not THE BEST Quadrajet guys in the province. What could never understand though was swapping out dashes. I remember several cars in Custom Rodder and Hot Rod Magazine among others back in the '80s where the owner swapped out S-10 dashes and the like. One I particularly remember was a '57 Chevy hardtop with said S-10 dash. If I had an old car from the '50s or '60s I'd want to be looking out over the original dash, not something out of a bland newer vehicle.😉

Exactly. "kit chrome" is not even remotely like "real car chrome". I've been painting over it for 50 years now, no problem. If in doubt, go find an old glue bomb model someone has painted over the chrome and see how easily the paint comes off the chrome. 😈

It really irks me that wallys in the states has those Demons and my local shop couldn't even get his full order of them. I couldn't even get one even though I was on the wait list.

👍 Definitely a '74 Caprice and a '73 Riv.