Can-Con

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/04/07/fact-check-the-nova-did-not-sell-poorly-in-latin-america-due-to-its-name https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/ http://zapr.blogspot.com/2008/05/people-who-love-telling-chevy-nova.html https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090 But, I guess you can't believe everything you read on the internet, right. ?

That looks a lot better than most. A but slab sided but the roofline is right on this one and that's a first. Windshield shape's wrong but you could adapt the section from a '76 Caprice, they use the same windshield in 1/1. Only other thing I'd bother correcting is the kick-up on the rear 1/4 window. It should be concentric with the wheel opening. I think I'll actually put a bid on that and see if I can bash it with the resin '71 I have to come up with a more accurate '71.

Great looking pickup.

No. [nova] in Spanish means a type of star, same as in English. Not the same as "no va". It would be the same as using the name "Notable" on a kitchen set and people not buying it because they thought it didn't have a table with it. "no table" It's just bad grammar and an old wives tale. Check here Snake. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/

Thanks Rusty, but those scripts are actually photoetch.

A couple of the photoetch sheets from MCG have Olds lettering. The kits these sheets are designed for might have the lettering on the decal sheets too. [Revell '50 Olds and '72 Cutlass cvt.]

That's not true at all.

I like it. The only change I'd make is to make the front wheel opening match the rear one. If someone on here posted a pic of a new Camaro model modified to look like that I bet everyone would be telling them how great it looks and that they're a genius. ?

Love it. Not often you see an actual racer built out of a Monza kit, usually just street versions.

Thanks guys. Tom, No, I didn't see it. I usually don't watch the car related "reality" shows. I tend to yell at the screen too much during the foolishness and it makes it too hard to hear what's going on. That said, I have seen that show and it's not bad,, nothing to holler at anyway but I don't have that channel at the moment. Lee, After I painted and cleared the body I sprayed some flat black into the louvers at a low angle from the back. After it dries, I just wetsanded the black off the sheetmetal and polished the paint out again.

I'll second that.

I originally joined up here when the site began by invitation of Gregg and a few other original members and used my regular name at that time as this was supposed to be a board where everyone used their real name and wouldn't be able to hide behind a screen name to cause trouble. A few years I got into it with a few members and decided to go on vacation and had all my content wiped. Came back a year later with a new screen name Can-Con. Easy to figure out, just google and it's the first wiki entry.

I actually picked up a model last month with the intentions of building it "similar" to one I had back in the day. The one I had was the Revell "Convoy Van". Nothing really special about it, just another one of the dozen or so reissues of the kit Revell did back then. The thing that struck me was the color it was molded in, metallic dark "burple". Parts wise, this kit is identical to the one just reissued except for the tires and decals. I eventually rebuilt this kit in the early '80s and painted it with that awful Testors metallic ruby red spray paint with hand painted blue flames. Won a trophy with that version. I'm planning to do a mashup of the two, original kit with wheel and mirror swap in the dark blue with flames. SO, I have the kit I have the wheels I want to use, I have the paint. I have a flame mask, not hand painted this time. So, JJ, I guess you can put my name on the list. ?

Transparent blue over a metallic light blue base. This happens to be HOK candy true blue over a metallic light blue base I made by adding a bit of the candy blue to some silver. How light or dark is determined by how dark your base is and how many coats of candy blue you put over it. Remember always use multiple coats of clear if youre going to wet sand and polish out the paint like I did with this. also "candy paint" just means it's a clear paint tinted with whatever color.

Going through old pics and came across this one. I don't think I had shown it here, at least not for a very ling time. A rebuild of a built kit I picked up at an NNL East show years ago. Pretty simple old original curbside kit but it was fun to rebuild.

I, too have kind of done that already. For years, I had wanted another crack at the MPC Dodge Warlock pickup like I had built when I was 13 or 14. Used the Little Red kit with the suspension from the '84 GMC kit. and a set of Gooch decals. ,, and the original wheels from that kit I had built so long ago. Turned out much better than the original, I think.

That's pretty cool Luke. I think it must be time for that Chevy kit to be reissued again. They certainly seem to be unusually popular for a '70s car. I'm kind of fond of them as I had a real one. BTW, when building, remember the A-pillars on all '70s GM full size cars, including these Chevys was completely covers with a bright trim piece, no paint showing like on the boxes.

That turned out beautifully Harry.

It wasn't meant to. Like the other cars in that series, it was loosely based on a car that was done on the TV show. Basically a stock looking Impala with a set of big wheels. Also, IIRC,the kit came out the year before the Imposter debuted. http://enthusiastnetwork.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/21/2013/12/1965-chevy-impala-rear-three-quarter.jpg?fit=around%7C480:270

Pretty sweet ? Love those old Chryslers.

Looks outstanding. Is that actual Pontiac code 34 mint turquoise ? I used to have a '70 Buick Skylark convertible in that color.?

Looks great. The color looks just like the dark jade green Ford put on everything back around that time.

Thanks everyone. ? Yea, that Tamiya metallic red does look good. I stole the color combo from another member who did his '71 in the same colors last year. Steve, yes, they did seem to all be in browns and beiges. IIRC, one of my uncles had a really nice '71 but it was the worst metallic brown. Keith, Yea, there's definitely some strong GM genes there. Reminds me of a '69/'70 Eldorado.

Restoration of an old built kit. Not the first time this one was rebuilt either. Just a quickie curbside between more involved projects. Tamiya metallic red with their clearcoat. Interior is just some light tan I mixed up with Testors bottle paints. Wheel covers are AMT '70 Impala with AMT whitewalls. Photoetch scripts and inside mirror from the MCG '76 Caprice set.

I used to own a '72. That's way off in several areas. No really good resin ones have been made in our scale yet, and that includes the one Modelhaus did.