Can-Con

Harry, I've done my share of candy paints and I can give you a few tips. The silver, gold and other very metallic paints do indeed block the red. It's because the flakes in it act like shellac and lay down like shingles on a roof so it's harder for the dye to leach up through the layers. The pigment in other paints lays down like balls or pebbles, it's easier for the pigment to seep up through it. The silver, gold or whatever can be tinted to match your final color. metallic light blue for candy blue, light green for green, pink for red, etc. This gives a base that will be easier to cover evenly as the tinted base helps hide any light and dark areas. Don't even try to get a shiny wet coat with the candy. Just put it on in mist coats until you have the depth you want and then clearcoat it. It WILL need a clearcoat if you plan to polish it out or do any sanding on it. IF you sand or polish the uncleared candy coats you could very easily make that spot lighter than the surrounding paint or even go right through to the base coats. You can clearcoat Tamiya acrylics with the lacquer sprays BUT, it's difficult and could make the color run just like someone said above. I'd just wait for it to harden a week or two and clear it with 3 or 4 coats of the Tamiya clear in the bottle airbrushed on and polish it out when that has dried for a few days ,, the longer the better. Good luck with it. I ordered the green Mura with the photoetch from my local hobby shop about 3 months ago but he hasn't got it in for me yet.

As far as I know, they all had the same engine lineup as the regular Chevy lineup they were based on.

Man, I missed that, I thought it was an old Jetta wagon. ?

All the trim and scripts you'd need are on the MCG '68/'69 and '70/'72 Nova photoetch sheets. But I don't know of anyone who makes the unique tail lights and grilles. BTW, it's just "Acadian", no "Pontiac". Dealerships were combined here in Canada. Usually "Chev, Olds, Cadillac" and "Pontiac, Buick, GMC". Acadians and Beaumonts were sold at Pontiac dealers but are not "Pontiacs" any more than Buicks and GMCs are.

I think I'd rather have the AMG edition, IIRC, the Tim Taylor edition keeps breaking down and in the end has a steel beam dropped on it. ?

I'd sleep in an Oldsmobile full of snakes before I'd be in a building with just one free roaming robot like that.

I REALLY don't like those things.

I see some here saying that it should be relatively easy to fix the chopped top on the Nova, as it just means removing material from the mold BUT,, they seem to forget that material would need to be added to the inner part of the mold to make up for the added height of the roof. If not, the roof panel would be very thick and the window openings couldn't be made correctly.

That's cool. I had a 1/1 '70 Skylark Custom cvt. a lifetime ago. Here's a tip most people miss,, across the top of the windshield frame is actually covered in vinyl. The same material and color as the rest of the upholstery. Only the stainless trim right at the top of the glass should be bright.

Oh, I never thought of that one. Now I'm wondering if the difference in the buggy kits might just be a matter of swapping out parts tree inserts for different body parts?

Jon, what on earth is "candy silver"? I've never heard of such a thing.

If you mean the Barris T Buggy, that's what I had thought too but someone pointed out to me that the Barris kit was MPC and this one is AMT. And, as you know, they were separate companies at the time so probably not.

Too cool !! This is one I hope gets reissued.

Can I get a "Harrumph" for this man? !! ?

Beautiful, love the paint. Is this a diecast kit or plastic?

Yes, it did. I had that kit in an Ertl box in '79 or '80. Long before AMT had anything to do with Ertl. Same as the box shown, just had "Ertl" on it instead of "AMT".

Dude, Do you really need a stock 1/25 Mustang II/Pinto front suspension? If so. Again, It's in the Beatnik Bandit II kit. Bone stock as they came from the factory. Resin is the new "parts packs" The only difference between working with resin and styrene plastic is the glue you use.

Very sharp looking.

I also found it interesting that they swooned over kits that a lot of us , like Steve, Dave and I wouldn't look twice at yet treated the really rare , desirable kits like the early '60s original annuals like they just came off the Walmart shelf. ?

I remember that too Tom. IIRC, he did one in flat black too right? I remember giving him tips on doing a factory style light green/blue tint for the windshields.

That's no doubt why he kept posting pics of his daughter after almost everyone told him to stop. Tom's told me he's tried to ban him several times but he keeps finding a way to get around it. Said he even posted as a female for a time.

Pretty sweet Joe. You're making me want to dig out my old Revell Bora. ?

Careful lads, the "Social Justice Warriors" over at the BBC will be coming for ya.❄️??,,,?

Back soon after the SA forum was created, I ran into someone who I'm pretty sure was one of the Van Halen brothers. I've never ran across him again since but from our conversation I'm pretty sure it was one of them.

They're copies of the AMT and MPC kit parts so they're 1/25. But the price does seem a touch high.