Can-Con

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.

Hobby thinners should be fine. When you said "lacquer thinner" I was thinking of the cans of the stuff I get at Canadian Tire. But,, even then, I haven't had any problems using it with auto lacquers over acrylics but I wouldn't recommend it to other people. Actually, I would have stripped that "before" pic Venom showed and started again. Something definitely went wrong when he sprayed that. Paint should never turn out that grainy.

NO . . . no lacquer thinner. It may eat into the previous layers of paint and wrinkle it. Some swear by it but I wouldn't chance it unless I had to. I use regular rubbing alcohol with Tamiya acrylics, have for over 30 years now. Almost every one of my cars and pickups has the windows tinted with Tamiya acrylics although they mostly don't show well in pics. I'd just shoot 2 good coats of clear, waiting a day between coats. Wet sand it with 6000 or 8000 paper to get rid of most of the orange peal and shoot two more coats. Wait another day or two and wet sand and polish that out. It looks like you have a great looking candy coat on there, it'd be a shame to ruin it.

Coming along well. Interior is refinished and the body is done. I'll be replacing the molded in headlights and for something a little different for me,, I'm using wheel covers on this one for a change.

I would but I don't have one.

I started the same thing but with a JoHan '64. The '65 GP roof doesn't fit it as well as the one you're doing.

That roofline looks more like an early '80s Delta 88 than a Cutlass.

Both look great Gareth. Glad I could help out.

They're gonna have to re-think the boxing of that Monte Carlo. The "Wheeler Dealer" kit shown is a '79, not an '80 as stated in the caption. The '80 kit was the "Class Action" issue. 4 light front end as opposed to the 2 headlights of the '79. Still nice to have the kit back again and probably with some great decals and tires.

There was also a company called National Coach Engineering that converted 4 or 5 hundred Camaros and a like number of Firebirds when they were new that were sold through a couple GM dealers Here's an article from Motor Trend in '79. http://www.firebirdgallery.com/Site Design Images/NCE Article Pg1.jpg http://www.firebirdgallery.com/Site Design Images/NCE Article Pg2.jpg http://www.firebirdgallery.com/Site Design Images/NCE Article Pg3.jpg

Now you're talking. These are more up my alley though,,

It does, but I'd swap it out for one from a newer Revell Torino.