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I'd be good with that. I've been wanting a set of the custom wheels from the MPC Toros for a while now. IIRC, they're Mickey Thompson "Super Spiders" and that's the only kits they came in.

Man, that thing is slick !! I hope I can come up with a look that cool when I finally do up my snap kit.

The wheel covers look to fit the tires quite well Gareth. I'm glad you could use them. They actually come from a kit I kind of "inherited" from my brother in law who passed a year ago this weekend. He was a Mopar man and I know he'd approve of someone getting use of the parts. ?

The AMT '64 Mercury should have several. The AMT '57 Ford also used to have a couple.

IIRC, The AMT boxed Toros are JoHan.

Looks great Roger.

I don't know where you guys are getting that he's building it into an LX. I think you missed something when you read the captions with the pics. ?

That's pretty cool John. ???

I've told my wife. My last ride better be in a black Cadillac or I'm coming back and there's gonna be problems. ??

Fantastic looking, clean build. Very nice. ?

Yours has a separate battery? Mine is all in one and you need to charge the whole thing as a unit. Mine looks just like this one.

I have a similar one. The compressor casing is different but the rest looks identical. I don't use it a lot but mine works smoothly with no "pulsing". The thing I found is that it doesn't hold a charge long enough for me to paint a body and clean it too. I usually have to plug the charger in to finish cleaning. Although, that may just be me taking too long.

Sweet ???

Carl, what I did with this one was first sprayed the part in the color you want the lettering to be and give it a couple coats of clear. The clear helps keep you from going right through to the primer and having to start over like I did. ? Then I painted the body color. Light coats, carefully wet sanding the lettering off between coats, just enough to expose the letters but not going through the clear. I'd suggest 4000 or 6000 paper for sanding. And, of course, clearcoat after the last coat of color and sanding.

Apparently he died peacefully in his sleep. He was 72 I seen them in 2013, so glad I had the chance.

The subject's a little close to home, is it Michael? ??

If Snake wrote Santa a letter it would definitely get him on the 'naughty list" ,, and possibly the "naughty list" of several agencies that have a string of letters for names. ???

Looks good Dennis. I don't think I could have done any better and I've been doing foil for almost 4 decades now. ?

That's a neat car Steve, I wish I had the extra funds to pick up a couple kits before Modelhaus packed it in. BTW, that an LT5, not an LS engine.

Exactly. That is a bit excessive but the parts are fine. I wouldn't have even thought twice about a tree like that. Trimming flash and mold seams has been a part of building plastic models since day one.

Looks great ,, and one of my favorite paints too.?

Pretty well Curtis. Probably just a wheel and tire swap ,,, might even use a set of pickup rallye wheels. I've seen them used on full size Chevys of this generation. Probably do it curbside but I might get ambitious and fill out under the hood.

That's actually a photoshopped pic from the '72 Nova brochure. http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1972_Chevrolet/1972 Chevrolet Nova/image5.html

That's one of the 1/32 scale kits though, Roger.

This thread might be helpful.