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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.

I know this has been a sore point with people so I thought I'd give it a go. I simply glued the pieces together with regular thin crazy glue and sanded the tread flush after it hardened. Not perfect as you loose most of the tread but I think it looks fine for my van. The wheels are from the parts box ,,, IIRC, they're the custom ones in the current AMT '65 GTO kit. Perfect for a '70s street van.

No worries Snake. It's not a competition, just having fun. ?

I'm blaming RDean58 for this car. When I got this car a couple years ago I wasn't sure what direction I wanted to go with it. I wasn't too bad but I thought it deserved better. I was thinking a simple repaint in the same color but after seeing Bobs gorgeous one in Tamiya metallic red, I had to have that look too. So after stripping, I had some work to do to get it ready for new paint. There was some glue damage to repair. It was easier to sand off all the damaged trim, do repairs and add new trim from sheet and strip plastic. and now here it is in it's new Tamiya metallic red finish, all the trim done and the glass installed. Most of the scripts will be added back on from the MCG photoetch set for the '76 Caprice, which also has the correct Impala secipts.