Can-Con

Picked this up Wednesday. Time to retire the Saturn.

I think they're reasonably right for any '58 through to '66 Tom. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me.

Yea, Steve, I think I'll let this bear alone and not poke it any more. ?

Oh, Come on guys, Seriously, You really feel that the kit that won is better than one of the kits Steve posted a pic of ? They are not his models, you know. I don't see where Steve's blaming the show sponsors of rigging the vote. He's just questioning the method used in letting anyone on the internet vote and maybe it should have been limited to people involved and/or entered in the contest. I expect next, some one's gonna say "shut up and go build something" ?

Dan, I wish I had entered your group's show but I didn't know it was "on line" until it was too late to enter. I had seen the announcements but hadn't bothered to read them carefully as I had thought it was another "regular" style show ,, that there was no way I'd be able to attend. I'd like to think I'd have done well with my Chrysler. ?

Yup, another MPC in blue plastic here. But I repaired it well enough for now.

Is it just me or is the door handle on that model on upside down and backwards?

I agree Steve. In a real contest, that Charger couldn't hold a candle to any of your entries. Box stock with sub-par paint? Right. BTW, I did vote for one of your cars, glad they weren't in the categories I was in. ?

Just superb !! ???

Hey James, I was just in Harvey last Thursday! ??

I've had a few dreams where I've been driving either my '69 Riviera or my '73 Buick Centurion coupe. Possibly an unconscious yearning for the "good old days" of my late teens and early twenties. ?

Fred Cady stopped selling decals many years ago. Possibly passed away, I'm not sure.

That would be a '67.

What year do you need? Revell made one that's been released a few times.

Those look a lot like early Mustang seats but with different inserts. If it were me, I take a set of 1/24 Monogram '65/'66 Mustang seats, cut the inserts out and make new inserts cut from the Torino bench seat. As for the console, closest I can think of would be one from an early Fox Mustang. The MPC kits had separate ones but hard to find now.

Funny you should mention that. I know for a '77 XS project car I've been thinking about taking a closer look at. I did stop to look at it once last year but it was pouring rain and I didn't like the looks of the two snakes that had taken up residence on the cowl by the windshield wipers. Looked just like this one but with all red leather interior.

Were those low back with separate headrests or the high back like in a Mustang?

IIRC, it's called "silvering".

Filled the big hole in the hood, added some material to the front and back ends and re-did the ridge up the center. I also have been working on the underhood area. Smoothed off the firewall and filled the cut-out with a piece of sheet stock. Also making new inner fenders using the inner fenders cut from the chassis plate of an MPC '79 Trans Am widened with sheet stock. It's just roughed in now and will need more work before I even think of paint.

It's very real Gareth. Don't let the "snap kit" thing throw you, it's actually a nice, full kit that later lost the "snap" to become a full glue kit of the Impala SS.

Loved everything about that episode, it was a hoot !! But most of the models were from the '90s or newer.

Animal House

Good news on both counts Steve. Congrats on the hardware. ???

Sorry to hear that. I considered him a friend.

This may help Roger.