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That's it?

Just curious about what you find lacking about the Blazer kit, Jordan. I honestly doubt a newer kit could be much better besides adding a few separate small details.

agreed?

Hey, I'm just some goof who slaps paint on walls for a living and has done it long enough to start counting down until I can stop doing it every day. I do just about everything people warn others about concerning painting models so I really wouldn't put much stock in my advice on that subject. ?

The front fenders where the chrome meets up is slightly different too. I learned this after a similar suggestion to someone who knew more about these Riviera kits informed me of this. Has something to do with where the parking light/headlight doors meet the ends of the fenders at the top not matching up.

Well, basically the sheens go gloss, semi-gloss, satin, eggshell, velvet , flat or matt and ceiling flat. That said, all the companies have different % sheen for these names so you don't know exactly how flat or shiny unless you use it. And some lines don't have all of them, some only have semi, eggshell and flat or call it satin, velvet and matt. Sometimes the paint sheen won't even match out of the same can between the cuts and rolling or a sprayed ceiling and a touchup in the center in front of a light source. BUT, for our intents and purposes in model building, this is all irrelevant. ? The "By all means, give us your take." response sounds like you were a bit put out by my comment, I hope I misread that as that was not my intent, just goofing around with ya. ?

Being a house painter for almost 35 years,, I'll hold my tongue, Steve. ??

Looks like that pic was taken before Sam passed. I'd suspect it was Sam's work, not Georges as I don't see any tiger fur or gold lamé.

I've had STS make up decals for me too. Very happy with them. He originally forgot 3 more colors that were supposed to be on this sheet but did them up and sent them along as soon as I e-mailed him.

Yup. or to put it in terms out American friends will be more familiar with ,, calling a Texan a Yankee.

Don't know if you're aware Bill but the convertible version of that kit actually does come with the 409.

Did you guys know Detail Junkies has the Dodge "Street Van" emblems in their '70s van photoetch set?

Well, yea. His wife used to take care of all that for him, until she passed away suddenly a couple years ago. I don't think he ever really fully got over that.

Wow, you just called a New Zealander an Australian ,,, brave man. ? That's a mistake I learned not to make long ago as I have friends from both countries. ? BUT, AMT changed the packaging after McLain had all his trouble with the law.

Humm, looks like it shares the chassis with the "Surf Woody" I do know it was originally boxed as "Denny McLain's Horsehide Hauler. The top of your box, Bill, is one of the side panels from the HH box.

That's all I really had in mind when I came up with the idea, Bill. Other people came up with the idea of it being a good test to see if the paint would interact with the plastic after the article was published. I don't remember if it was the writer's idea or just took off from there afterward.

Ever since I missed out on my one and only chance to see "Doug & the Slugs", one of my favorite bands in person in '99 I've always made my best effort to catch any shows "of interest" when at all possible. Doug Bennet passed form the classic rock and roll disease of way too much Jack Daniels before just a few months before they were to tour my side of the country again . I'm happy to say I've scored tickets to a show featuring 4 of the bands I grew up listening to. A couple of the names will be familiar to everyone and a couple probably only to us here in Canada. So, at the end of November Mary and I are off to see "The Spoons, "Men Without Hats", Honeymoon Suite" and, most exciting for me, "A Flock of Seagulls". ? Should be a great night for me, can't wait. ?

If it has an engine, fine. If not, fine also. I've built a couple of my '71-'76 Impala/Caprices without the engine and I've also added engines to kits that didn't come with one. To me, the kit itself is just the base to start from.

Aside from the Cragars and decals, those are exactly the same as the last few reissues. I always liked the MPC Cragar SS wheels though. But if you really want them, the ones in the reissued AMT [X-MPC] '29 Ford Woody/pickup look almost identical if you cut the mounting bosses off the back.

Those built up nice and looked good when done. Too bad Monogram chose to use it to modify into the '70 that's available now instead of just making a new mold.

You do you Noel, I'll fumble along with what I do. Seems to work fine for me.

But how would I keep the bugs out of it? ?

Mike, I don't have a dehydrator. BUT, my wife has an old salad spinner she got for Christmas one year. we don't eat that many salads so it's never been used. It's about the same size and shape. Do you think that would work ? It's used to dry stuff too so it should be OK, right?

Nope, sorry to say, they're toast.

No, they weren't. It wasn't economically profitable a the tariffs would have pushed up the price on them to about the same as a Buick or Olds A-body or possibly a full sized Canadian made Pontiac and defeated the purpose of having a lower priced Pontiac. They weren't sold in Canada until the 1970 model year, IIRC. But you're right about the Beaumont being "it's own thing", not a Pontiac. Similar to how a '60 Edsel was "it's own thing" , not a "Ford Edsel" in spite of having all Ford bodywork, just Edsel specific front and rear end treatments.