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I cast my own. I made the forms by pressing aluminum foil onto parts box lenses hard enough to pick up the impressions of the prisms and filled them with clear resin. If you put the shiny side toward the lens, it forms it's own reflector. Then you just trim them to size.

That's a mean looking truck !

Made new motor mounts to install the 5.0 from a newer Revell '32 kit. I was waffling back and forth between using the '29 kit chassis or the '32 chassis and went with the '29. Harder to install a V8 but the '32 would have needed wheelbase adjustment. , , plus the '29 already has poseable steering. I drilled out the centers of the '32 kit's wheels and added the hubcaps from an AMT '32 Pheaton kit. Seems like a slight improvement on these wheels. Next time I may replace the spokes in the front halves of the wheels too. I've also done up a modified firewall to clear the V8.

Still plugging along on it. I also glued the engine in the chassis. Everything seems to be fitting pretty good. I still have to finish up the radiator wall and shroud I'm making from scratch and then I can add the final details to the engine bay and finish it up.

Ya know, You may be joking but working latches for those skirts would be super easy to make.

Yea, that's a great combination. Wheels, color and stance work about perfect on that car.

I'd say they sold exactly one. After all, it was a 1-off design study , never meant to be in production at all. Built on a Ferrari 512 race car chassis with it's 500+HP flat 12 engine, it's supposed to be good for 220 mph. That would be a scary ride.

I thought they were the same scale. [1/25] I never noticed the kit looking bigger than it should be. I've always said there's something wrong with the greenhouse of that kit though. But I can't quite put my finger on what it might be. Opera windows not quite right maybe? Door window shape is definitely off.

I think whatever wheel can look good with or without the skirts. Just depends on which direction you want to go.

Yea, they're not even giving you the first kit to try for free.

If you mean this one Steve, I'd say it might be easier to just mask them off and paint them than to find the decals. considering the "442" was the actual emblems, not part of the decals. That said, seems to me Fred Cady may have done those stripes.

IIRC, it says "390 THUNDERBIRD" on the valve covers.

Looks great Curtis. Very nice work.

Fantastic work on that one. Beautiful paint !

Elm City Hobbies, here in Fredericton has at least one in stock right now.

I'm pretty sure Hoppers Bazaar has that one too just don't have any on thier e-bay site right now.

Over 30 years for me. Guaranteed you'll get what you pay for.

Nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. Congrats Steve, I think that car would clean up at any show or contest you choose to put it in.

Looks really fine NJ. Do you do the decals in 1/25 to for the MPC kits too? I'd like to do my '79 about the same but a darker burgundy.

Looks great Steve.

Something else you may want to deal with Rico, Looking at the windshield pillar, the side glass goes up a bit higher on the real car than on the kit body. Actually higher than the top of the windshield. I think it's only higher at the front. I think if it was raised there, I think the side window profile may be as close to 100% as possible. BTW, here's a link to a selling site with even more good detail pics. https://www.carsforsale.com/1972-buick-riviera-for-sale-C1060367

I'm pretty sure they're ALL recasts of the MPC Barracuda wheels Snake mentions above. The only difference would be the quality of the part, not the design of the part. Kris makes quality parts, I'd recommend his.

Well, the engine in my '70 Delta 88 was definitely a 455 2bbl and it was that bronze/gold color.

I honestly can't figure out what Olds engines were what colors besides the Toros. I had a '70 Delta 88 back in the early '80s. it had a 455 2 bbl in it. It was that Olds bronze/gold color too. My best guess is the regular engines were bronze and the hi performance ones were red, but ?? But then again, I seem to remember seeing some non-Toro engines in metallic blue too, but a bit darker ? Maybe I'm just remembering that wrong.