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Thanks everyone !

Airbrushed a custom mix of Tamiya acrylics. Basically clear with a bit of clear green and clear blue sprayed on the inside then clearcoated and polished out .

That looks great !

Thanks Jonathan and Ron. I got it at NNL East over 10 years ago. At that time an unknown resin caster was doing these and various retailers like Model King, Spotlight Hobbies, Model Roundup and a few others were selling these kits rather cheaply. I haven't seen anyone selling them in quite a while now.

Simple curbside resin kit, no engine or chassis detail. Pegasus "Sovereign" wheels and tires.

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Pretty sure the 1st wire wheel is from an original issue AMT Cobra Roadster. The rim detail is slightly different in newer issues.

Thanks everyone,, again!. I was pleasantly surprised to see this one surface again, it's one of my favourites too.

Actually, I made the inner section of the tires. The red line and the black between it and the rim is made from sheet plastic. Built it out large enough so a "23 Pegasus tire slips right on snug.

First thing I noticed when I looked for reference pics is that this is the interior for a '65, not a '66. That's OK though as it's just a quickie curbside build. I just sprayed everything the same dark red I used on the body, flocked the floor and did some detailing with foil and flat black paint on the dash, a bit of foil on the console and sided of the seats and silver paint on the rest of the interior. It's all glued in the body now and I'm working on a flat sheet chassis. Should have pics of the finished car up tomorrow evening.

You mean like this Snake? I think it's from the top coats drying too fast and shrinking and the underlying coats not being completely cured. Only thing I could do is strip it and redo the car. It's now in primer but I never got around to redoing all that candy and fade work.

If you mean mine Steve, it's House of Color candy brandywine over a metallic pink base. It turned out a bit lighter than I expected but I'm happy with it.

Beautiful. That generation Nova look just about perfect in that lime green.

Here's my 5 window. Wheels and tires are from the street rod version of the AMT '41 woody.

The 430 from the AMT '69 Riviera could pass for a small block, it is kinda undersize.

Very impressive.

IIRC, it's Australian slang. At least, I've mostly heard it refered to that way by Australians.

I have a resin '70 GTX. With a bit of dremel work, I was able to get the rear window from an AMT '68 Road Runner to fit pretty good. I haven't worked on it in about 8 years, maybe time to get it back out.

Looks like fun. Nice to see a Monza being built that's not a pro stock car or a pontoon fender car.

I think it kinda depends on how shiny the car you're building is meant to be. A replica of an old beater shouldn't be very shiny. But a replica of my Trans Am probably should be very shiny.

Maybe we should have a section labelled "Miscellaneous Rambling".

I've had this cheap resin kit sitting around for years with all the bodywork finished and a coat of burgundy on it. Was going to do the roof white,, It just wasn't "speaking to me" , as it were. I was tinkering with it last month while waiting for stuff to dry and such while finishing up my Chevy pickup last month. While painting something else and having the airbrush out, I shot a couple coats of this brick red on it and it just started shouting at me to finish it up. Foiled the side trim and cleared it a couple days ago and polished it out this morning. Just a simple curbside build. No engine and just a flat sheet chassis to hold the wheels. Should look good on the shelf though.

Looks really good Andy. Good call on the wheel swap. Looks much better than the ones shown on the box. But, I hate to tell you this since you went to so much work with it but I don't think that's supposed to be an air conditioning compressor, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be the smog pump for the emission control system. But, hey, it could be the AC compressor, they don't look that much different.

The other guys have given you some excellent advice. I'll just add these thoughts,, . Putting more clear will dilute the color. That means that you will need to put more coats on to achieve the same shade of color as you would with a full-strength mix. This also means that it will be easier to get uniform shade as not as much pigment is being applied on each coat. If you are using a lighter color as a base, then indeed it will result in a lighter color than the same number of coats with the full strength mix. I usually do this when I do a candy paint job. It helps me get an even color without light and dark areas ,, but it doesn't work every time. Another trick I like to use is to tint my base coat with some of the candy that I will be putting over it. "Tempering it" if you will. This also helps to achieve an even color. It also helps me reach the effect I want using less candy coats. Now, the problem with putting clear in the color is that it build up extra thickness to get the shade you want. So, instead of just putting more clear in and getting overly thick color coats, I add some clear and double or triple up on the thinner. That gives me the same effect as using just clear but the thinner evaporates out and leaves a thinner color coat.

Thanks Kurt, and yes, '68s did have the side markers. The only year of this generation GM pickup that did not have the markers was '67.