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Does anyone at these companys do any research anymore?

Pretty sure R+R resin used to have a '65. But the owner dies a few years ago so no more are being produced. They say only about 5% of resin kits bought actually get built so one may come along.

It's the "Wheeler Dealer" '79 Monte Carlo. Picked it up a few years ago at a show. It's built and painted almost exactly how the one I had when they came out in '79 was done. Only difference is I used the common Testors bottle blue paint on the interior of mine which is a bit darker than what was used on this one. So it was just sitting on my table while I worked on my truck. Got board and took a break from the truck and sat the MC on the big Cragars. It just looks so "right" sitting on the table like that. I have a couple other projects on the go right now so it'll wait until I get one or two finished before starting on this. I'm thinking keeping it black and using the Cragars and tires on it now and going mild touring look.

First thing is, those tires are not rubber, they're vinyl, as most kit tires are. I have a set of tires on a Corvette I used white testors paint on that I built in the early '80s that are still sticky. Lacquer and acrylics will dry just fine on those tires. You could try spraying the tires with a couple coats of lacquer or acrylic dullcoat first, then the jell pen should work fine,, but I'd try it first because different brands may work differently. Or just use an acrylic. I did these white walls with acrylic and they worked just fine.

Mostly just out of the box with a strait pin shift lever and wire signal light lever. Brake and gas pedal made from scrap sheet plastic and some flocking for carpet.

Ok, good to know. I'll still be using the '88 up pickups as chassis donors for the older trucks if I can get them though. Such nice suspension and engines, makes nice street trucks.

Sweet Charger. The owner must be extremely happy with it, I would be.

As I understand it, the mid '60s trucks' front suspension was almost identical to these trucks ,, probably the '88 up generation too. So. one of the Revell '64/'65 trucks front suspension should be good and the whole chassis from an AMT '88 up short box should be really good for this too.

Hi Fred, My technique is pretty simple. I take any old headlight I want copies of and place it face down Then take a peice of aluminum foil and place it shiny side down over the headlight Press the foil down onto the light. I use a soft pencil eraser to help get all the detail into the foil I can. Do this several times and get a bunch of good foil copies done. Flip the foil over, this is your mold for the lights. fill them up so they are just slightly rounded over with your resin and set aside to harden. After they're hard you can trim off the excess foil and resin and use them as is, the foil makes the reflector. or you can peal the foil off and use them as any regular clear lens.

Thanks again everyone, Here's a link to the finished truck,,

Classic Industries has it in spray cans. $16.99 a can. PP809 - 1968 M46 Ivy Gold OER® Color Coat Spray 12 Oz. Aerosol Canhttps://www.classicindustries.com/product/1985/pontiac/firebird/parts/pp809.html

Mark, Please PM him or post in his thread, Thank you.

Very nice !! Perfect colour and clean workmanship, just beautiful.

Finished up the wheels and got the stance dialed in. Also finished the front of the cab and glued the box and cab together. The headlights were drilled out and replaced with a couple of my resin ones. the bumper was shaved and replated. I modified the mounting tabs so it would sit about a scale inch higher. Didn't quite look "right" before.

Snopes pretty well debunks that whole "Nova in spanish speaking countrys" myth pretty well. Here's a link , interesting reading. http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

Figured I'd start my own thread for my build instead of cluttering up Steven G.s thread on his '67. Anyway, Started with a reasonably built car missing the stock tailights and front bumper and grille, which I got replacements for from Modelhaus. Got it stripped. It was sanded a bit before the last paintjob and the scripts were damaged, also bad glue rash where the custom rocker panel trim was glues on. So I sanded the rest of the scripts off along with the door handles, repaired the rockers and replaced the rocker and wheel opening trim. The character line down the sides of the car was sanded partially away so I also repaired that and added some structure to the fenders under the hood. Almost ready for primer.

A couple years ago I told Gene that the Idol was what got me hooked on customs. Probably my favorite custom ever. He told me then that the car was for sale again ,, only $300K and it could have been mine !

Thanks everyone. Yes Steve, Honda Dyno blue ,, or at least it' s supposed to be. I expected it to be a bit darker, And, yea, I'll paint your S-10 if you'll buff out my T/A ,, anyone know where I can get 100 cases of Tamiya polishing compound?

Took a couple shots of her out in the sun today.

That does look great in that color. You have me rethinking that version of the kit, never cared that much for it but yours is killer !!

Looks good JC. Did you have to do any mods or did the parts fit right in? I can't see any cuts.

Time Machine resin [TM resin] does a conversion kit with body, bumpers, tailights, dash and seats. Pretty well everything you'd need to convert the AMT '69 to a '68.

I like that. When I do another one, I plan to do it in a light blue also.

Not to pick nits but I'm pretty sure '82 Z-28s came from the factory with 215/65/15 tires, not 60 serise. That's the same size as the base tire on my '85 T/A. Also what it says in the '82 Camaro brochure. [of coarse, some things in those brochures change after they're printed] But, yea, new tires would have been very nice. ,,, and those old Revell rubber tires look too small to me on those kits. They look more like an old skinny 78 serise tire. You don't see them very much anymore because they had a habit of rotting away to dust. I have one somewhere that's just a ring of tread and two rings for around a rim and very little else keeping it together.

Humm,, stupid big oversize wheels ,,, you sure it's not one of the Jada plastic kits? If you put some proper sized wheels on them they actually look pretty good.