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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.

Thanks Scott. I used ICI "Shop Line" base and clear from a local shop.

In all honesty Bill, my uncle wanted to spray the final color coat and the clear. but his garage and equipment so I didn't want to say no. I would have rather done it all myself though. [there are some things I would have done differently] I did do the bodywork that wasn't welding and sprayed most of the color on ,, and the color sanding and buffing will be all mine.

Finally got the paint on my T/A. My first time using a HVLP gun so don't mind the 1/1 scale orange peal. Wet sanding and buffing was always in the plan anyway.

Very nice ! I could see Old Blue Eyes and the rest of the Rat Pack cruising the Vegas strip after dark in that car.

very very nice !!

Hey Jon, my dad had one same color but bone stock. He had it for years and even did one trip from Pacific to Atlantic and back with it. Unfortunately, the Revell kits have a chopped top.

I always thought those seats looked great in those Camaros. They came in a few colors too. And if you're really into those cars you can buy that fabric by the yard and do something like this.

No good Ron. Wants us to sign in or join up. I take it you're looking for a new pic host.