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Thanks Ron. There really isn't that much difference is there?

Would it be possible for someone to post a side by side comparison pic with the Monogram fastback and the AMT 1/25 coupe? I don't have any of the Monogram fastbacks myself and would like to see just how much difference there is in size between them.

Speaking of photo etch, MCG makes a small set for the AMT snapper.

I'm in the middle of a 2 week vacation so I'm making pretty good progress. . Interior's finished and installed along with the tinted windshield. Chassis is all set up and the engine's about 1/2 done. Most of the original engine was too glue damaged to use so I'm using the small block from the current '63 split window kit as it's almost identical. Just keeping the original valve covers. They were really nicely engraved but one's damaged. Hopefully some of the injection hardware will hide most of that. The taillight bezels were too damaged to save so I made new ones from some hollow plastic rod. It was slightly too large to fit in the openings so I used my cordless drill as a lath and turned it down with an X-acto knife until it fit neatly in the openings. Then I glued the rod to peices of plastic to hold them together and strait and trimmed them to fit. I just sprayed them with a coat of Alclad gloss black and will clean up the edges a bit more and give them another coat when dry then Alclad chrome. The original custom lenses will be cut to length and reused.

Yes, the old MPC annual bodys were accurate in that area. If you compare the newer kit with pics of a 1/1 you just can't un-see it.

That AMT '71 Duster kit is a good kit but it has serious proportion issues with the rear of the roof and rear side windows.

Very sharp Raoul. I like the red and silver combo.

Looks like Weird Al to me.

I have the Z and the T/A kits. I had a 1/1 S/E and tried to get a hold of that kit for years with no luck, that's OK though as I found out later that it's just the T/A kit with a flat hood. Same body as the T/A with the fender vents and wheel spats. Still pretty nice kit if you swap a proper small block Chevy engine in them. and the T/A body looks pretty accurate to the 1/1 '85 I have out in the garage.

Revells or Monograms? The Revell kit is nice ,, except for the totally incorrect "Pontiac like" engines in them. and there's just something off on the front of the Monogram Firebird kits.

I do that kind of stuff with my Dremmel all the time and have in fact done that grille in the past. Just go slow. using a barrel sander, make light passes over the back . Don't try to take it all off at once, light passes will get you there. You'll be able to tell when you get close to being through. You'll be able to see the pattern of the grille where you're sanding. You can stop before you're completely through and finish opening the holes with a sharp #11 X-acto . Good luck.

I like Volare Road Runners. Hey, ya gotta like a car that gets ya on a magazine cover, right?

That is absolutely the best build I've ever seen of an RX-7 period !

Looks great.

Model Car Garage makes sets for the '67, '69 and '71 Chargers.

If you clean your brushes with lacquer thinner and it gets into the paint off your brush that will happen. Doesn't take much either, just the brush not being completely dry after cleaning and dipping in the bottle can do it. It's happened to me.

Yes,, Escape pod has some really good stuff there. I haven't listened to any in a while because it was throwing up a warning on my Norton but it seems clear the last few times I've checked in on it. I'm not familiar with the other ones but they sound interesting. I'll have to check them out when I get a chance.

Have you listened to "X Minus 1" and "Dimension X" at archive.org ? Great old NBC radio plays from the '50s with mostly great quality audio. "Mind Webs" is pretty good too. It's from the '70s,I think but the audio quality is kind of spotty. I've been listening to this for a while now. Heard al the shows a couple times but still good to listen to while building. https://archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

Yes, some oven cleaner would have all those parts stripped of paint in no time.

It's not the age of the paint, it's what's under it. If you put transparent yellow, which that paint it, over grey or black it will look green. years ago I had a shirt that had thin black /yellow pinstrips, it looked greenish from across the room.

Bricklins have always gotten a bad rap but they could run with a comparatively equipped Vette made at the same time. A few performance upgrades would have made a world of difference,, like at least 4bbl carb But then again, they were supposed to be "safety cars" , not performance cars and were aimed at a different market. Makes a person wonder just what we could have had if the emphasis was on performance and they had a few more years to develop the car. I've always loved the Bricklin from day 1 but then again I'm prejudiced, the body panels were made in my tiny home town and final construction was done less than an hour away. Pretty headdy stuff for a 9 year old.

Man, you guys are really making me want to revisit this old thing I did back around '83 or so. LOL. The rear wing was based on a street driven IMSA Monza featured in one of the magazines at the time. [Hope the pics are OK, I'll remove them in you like]

Ron, sometimes I feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of the model car world.

You must mean the one that was shown being built on the board a couple years ago and took months to do? It's on my TV in my living room.

Wouldn't those be strait 6s, not V6s? I thought Ford hadn't offered v6s in domestic cars until the Mustang II in '74?