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They're all excellent, Claud but I just love that Thunderbird !

All gems , Cliff.

Finished 4 this year. Not bad for me lately. Thanks for looking. ?

Thanks. Seeing as you're building a Laurentian I thought you might like to see this,, Klik on where it says "replies" below to see the finished car. ,,and another one,,

Found a set of headers from an old reissue of the AMT '65 Chevelle wagon with close to the right port spacing. Added flanges and bolt head detail made from stretched sprue and shot it with some spray can silver laquer. Also dremmelled out the flat surface of the headlight bezels where the lenses go and foiled them before adding the lenses. I think it looks better then the flat surface behind there.

My "bare bones" '79 was a strait 6 /automatic car with no options except one,, the sway bars. It handles like it was on rails at any speed.

Nice work. I was wondering when someone besides me would tackle some Canadian Pontiacs and Beaumonts. ?

I only have a PS3.

Too bad you can no longer go online with GT4, we could get a race series together. ?

Used to play a lot of GT2 back in the day. If you flipped some of the cars you'd see they had a chassis plate like a die-cast car complete with screws. It was only a couple of them, I forget exactly which ones, it was 20 years ago. ?

The wheels look like these, but modified. The inside of the rims looks like they were cut apart and widened or narrowed and a screw attached to the center. I had always assumed they were ment to be a BMW roadster wheel design but I couldn't find anything using this exact design wheel.

I did find a pic of a gluebomb lot with the '75 grille but I couldn't copy pics from that site. You can see the '75 grille in front of the brown car in the pics at this link. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/amt-438-75-76-nova-pro-street-project-1922585985

I was thinking of this one. Note the earlier grille. Forgot they updated it for later releases.

I think the AMT was a '75. MPC did '77,'78 and '79 Novas. I have a '78 to redo someday.

Yea, they're not quite the right size. Should be a bit bigger but if that's the only nit to pick on the kit I'd say we're golden.

Love it. What, no Goanna, Cold Chisel or Red Gum tapes?? ?

Here's a link directly to the automotive section and in english. https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/car/

Finally got the paint on. I did add some material to the windshield pillars and a couple tabs for glass placement. As gonna use the last of my HOK candy root beer but I guess it was too old. Had to thin it quite a bit and it didn't dry right. So I decanted some dark metallic brown duplicolor spray I had and let it sit for a week. All the metallic flake settled to the bottom and just left the transparent brown. Poured off the transparent brown and mixed it 50/50 with duplicolor clear and had my candy brown.

finally got paint on this thing.

As the former owner of a '79 Nova coupe, I'm quite happy to hear that as I missed out on the last release.

Not specifically that I know of but MCG makes a set for the '60 that has the script along with a lot of other stuff that could be used on a '61.

If Chrysler in Australia used that material on their cars would have been "croc-grain" ? ?

The '57 Chevy. Don't know if it's still in there though.

When we were in our teens back in the dark ages [early '80s] my cousin Phil wanted me to spray his '74 Malibu couple with tremclad gloss black. So one Saturday we masked the thing off and I sprayed it with my little put put compressor and a 30 dollar spray gun outside behind his dads house. Looked pretty good when I was done and we started taking the paper off the still [mostly] wet paint , , , it started raining. By the time we got all the paper off and it stopped raining it looked exactly like Marty's pic. ? So,, maybe spray your surface and mist some water on it while the paint it still wet? Worth a try but maybe on a spoon or something. ?

Only 11 more to go Joseph. ,,, and there is a member on here who does post exactly the way I suggested to you even though he's been on here for years. ?