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Gareth I sprayed the front bumper on this Volare almost 3 months ago and I can assure you it still looks as it does in this pic right now. It can take regular handling but needs a long time to dry. I'd suggest not handling it for at least a week, more would be better. This may seem a long time but it's similar to what I experience in drying time to Alclad's gloss black basecoat enamel.

Charlie, can you post a pic of the headlights you need? I, or someone else might have something you could use.

That's coming along nicely, Mike.

Ken, Scott at Elm City Hobbies, here in Fredericton carries some stuff and can sometimes order other stuff you might need. He doesn't get as much from the US now as before the coof as he doesn't do a border run once a week like he used to but it doesn't hurt to ask.

If you don't want the white stripes, just put them on toward the back, just like we used to do with the real thing. ?

Got the suspension glued down solid, this is the final stance. Paintwork is coming along too.

I hope they do another issue with regular chrome plating.

Thought this was a "top 5" list, Ron, not a country song.?

Looks good so far, Brian. BTW, you do know this is the 45 year old Monogram kit, right?

They do look great. I tried getting the ones I used on my '29 pickup last year to look better with those same caps and changing the outer face of the rims but I didn't even think of getting them closer together or opening up the closed off areas. Better but not as good as yours look by far.

How about just asking in the wanted section if anyone has a shifter from an AMT or Revell '85 Mustang? AMT,,

Just super ! The wheels look great. Did you thin down the spokes somehow?

I dunno. Any ideas on what's going on with it Peter?

I just checked some old Hot Rod Magazines. Earliest ad I found [with a quick look] was for Firestone with the upside down lettering like in some AMT kits in an August '68 issue. Also see an ad for Goodyears in mid '69. The brochures for '68 Shelby Mustangs also show them wearing Goodyear white letter tires so they were available in at least late '68.

A bakery? ?

Love the friendly, loveable squirrels. My town is positively polluted with them. I can look out any of my windows and see one pretty well any time I like. What I find most amusing is when they get in the garage and knock stuff over, usually resulting in a new dent in the Trans Am ,,, positively adorable.

What kind of printer do you have? Inkjet or laser? Sounds like you're trying to use ink jet paper in a laser printer. There's specific paper to be used with either the ink jet or laser printers. You need to use the one made for the printer you're using. I'd say that's the main reason you've had problems with them.

I'd put money on that being reissued [cloned] in the next couple years.

Got a couple , ,

I think I have the body ready for paint. I'll need to touch up the BIN primer and give it a couple coats of gold lacquer to tell for sure. Got a lot done on the engine too,,

I'm pretty sure they still can. Last time it was reissued was 2010 and was available for several years after so still on the shelves until not that long ago. But, Yea, count me in for a Typhoon. My cousin was with a company that brought mini-trucks over from Japan for a while. This is a little something they retrieved from the far east. [hence the marker lights on the fenders] It was lowered and had some other mods done including a bigger turbo, went like stink. I would have bought it for myself if I could have swung it at the time but had just bought the house so the funds just weren't there.

I would have joined in guys but my '29 was at least 3/4 done [IIRC] when everyone started joining in. Not exactly in that '80s/'90s billet style either though. I did follow along, very cool and interesting to watch everyone else doing their interpretations on the same kit I was just finishing up.

My wife's been plagued with "night visits" since we bought this house. Wakes up screaming and swears something was in the room. It rushed her once while in bed and one afternoon she felt a hand on her shoulder while she was at the kitchen sink, I was on the other side of the room at the time. The last incident, she felt something on her in the bed. A black "shadow" kinda thing. It got close to her face , , she actually BIT IT !! ? Still blows my mind that she did that. She hasn't seen it since. I, on the other hand have never seen anything.

Keith, you should be able to easily straiten out that hood by holding it under hot running tap water, bending it back to shape and cooling it in ice water. Might take a few attempts to get it to stay but it does work. Resin is a lot easier to work with for this then kit plastic as the plastic will shrink when it warps but the resin doesn't.

One of the sets of strips not shown in my pic is white. They did some white, black and aqua strips for me also but on another sheet not shown in my pic above.