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Watched "Batman - Hush" a couple days ago. Animated, of course. Funny how the WB animated movies are so much better than any of their live-action superhero movies. But, yea, pretty entertaining. Good story and the characters were well written.

If you hover your cursor over Greg's icon, you'll see he hasn't been here for several months. You might do better to fire off an e-mail to him at the addy he posted above then waiting for an answer here.

Humm, closed after 33 years. Wouldn't have expected that.

Steve doesn't cast anything himself, he just resells them. If there's something you want it's best to e-mail and ask if he still has it. He has a very good reputation for excellent service.

Also there's an excellent one in the '62 Thunderbird.

Very sharp !

They look like "G" in this ad. Looks like '57 Olds caps with the 6 bars added.

The dead giveaway is usually your name doesn't appear on the e-mail at all, just the e-mail addy it was sent to. But if there's any doubt, contact whoever it's supposed to be from on your own, not using ANY contact info in the e-mail. ,, and yes, some of them are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

It's just the way they're painted, Dusty. If you look closely at the grille in the gold car, just under the gap between the Charger lettering and emblem, you can just make out the small horizontal bars in the grille. The silver paint on the vertical bars hides them well compared to the all black grille.

Better yet, just paint the grille section flat black and just highlight the "Charger" script. It would hide the RT emblem behind a rectangular emblem [3 on that '70 photoetch sheet] and it would look pretty good.

But how would you deal with the thick horizontal bar across the center? The '68 grille doesn't have that, that's why I didn't recommend the PE set strait off.

Nice!. I like those mid-'80s Vettes a lot and black is the perfect color for them.

It's just a base model 305. ?

Cut out that section of grille and replace it with a section from another grille. Not so easy finding another MPC '68 Charger annual grille though. would a section from a Revell '68 match?

IF it's a solid, non-metallic paint, then you should be able to just wet sand it out with 1000 grit like Leroy said above but then polish it with scratch remover. But if it's a metallic, you'll need to do as he said above.

Possibly one or two of us. ?

OK, so,, What exactly would Okey Spailding's company, "Johan" hold? Everyone's assuming it's the same company that made all those kits in the past but that was "Jo-Han". It was my understanding that he started up a new company with a similar name to move whatever merchandise he had with pipe dreams of actually producing some kits. I don't think it's legally the same company, but I don't know all that much about it, just asking .

I'd test fit all those parts together before painting. The Revell chassis IS NOT a drop-fit in the MPC kits , I know that from experience so it might take some extra cutt'n and fitt'n to get the Revell chassis to play well with the rest of those assorted parts.

I just read on another site that there's plans afoot to remake "Escape from New York". ?

, , , and besides, the Bond Aston Martin was a DB-5, not a DB-6 Looks similar from the front, very different from the back.

Funny thing about that,, I recently acquired a '63 basket case to rebuild. I measured it out and it is indeed the correct length and width for 1/25. Then, there's the "short deck" '61 to '63 4 door cars. I don't think many people know about those but they were 7 inches shorter in the rear 1/4s and deck then a "regular" sedan. Here's an article on those,, https://www.indieauto.org/2021/07/23/the-compact-1961-63-cadillac-that-went-nowhere/ BUT, even if they were originally undersized, that would be easily corrected with the software. My buddy who's been printing wheels and tires for me tells me he can very easily print them in any dimensions I like. I would imagine it would be a similar process with a body file.

IF, we were to talk JoHan, the obvious kits to copy would be the '70 GTX and Road Runners,, possibly a Javelin. BUT, those Caddys. Humm?? Most of the earlier ones were 4 door cars. IF I was to clone one I would make it a 2 door variation instead. The '61 2 door was a gorgeous car, for example. And, besides, wouldn't it be the car company that holds any rights to the design and/or image of any car in question?

Anyone see Chad McQueen's early movie, "Red Line". Not a remake of Bullitt but does have an homage to the famous chase scene. Not a great movie, BTW. But, here's the chase scenes in that movie.

I'll check to see if I have any extras. I thought I had more then two sets but that's all I can find at the moment. At least you know what to look for now.

A couple more from the swap meet I went to a couple weeks ago. The Olds, I've already shown. All were built but apart now. and in good condition. The Buick has all the parts except wheels for a stock build and the '65 Bonnie is an original issue that has very crisp scripts and almost no seam on the front bumper. I picked up the latest reissue a couple weeks ago so this one will be built in black and almost stock since it's so sharp and the new one will be a full custom. The bumpers for all these and a couple more are now stripped and being sent for new chrome.