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I agree with everyone, I too wish someone would do this in styrene. I don’t know though how profitable it would be for Moebius do one, I wish they would. I wonder if 3D printing would be an alternative?

Finally up on wheels and tires. Time to do the chrome trim on this and then the interior. What do y’all think?? Keep smiling.

Not a stupid question, jokingly I would say “With little tiny brush strokes”. Sorry, my sarcasm gets me in trouble sometimes. But seriously I have an old cheap Badger air brush that I use. I’ve had it for years and it hasn’t let me down. I should have mentioned it. Thanks for asking. Cheers

What did I accomplish?? I paint with fingernail polish at times and I didn’t get full coverage when I painted this the first time. So I wet sanded with 1500 wet-dry (wet of course) and got all the boogers out. Then I bought more of the same color and 3 more coats later - here we are. Debating on scallops now. Cheers.

I’m interested in the Bronco and the Gurney Eagle, but we will have to see what the cost will be.

Getting back to the 64 Dodge Pickup, doing a bit of work on the exhaust system. I pulled the exhaust from the AMT 57 Chevrolet Bel Air Street Machine kit (new tool). It has an excellent exhaust system but there were modifications to make it fit right. I made my own hangers. I also scratch built a gas tank and mocked it up in place. Ready for more paint. Cheers

Here is a build idea, from Gene Winfield. This would involve quite a bit of work but the end result would be so cool. The Olds Toronto engine could be sourced from the recently reissued MPC kit “The Californian”. The Eldorado and the Toronto shared the same engine transaxle setup.

Getting back to the upcoming MPC reissues. I for one am glad that Round2 is reissuing this vintage of Toyota Supra. I prefer it over the F&F 93 Supra. I do have one in my stash and it looks like it was an attempted build but the paint stripped. I thought this was a good detailed kit and a risk since it wasn’t another Camaro, Mustang or such. on a side note although I do have a Revell-Monogram 65-67 Corvette I might just pick up the Streaker Vette when it comes out. Depending on the cost. Cheers

I am kinda curious about the old Revell 57 Bel Air, I did acquire an original built up 2 years ago. Does anyone know if Atlantis did any cleanup or fixing the mold or are they just leaving it as is and issuing. Does anyone have any photos of what’s in the box??

Well it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything, the weather in my area prevented me from painting. I decided to two-tone this paint job. Both colors are Testers Extreme Lacquer, root beer brown and bronze. It came out okay but I have some fixing to do on this with some color sanding and polishing. Pardon the dust on the model but I did have to let the model sit and gas out. Enjoy and thanks for looking. Cheers.?

I have a few of the previous issues of the 58 Impala. So my money is safe.

Now that the hardtop snd 2 door post are out, I’m waiting and keeping my eyes peeled so I can build this. From Martin Brothers in Austin Texas.

Well my money is safe for this month at least.

Finally I’ve managed to get back to this. The weather here in the Pacific Northwest has been rainy and cold, but today it was sunny and decent. So I have finally managed to get this into primer. I’m thinking of a two tone, Root beer brown and bronze. What do you guys think? Thanks for looking in the comments, cheers.

Apologies for not keeping this updated, I’ve been rather busy on other things and the weather has been lousy here in the Pacific Northwest. Today the weather was good so I finally got some primer shot, the front fenders came out pretty good. Soon it will be time to paint color. Thanks for looking and the comments. Cheers.

Waiting for the weather here to get higher than 30°F. Then it’s on to primer snd paint.

Update: Fabrication is complete, now it is time to think of paint. I have been thinking of a two-tone root beer and bronze, but now I’m having second thoughts. My brother in-law suggested a Dodge light blue which was popular - maybe a bit faded? Any ideas??

Sorry it has been so long, I’ve been caught up in some other things. Here is the current status: I’ve got most everything ready but now I’ve had to start scratch building-kit bash an exhaust system. Them maybe I’ll look at redoing the rear bed insert, I first attempt was a big failure. Thanks for looking. Cheers

Here is one I wish they would re-issue, whoever they is. I’ve built the kit decades ago. From what I remember it went together rather well.

Update -Interior: i just can’t seam to know when to leave things alone. I decided to do something extra to the interior. The door panels have a good pattern so I’m leaving that alone, but I decided to change the seat pattern. I just drew out what I wanted and measured everything to straighten it all out. Evergreen V Grove siding was used for the pleated inserts and I just built up the edges around the inserts with more Evergreen 1/4” strips. I cut the shapes to fit. Then filled the edges and sanded all smooth carefully. The separation line of the inserts looked terrible so I glued on some small half round to cover and straighten things out. What do y’all think?? thanks for looking and keep smiling.

AMT 1974 Javelin on top (white) glue kit?? Johan 1974 Javelin on bottom (green) snap kit. I think that they are different - IMHO. But that doesn’t matter much to me. I would like to see the AMT reissued.

Here is what I would like to see reissued. AMT’s 1974 AMC Javelin.

Thank you for the compliment, I feel like I’m still going to School and learning things myself.

Like a lot of hobby shops at least in my area, they sell a generic brand with their name on it. I usually get the GAP FILING super glue. When you described what happens to you when you glue stuff, always almost happens to me too. When I do glue on trim I have to glue it a bit at a time. Starting at one end and slowly working my way to the other end. Hope this helps.

Greetings all, I decided to turn my attention to the rear of the 55 Bel Air. I decided to use the custom taillights out of the AMT 55 Nomad kit. I cleaned up the bits of flash on the taillights and I did a little bit of re-shaping them. I now had to re-work and extend slightly the rear taillight housings in the fenders. So I glued on some Evergreen flat stock on the stock fender openings and using an emery board, I molded and re-shaped the Evergreen to the fenders and fitted the taillights. Then it was another bit of glazing putty and sanded the fenders smooth and a bit of primer. Not too bad. Thanks for looking, cheers.