CometMan

Nice job! Haven't seen a stock one for a while.

Nice to see you back on this one, Steve! Very nice work, as usual!

It was 1970, I doubt very much those were cans of soda! I'm surprised they didn't add some other "recreational substances" to the accessory list! After all, someone did think it would be cool to turn a Bonneville convertible into a pick up truck!

I really hope the Cubs don't win a World Series, because everyone here will think that the Detroit Lions might win a Super Bowl! And those would both just be WRONG!!

Nice project, Ken. Those look like Fred Cady decals.

Very nice, Nie! That looks like a good cooking pumpkin, did you save any of the insides for seasonal recipes?

Very nice Emmanuel! Don't see that one very often!

Very well done, Randy! I haven't seen too many of the '70's built for a rather unusual subject, I wish they would have re-issued the '65 Bonneville instead of the Grand Prix, because the Bonne has a much cleaner looking grille than the GP!

I think if he would have put out as much effort into building that model as he did into making that video, he would have had a pretty nice model!

Tulio, I'm really surprised to see that reaction to seeing one of your "babies" look like that!

Very nice job, Nick! Really cool!

Yeah, those would be the batteries I was referring to, Nick. Optima is (was?) the most common brand of them, but I am pretty sure I have seen them, or something very close, in other brands (maybe Dekka or Exide?), too.

No, but the side of my box that shows the "accessories" doesn't show them either like on the box art. But, it does show a face mask which those could also be as spiral cell batteries didn't exist until sometime in the '90's or so. This kit seems to be a true "retro kit", because how many modern tool kits do you think would include a spear gun as an accessory?!

Darren, I dug my kit out to have a better look, those remind me alot of spiral cell dry type batteries.

Great job, Steve! Those "fuselage body" cars weren't really that popular when they were new, but they look better all the time.

I have many crafters in my family, they use Mode Podge to seal paper or card-stock designs to wood. If it doesn't attack either of those, I wouldn't think it would damage styerene, but chemical reactions are unpredictable! If it works out well for you, you might try the kind that comes in a squeeze bottle like Elmers. That way you could thin it out in your air brush to your taste and have more control than a spray can, and it would go farther too.

The MPC '32 Chryslers, the Monogram '32 Cadillac,the Italeri '33 Cadillac all had lights very close to that (although they may be harder to find and more expensive). Also, some of the T or A kits with custom parts had the torpedo-shaped lights as well as the bowl-shaped stock ones.

Most cars from the '30s had headlights fairly similar to that, there are quite a few out there.

Ron, I would go with your original idea! The chrome moons would give it a more vintage look, and just a touch of shine against the gray.

Nice job, Ron. Too bad they didn't make a more accurate '39 for the stock builders, but as a custom, it looks good!

Nice job, Oscar! That Rustoleum Chrome looks really good.

The Olds would be a welcome change from the usual Fords and Chevys. If Moebius was able to do rather well with their stock versions of early '50s Hudsons, why couldn't someone do the same with a mid-70s Olds?

Super nice Cyclone, Myron! The pictures of my '66 has the stock Cyclone caps, they were standard for Cyclones from '64-'67.

It's the same as trying to find parts for a Mercury, much like the BOPs they were not simply re-skinned Fords or Chevys like many of the uninformed like to insist they are!

Yeah, he seems to offer alot of fairly recently issued subjects that can be bought MIB for half that price! I actually took a long look at one not too long ago because I thought it was a '58 Ford (which I would have paid $50 even like that because of rarity), but, after much close looking at his equally bad pics, it ended up being an incredibly bad '57 instead. Glad I didn't bite too quickly!