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Man that color is awesome!

You have my attention. That is a nice looking color. You lucked up on that one. Anything I've ever gotten that was already painted looked like a 5yr old finger painted it.

I used white primer under it Actually, I believe it was tamiya's light gray primer

Are you talking about his one? It's gray

Tamiya pearl yellow maybe?

Thanks guys. Very much appreciated!

Thank gents. Much appreciated!

Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

So I ended breaking out the Novus 2. It appears to be a success and we're back on track. This wasn't originally what I had in mind, but I'm kinda digging the way it turned out. So I'm thinking this is the direction I'm taking. All my other bits and pieces have been painted as well... Next will be assembly. Stay tuned...

This is the latest release of the Revell/Monogram Monte Carlo... and my first time ever building it. I chose to go with the custom stripe package this go around, with Pegasus wheels. Paint is Testors Extreme Lacquer Graphite Dust and Wet Look Clear. I liked it. I see me building this one again factory stock..ish... As always, thanks for looking... on to the next.

I let my intrusive thoughts get the better of me. I had an idea on color from looking at an old build. So, I found a can of Tamiya Metallic Gray, and even though I knew better, I sprayed her down. Man it looked good... for all of 5 minutes. So I guess I'll let it sit for a day or so. Then see if I can clean it up. If not, I guess I'll be stripping it... ugh, oh well...

Thank ya guys... No real updates to speak of, but I did get her in primer. It's a rainy day with some elevated humidity, so probably no hopes of painting this weekend. That's cool though, as it gives me more time to think of color options. I was thinking about your normal contenders, but I've decided to go for more of a custom color. I'm just not sure what direction yet.. Anyway, at least I'm still working on one.

This is after thinning out the wheel wells... I not sure if it shows as well in the photo as it does sitting here in front of me, but I'm pretty sure I've got it where it needs to be.

So I decided I'd cut a notch halfway through the frame rails on both sides of the front to help give added support to the new "spindles". After this and making sure the front "spindles" fit I moved on to the back. I decided to glue the suspension in as designed. From there I cut off the leaf springs from their mounts and cut a small section from the floor plan on both sides. After these steps, I've glued the leaf springs back on at a lower point on the mounts. It's crude for sure, and I still have to clean it up and see what I can do with it, but a quick mockup shows even though I have to make a couple adjustments it's about right where I meant for it to be.

Thank ya much... Honestly, and this is surprising to me, I have no idea yet...

I live in the fine state of Tennessee also

So this morning, we're off to the races. I've decided to try my hand at dropping if a little bit. I wasn't sure just exactly how to go about this. I dug around in my pile of plastic and found a rod and had a bit of a "hmm" moment. So I cut of the end of the original spindles. And then, drilled out holes for the new spindle location. Then I drilled out the wheels to accept the rod I found. Then glued a couple pieces of the rod inside. Gonna let the glue set up and think about the rear suspension a minute. We shall return...

I've decided to try to knock out a fairly easy one as I attempt to get back in the swing of things I built a Cuda probably 30 years ago now. It was one molded in purple, so I pretty much didn't have to do anything at the time. I got this one a couple years ago to build a better version as I do from time to time, but I've decided to go a different direction. I'm going to try to customize it a tad, but nothing crazy. I really want this to be a fairly easy and quick build... but we all know how that goes, so we'll see... Let's get this started shall we...

snotty, arrogant, condescending, whining, know all-be all's...

Hope I don't disappoint and maybe actually build it this time.

HPIguys Workshop is a review channel. Nothing more, nothing less. Absolutely serves the purpose it's meant for. Everybody on here that says they watch it, admit they do for the purpose it's meant... including OP. There's a video on Youtube for every level of modeling.. just as there's a thread on here for the same... And if there's not, fire up the camcorder and start your own channel showing said techniques. Be the change you're looking for... and after enough views you can get paid for it.

Seeing as how I didn't even open this last time... and I've entered it into another build off... I'm going to jump back in with this Surely that'll entice me to knock this one out now.

Good looking builds folks. Congrats to all Life got so busy, I didn't even get mine open. Better luck next year hopefully

Very nicely done

I know I commented on this already... but I love when one of these monogram kits comes up like this. Very nicely done