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Haha I know this car..saw it posted all the time on the Chicago petrol heads and car spotters page on Facebook. Car was at the muscle car and corvette nationals in the fall I believe.

I ordered some stuff from shapeways recently, although it was from a different designer (3D model specialties). Was pretty seamless, parts were printed quick and shipped out sooner than expected, quality was good, they offered two different grades of resin based on how much detail you desire. Parts were nice and as pictured.

Thanks! The slicks are from futur attraction, they're the 30x11s. Required some clearancing of the inner wheel tubs and shaved the inner 1/4 panel lips to fit.

This is cool! I'll be following this! I've always wanted to build the grumpy's toy VIII 70.5 camaro and figured using those two AMT kits is the best way to go, but his car was unique in that it started out as a full bumper car and was converted to the RS nose split bumper but did not have the larger endura rubber bumper around the grille...so it would be a bit of a challenge to fabricate.

Coming from using testors silver paint with a fine brush for all of my chrome trim and mouldings when I was younger to discovering a pen which applies with ease and arguably dries faster and can be handled (carefully) without smudging, I'd say molotow and it's variants can produce a pretty good result. I never liked bare metal foil and thought it was a PITA, so for me a chrome pen does just fine. Did the chrome trim around the windows of my nova as well as some other random parts, (fuel line from carb, thermostat housing, valve cover breathers, master cylinder cover etc).

Is there a reason they have to be those EXACT valve covers? they are pretty generic finned valve covers without any writing on them, you could probably find something very similar in the aftermarket. There's probably dozens of resin or 3D printed big block chevy valve covers to choose from.

Thanks! Because of my OCD I try to be as accurate and as era correct as possible with the parts I decide to use lol.

Welcome back, I just returned to the hobby too after 20 years, similar story and also we share the same first name lol. After watching some youtube videos it got me hooked again and decided to complete a model that I started building ages ago.

I took a 20 year break from the hobby and recently dug into my stash and found a couple cans had done this, of the 20 or so cans some dating back to the mid 90s only the newer cans from about 2011 had leaked out. Most were junk anyway though and wouldn't spray properly. I pitched most of them and had to start over.

Looks really good man, I like it!

Thanks, nice! got any pictures of it?

I just purchased the paint online, not sure if they could mix the paint that way, if I tell them to leave out the metallic it probably wouldn't be the same color, that's kind of what gives it a color shifting look from green to blue in certain light.

I know exactly what you mean, I see it all the time and I've kind of just dealt with it. Even the metallic model paints I've used in the past have the same issue of too large of metallic flake. I've never had the means to use an air brush so I'm kind of stuck with aerosol cans, if there's a specific brand that makes a more "scale" metallic paint let me know. But for this specific model I want to build I want it to be an exact match color-wise..so it kind of is what it is as far as what I have available to use.

I used express paint https://expresspaint.com/ to buy some automotive touch up paint in a spray can, you can order it in a touch up bottle with a brush, aerosol can or in a larger quantity for use in a spray gun and they list nearly every factory color and code imaginable by searching the year make an model. I ordered mystic teal metallic for a 98 trans am build I plan on doing soon and it is a spot on match. Tested it on a spare body I had laying around. It's a urethane paint so I had to clear it after..this is prior to wet sanding and polishing.

Very cool, love these era drag cars, everything so far looks awesome. Maybe I missed it but where did those decals come from? Some day I'd like to do a few lesser known drag cars from some local guys but I have no idea who would make decals for it since it would most likely have to be a one off decal sheet. Only thing I've noticed that could make it more realistic is those front wheels which I assume are from one of the old MPC super stock vega race cars just don't resemble the real deal cragar super tricks or centerline auto drags, they're just too wide for front runners. I've come across a couple aftermarket resin companies that make a great super trick and centerline skinny front runner. I bought a set from futur attraction but competition resin also makes some that look the same, maybe the same tooling? not sure.