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  1. Superbird McMonte
    That’s a lot of quotes! I am getting a female West Highland White Terrier in a month. We picked out the name Leeloo! Ironically, she has an orange spot on her to identify her from her litter mates! Like Leeloo’s orange hair! My daughter pointed that out.
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    Decal time! These decals are of my own creation. The Plymouth lettering would end up getting replaced with fresh printed decals, and two layers. Working drawing for the horn decal.
  4. Superbird McMonte started following 1970 Superbird tribute build , 71 Olds 442 W30 (replica of my brother in law’s car) , 1970 Plymouth AAR 'Cuda and 2 others
  5. Superbird McMonte
    This is a great build and a great kit! The work you are putting in reminded my of a long stalled project of my 1970 Monte Carlo. I created a nice non-AC heater box.
  6. Superbird McMonte
    Thanks! Yes, it’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it! LOL
  7. Superbird McMonte
    I made up this resin interior as part of a Superbird trans kit I was developing. The body is ready for molding and the last part that I need to do. All of the resin interior parts are from the Monogram 1970 Road Runner kit. They have been modified to fit the Revell Charger floor pan.
  8. Superbird McMonte
    With the body polished out to my liking, it was time to turn my attention to my favorite part of the build. Foil! No joke! I love to foil!😁👍 After foiling, I set up the ride height. I measured from the rocker to the ground next to both wheels. Made up this jig in scale for the body to sit on. I oblonged the hole in the wheel backs and slid them into place. A little 5 minute epoxy set them all in place for ever! Very happy with the way she sits!
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    Nice painting! I’m starting on a well weathered AAR Cuda soon.
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    These are the sanding sponges I used. Wet sand and polish with Novus
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  12. Superbird McMonte
    Here is the body in the first paint job. I ended up sanding in the whole thing down and then using this as a base color. And then put another three coats over this. Paint is Tamiya TS 23. Those three coats went on much nicer! Began mocking up the exterior bits. The wing and scoops were mounted with blue FunTak temporarily. I’m using the chassis from a Revell 1968 charger. I decided to do a little wet sanding. Novus has been my go to polish for over 25 years.
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    This past December I took delivery on my dream car! A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird Tribute car! So of course, I had to get right on building a replica of my replica! I started with a Jo-han Superbird body I had laying around. I also had a destroyed 1970 GTX promo to source the back window from. Many years ago, I resin cast all of the parts for the Superbird in 25th scale. I found that the Monogram nose fit right on the Jo-han kit, with slight tweaking. I also cast the wing and scoops from the Jo-han kit. Believe it or not, the Jo-han wing actually scales out better for the monogram kit, then its own wing does! This model is 95% done at this point. But since my track record on here has been to start a thread and never finish it, I figured I would do this a little bit different. I will post every couple days installments of progress as it was done over the last few weeks. This way you’ll get to see one of my projects completed. This was also a quick build, I plan on doing a better more accurate representation in the future. 😁👍
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    Mine is still just the body. It is going to fit the AMT 55 Nomad chassis.
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    It’s got a 440 4 barrel with automatic on column. Black bench interior. More pictures soon.😃
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    I just bought this car a couple days ago. It’s on its way up from the Carolinas. So I had to start building a model of her! Started life as a 1970 roadrunner big block with automatic transmission. Bench seat red interior. The conversion was done two owners ago. The interior was converted to black. All of the body modifications are done with Janak fiberglass. The only thing that has not been changed is the rear window. The owner that started the conversion passed away. The next owner picked off a few things on the list of things that have not been done yet. But other obligations gotten away, and the car went up for sale, and I bought it from him. I started my replica with a Jo-han Superbird. I took the back window out of a derelict GTX promo. My next modification will be to the front wheel openings. I plan on sectioning in the openings from the 70 Dodge Coronet.
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