Superbird McMonte

Thanks espo!

Makes for a cute little two seat wagon!

Always liked the proportions on the AMT 55 nomad. Plus I like the monogram 53 Corvette over the AMT Corvettes. The scale difference helped putting the two cars together.

I plan on building it as one of 4 Motorama cars from 1954. In one of the pictures is the show car only hubcaps. They have the Corvette emblem in the center instead of the bow tie. It’s hard to see in the picture but you can see the bow tie is no there. ?‍♂️ I also modified and cast the air cleaner clearance 55 Corvette hood for all my 1955 Corvettes. Here are some pictures of the Hartop that is much farther along!

I guess I started this one 15-20 years ago.

I agree 100%! I’m not afraid to sand off mold lines on my chrome bumpers anymore!

I like it! ?

Here’s my A12 “Barn Find”

I love that! Your friend is right! Leave it like that!?? I have an A12 69 Road Runner that is tha same way. I’ll post a picture tomorrow. Put me on the potential buyer list if you want to get rid of it!? I would love to put the two in a garage diorama!?

I removed my post because I felt I was highjacking Bill’s thread. I will start a new post.

Yeah, I know that all too well! I made a list: 1) nose and emblem 2) rear 3) fender vents 4) wheel openings flared 5) marker lights 6) longer L88 hood I would also like to correct the rear window opening. It doesn’t wrap around at the ends on the real cars. Aside from obvious interior changes, can you think of anything I missed? I appreciate anyone’s input. Except telling me I’m crazy. I already know that!??

I’m leaning toward finishing the Saturn Yellow car first. The paint has been polished on it.?

Hey Bill, I’m taking a slightly different approach to my Baldwin Motion 1974 Corvette. I’ve had this thought in my head for some time. I will start a thread on this soon. But I plan on using a Revell 69 Corvette body to build a 74.

Found 3 long lost bodies. If I remember correctly, they stalled while trying to scratch build bumpers for the green one. They need to be 71-72 style.

In all seriousness, I like the idea! I’ve toyed around with the Duke boys driving a 1970 Monte Carlo,?

What do you call the hybridization of a Bat with a Cobra.... Babra.... Cobrat....?‍♂️

VERY clean stripes! I hope mine come out half that good!

That paint looks awesome! I’m dreading masking the stripes for the Motion Corvette. I may try the Tamiya tape if you recommend it!

I agree Bill! When I visit my parents and look out my old bedroom window I see a sea of roofs and I can’t identify a single one!?‍♂️ My son , on the other hand knows them all!?‍♂️ On a positive note, he is pretty good at year identifing on muscle cars too!?

Waaaaaay back in 1980 I was 12 years old. My bedroom window overlooked the West Islip High School. Every graduation day, my dad and I would stand on the deck to the pool so we could look over the fence and chant, “We want smoke! We want smoke!” I remember a lot of muscle cars that were driven to School in the 70s. From Road Runners, Chevelles, Corvettes, to 442s, you name it. They never failed to fill our neighborhood with smoke and the smell of burning rubber! I did my part in 1986 with my 1970 Monte Carlo. It was a 350 2 barrel with a 2 speed powerglide. I couldn’t do a standing burnout, but donuts worked to break the tires loose! I have a short video taken by my mother! We were and still are a car family! Here is a short video of my efforts: Back to the subject of this post! One day in 1980 while looking over the cars in the parking lot, I spied a Corvette. It looked pretty cool, so I grabbed my 110 camera, hopped the 6 foot chain link fence and ran over to the car for a couple pictures. Back in those days you didn’t know what your pictures looked like until you sent the film out for developing and got them back. I guess all the running put me a little out of breath and the pictures came back with bit of camera shake. But I saved those pictures all these years. I’ve always wanted to do a model of that car, and the Revell 62 Corvette was just what I needed to finally get it done! There’s some lettering on the front fenders that is very hard to read today in these pictures. But for some reason “Dad’s Dream” sticks in my mind from all those years ago. Recently a friend of mine was able to clean the pictures up a little bit for me, and it does look like that’s what it says on the fenders. So I painted the body white and then masked off what I wanted to leave white. I painted the rest of the car black but experienced some trouble with paint flaking off while I was removing the masking tape. I set that body aside and decided to paint the spare body that I had, black and then mask off for the white. This yielded much better results. Plus as it turns out I incorrectly painted too much of the cove white the first time around. In the pictures I can see the car had a teardrop hood. I was unable to find a teardrop hood for that body style Corvette so I had to create my own. I used plastic and clay to get a rough shape and then made a mold and cast the hood in resin. The resin copy was smoothed out, primed and painted with the rest of the car. Here is where I’m at now. The interior is in place and the chassis with the wheels in place. There are some pictures below. I figure for the engine I’ll do a dressed up 350 with basic chrome goodies and headers. This is artistic license of course, as I did not get any pictures of the actual motor. I printed the Dad Dream lettering on the laser printer using white decal film with a black border. But it’s not working too well. I recently acquired my father‘s old laptop that still has windows XP on it. I have to try and find drivers for my Alps printer so I can print the lettering in white on clear film. Here are some pictures, any comments or suggestions are welcome!

I told you this would happen Bill. Now I have my 74 Corvette out! I think the interior is going to be similar. Mine will replicate the last Motion Corvette though!

Very nice turnout for the LIARS Challenge! Show pictures

This Saturday November 10, is the LIARS model contest.

Anything in particular you want to know about??

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!