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Apologies for the quick follow up post, but the forum is having that absolutely joyous 404 error again on every friggin' post so I'm chopping this one in half in hopes of it working. 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra: 1980 Ford Mustang Cobra: 1984 Ford Mustang GT350 25th Anniversary: 1985 Ford Mustang GT: 1985 Ford Mustang GT Dominator: 1985 Ford Mustang GT Twister II: 1985 Ford Mustang Predator GT302(with Twister II options): 1985 Ford Mustang Predator GT302-H / GT302-R: 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442(for the Jo-Han kit): 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Rallye 350(for the Jo-Han kit as well, updated the previous version to pack more details and... look better.)

@Mr mopar I reckon I should be good to go again from this weekend, so holler at me what you'd like and I'll get on it! Time to put that massive break behind me and get crackin' again. @Len Woodruff Just drop me a message here what you'd like to have! @highway I've had like five sets for the new Challenger planned out for a lifetime now, even got started on a few of 'em. The R/T stripes, 2009 Redline Edition, 2010 Hurst/HEMI Special Edition, Mr Norms Hurst Heritage Edition, Mr Norms Challenger GSS(and GSS-R) and some others. When it comes to the old Challengers, I've still got four more in the works(and are close to being finished), that particular R/T stripe, the '71 R/T with the logo on the hood, '72 Rallye and '78 Colt Challenger R/T(the Mitsubishi Gallant badge engineered one). About colors though, generally these are just previews - any color's possible, besides green as for some inexplicable reason the printers the company uses just make any shade of green dull as can be. I always have to compile every file by hand so I tend to just ask people when they request things what colors they want 'em in, just in case! @Fish_65 I try to do all the engine call-out emblems for sheet I do, if a model allows it of course. Like for the 'Cuda and Challenger, I got everything from 340 through the 440 and if I ever get around to doing older Camaros, you can bet I'll do every size from the 200s through the 427. And speaking of the Dodge D-100, I'm so excited to do so many sheets, as there's so ungodly many to do. Hell, even that Dude II version of which I can't find anything but a grainy low rez picture, but it'll be worth it. Though the downside is, I still haven't been able to find a MPC D100 kit for under 35$. Shipping's always over 25$ and if it's over 24$ I gotta pay 20$ import so the kit quickly becomes 75 bucks for me if I'm unlucky >.< But! Despite it all, I'm using the Lil' Red Express as a template to at least do the front end of some sets instead of sitting idle. Gotta upscale some emblems though, but the groundwork's there! And to Kurt, that's actually a good idea - offer a bunch of little tribute decals that folks could request as little space fillers. Had a fair bit of interest for Cannonball, Nurburgring, Can Am Run and such logos for folks, having one for the BBORR wouldn't be a bad idea either. And to the rest, I think this is a good a time as any to get back at printing again. Recuperated a fair bit, sorted out the money issues a bit and whatever hassle's coming at me is still a few months away so yeah, let's get back at it again! As for the updates, my PC fully died on me a week or two ago and I lost a ton of progress as I discovered I hadn't uploaded to my backup for weeks by that time. Still though, I scavenged some stuff and got some progress done on the Mustang series and the odd Cutlass. I lost all my progress on revamping the '84 Hurst/Olds, the Challengers, a custom set for the '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88, '69 Mustang Mach 1 and TASCA Super Boss 429, like forty hours worth of commissions and likely a handful more as I open older files and realize ooohh goodie, these are two months old.I did most of the fox body Mustang, all besides like four - though I am actively working on doing the Indy Pace Car as we speak. Will say though, doing the 1979 and 1980 Cobras was a handful of work, holy moly. I had like no source material to work with, this was 9 photos overlaid and stretched to weird angles to try and accurately replace them both. Was also fun discovering the 1979 and 1980 Cobra designs were just about entirely different from each other. On top of that, did nearly every dealership version I could figure out existed like the Dominator, Predator and eventually the CFD-25 LX Mustang, kinda neat discovering all of these existing.

Can do, I had someone request them without the R/T lettering in red as well so I already got a filled in design at the ready, just would have to color swap. And I never made a entry for the T-bird seat pattern, only just realized it! I'd have to dig up the file for the pattern but it's still available. Also for Trendsetta68, I'd love to the ModTop materials - been trying to start on 'em for a long time now, stalled out on the Mod Yellow flower pattern after doing most of it by hand and then realizing after seven hours of drawing the pattern still hadn't reached the point where it would begin looping hah. The green one's slightly trickier, not necessarily due to the complexity but due to the printer's apparent total unwillingness to do green right. I've experimented a bit here and there and with the right amount of blue hues I can trick the printer into doing the green as it is instead of a dull swampy green and I'd have to run some test prints to nail it down but unfortunately I don't actually own the printers in question and the company I use hasn't got the time to wanna help out >.< Speaking of which, by the end of the month I'll be more or less operational again after the pause! Didn't sit still in the meantime, got a MPC Mustang kit, a '71 Cyclone kit and the Aoshima '78 Gallant A to work with to do the whole mess of Fox body Mustangs(GT350 20th, Dominator, the Pace Car, Twister II, Predator GT500, so forth) so I got all the models covered from '70 through '92 by the end hopefully, both the Cyclone Spoilers as well as the Spoiler II(doing the Torino King Cobra as we speak) and just to top off the Challengers; doing the '78 Colt Challenger. In June I'm taking a week off work to fully focus on fulfilling orders straight away and getting a small stockpile ready for the most popular products, 'til then it's recuperation and doing designs. 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 "Twister Special": 1972 Ford Mustang Sprint(inc. the Canadian version and Canadian plates, I know it's misspelled "Spirit" in the pic, can't blame me for thinking Spirit of '76 on this one D:): 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1: 1976 Ford Mustang Stallion: 1977 Dodge Aspen R/T "Super Pak": 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T(based on the Revell 1/25th scale): 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A(also based on the Revell 1/25th): 1970 Dodge Challenger Bumblebee Stripe: 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T "Driver San Francisco": 1970 Ford Torino Cobra "Twister Special": 1970 Ford Torino Cobra(Laser Stripes): 1970 Ford Torino Type N/W: 1980 AMC Spirit AMX(a ode to one day having this beautiful little muscle beast in model shape, based this off blueprints and a whole lot of math):

Ohh man, a newly tooled Starion is always welcome in my books, especially if its from Beemax/Aoshima. If it had a engine and a potential stock '87 ESI-R cousin at some point or another I'd be the happiest camper, but a man can dream eh.

Had someone who was interested in having the earlier engine options in the '77 kit but not having the right font decals for the shaker, so thought might as well just include it on the general sheet! Thanks for the kind words though hah, generally I'll try to include all or most the factory options, plus some spare what-ifs that fit the theme if there's interest for it. Also, about the Dodge D-series; got 'em all in the works! Got all the emblems(including the old Fargo truck) ready, plus a boatload of detailing decals for the engine bay and interior and already did the Macho Power Wagon stripes for the cab - just gotta await the kit to accurately do the bed and tailgate. Oh and should mention, I couldn't find a thing on the Dude II other than two promotional shots and a magazine ad, so I'll be whipping that one up entirely from those two promo shots, the landscape shot could be a tiny bit off as I'm working with a 300px image that shows the truck from the front hah.

I bought one of the '73 El Caminos on the cheap, not knowing it was a re-cast of someone elses(Motor City Resin's I think, not sure, only got told it was a copy by some folks) just with really, really thick trim added as a "improvement" of sorts or so he claimed in the description. Can't speak for any of the others but it's the really thick and flaky type of resin that'll require a heck of a lot of cleaning up, but the fit's alright on the El Camino at the very least. I just needed a cheap body to use as a template to design decal sheets off so I grabbed it at a 22$ bid back then. If you can get them on the cheap, I dunno, I can't exactly complain. Absolutely no way in hell I'd pay anywhere over 30$ for it though. One of those your-mileage-may-vary ordeals, I'd say.

Would've been nifty to have had the Formula hood after all those decades, but meh - I'm still into the idea of the Firebird with the flares and wings being optional, as ugly as the gaps will be(opposed to the molded on ones on the Revell and Monogram 1/25th and 1/24th kits), it'll definitely making a bog standard non-Formula/TA version easy as can be. Bit of a bare month again on the kit front though.

I'm actually working up to the '79 Mustang Pace Car as we speak, slowly climbing the years(at '72-'73 now) - and will do the '69 Mach 1, '69 TASCA Boss 429 and the '70 Mach 1 Twister Special when I either find the old '70 Mustang I built ages ago or the '69 Boss 302 ever shows up again on eBay for less than 45 bucks. Totally focused on just the design work for a few months, so I'm gonna get those hundreds of ideas I still got sitting around actually done at some point hah! Also about the Firestone Super Stones Van, y'all reckon it'd be better to do just the flames in white up to the end of the sliding door so the rest of the van can be done via painting? Might still be a hassle on the paint front but with some acrylic paint I reckon there's hardly any color bleed(always a bit of a issue with dark tints under white decals) if one were to brush over the larger white sections of the flames. Also, a bunch of new designs; mostly Mustangs and some obscure as hell versions like the Shelby Europa and Shelby GT-351 which is I believe a single year Mexican edition. Also a handful of Vegas(still doing the '74 GT, and I might do the '71-'72 GT, Yenko and such as well), plus some GMC Sprints. Oh and I revamped the '74 Ventura GTO for Kevin of Missing Link Resin as he's done this absolutely beautiful Ventura GTO kit, deserved a much better design than the one I previously done. 1974 Pontiac Ventura GTO(in all 3 color version pre-designed): 1969-1978 Chevrolet/GMC Air Cleaner Decals: 1974 Chevrolet Vega Spirit of America: 1975 Chevrolet Vega Cosworth Twin-Cam: 1977 Chevrolet Vega GT: 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1: 1971 Ford Mustang Boss 351: 1971 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Prototype: 1971 Ford Mustang Shelby Europa GT350/GT500(T-5 Export): 1972 Ford Mustang Shelby de Mexico GT-351: 1971 GMC Sprint SP: 1973 GMC Sprint SP:

Oh I will, absolutely! Been wanting them to release a sweptside kit so I could do some proper 1/25th scale sets other than the Li'l Red and Midnite Express sets(and the Warlock and Warlock II I still have to whip up). So far I've got plans to do the '78 Power Wagon Macho with the twin dark yellow stripes, the regular D-100 that emulates the bottom chrome-black-chrome strip running along the bottom quarter and I wanna extend on the dash designs with the silver one and adding the set of Volts & Vacuum dials that replaces the clock on some trim. Just to cover the bases! And if anyone has any other ideas, by all means. Hell, with enough free time I reckon I could even do that Top Hand Truck version.

Model_Hobbies, used them before and should've known better this time. The cheap shipping option means its just packaged in a box, no protection, no care, but I suppose its okay cause its cheap.

Any word on the AMT '77 Pinto re-release? Haven't seen a thing on it anymore for a while, weirdly into having one of those again even if its not the MPC one.

Hah you're definitely not wrong! I reckon one of the two is easy to fix, the other is properly smooshed down - reminds me of those stacked wrecks at a salvage yard. I snapped a handful of pics to try and sway the eBay seller to atleast refund me with, no dice so far though. Brute force and heat, here we go!

Fortunately I'm over in the EU so I tried them, see if I could replace the two absolutely demolished bodies, buuuut again no dice - the customer service rep said they have no spare bodies to offer. Plus the store I bought 'em from over on eBay apparently gives no ****s about replacements/refunds(not to mention, the idiots packed the two Revell boxes on top of eachother in a tight box with no filling and the box got beat senseless) sooo I'm waiting out the clock to file a claim. Though I suppose I could always just heat up the plastic and try a little bit of counter warping and try to salvage one, at least I can still use the engines and whatnot for other stuff!

I managed to score two of the RoG kits but man... sadness ahead.

I could, I reckon a MPC '86 El Camino makes for a reasonable template to size them down to get 'em looking accurate. And thanks y'all!

I've had this one finished for a while, just collecting dust again despite it all as I'm off on a short holiday taking a break from it all. I once saw one of those magazine ads for the El Camino Royal Knight from like, 1979 I think, in this gloriously dark metallic red with the bright red stripe treatment. Even though it was a '79, I took the next best available choice; the Revell/Monogram '78 El Camino, which I wanna say for the money is easily the best one to work with. I'd like a MPC one but yeah, too expensive and I hate chrome plated headlights. The only thing I royally ****ed up on was forgetting about the notch in the stripe design right after the doors when I designed the decal sheet, but ah well... The rest of it came through pretty well, even though the hood won't shut properly, the engine bay is barren and the interior is four slabs of flat-ness with over sized seats. Love me some Elcy's, I still got a '74 lying around to work on next. And the decal design for those interested(changed out the GT Radials for some General Grabber HPs, liked 'em more):

Reckon this is my first transkit that I actually finished, saying that glancing back at the pile of dusty resin bodies I've yet to even clean. But by God that Revell kit is a neat little one to work with, complex as all hell yet easy and fun to put together. Had to do a fair bit of guess work with the chassis, interior and even the exhaust piping to fit the Caddy(or Rabbit Pickup for the Americans) body, but even so it was easy-peasy. Felt like it was a Revell production of its own, that's how detailed and well put together the C1 Models transkit is. The only problem I encountered with the whole thing were the tail lights being slightly too large, cut them down like six times and they still hardly fit - to the point that I forgot to reapply the chrome backing again, making them look all smudgy and stuff. Used the quad light GTI grille, which is one of those things folks love to do in real life - swap out the single unit grille for the dual unit one, slap on a GTI emblem just for funsies and wham, twice as attractive. One weird little detail, the Dutch plates that come with the kit aren't actually right, go figure. We stopped using those blue ones for new cars back in like 1978, but ah well. Gonna buy me another one in the near future, whip up that awesomely weird VW Rabbit Pickup "Sports Truck".

Man, that Omni came out to be one beautiful little power wagon - and that paint just pops! Glad I could be of help <3

Oh man you made me squeal with joy, the Audi A4 and literally all those BMWs... I'm so effin' happy they're doing those.

@ChrisBcritter: Thanks dude, can always rely on you for info and better stuff for the license plates, updated it with the edited font <3 @Oldcarfan27: Ahh I had the layer left on hidden while I was doing the aluminum tail-gate for the 500, then made the preview. I really should've known it might've been hidden since I un-hid the layer for the '79 to edit it into the bigger one, go figure hah. I initially designed them in bright orange with the black outline but then halfway through designing it, I may have gotten slightly obsessed with my own plans for a silver Ranchero with all black decals. Might as well make it poppin' orange again while shuffling the whole ordeal around with the missing tailgate stripe. So the most of January I spent just about every day catching up on the mountain of commissions which had been slowly but surely becoming a heck of a challenge to work away, so I killed off the order form for most of the month while doing so. Also spend half of that time catching up on emails and whatnot from over the holidays, which went... well, I guess. Suffice to say I'm swamped hah. Between work, commissions and even disabling ordering I'm barely ever on point with anything, so apologies if I don't reply soon enough or at all in some cases(apparently having seven different ways to contact me blurs the **** out of oversight, who knew!). Though the last couple of days I'd gone back to actually designing up new sets rather than playing chief catch up, mostly for modern cars though: 2008 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500KR: 2008 Ford Mustang GT/CS: 1997 Ford Mustang GT: 2018 Ford Mustang GT(for the Revell snap-kit, which could use some love): 1970 Chevrolet Camaro SS Baldwin Motion 454 Stage III: 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Hennessey "The Exorcist"(man that Grand Tour episode): 1998 Chevrolet Camaro SS (SLP stripes): 2002 Chevrolet Camaro SS Brickyard 400 Official Festival Pace Car(with Earnhardt name/no. but can do any name/no. desired):

You beautiful soul, Luc <3

So question, were the available '69 Mustang kits just a early release ahead of the main one or was it a supremely small stock? I had to chalk off 40$ international shipping on top of the kit price so I thought hell no at the time but as of late I cant even spot a single one on eBay(or rather one that can be shipped internationally).

@swede70: Anything's possible, I upscaled some stuff for the 1/20th scale AMX kit so I can always work with that scale if need be, I've never done any T/A stuff yet though as it's not really my field but I've been doing request after request of things I've never touched before so if there's something specific you'd want me to do just lemme know. Though should warn that I'm miles behind on requests so it'll be a bit of wait if you do. @charger74: I'm definitely going to now I've seen it, I purchased the '77 Pacer Wagon kit with the plans to do the wood panel decals for it, but oh man that delightfully 1970s interior has to get done too. Also I've had a bit of a Christmas break of give or take two weeks, desperately catching up on emails and orders now so I'll get it done ASAP. Also done some work during the holidays, not a whole lot, primarily El Caminos for various years. Re-did the whole '78 El Camino sheet to include interior decals and better stripes(at the very least wanted to do the tri-color set up instead of the single). Doing the '70 El Camino also opened up the doors for the '67-'76 Chevrolet Air Cleaners and a '70-'72 Chevelle sheet as well, as the El Camino basically shares what, 99% of the sticker work. Also kicked off the start of the license plate bonanza, gonna be doing more of those. 1970 Chevrolet El Camino SS: 1973 Chevrolet El Camino SS: 1976 Chevrolet El Camino SS: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Royal Knight: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Black Knight: 1976 US Bicentennial License Plates: I actually really enjoyed making the license plates, not to mention I kinda already do for just about every set - so if there's a state and/or province that really is desired lemme know and I'll prioritize that one.

Holy hells bells this explains why someone had a copy of my decals, half faded with dull colors and choppy edges as if it were lifted straight from a low resolution scan and printed by a home printer(no whites and red hue gray instead of silver), some poor soul that scored the badly made copy first thought it was actually one of mine because the placement on the paper was 99% identical. Man... I mean theres no stopping these people but you'd think they atleast give it a shred of effort hiding the origin.

Awh man I'm so jealous - I have to either pay 40$ shipping or wait a few weeks/a month to see it appear on eBay to get it at 20 or so bucks shipping, boo for being in Europe. God I can't wait to have this and the '69 Mustang in my hands.