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Aw thanks man! I do quite regret not chopping the height down but it looked like such a hassle with the giant one-piece axle stuff so I just left it be. Man that would've been something I'd have killed to see, I just cant help loving the Grand Sport theme, especially on the Corvettes(but that's obvious).

Finally got lucky scoring a nearly-new '75 Camaro kit, thought it'd do it more in the vein of a '69 Z/28 with the stripes and all. God I love those old MPC kits, just a shame the engine bay's always so ungodly dull. Speaking of dull, the chrome had gone almost matte and of course, it being a mid-70s MPC release, no mirrors so I had to steal those from an AMT '70 Camaro to complete the look a bit more. Also put a 5.7L Z/28 air cleaner decal on there just to test the fit of it, cause lord knows I wont ever open the ill-fitting hood again. Oh and an exhaust header just seems to have vanished, I wish I'd know where the **** it's gone.

Man that silver is gorgeous, not to mention the whole friggin' model is beautiful. What color did you use for the interior, by the way? I can't ever seem to nail it.

Best I could do for the seat pattern on a hunch(I reckon they'll come out looking somewhat accurate, but there's no telling at the moment), I did the valve cover and air cleaner decals for the mid sixties MOPARs a while ago, if those are what you're after: 1974-1977 Chevrolet Camaro 1st Gen. inspired stripes: 1970 Pontiac Bonneville 455: 1977 Ford Mustang II Mach 1: 1970 Plymouth Duster 340: 1971 Plymouth Duster 340/Twister(plus hood call-outs): AMC Air Cleaner set: And the updated white letter tire decal list:

Some dude on eBay was selling off this absolutely massive(and I mean, like 50+) Ford kit pile, so I did a few bids on a handful(all in new condition minus the Camaro, which was untouched inside but the box was wrecked) cause I needed some kits from particular generations to draft accurate decal sheets from and ended up actually winning a couple. Plus some spare rarities that I desperately wanted for a while now. I had to individually buy these cause they were shipped via the eBay global shipping program so I think I literally doubled down on every kit(26-30$ shipping a pop). But man, those Malaise era goodies I just couldn't miss on, not to mention a Ford EXP from Revell, there was something about that thing that made me needing to own it.

Thought I'd do a fantasy-ish build for a change, always was absolutely in love with the '96 Corvette Grand Sport and the stripe/color combo. So as I was designing a decal sheet to give it a proper go for a change(instead of half-assing it), I recalled I had a 1994 Impala SS kit with the lowrider bits, given it doesn't come with the stock wheels and the other one I built ages ago I had already stolen the wheels from to put on a '91 Syclone, I thought lets do something fun with it. So I drafted up a decal sheet for it, ordered a can of Admiral Blue from a dealership and tore a LT-4 engine from a '95 Corvette kit and put that in there instead of the SnapTite-esque block that comes with the kit. The hood doesn't wanna stay shut and is slightly bend and the stance is way higher than I'd liked it to be but other than that, always a fun little easy kit these '94 Impalas.

Good god that color is popping beautifully, all the effort paid off man, no doubt about it!

Thanks and hell yeah, certainly will do! Also got my hands on a old '75 Camaro kit from MPC a few days back and I'm trying to wrap up all the editions through the seventies, gonna do a '74-'77 stripe set with the twin black(or silver, or white even) stripes running the hood and tail given thats actually kind of what I want to do with the kit myself. Love the '74 stripes that are absolutely massive but, y'know, more choice is more choice right. Also branched into the latest model Camaro, there's some Hurst and Hurst inspired editions that I'm gonna be covering(for instance, the gold wide stripe '17 Camaro). 1974 Camaro Z/28: 1975 Camaro RS: 1977 Camaro Z/28: 2017 Camaro Hurst RPO-L78: 1978 Firebird Trans Am(for @KWT) with all the engine call outs and whatnot in the various years' fonts: Also added a bunch of new white letter tires to the line-up, loads of Firestone goodies and whatnot.

Man that reminds me, remember how AMT Ertl put pictures of the actual car on the front and side of the box through the nineties for friggin' near half of their releases? Boy that was a fun minefield. "Detailed interior" under a shot of the actual interior of the car, YEAH I BET GUYS. Say what you will about misleading box art... At least the side of Revell's box still shows what you're buying, instead of a glorified car ad on a box with a total mystery within. Fortunately more often than not the kits were excellent but if you want a misleading box example, theres the head sinner itself.

I generally try to just pop open one of Revell's online instruction sheets that would come with the kit to judge the parts on, but for the most part things like having the artist trace off a wrong model year car for the box and not having slightly deeper set wheels(hell, I bought the lowrider kit at once point not even realizing that this was the particular kit that didn't even have stock wheels to begin with), it's unfortunate that its not 100% accurate but **** happens.

Small update post: '72 AMC Gremlin X: '80 Ford Bronco: Hopefully before the end of the month, finished the design through the weekend with help from Casey's pics of a '72 Gremlin body, couldn't get the little vents done without it, hopefully they're gonna fit exactly right now. Now just have to wait for the printers to do their part of the job! By all means, just PM me!

For the most part I have them printed on demand so just pop me a message and we'll go from there!

Right, update time. It's been a rather hefty GM week or two on this side of it all, for some reason I took a dive into the rabbit hole of wandering into Corvette territory. Slowly working backwards(and possibly forwards too) from the C4 Grand Sport(I adore the car so much and I wanted to give it a proper sheet as opposed to what Monogram offers with the convertible). Also wanted to do a companion '96 Chevy to the Grand Sport and figured with the weird aftermarket wheels the Revell '96 Impala comes with if you get the lowrider version, it would make a hell of a candidate. There's also a few new things on the horizon, I got a '81 Ford Mustang kit so I'm gonna be doing that particular line of '79-'84 Mustangs. Anyhow! 1996 Corvette Grand Sport: 1996 Impala SS Grand Sport(Custom): 1994-1996 Impala SS(without all the custom gubbins, the new 2018 kit still doesn't feature the friggin' Impala badges so this will help): 1993 Beretta Z26: 1987 Camaro IROC-Z28 20th Anniversary Edition: 1992 Camaro Z28 Heritage Edition: And as a bonus, a overview of the white letter tire decals I've crafted up:

Some new stuffs including the overview pages, been trying to finish off the Aspen series. Just the '76 remains, but it's largely the same as the years that come after so that won't be too big a problem. Also my printer has decided to upgrade to screenprinting(on material that seems awful close to what the Japanese manufacturers have their decals printed on, it's nice and solid), which is friggin' fantastic as it allows me to just go full bore go-nuts-with-shaders RGB up to 900DPI(even 1200 but that's just silly) instead of having to draw everything one color at the time. However they're keeping the ALPS as well so I can guarantee crisp blacks and metallics along with all RGB based colors. So now I split the colors and the black/silver met./gold met and sometimes the white, for example with the '83 Monte Carlo: Not to mention the colors are a hell of a lot better now, they're far clearer and even on solid black backgrounds they pop rather nicely. Working on a '78 Aspen R/T model at the moment and... I was pleasantly surprised at how well the color bleed is prevented now. So I got that going for me, or us if you will. Anyhow: 1979 Aspen R/T: 1977 Aspen R/T: 1974 Ventura GTO: 1997 Ford Explorer Limited(... I bought the AMT kit, sue me): And the new overviews, pages 1 through 3 with all that's currently available and whats coming up soon: ... Pretty picture intensive eh, whodathought! Also, just a heads-up: for some reason I can only reply to a handful of messages in my inbox. Whenever I reply to the vast majority, it just leads to an error page that it can't find the page. Weird stuff. So apologies for that, I'm not ignoring y'all I swear!

i do genuinely wonder what goes on with the selection process, like I know ****-all about it of course, for all I know there's a crowd literally dying for a Prowler re-release but it seriously feels like they're just throwing darts at pictures on the wall.

Thanks! And yep, it's a whole lot of hand drawn stuff in Photoshop on high-as-sin resolution pictures and scans of the bodies of the models, along with a bunch of measurements and whatnot, but mostly just wrist-powered drawing and re-drawing it five hundred times to try and get the curves correct. And some more additions: '91-'92 Firebird Formula/Firehawk: '82 Charger 2.2(bought some Shelby Daytona and Dodge Omni kits, figured I may as well do all of these along the Shelby models to join the already made Daytona Turbo sheet): '78 Caballero Diablo: '78-'88 Caballero 4.3(still in progress, gotta shave the wheel arches down some but its generally done):

Wrapped up all the Monte Carlo SS models from '83 through '88 for Monogram kits in 1/24th, now gonna work backwards to get some sheets going for the Trumpeter '78 Monte Carlo and the MPC '78-'80 Monte Carlos. Then continue downscaling the El Camino sheets for the MPC kits and craft up a GMC Caballero Diablo sheet while I'm at it(it's 90% the same as the El Camino anyhow). Also while I'm trying to get a catalog going, I can atleast post the index from 1 through 70-something, so there's that. '83-'84 Monte Carlo SS: '85-'86 Monte Carlo SS: '87-'88 Monte Carlo SS: And the catalog index:

Ahh that's cause I'm a dolt and just ripped a section from my catalog and just... forgot to even ever include the rest. The grand total's currently sitting at over seventy, the PDF's gonna be popping up rather soon too! And is there a Levi's Gremlin that looks different on the outside? I included some Levi fender badges but that's about all I could find on the Levi's other than the upholstery being literally pants. Granted, AMC's one of those brands I wish I knew more about but never had the time to dig really deep into. God I would just about kill for a proper '78 El Camino kit from MPC, they're so ungodly rare these days(well not counting the promos, but even they run new kit prices and I gotta double that price to ship it my way) so I just based the sheet on the Monogram El Camino instead. Though I could just use the '86 El Camino kit for the 1/25th measurements, just really wanna build one of the friggin' 78s for myself >.> The next thing on the El Camino list is to expand the sheets some with dashboard decals, grille Chevrolet badge and the reverse light section. Then I'm gonna finish up the Black Knight decals, downsize those to fit the MPC/AMT El Camino and do the same treatment to the '78 Super Sport and Royal Knight. Also for funsies, I love the stripes on the '87 Monte Carlo which I once tried to adapt onto a '86 El Camino to... mediocre success so I'm also gonna get me a set of inspired stripes started soon-ish.

Yeppers, currently in the process of making the '72 AMC Gremlin X and a '72 Gremlin Randall 401-XR sheet, just trying to get it as accurate as possible without actually having a body(don't wanna spend forty bucks on a Jimmy Flintstone one just for the decals) is slowing me down some. But given I already got a '74 ready, it's literally just the stripes holding me back. Also to Dino, I really wanted to make a elaborate sheet for all sorts of under hood decals but quickly ran into the problem that the printer I use just doesn't have the color fidelity to do strongly detailed small-as-sin decals(unless its black, white, silver or gold, in which case its crisp as all sin!) so I quickly gave up on the idea. I got the designs at least, incase I run into a better source. Also more updates: 1980-1981 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 1983 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Super Sport: And one I'm actually kinda proud of, given I know ****-all about the subject - a decal sheet mimicking the very brief and kinda nifty advertisement from the 70s by Uniroyal. I made it for a '69 Nova given its a kit I may actually be able to buy given how rare and stupidly expensive MPC Ventura kits are but included all the Pontiac badges regardless(even the GTO ones): 1974 Pontiac Ventura Sprint/GTO Uniroyal Thrill Drivers(or '69 Nova, 'cuz why not):

Aha, dangit I knew it! I went out of my way to try and keep the color on 'em, didn't even have to it turns out! Well atleast it's easily mended, thanks for the heads up Ron! I made 'em myself for funsies, given the last generation of the Firebird had literal annual releases through most of the nineties by AMT and partially Revell/Monogram, and even the anniversary editions got some love from Revell - however the '02 CE... just nothing. And yeppers they're for sale, though I do need to have more printed...

One of mah decal projects' finally done now I finally got my friggin' decal sheets in the mail. Tried to accurately replicate the realsies thing, only problem being that the Revell kit comes with the single exhaust set up... Also, the kit's rare as sin these days and I happened to find a pre-owned kit that was still complete, however nearly everything had warped horribly, especially the body and the bumpers.

Certainly will do, the sheets I've ordered apparently got lost in the mail(besides one which I had delivered by UPS, huzzah) so I'm stuck waiting for the friggin' replacements... Also I'm in the process of trying to design underhood decals, the ridiculously small ones are harder than I expected(the white bleeds into the black easily and makes it all incredibly muddy) but they'll be done soon! Well, for MOPAR at least. Anyway, some updates: '66-'73 MOPAR Showroom Plates: 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP: 1985 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am: 1988 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350: 1988 BMW M5 E34: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Royal Knight(still in progress, for the most part) And here's what I got coming up rather soon, I'm working on getting a nice little PDF catalog going on that has the whole library in a bit of a... more structured sense. RKD34: ’66-’73 MOPAR Showroom License Plates(1/25) RKD35: AMC Air Cleaner Decals(’68-’78)(1/25) RKD36: 1970 Pontiac Bonneville(1/25) RKD37: 1988 BMW M5 E34(1/24) RKD38: 1988 BMW M5 E34 Tail Light Masks(1/24) RKD39: 1985 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am(1/24) RKD40: 1972 AMC Gremlin X(1/25) RKD41: 1972 AMC Gremlin Randall XR-401(1/25) RKD42: 1981 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28(1/24) RKD43: 1979 Chevrolet Nova Custom(1/25) RKD44: 1983 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta(1/25) RKD47: 1992 Chevrolet Beretta Z26(1/25) RKD49: 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP Coupe(1/25) RKD50: 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP Coupe Tail Light Masks(1/25) RKD51: 1980 Ford Bronco(1/24) RKD52: 1987-1988 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350(1/24) RKD53: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Super Sport(1/24) RKD54: 1978 Chevrolet El Camino Royal Knight(1/24)

I'll be on it, you want 'em to match the license plate holder size of the Revell Charger kit? Edit: Alrighty, made 'em in 1/25th scale from '66 through '73, with either a metallic silver background or just clear for those who can mimic the softer argent silver.

Moar updates! Been working on some kits here and there, and got myself a few old MPC Volare promos to test-fire a bunch of stuff on sooooo... I reckon the whole Volare/Aspen line's gonna be done. '89-'91 Chevrolet S-10 Baja: '74 AMC Gremlin X: '78 Volare Super Coupe: '78 Dodge Aspen R/T: Also, I've branched out somewhat and uh... I figured I'd get a boatload of white letter tire decals for off-road tires in 1/24th scale, given I've got like six EXTREMELY similar Monogram 1/24th kits that all have the same tires: Mud King XT Steel Radial, BF Goodrich All Terrain T/A and Mud Terrain T/A, Goodyear Wrangler, Mudstar Radial M/T, Hercules Terra Trac M/T & Bridgestone Dueler A/T

Suppose its time to whip up a decal sheet to attempt making a '88 Spectrum out of it.