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The Blazer build is going slow mainly cause overtime at work is in high gear during the holidays. I'm working on the blazer when I can. Not to mention any big changes I wanted to make on the project... because I don't plan on starting over on it ever agian... lol. I went back and forth on keeping the tilt frontend. and desided to leave it and in mid 90's fashion I've added a Cowl induction hood... because it seemed at that time everything had a Cowl hood. lol... I'm kinda stumped on color now and I'm open to suggestions. I've painted the darn thing a different color every time I've rebuilt it. Baby blue when I got it, Chezoom teal, then Pearl white, then Purple with Mad Mudder graphics then Purple agian with a white top and two-tone sides. I thought about goin with a Frankenstein paint scheme... Purple, Black top, and grey/green sides with Frankie himself decaled on the hood and Frankenstein monikers on the side windows... Seems ambitious but it would be fairly easy the trouble is I don't know if I could live with it like that forever.

Good information to know Snake... And to think, all these years I was lead to believe the Blue car paved the way... The Yenko must've not been promoted as well as the Z28... I've had dozens of the Yellow and Red cars too though, as well as the Convertables. I'm a sucker for all of 'em.?

I read an article around late 89 in one of the Scale auto magizines that told the story about the New 69 Camaro and it was the Blue boxart Z28 RS... I thought the Yenko and Baldwin motion was next because the big block was tooled after the kit was out, and then the Convertible was released later on and was based on the two big block cars. Your theory holds water though Snake, because now that I think about it... Hot Rod and Skip's Fiesta both had boxarts with the big block kits and I think that started around the late 80's... But still, how come the Copyright date on all the cars is 1990? I do know the Skip's Fiesta kits and Hot Rod series were still going strong even by 93-94... I wished I still had that issue of Scale Auto... It was a good write up about the highly anticipated 69 camaro and how hard Revell's team worked to get it to consumers. I remember the article sayin that it was the first New kit released after the Monogram/Revell merger. They were really on the move around that time. Arguably, to me the Revell Camaro is the kit that started it over for Revell and gained their reputation. No more old tools from the 60's all those opening door kits were replaced with good solid subjects like the S10 and LT1 Vette and others that came after the two companies teamed up. AMT really had to play catch up there for awhile... which made their new kits better too. We have some good models out now thanks to the Revell Camaro I think.

Mostly Marketing and Sales strategy, If Revell were to add other option decals to all kits maybe they wouldn't sell all versions equally. example, if the COPO had the stripes then most buyers who want the big block will but that version opposed to the Z28 version. but the decal sheet for the Z28 forces buyers to buy that kit. I think it's smart and no doubt it's been a good decision factoring in that the kit being the all time highest selling model kit. Because the Z28 was the first kit released in the series being 1990, at a time when modelers weren't demanding gauge decals or model companies weren't listening, one or the other. I know it wasn't a big deal to me to have gauge decals or under hood decals. I was just happy to have an accurate 1/25th 69 Camaro. The reason for the unchanged decal sheet is if sales are high, why fix something that isn't broken? If sales were low then maybe they would make certian changes to boast sales but that isn't the case here. Yours is a Great representation of an Awesome kit, you did Revell proud. This is exactly how Revell's product development team envisioned the kit being built it's perfect... also I'm thinking that the cross ram intake could be ordered from the Factory with the 302... but it was in the trunk and had to be swapped at the dealership... rumor has it...?

Awesome lyrics to a good Comedy Variety song! The whole time I'm reading this I couldn't help but hear it in the voice of C.W. McCall, Ray Stevens, or Tom T. Hall. Maybe even Weird Al...lol! And the models are spectacular as usual!

I'd say as much as I love the General I'd leave the decals off this one... Looks clean, and you can still see the General lee connection. I'd even add the pushbar. I beleive if I owned a real 69 Charger it would be orange with tan interior... I love that color combination. Nice save too, I've been particularly intrested in restoring Build ups here latley.

Happy Birthday!

All four are all the same size...

I tried some different tires on those wheels... the revell nova/mustang slicks are a little big but the Round 2 slicks fit good.

looks kinda close Snake... with a drop or two of Brown it may tone down...

It's got my seal of approval too, and the Batmobile should match the Bat suit with a nice satin finish... It's given me insipiration to do more "what if" types of builds.

Sick dude! Always liked Boyd's dusty rose pearl and it definitely fits this build perfectly...

I thought about doin a facum form with hood in the kit as a mold... trim off the flash and it should fit good.

Love where this is headed bro! I can't wait to see the end result...

I've been meaning to post this Buick Stage 1 since I seen your Buicks... this old build up was one that was in a collection (tractor trailer load) bought from California to Virginia in 2015. This collection was the MOTHERLOAD literally thousands of build ups, sealed kits, and loose parts. It's taken til now to sort through half of it. My friends at Modelcar Mountian are still working on the load. About 30 of these build ups landed at our club meet last month and this one was so authentic looking with barn find patina that Alan, one of our club members desided to leave it as is. It's neat to see to the green one with the Stage 1 look, it would've been nice to see GM offer these in more color options.

Sorry to hear about the estate sale Greg. I sadly know your pain. My neighbor passed away and he left his belongings to his good friend and the guy could've cared less about the little things and trashed most of his stuff. Just cared about the house and land. I tried to buy his model collection but I was turned down. Awesome work on the Police Nova... thanks for the hard work and dedication to making one of my dreams a reality.

Yeah! I wanna see that one done!

I use the term "Car movie" loosely due to the fact that the (Film) has automotive related content that is not accurately used in a Motion picture such as this Movie, Musical, film or whatever the correct terminology is. Imdb (internet movie database) has it listed on their site. It claims that it is a full length feature Film that was adapted from the original 1971 musical of the same name. Whatever you call it, it still made 395 million at the box office and I call that a successful smash hit...?

I don't think I have ever seen these either but now that I think about it I need to see if they fit the slicks from the mustang and the nova...

How many "Car Movies" get it right though? None that I can think of... Inaccurate and inconsistent, but they sure make alot of money which means only one thing the Car related stuff doesn't mean that much to movie goers.

It's official, the Monster Blazer is back on the bench... We'll shoot for the end of the year to get it done. Lotta work ahead. I called it the Frankenstein Blazer because it was in peices when I got ahold of it in the early 90's...

Glad to help... How bout a moderen twist on an old classic... as If the movie were made in current times? These old Mustangs are cheap enough right? Maybe I'll build a black Camaro with flames in place of the Merc? Hmmm?

Neexxtt! ☺

Gitter done!? Gotter done! lol! Now I think I will challange myself to finish the blazer before 2019... Thanks alot for this thread to get me moving agian.

Thanks, Yeah everyone in the club enjoys a good restoration it's just getting them to actually finish the Challange is the hard part, especially within a month's time. I hope they don't go back in a box in a corner...