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That looks awesome! It sure is good company for your 288 GTO you finished earlier. I can't wait to see this one at the meeting!

I was just looking at the logo on the magazine cover this morning wondering if you were ever going to use the forum header there. I guess I got my answer! Looks great, and just jives better with everything.

MMMMMM, TASTY!!! That color is dynamite. Good thing the paint came out so good, because you've got less work to do on the polishing! Good show man, keep it going!

Ahhhh, MUCH BETTER! I still have some fine tuning to do, but the hard stuff is out of the way! I'm going to try to tackle the headliner next, once I finish buttoning the suspension back up. It seems like every time I look at this now, despite how close to finished it looks, I realize just how much there is to be done yet. Good thing I enjoy doing this!

QUOTE(marcos cruz @ Oct 20 2007, 07:06 PM) Hey, look at it this way, if you have a nose bleed and it gets on the car it won't get noticed Bob,s recommendation is very good, don,t worry, we all learned the hard way, personally I am still hitting some walls myself Nice job man!!!!!!! :lol: Funny stuff!!! Thanks Marcos, I appreciate it! OK, I'm back with some progress. The rear was pretty easy. All I had to do was trim the "shocks" down at the top and throw some lowering blocks in at the bottom. The fronts, however, were a different story. They required a bit more disassembly and a bit more re-engineering. After cutting the brakes off, I glued some blocks to the top of the A-arms. I also threw in some shims to keep the track as wide as it should be.(thanks, Bob ) Then I cut some of the strut body out to go with the brakes new home.

I'm with Ken and Bill here! The Nova is beautiful and the Deuce, man I'm gonna have to buy TWO at first sight! I feel like a kid waiting for christmas again.

Glad to see you here Mike! That build looks fantstic. Be careful, this place is addicting. I've only been a member on here a month and i'm already over 100 posts! Also glad to see another local on here. B)

Thanks for the advice, Bob! I will definitely use that on future builds. I did some fiddling last night and got the rear where I want it. I'll get the front down and be back with more pics this weekend.

And now, for my 100th post the good stuff! This is the part everybody loves, the "stance check". Now is definitely not the best time to do it. The time to do it is when you haven't painted anything; during mockup at the beginning. Well, I'm still a newbie and I sometimes have to learn the hard way. See for yourself: Anybody have a nosebleed? It's making me scared of heights! Bah, I'm not worried about it. I can fix it. Just something to insure that my spare time this weekend is filled. So that's it for now. I have to do some more painting on the interior and finish assembling it while I figure out how to get all that air out of the fenderwells. Any suggestions or comments are always welcome!

A couple more pics...

OK, next was installing the rear suspension on the chassis and trial-fitting it to the body: Oh yeah, I installed the taillights and headlight lenses too. The headlights bother me a little because the cement tinted the reflectors blue. sorry for the not so great pic here but it shows off the paintwork on the console pretty well. more to come.....

Oh yeah, that hit the spot! After I posted earlier, I looked again and I noticed the welds not going along with rake and just slapped my forehead(DUH!) Keep 'er going man, its really looking great.

Cool, we'll have to do a photo shoot together! ( of the cars... ) Thanks, Bill! I used ordinary Duplicolor touch-up spray right out of the can. I did however use clear lacquer over the base color. That seemed to deepen it a few more degrees! I also used two layers of primer under the color too. That's probably why the plastic didn't craze. Anyway, I will have some more to show when I get home later. Stay tuned!

I told you that I had to finish mine now! Yeah, you did inspire me to move forward. I'm hoping to have this done in two weeks so I can show it off. Are you going to the Nov. meeting?

That depends on the tooling. Sometimes manufacturers can get the proportions off in either direction: too big or too small in either scale. Generally as a rule (obviously) 1:24 is bigger than 1:25; but it doesn't always work that way. I don't have any specific examples but I have read about a few. Anyone else ?

This is one I would buy! I know they're different, but my parents had a '73 with a 305in it. It was red with a white vinyl top. It's close enough I could build it the way I would have done it. IF.... That's IF Revell gets the lines right!

This coming out fantastic! I'm struggling to find the discrepancies between the two. Is it how the bed, cab, and frame meet? Actually, I see that the cab dosen't quite have the rake the illustration has. Maybe a little shim under the back? I dunno, it still looks freakin' sweet to me!

Yeah, it seems like auto manufacturers can't keep a good thing. In Europe, they have/had a Focus RS that had even sharper teeth than our SVT. It was something like 210HP with the six-speed and a Quaife brand limited slip! The British printed VW mag I read did a comparo a few years ago with the GTI, the Civic SI and the Focus RS. The Focus impressed the V-dub guys enough that they gave it first place over the VW!!!! Too bad we'll never see anything like that.

Thanks for the tip! I noticed that too. Why Revell couldn't supply two sets of tires is beyond me. I did already find some suitable tires in my stash that will work just fine. I also agree with liking the 1:1 car too, Bob. It's rare Ford gives us a small car with class. This one just oozes with it.

I gotta agree here! I can't stomach nascar but this is just spectacular!!! Dave T's work is phenomenal as well, just not my cup of tea.... Still I say WOW!

I kept my mouth shut on this one because I had no doubt in my mind it was real. Rain on a windshield is never duplicated in scale. Thanks for an easy one for a change!

I agree. I would not have bought this kit if I wasn't sure I could build it stock. There is one that is parked on the street near my house once and while. It is also red and it was just beckoning me to build it. When I saw how good the kit is, there was no way I was going to do the tuner style. Since then, Nick showed me the tuner can look good too, but I needed convincing! Thanks for the comments, guys! I will have some more posted tonite.

Next I moved on to the chassis. I sprayed the inner fenders red and did a lot of overspray on the interior bucket as a base. All of the work in the next two pics was done right after I picked it up. Since the front suspension was already done, I figured the rear should be done. Which brings me to the first modification to the build. Can't use those terrible plastic kit springs where one can see them! I'm also pleased with the finish I achieved on the rear parcel shelf: I have some more pics to post but it's late and I'm too tired to type anym........ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :lol:

I got this kit at a local discount chain store for $8 about 5 months ago. I did start on it right away but quickly got discouraged when the paint color I picked wasn't right and it didn't lay very well. I built the engine and did a little under side detailing and just put it away with a can of the right paint until I got motivated to redo the body. That happened about a month ago and here is what came out of the respray: This is before any clear coat or major buffing It definitely got me moving on this one again! So after that, I cleared it and buffed it out. Then I decided to mask up the body for some black trim painting. Here's what became of that: This one here is rattle can all the way! It's a mixture of black primer and Tamiya Gunmetal oversprayed for the proper hood blanket look. The bonus is the texture is spot on too! The roof molding here doesn't look that bad in person, but I've cleaned it up some, and can do some more yet. (I actually brushed those lines down the roof! Slooowww and steeaady sometimes just isn't enough )