Dragonhawk1066

Nice work!

Well done! I like your color choice!

Outstanding!

Looks very well done to my eyes, nice work! I'm wanting that kit more and more!

I love it! Very cool!

Looks very good in Silver!

Very nice work!

Yes it is, and what I have may just last forever, lol. I must correct myself though, it's telephone cable that I got the wires from, not HDMI cable.

Thank you, much appreciated! I also use 30 AWG wrapping wire, I got a large spool on Amazon for $12. For the boots I use wires from an HDMI cable. There's brown, orange, blue, and green, and one of each color with white stripes. I cut about 6 inches at a time, pull out the copper wire, and use a sharp exacto blade to cut into little boots. I use the copper wire for several other purposes, including valve stems, door lock knobs, and holding parts for painting.

Thanks everyone, much appreciated!

Here's my version of AMT's 1969 Plymouth GTX Convertible. Paint is Createx Pearlized Silver, with Anita's Glossy Black on the lower portion. Clear is Createx UVLS Gloss Clear. Interior and hood stripes are Anita's Glossy Black as well, with hand painted woodgrain highlighting the interior. Trim is BMF and Fireball Modelworks white letter decals adorn the tires. I added I added plug wires, door locks, and valve stems for extra details. This is a pretty decent kit all around that went together well, and overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Thanks for looking!

I spent Thursday morning wet-sanding, starting with 6000, then 8000, followed by 12000. After that I polished it with Novus #2. I started the final assembly process in the afternoon where I discovered that the rear wheels and tires rested way too far inside the fenders. I think I cut too much off the rear end pieces when removing them from the sprue. To fix this, I cut the hubs and tried to drill holes into the axles for the round styrene that I planned to use. This didn't work, so I just rebuilt the rear end using the styrene tubing. I measured the tubing for proper fit with the wheels on, then glued the leaf springs to the tubing. I glued that assembly onto the chassis, and glued, I'm guessing, the bottom half of the rear differential with the gear cover glued on. You can't really tell, but I didn't use the other half of the rear differential. Pics would probably be helpful in explaining what I did, but I didn't think to take any during the process. Thankfully the rest of the assembly went fairly smoothly today, and I was able to get it finished.

The Hemi should fit, my Convertible kit has the Hemi, if it's close you could always shave or trim the intake or carbs for clearance.

It's hard to tell, but I sprayed the Createx UVLS Gloss Clear on today. I taped over the hood It's hard to tell, but I sprayed the Createx UVLS Gloss Clear on today. I taped over the hood and fender stripes as they're not supposed to be glossy. I also finished the interior and assembled the engine compartment, the separate inner fenderwells are a bit of a different touch.

Good call on keeping it gold, it looks really good that color. I dig the Keystones as well.

Great looking front end and rear panel!

More progress on the '69 GTX. I painted the lower body this morning with some gloss black craft paint, and when I went to put the hood stripe decals on this afternoon I got the idea to paint them on instead. It seemed like it would be so much easier, and it was. So I taped off the hood and body and sprayed on some more of the black craft paint, three coats in all. Liking the results! I also decided to add some Firestone Wide Oval decals from Fireball Modelworks.

Looks great, and that's a cool set-up!

I got the body painted in Createx Pearl Silver this morning. I also finished painting the woodgrain and detailed the rest of the interior. I also detailed the wheels this afternoon and added valve stems to them. Pictures tend to point out blemishes that one can't quite see with the naked eye, especially bad ones like mine LOL, so I'll be doing some minor touch-ups on the woodgrain above the glove box next to the stereo.

Both are very nice!

Very sharp! Nice finish!

Very nice! The wheels look great on it!

Nice looking Javelin!

Both are very nicely done with excellent paint jobs!

I had been using Apple Barrel Gloss Black, but when I ran out I bought an 8 oz. bottle of Anita's Glossy Black. Both will give you nice results, I just wanted a bigger bottle and the Anita's was a great price at Hobby Lobby.