Dragonhawk1066

Very nice! I like the color choice, would that be Testors Root Beer?

Very nice! That is a fine looking paint job!

Looking good so far! Great interior/exterior color choice as well.

I'm really hoping mine's OK, maybe I should open the envelope and test it. I have a love/hate with the stuff, it's a necessary evil, LOL, and like you I feel there's no suitable substitute. Sharpie's are OK for a small touch-up, Molotow can't be touched or handled. I have seen some great examples of the trim being taped off and Alclad airbrushed on, but I can't use that solvent based stuff in the house and am not set up to use an airbrush in my shed.

So does anybody know if the AMT '69 Daytona Postage Stamp Edition kit is essentially the same (meaning as crappy as) as the MPC '69 Daytona kit that was at Ollie's for $9.99 a couple of years ago? I'm assuming it's at least the same as the older box art versions.

Looks great! Brings back a lot of memories of my youth!

Nearing the finish line on this one. I got the rest of the wires and hoses hooked up in the engine compartment yesterday. I put the glass, visors and rear view mirror in this morning and mated the body to the chassis/interior this afternoon. I just have to add the wheels, a few trim decals and the bumpers and mirrors and she'll be done.

Unfortunately, I've heard a lot of bad things about the recent batches of foil. I got a sheet in 2-3 months ago but haven't used it yet, I hope it's OK. I still had enough of my last sheet to do the '68 Chevelle, and might have enough left for my next build too, the AMT '71 Duster. After that it's onto the new stuff and cross my fingers it sticks, lol. I have heard that when the foil doesn't stick very well, using something like Elmers or Mod Podge or anything else that can be brushed on to the surface where the BMF will be applied and dries clear, is known to help a lot.

Very nice!

Looks great!

The interior is now finished with the addition of the column mounted tach and gauge cluster mounted behind the shifter. I put together a couple of boxes from a set that I got on ebay, but I'm not sure if I'm going to leave them in the interior or not. I also painted and installed the 100% custom exhaust system. It was a bit of a struggle bending the styrene tubing to go around the rear axle. I had the inlets and outlets reversed initially, but when I got to gluing everything in, I could only get it all to line up this way. It looks a little off, but still not too bad.

Well done, and a great color! I had one of those Jo-Han kits back in the late 80's that I used to match my 1:1 '74 Cutlass Supreme. Mine was silver with a burgundy vinyl top and interior and a 455. I would love to have another one of each right about now.

That's a great looking Boss! I really like the color choice!

Good looking Torino!

Very nice! That's a really sharp blue!

The smoke needs to go on in light coats. It takes a bit to add up and start looking like actual tint. I was the same way initially until I saw some how-to's on it. I went really thick and it looked like garbage.

Great tip! I make mine a different way, but I'll definitely have to try this sometime.

I took a minute on Wednesday to spray some TS-71 Tamiya Smoke on to the inside of the rear window. I made a pair of mufflers yesterday, one of these days I'll get myself some casting products and cast a bunch so I don't have to make some every time I want to use different mufflers. I'm also slowly working on the rest of the exhaust using styrene tubing. I got the interior done for the most part as well. I just found a tach to put on the steering column and a gauge cluster to put on the console behind the shifter, so I need to strip the chrome, prime them, and then paint them before adding the decals. I'm really trying to be patient on this one, and so far it's paying off. I just hope I can keep it up and not rush anything and end up ruining it, lol.

Very well done! Your car building skills are already at a pretty high level!

Outstanding!! If I were to buy a C-6 Corvette, I would want it to look just like that!

Had a pretty nice day today in Mid-Michigan, so I got the clear sprayed on just before lunch. I used Tamiya TS-13 straight from the can. I started with a couple of lighter coats, then sprayed on a medium coat. I was unsure if I wanted another coat, so I checked on it after lunch and went ahead and put on a medium-heavy final coat. Now I let it set for a few days and think about whether or not I want to wet-sand before polishing and waxing.

Strange how things work out that way sometimes, lol. I have two of these kits and I think I might be dreading the foiling process also when I get to them.

Thanks for checking! That might change my mind about waiting for a place to display it before building it.

Very cool and very well done! I love the Turbonique!

Smooth as glass!! Outstanding! I'm glad it came out nice for ya!