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I'd say so. It goes on very well and I tend to have a heavy hand with any paint.

I have 2 of the Galaxie kits I picked up for a decent price. But with bad decals, Hobby Heaven had new ones. I'm looking forward to building them both. It is nice to seeing them being reissued.

This is one of Norm's resin grilles. I shot Tamiya gloss black over it, the resin itself has a good surface, as supplied. I let it sit for a day, took it outside and shot the chrome over the black. It really took very little, one major pass to get 100% coverage then shot it straight on before I took it back inside. The can sprays very well. I did heat it up in hot water first.

Ok, hope this is final primer. I'll give it until later tonight to look at it. The Revell chrome spray came out better than expected. I'll try to take better pictures of it.

Thanks. I still have to poke a few more holes in it. It wasn't much work to make.

This is from a Charger kit. 383 or 440.

I was off it for almost 6 years. I will go on very quietly now. I don't friend just anyone. I steer clear of politics and any bickering.

I would look around on eBay. At least you will likely not get skunked on the deal.

It has got to be either a Monogram hot rod pickup when I was around 7. Or an AMT 1934 Ford I got when I was 9.

The one by me looks to be barren of almost anything as of last week. This one has the self checkout. The kiss of death for many a retail store.

I've used BMF in some cases where it doesn't show much.

Ok, back to work on this gem. The engine just about fell out of it, so I'm making new mounts up. The exhaust was loose too. I had forgotten I prepped it for sneaker pipes, I have some 3D printed side pipes on order. I may omit the under car exhaust entirely. The trunk lid had a license plate recess, I moved that down to the rear valance. I blocked up the exhaust notches too. The body work is close to complete, I need to squirt more primer on it. I just washed the body. Paint is a Mopar touch up spray. Wheels will match the body color, I machined up some trim rings a while ago.

More work on this one. I'm down to painting. I sanded off the side trim, also on the hood and added a center strip made from .040" half round. On the body I had a minor ghosting issue since I'm using a lacquer paint. I used a Mopar touch up paint I got on eBay. Much better than Duplicolor sprays.

I buy the PPP ones on eBay. One vendor sells them with free shipping.

I had a neat old board-track book years ago, with artist illustrations. Some tracks were quite large and the cars were far from slow. The wood planks would get damaged, racers had to avoid the holes. One driver talked about daredevil kids sticking their heads up from the bottom of the track through the holes.

I follow this on the HAMB boards.

I need to get one going, but it will have to be able to be stored in a banker's box, no bigger than 11" x 17". Maybe I'll start off small and see where it goes.

This is how we built them as kids using heavy coat boxes. We either cut out 1 or 2 sides. Windows were cut out, frames made with construction paper. They were a lot of fun.

I would definitely buy this body if I came across it.

I made one using a smaller block of wood, I like to be able to turn it with one hand. Another I want to try will be using a hockey puck, real easy to turn that and it has mass to it.. won't tip over.

This is the nail silk material I have. The pillars on my Ford stock car, I just used aluminum stock and CA glue since it does not have to look pretty.

I like it. Is that a AMT '49 Merc trunk hinge?

Even better.. get some fingernail wrap silks. Beauty supply and drug stores should have them. One side is sticky. You need sharp scissors to cut them, a knife just pulls the material. I use the embedded wire method. Single strand works best, brass wire .015" is good. I groove the busted pillar, embed the wire with CA glue and give it time to set up. Leave the ends really long. Prep the body, groove a channel on both ends and cut your "fiberglass" pieces. I like to tack the pillar in with a dab of CA glue, give that time to set. Place the little patches you have cut. Then soak them with CA glue. Any I have repaired have held up.

I recall building a 1934 Ford pick up I got for my 9th birthday, on my bed. I had a pocket knife and an old pair of nail clippers with a file on them. We had 2 walking-distance kit sources. A stationary store that sold Palmer kits for 99 cents. The other was a bicycle shop that incidentally just closed under new ownership. That had roots in 1957 or so. The owner smoked cigars, ant kit you got reeked when we opened it. He was also a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang. He had TONS of kits. The old pink-gray annuals went for 99 cents each. $1.50 kits were $1.27, $2.00 kits were $1.77. Just about all of us in the 'hood built to some degree. I recall sitting outside with my brothers and friends at the picnic table for hours in the summer. Every cent we made doing chores went to feed the model car habit. One kid in my class stood head and shoulders above anybody else. By age 11, he could have beat some adults, he was that good. He had a can of leftover AMT metallic red paint he donated to my 1965 Pontiac build. I sprayed, he coached. That was in the day where we tried to see how many cars we got out of just one can. I have a couple of builds from 1969 to 1970... they were far from shiny.

I worked with old timer sheet metal guys. One didn't know Trig, I offered to teach him. He preferred to make trial and error samples on scrap pieces. He also had a fear of calculators. "What if I enter a wrong number?". Accounting would give us old print-out books, we used the back side to draw and work math. This guy had rows and rows of figures.