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Beautiful work, and great choice of color for it!

Very nice! What did you use to tint the windows?

Wow, I never knew they did a saucer that big. Does it have a detailed interior?

You're in luck, Miles - I think the Metal Slug is the only one of those that's still relatively easy to get: http://hlj.com/product/WAVGM-023/Sci I picked up the Animal many many years ago as a bit of a goof, but was pleasantly surprised by the work Monogram put into it. I ended up getting two more so I could build the pickup and Firebird variants.

Thanks, everyone! I'm not sure yet, José...it depends on what Jada's off-road Challenger looks like when they release it next month. My current plan is to build the cars driven by Dom, Letty, and Brian across the whole series before I move on to other characters, so if the Challenger looks good I may just buy that and get to work on one of their other cars. If it looks bad, I may end up building it from an AMT or Revell kit like I did with this Charger.

The "Weirdest Kit" thread had me looking through my stash, and I found a few that weren't necessarily weird but were definitely not common: ...and a few where the boxes have been lost or destroyed:

I don't know if I can narrow it to a single weirdest, but here are some candidates, all 1/24 or 1/25 scale...

This is the first one of these I've seen built. I can see how those decals must be tough to apply cleanly, but from the look of the photos you managed to do a good job with them.

Nice choice of colors, and the detail work on the grille & bumper looks great!

Thanks, guys!

I used to do this, but had one leak down the length of the tube, making a worse mess than anything I had before. Now I store them cap-down in an old soda can; they can leak as much as they want to without getting the bench messy, and when I need it I just use a piece of paper towel to remove and hold the cap until it goes back in the can.

The Barnabas Vampire Van is another one that comes to mind...not completely unbuildable, but it's origins as a slapped-together custom based on a well-worn tooling are evident (and not helped by the years between its original release and current reissue). The chrome tree was almost completely unusable, even after stripping, which led me to do a minimalist take on it:

I built one of these many years ago and remember it being difficult in places, but you've done a terrific job on this!

Thanks!

Very cool!

That looks great, nicely done!

Thanks, guys! Rod, I'm working on his black street Charger right now, but will be doing the Maximus once that's finished.

Thanks, guys!

That looks fantastic, very nice choice of colors!

That's very cool, nicely done!

Both are beautifully done, and make a nice pair together!

Very nice work on all of those, it's great to see an automotive history like that!

Thanks, guys! Just two more to go, and I'll finally be caught up on Vin Diesel's 2nd-gen Chargers... I couldn't find what I wanted anywhere, so they're a combination of several sources. The tires are General Grabbers from B-N-L Resins (link) with custom lettering printed by Fireball Modelworks (white) and myself (red). The wheels are 3D printed items I drew in SketchUp and had printed at Shapeways using their ultra frosted detail (link)

Finally finished this off over the weekend. It started as a Revell '68 Charger body on an AMT NASCAR chassis, though there's not much left of either one... Like most of my TV/movie models, I tried to build it as it was described more than as it actually was (e.g., the prop cars used Chevy motors, I went with an actual Hemi as suggested by the rear flanks). All comments/criticisms/questions welcome!

Beautiful work, that looks great!