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I had this Toyota Celica between 1997 and 2001 - it had four wheel steering and could corner like a go-kart. A cool car for the day - unfortunately not many around these days Unfortunately I dont have any digital pix of the real car but the model wears my personalised plates and I did my best to find some wheels that matched my car This was replaced by a later model Celica - again with my plates and matching wheels Real car with plates that I had changed to just before I sold it And the model See next post what this was replaced with ___

Still busy hammering away getting parts ready for paint Looks like late autumn - not much left on the trees

My 56 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer - and in 1/25th scale - MCW Resin Replicas kit The colours are the same as I hand mixed them And no it is not stock

Dennis I like where you are heading with this build. The stance is on the money and that blower engine with sidey trans and running gear - what a hoot!!. I have a number of them in the stash but could not get my head around building one as the chassis is very BLAH. I do think that the proportions are spot on and have seen some stunning builds. The closest I have got is combining the body with a R&D Unique white metal chassis that I started an age ago - must dig it out and get some pix and get on with the build. I was stalled because I wanted chrome suspension parts and at the time there was no method to do this with white metal and other media. There now is so there is no excuse to get on with the build.

Got the rear quarter fixed up. And spent more time on the grungy bit on the sail panels - same thing both sides Also had to fill in a bit of a gap in the rear panel parts - this is before I fixed it up The rest of the time between the last post and now has been spent cleaning up mould lines, ejector pin marks and sharp edges. I was taught very early in my modeling life that time spent on clean up and getting all the knarly bits sorted before paint is what makes the difference between two kits when judged side by side. As this is a box stock build this is every much as important as a in a super detailed build Tools for action - and there is a lot of it - I think I said in an ealier post that there are lots of parts in this kit and they all need attention . And Hemi vs Wedge Thanks for looking

Thanks Greg - I sure am enjoying the build.

The Tamiya light gunmetal would be my choice with a coat of semi-gloss clear. The real thing looks like a metalic finish to me. Here is a kit panted gunmetal with light gunmetal stripe.

No problems mate. Modelling is a global thing and we have access to most current models and the international barriers allow us to import what is not available. Only sometimes things are available then they all of a sudden disappear and become "no longer available"

That is very RED and good luck with the clear. This is an excellent kit too.

The small jars have not been available for a long time down here in New Zealand so I snatched quite a few when they were disappearing of the shelves. NZ stopped importing the big jars too for some reason - most probably Rustoleum saw NZ as too smaller market although we see some of their other products on the shelves.

I mean that the little square jars have not been available in New Zealand for a very long time. I stocked up when they were being specialed out after they stopped being imported into NZ, And got a bunch from another modeler too, so I have a stash of small square bottles. I did the same when the big jars were stopped being imported into NZ. So I have a stash of these too.

Thanks for the kind comments guys. Greg - I will use the tip to cut the fan shroud in half as I get a bit testy when things don't go together well especially when you are at that stage of a build. The last installment left things hanging a wee bit. I mixed the green into the blue one or two drops at a time. I thinned the paint first as this made the mixing a lot easier. This is the result - Looks a little lighter in the pix but I am happy with the results. I moved on to the manual trans and painted that with Testors xxxx and sealed with a little clear shot from a distance so that it is not tooo shiny and I can handle it without the paint rubbing through- gee I love these paints, just a pity they are no longer available. I painted the 440 exhausts too. While the paint was drying I started on the body. I thought this would be a quick tidy up of the mould edges but I found some alignment issues at the left rear wing and passenger front door to cowl junction. Took quite a lot of clean up with some filler needed on the passenger door - cowl area Worst of all was a short shot on the drivers side rear corner This was filled back and a filler piece added that is now awaiting some shaping Thanks for looking

I use nutcracker pliers and occasionally need to tap the top of the bottle too. the nutcracker pliers work on all of the bottle jar sizes and brands as Tamiya paints can be hard to open at times. Have not tried loosening with lacquer but will remember that for the next time I have a stubborn bottle cap. Interesting to see so many people have a stash of the Testors little square paint bottles - I must have about 50 left in my stash

This the cleanest you will see my bench. House for sale and open to view so the powers that be dictate a clean space. Gear comes out between viewings though

Nice build and impressive bright work. I would not strip it and repaint - just get another kit and redo it with your increassed skill levels to show how you have progressed since that was built.

Ugly duckling 62 Dodge Dart built about 1978 and way before bare metal foil And a little off the car page but Johan none the less. Built box stock and late 70's again

You are off to a great start Geg. I too found that the bumper sits a a long way forward and is different to the box art car where the bumper is tucked right into the body. I shortened it and tucked it into the body.

Now that the Chopped and channeled 32 Coupe and the Tim Boyd 29 A pickup tribute build are done and dusted and on the shelf I think to myself what next. One of my all time favorite cars is the 68-69 Dodge Charger. The only problem is that I have never got around building one -till now. The candidate is a Revell 68 R/T Charger. On opening the box it was a bit of a surprise to find so many parts espicially after working on early rods for a bit. This not to say that the Revell 32's dont have a lot of parts, they do have a good parts count but the 32's are a basic car so there are a lot less parts to work with. The Charger has an option to build a 440 or a Hemi which is correct for the R/T model. Choices, choices. I will build both up to see which I prefer but the bias is toward the Hemi. I spent an evening or three on the interweb researching things like component colours, interior options and what is peculiar to an R/T variant over the base car. I have a set of MRC Cragars and Goodyear white letter tires that I am considering for a day two car. Being of a hot rodding nature I have an issue with leaving things as it come in the box so the wheels may fly as the kit tires are rather blah. The colour choice is Tamiya LP47 Pearl Blue The Hemi motor and the manual have been cleaned up and shot with Testors 1127 Orange from the little jars that I have been hoarding forever Next up is the clean up of the 440 ready for paint. I could not find any turquoise in the paint stash so mixed some light blue with green as turquise comes somewhere between the two colours. When experimenting with a couple of drops of both colours I found I had to go easy with the green The marks on the side are for thinning - Testors enamels - 1:1.5 paint to thinner ratio for airbrushing has been my go to for a very long time I will post results of the outcome of the paint mix next time Thanks for looking

This how I got the front end down on one of my 29 Roadster builds. The replacement flat crossmember and some work on filing the spring down to a mono-leaf spring

Watching this

Good save on the body. Test fitting is one of the most important tasks to do when building a model especially when you change things around

The Tamiya Lotus wheels and tires are nice representatives of the wheels you want. 13" and skinny with good detail

Yes. Was stolen and totaled by the thief. Ouch

69 Roadrunner built about 2004 in a restomod style before it became restomod. I have three more unbuilt in the stash along with a few others. I have a couple more Johan kits built but no pix yet There are some fabulous builds in the thread.

Thanks Steven and Steve for pointing the way. Went looking but could not find anything definitive until Gerrys post. Many thanks Gerry - is that you and yours? Bet you wished you still had it