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this is another kit designed by andrey bezrodny and that i printed and painted i am not sure what happened to cause the gap between the top and the grill and the body might have happened while in the uv light box i use to cure parts in till i started to stick them in direct sun light cause i do not think i had enough uv lights in the curing box and they were a lot gaps between lights so it did cure thing unevenly and i am not sure but the body protrusion might have got deformed i do know there is some other weird flared out warps on the bottom sides of the body in front and back corners of the rocker panels and the back bumper/tail light panel did not want to fit cause i think it bowed a bit i ended up having to cut away most of the tail light backing and break the the part in half then was able to get it to fit rights i painted the body a base coat of rust oleum 2x gloss apple red and a top coat of rust oleum color shift iridescent shimmer the roof is the rust oleum 2x flat grey primer i primed the body with i just masked it off before i painted the body i painted the interior rust oleum 2x flat grey primer also i painted the tires and chassis rust oleum 2x flat black primer i painted the rims rust oleum wheel high performance 3x metallic graphite i painted the bumpers and head lights rust oleum bright coat aluminum i painted the tail lights rust-oleum 2x gloss colonial red i brush painted the body and interior trim and the outer rim edges folk art metallic sterling silver acrylic paint using a dead ultra fine tip sharpie i brush painted the gauges apple barrel gloss white and did the gauge needles with a red ultra fine tip sharpie 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix .mp4

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the point i was getting at is that your version of ford, chrysler and gm aka holden saw the potential in offering the performance packages on pretty much every version of their car lines ford put the gt 351 performance package in the coupes and utes and sedans same with holden they offered the gts performance package on the coupes the sedans and the utes and chrysler offererd the pacer and later hemi 6 pack performance on the coupes the sedans and the utes but ford,chrysler and gm north america really only offered the performace packages on just the coupes with the exception of the ranchero and the el camino from ford and gm they did not offer the performance package on the the sedans which realy would have also sold well it took till the charger came back in 05 and later when the challenger came back in 08 for the performance packages to be offered on trucks and suvs and jeeps and then gm followed with chevy trucks getting a performace package and then ford did the same with their trucks and some chevy and ford suvs got a performace package to keep up with chrysler putting them in thier suv and jeeps and now the current generation of charger comes in both a sedan and a coupe version and ford has a standard style sedan mustang planed to pair with thier coupe version and it sounds like the camaro myay be getting a couple body type options a suv crossover a sedan and most likely a coupe so in a way they are now mirroring what ford/chrysler holden australia did back in the 60's through 70's offereing more then one body style for their flagship cars and also offering the performance packages for all of them also but i still think dodge and plymouth would have made a lot more money offing the performace rt and super bee packages on the dodge coronet sedans as well and same goes for the road runner and gtx performance packages also being offered on the plymouth satellite sedans and chevy could have offered the performance pacgages on thier chevelle/malibu sedans

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here is something else interesting after the ship sunk one of the engineers/designer of the fitz said that the fitz never should have gone out that 75 season as it was not seaworthy it had a loose keel and bad prop shaft and other issues due to years of defferred maintenance which was also the reason given by the captain of anther ship that chose to anchor behind a island and ride out the storm instead who was asked for his explanation as to what happened to cause the sinking but he was not called to testify in front of the board even though he was listening in to the radio coms between the capt of the anderson and the capt of the fitz and then later between the capt of anderson and the coast gaurd and knew the condition of the fitz before that night but cause it did not fit the narrative the insurance company and company that owned the ship was using which would put the blame on the crew of the fitz for it's loss they also paid the families of the crewmembers 500 dollars just to keep it from going to trial cause the company know they would loose a court trial and would end with the company going under at the start it was 3 way blame game the insurance company did not want to pay out the full amount for the loss of the fitz so they tried to place the blame on the ship's owner company and that led to the company placing the blame on the crew then the families of the crew as well as other ship captains and crew push back saying it was not the crews fault and wanted it to go to trial but the insurance company decided to team up with company and decided to create a a new narritive that would put the blame for the loss on the crew and that is why it never whent to trial and why did not use testimony during the investgation inquiry that went agaist the narritive the insurance and the company that owned the ship was sticking with and several crew members on other ships were appearetly forced into a nda cause when any of them were asked about what happened that they might have overhead or knew by people they would basicly get defencive and either turned away and left or tried to change the subject the thing is the fitz had issues from the day it was launched from the champagne bottle taking several tries to finally break during the christening cerimony to the way the 3 sections were tack welded together instead of rivited to when it sliped into the water from the slip launch it hit the water hard and on it's side that sent a wave to the other side of the dock soaking everyone watching and it cause a guy in the crowd to instantly have a heart attack and die the ship then hit that other dock the ship had issues with it's keel for most of it's time in service the and the company would just paint over rust that were on the clamps that held the hatchs preventing some from being able to be used and they refused to put water tight bulkheads in the cargo hold area and only put them were the main crew area in the bow ended and were the main crew area in the stern ended and instead put screen style dividers in the cargo hold they also changed the load lines several times and had the fitz use the summer load lines during the fall season instead of the correct load lines for the fall season cause they wanted to get alot more iron ore and the fitz was already full when they were ordered to pick up one more load that november also the 200 feet of center section of the hull that is missing in the wreckage was built by another company somewere else and not the ship building company that built the rest of the fitz's hull and it was transported to that ship building yard to be added to give it it's impressive for that time 728 feet the prop was damaged in late summer 75 it had a crack going through one of the blades they decided to leave it like that for two runs and in october the decided to replace that broken blade but they never rebalanced it they basicly did it at the dock by pushing the bow down far enough that the stern lifted up enough for them to replace the blade that was the second time they did that as they did it prior when they saw the crack in the blade after words mcsorley noted that ship was not handling right like had prior so that decision to not fix the prop right away and not rebalance it on top of how they accessed the prop two times most likely cause damaged to the shaft as well as the hull and the all ready loose keel also they had a team of inspectors on the boat for a the last iron ore run of 1974 prior to the repair work that was to be done during the winter layup but a deckhand that was on the fitz early in 75 but was not on the ships in late 75 noted that the issues that were to be fixed like a warped hatch cover was still not fixed after it's mandatory repair work was to be done during the winter layup cause the almost 7 toon hatch was like a diving board if a person jumped up and down on any of the corners it would be like a diving board and spring back up and down showing the company that owned the boat did defer the maintenance on the fitz and they would have had to have bribed the coast guard inspector when the he 5 year inspection that would deem weather or not a ship was sea worthy or not came up to pass the ship and 75 would have been the when that inspection would be done prior to the start of the season also if the fitz's bow was pushed down to the bottom by the waves and storm a good portion of the ship would be up in the air above the surface since the area of the lake it sank in is only 530 feet deep so the ship was longer at 728 feet then that area of the lake was deep

much of that was solved by a declassifed military file they were testing a new plane that was flying around that area that night and there also was two fighter planes sent to that area ordered by norad while the arthur m anderson and the william clay ford were searching due to people on shore and on both ships seeing odd lights in the sky the fitz did not loose it's radio cause they were talking to the anderson pretty much till the end the fitz lost it's radar unit during the storm and they had been having issues all that season with it after it was damaged early on in the season at one of the ports they were loading and one the auto loading shoots on the dock malfunctioned and came back down while the fitz was leaving and bent the radar unit at a 45 degree angle and later in november the storm winds and the waves just finished taking it out the captain decided around august or september to let all the repairs the ship really needed wait till it was laid up for the winter and it would fall on the new capt the following season cause mcsorley was retiring at the end of the 75 season

this is another custom body i made in my slicer program using andrey bezrodny's 69 charger kit's body and bumpers and his 68 coronet sedan kits grille and head lights and blackboxstl's 68 charger widebody kit's chin splitter and side skirts and blackboxstl's 71 mustang widebody kit's rear diffuser and the shooting brake roof and custom hood and rear window louvers and gas cap files i printed a set of racing drones rims and tires which i had to scale up to 1/25 i printed a set of custom bucket seats which i rescaled to 1/25 i printed a shifter from andrey's 69 rambler sc kit the interior pan is from a vintage mpc dodge charger daytona kit the chassis is a modified mpc snaptite 69 charger chassis i painted the body eastup high performance wheel paint dark flash blue i painted the rims and headlights and interior pan rust oleum bright coat aluminum i painted the tires and dash rust oleum 2x flat black primer i brush painted the tail lights and rear side markers apple barrel gloss real red i brush painted the front marker lights apple barrel gloss tangelo i brush painted the custom seats apple barrel gloss dark grey i brush painted the grille and rear window louvers and the rear diffuser and chin splitter and side skirt flares apple barrel matte black i painted the gas cap the exterior and dash trim folkart metallic sterling silver using a dead ultra fine tip sharpie 1969 dodge charger shooting brake.mp4

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awesome job recreating your 1/25 scale version of your 1/64 scale hot wheels car i do enjoy making 1/24 or 1/25 scale replicas of hot wheels cars though most of the time i tend to make replicas of hot wheels original design cars which can be a challenge figuring out what s the best real car to use as the base then start to kitbash and modify parts and the body most of the time i strive for close enough though when i made my 1/25 and 1/24 scale replics of different cars from hot wheels acceleracers movies i tended to try and get them very close to actual cg animated hot wheels original design cars from the 4 movies and a bit from the tcg card game card illustrations inside and out

and superior is ice cold also and the nature of it prevents bacteria that causes both deterioration of wooden and steel hulled vessels as well as bodies of people that go down in the ships from decomposing to much and bloating and floating to the surface which is why they say the lake never gives up her dead as well other stuff like fabric and paper though i think ships log books pages are from mid to late 20th century through now are made with a heavy duty high end type paper that can make it hold up even if it get soaked and the covers are made of a high end material that can be waterproofed the 5 log books that were recovered from the wreck of the ss daniel j morrell were able to be restored and the readable since they were written with a pencil over a ink pen they did have each page freeze dried though before the restoration was done and the pages rebound with a new binding