MarkJ

Thanks, guys. I really appreciate all the positive comments. This was another one of those holy grail models I wanted to get done before I wouldn't be able to.

Tim, you are so right about that. The 59 Chevy that won the 59 Southern 500 looks nothing like the museum car.

If you want you can go to my old photobucket site. There are some pictures I saved there from the fiftys and sixtys. https://smg.photobucket.com/user/texwardfan/library/?sort=2&page=1

My mom said, if you cant say anything nice then don't say anything at all. So I will zip my lip on this one.

My local Barnes and Noble, brick and mortar store, had a bunch of the fielden books for sale at clearance prices right before Christmas.

Charles, Some of the best reference, are books. If you have a "Half Price Books Store" in your state visit there . I have found many old nascar books there, chocked full of pictures and very inexpensive to buy. Also just do some good old googling on the internet. You will be surprised what you can find.

Another awesome transformation. Subtle changes to make things look just right.

Excellent transformation. Looks like a Buick kit if one had been done. Never knew Buddy ever drove this car or that it ever existed. Thanks for the info.

http://cs.scaleautomag.com/sca/modeling_subjects/f/35/t/131746.aspx If you would like to see the wip on this build, click the link above

Amt kit. 105 hours to complete. This car represents my introduction to Nascar. One Saturday morning when I was 6 years old, I looked out the front window of my parents house, in Hampton Virginia, and saw a beautiful red and black car that I had never seen before. It was parked in front of my friend , Rusty McCaddens house. After my mom forced me to eat my breakfast, I ran down to see what was going on. Some of my other friends had already gathered to see this beautiful car. Turned out it was Rusty's older brother's 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 with continental kit and fender skirts. He had stopped by to show the car to his parents and Rusty. Rusty informed me that he was on his way to the Southern 500 in South Carolina. I said , whats that? I had never heard of it before. He informed me that it was a stock car race run at Darlington South Carolina, that was raced on an asphalt track for 500 miles on Labor Day. I asked him if he was going to race this car. He laughed and said no they were special cars with numbers painted on them that race drivers like Lee and Richard Petty drove. I had no idea who they were. I never got to see his brother but when I went home I asked my dad if he knew about the race and he said he did but he didn't seem like he was that interested in it . But he told me more information about Nascar and said maybe some day we would go to a Nascar race. Needless to say my interest was peeked. I never forgot about this car and finally decided to build a model of it. Its a 62 year old memory so its only basically what the real car looked like. But I think its pretty close.

You're going to have to fiddle with the ride height on the modern revell 1/24 scale nascar chassis. Its way too high for one of those hoonigan cars. In fact its way too high for the current cup cars.

Please explain Ken Block Hoonigan style. Thank you.

Ok, you doth protest too much. Looks like you did an awesome job taming that body. I can see no faults with the overall outcome of the build. in fact, it looks fabulous to me. Probably the best Camaro of this year, I've seen done. You're right, those decals look awesome too. Is that just one layer? If so, congrats to Mark. I'm not seeing any bleed through at all of the white decals on that black body.

Looks great, so far.

Personally not a fan of "after the race look" but excellent build just the same. Awesome interior detailing.

Great work, Dustin. Awesome detail on chassis and engine.

Excellent work. Does that depict the car that he flipped qualifying at Daytona?

Love the white pinstripe you got going on there. Is that decal or tape.

So, what brand and kind of paint do you use?

Looks like Italian red to me. Or maybe Chevy engine orange. That should be an awesome project.

David , check your private messages for my S&H conversion.

Beautiful build.

Thanks, Jim. Well that's good to know. There might be fit issues if the die cast body was used. I once bought a resin impala body that I'm pretty sure was made from a diecast and if you compare it to the revell kit impala body its noticeably bigger. I had to use a 1/24 scale kit for the chassis for it. I did that build before the snap kit revells came out.

Did they cast that body from a diecast body?

Yeah, I had no problem, its just the added hassle of adding the silver or aluminum to block the bleed through is never fun.