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Thanks Steven. I think I can picture that.

I will probably never get into casting resin bodies but I was curious where they seperate the mold when making a car body. Is it longitudinally and split from the left side and right side or is it the upper half split from the bottom half. Is there a website that shows doing a model car body?I found some websites showing how to do small items like gears and small figures. I just can't seem to figure how they get the finished model car resin body out of the mold? Just wondering?

Super nice build!!

Incredible detail as always!! Even has gas spillage at the cap. Another awesome build James!!

Excellent build as always James!! Thats the best Laguna model I've seen yet.

Excellent build Tom!! I really like the way the Cot looks and yours looks perfect.

Tom, I saw that car also back in 2000 at their shop but I only took one picture of it. I wasn't building models back then and didn't think to take lot of pictures of it. Do you remember by any chance what color the interior was? Thanks.

I shot the first coat of primer and then found out that the sides were not as flat as the real car or as they call it "slabsided" so I added that to it after the first primer coat. I have alot of detail sanding and more primer coats to come but you can get a good idea how its coming along.

Ready for primer.

I'm going to prime the body today. Here are some pre-primer shots. Here is the car I'm trying to build

Wow!! Excellent so far. Can't wait to see this one finished!!

Super nice build!! Brings back memorys. I owned a 68 GTO. Mine was gold with a black vinyl top. That thing got rubber in 3rd gear with an automatic. Ohhhh, the good old days!!

I have that flip front kit and I bought the Revell 66 El Camino to get a good chassis like you did with the 67 Chevelle. I was thinking of cutting off the front clip of the El Camino and grafting it on to the 66 Chevelle 2 door hardtop at the firewall. I haven't checked to see if it will work yet and I noticed that one kit is 1:24 and one kit is 1:25 so I hope they will match up. I plan to build Smokey Yunick's Chevelle that Curtis Turner drove. I know there is a Lindberg 66 Chevelle 2 door hardtop kit out there but have not been unable to find one locally. In fact, nobody carries any Lindberg kits around where I live.

Excellent job!! What kit is this?

Great looking build!! Looks just like the photos.

Super nice build!!

Beautiful build so far!! You are right about making the engine look dull. I'll be sure to try that on my next build. By the way ,I probably missed it, but does that big block engine come in the kit?

I totally agree.The Cot car looks alot more like the actual cars on the road compared to the droop nosed anteaters that have been being used for the last few years. The fact that its harder to drive will also make evident who the best drivers are.

Another great build ,Jerry. You must have the biggest and best collection of Vintage Nascar builds on the planet. Your copy and paste skills are top notch as well. I always enjoy viewing your post's.

Super nice build, Dave!! I actually owned a 1976 Laguna S-3. It had a 350 but had a 2 barrel carb. I ordered it from the factory and after I got it I wished that I had gotten the 400 with the 4 barrel carb.

All I've heard is that the fees Nascar would charge Revell or any of the other model makers would not make it cost effective to produce a model of the COT. Our only hope is that the Resin casters can come up with a body that can be used with the 07 Revell nascar kits with of course some modifications to the chassis to make the body fit over it. "Mikes Decals" makes an 08 Chevy Resin Cot body but so far I haven't seen any finished models using it. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze23f44/mikesdecals/id434.html

Billy, What fun would that be? Your saying I should just throw away the work I've done so far and purchase the resin body that I have heard is not all that accurate itself. I know the B-pillars on the real car are more straight up and down and thicker but that should not be a problem. I have this excellent picture of the Petty Enterprise's 95 Grand Prix that will help me make my one off creation close enough for me. Thanks for the reply.

If any of you have built the Monogram Nascar Kenny Wallace kit you might have noticed that the nose is way too short and the rear bumper area on the real car was more squared off and slab sided at the rear bumper then the model. I'm trying to make my 1995 Ward Burton car look a little more like the real car he drove. Below is what I have so far. I used a scale picture of the 1995 Petty car as a guide. I know the picture is not perfectly square of the Bobby Hamilton car ( I think he drove it that year but not sure?) , but I made allowances for it. Sorry if you already saw this thread in the "on the workbench" section. Nobody shows much interest in Nascar builds there. The 22 car in the 2 photo's below is the car I'm trying to do. Here is the Monogram kit done without nose modifications. Whoever did it, did a very good job.

Mojave,I only used the photo as a rough guide to get the right length on the nose . I know the picture is not perfectly square but I made allowances for that . I have many pictures of the car I am building from many angles that I'm using for reference and I'm pretty happy with the what I've come up with. Believe me the Kenny Wallace kit that is suppose to be the donor kit for a 95 Grand Prix has a nose that is way too short compared to the actual 95 car that was raced in the cup series that year. I beg to differ with you on a COT car. It has a very short nose compared to the car I am modeling and the splitter on a COT car looks nothing like it at all.

I had trouble with the testor decals until I read an article on how to decal. if you place the decal where you want it and slide the paper out from underneath it you wont have any problem with curling on the edges because this way the decal does not move the paper does.