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Bob, you keep adding so much fine detail to this build. I'm really enjoying watching your journey to completion. It's going to be such a fine build when completed.

Good. That would have looked crazy.

I did some checking on Hess and he mostly drove a Ford in 1966. He competed in 3 races in the Rambler. Bridgehampton, Fonda, and Columbia. Columbia was the only race he finished in the Rambler. He actually out qualified 6 other cars there and finished 17th out of 26 cars. That's pretty amazing considering he gave up 100 cubic inches to his competitors at Columbia, if he did use the 327, which was the biggest engine that came in the Ambassador that year. He tried to run it at Charlotte and Bristol but failed to qualify at those tracks. He also drove a Rambler at 1 race in 1967 but it might not have been the car modeled in this thread. He was last at Greenville after blowing an engine and qualified 22nd out of 23 cars. He ran 5 laps before losing that engine. You can go to Racing Reference if you'd like to check it for yourself.

You can tell you're on the home stretch, but here is maybe a dumb question. Is the interior staying red or did I miss something from earlier posts?

I've done about 900, 000 of the one million decals that go on this model so I'm almost done.

That engine looks pretty Awesome to me. It could pass for a 1:1 replica. Looks like real metal.

Pierre, when do you plan on painting the headlight bezels? Should you do that before any polishing that you might do?

I will second that assessment. the retarder allows the clear to lose the ridges caused by the brush. Makes it act more like future does. But the percentage is very important, and Pierre has certainly figured that out.

Wow, Yes, I understand not polishing the color coat but to get it on that smooth with just the paint and the clear is phenomenal. A light polish of the clear will make it extremely nice. You could probably just use some liquid polish. Its more forgiving than the paper or the pads. Just don't go through the clear and the paint into the primer. I have done that before. But it's pretty easy to fix if you do. Another plus about brush painting.

Oh, Yeah. You did it again Pierre. Looks like a perfect match to me. I knew the polishing would deepen the color and make it just right.

Looks like it will be perfect when you get it glass smooth. No brush strokes that I can see at all.

Good. I'm very glad to hear that. Sometimes being exactly right about a build actually detracts from the overall look of the build.

Oops, I guess you're stuck with the red ones. Were they actually red, or red oxide primered, and never got the silver or gray or whatever it was put on them?

I'd go the elegance route. Those wheels could not have stayed on the car for the whole 24 hours, could they?

Blake, I tried hard to find something to laugh about but all I saw was something to enjoy looking at. Excellent build. Welcome to the forum and hope to see any new builds you want to do in the wip forum.

Thats some awesome modeling you got going on there. Webers always look super fine on any engine.

These decals are getting really frustrating. It takes a lot of daubing with micro sol to get them to lay down properly and don't use future as a color coat. or apply future before you decal. Micro sol attacks it and turns it white if you let it stay on the surface too long. So much for that experiment. I will soldier on and finish this thing but I'm pretty sure this will be the last Nextgen model I do.

I'm loving the very top picture if you could duplicate that. That really pops to me, as they say. I know you will get it right. You always do.

Excellent build as always, Steve. It's great that Salvino's brought this car back for us to build. The old MPC's are hard to find and very expensive if you do.

Excellent, super clean work, Chris. Always like all the Buicks that competed back then. I have an old Buick kit I need to do, and this is giving me much inspiration.

Glad to see your work posted, Jim. The 49 Ford and Garage diorama looks great, and you know its authentic, because you lived that life and witnessed it all.

Great looking models and garage. Rex White ran the X on one of his 56 Chevys when he first got into Grand National racing which is now cup.

Great job on this, and I like the wear and tear damage you added that is not over the top, but adds realism.

Ok, I'm decaling the model and I get to the right roof rail panel Grey scale camo decal. I had already put on the left side, and it fit perfectly. The right side had no chance of fitting. They really messed up on it. Somehow by cutting it in 2 places I was able to fit it together and make it work. Maybe Salvino's knows about this or maybe I'm the first to do one of these or maybe everybody has realized they have to cut the decal in 2 places to get it to work, but its definitely not right. I built the sister car to this one already which has the same grey scale camo decals and the right roof rail camo decal fit perfectly on that model. I don't know if I should tell Salvino's about this or wait for somebody else to tell them. Hopefully this is the only one that doesn't fit.

Thanks for those tips. I need to focus on getting it on smoother because like you said it's not really a good filler primer. I don't think I have used water at those percentages so maybe that will be the solution to my problems.