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Thanks, Pierre. I would like to add an oil cooler and shocks but my ref pictures for this car are very limited. I don't even know what the back part of the interior and roll cage look like, so I guess I'm just going to have to make it up as I go along. I can tell that the rear package shelf is not there on this car but how it looks below that area is a mystery.

Thanks Pierre. Had some home projects I had to catch up on. The worst of which was replacing the torsion spring on one of my garage doors. It was kind of dangerous winding up the new spring to make it work. you have to quarter wind it 31 times to get it to make the door weightless. Not fun at all.

I need to do more work on the expansion tank and redo the nuts on the air cleaner. Neither one is installed yet. Just put in place for photos.

Thanks , Bill for the clarification on that.

Almost have the engine done. Will have to make an expansion tank and an air cleaner. I don't know why the tank is not in the kit. Hoping to post some pictures this afternoon.

Thanks, Bill. I have a picture a lot like that one but yours is at a better angle. Thanks for posting it. Still cant get a good view of the headers so I just guessed at it. You really cant see them once the engine is installed in the car. I'm going to have to scratch an air cleaner but the kit came with 2 4 barrel carbs and a single carb manifold that I modified to except two carbs. The carbs look accurate too. I was surprised.

Pierre, this car was not a half chassis car so I can basically build it OOB. I will add headers to the engine and make it dual 4-barrel carbs and make an air cleaner for it. I might add an oil cooler to the radiator foundation. Might be a tight squeeze to add dual shocks in the front. For the interior I just need to add a simple sixty's cage and modify the driver's seat a little with a side bolster. and of course add some harnesses for seat and shoulder belts. Thats why i like sixty's cars. Not a whole lot different then stock. I wont even have to make a window net.

Finally finished with the body till the end when I will decal, and pledge floor finish it (a.k.a. future). Ended up using the Testors clear gloss acryl at 7 drops paint to 3 drops thinner and added 2 drops creatix reducer to get it to flow and get rid of the brush marks. Now I can finally move on to the engine, chassis, and interior.

Great looking photo setup. Gives background info on the car in the background. And the model itself seems to have more clarity. Did you paint the cork tile, or did it come that color? Again, I like it very much.

Another excellent one done for your display case, Pierre. Great job on the chassis getting it to fit the body like a glove and not trying to use a Nascar chassis that was chopped up to make it happen, Also the brush painting, detailed interior, stance and engine compartment all look fantastic. Nice to see one of these GTO's done. Not very many out there done because of the high degree of work to make it happen. Again, very wonderful build.

Thank you so much, Bill for the kind words. I never could understand why amt did not do a better kit for the 66 Comet instead of the 67. They did a good 65 Comet kit also, but the most famous nascar comet they made people rely on a promo deal to build it. I've seen another 66 Comet kit, but it has a red drag car on the top of the box. None of these 66 Comet kits are readily available. Thats why I decided to change a 67 into a 66. It's not quite correct and I have figured out what the slight differences are, but I'm not telling anybody. Right now, it looks more like a 66 then a 67, that's all I care about.

Thanks, Pierre. If the testors clear doesn't work out for me and I get the Tamiya I will try your recommendations. Testors says to thin their clear at 20 percent which I tried on a scrap body last night . I will see how it takes to polish sanding today.

Everything looks great. The dash and steering wheel especially. You did much better on your window net then I did. The engine fit is perfect too. Really looking forward to the under glass reveal.

Thanks, Pierre. What is the ratio of drops of thinner to drops of clear and retarder on the Tamiya?

Thanks, Jason. It's so long between builds for me I forget how to do the paint.

Thanks, Pierre. I'm going to try the testors gloss acryl as my clear. I put some on the old gto body and will see how good it polishes out before I put it on the comet. If it doesnt work very well, I will try to find some Tamiya gloss clear acryl. You have excellent results with it if I remember correctly. That is what you used on your current GTO project, correct?

Finally got all the paint done. Just need to do some small touch up work and then I can add the clear gloss acryl that I can polish.

Well, the Elmers did not work on the Comet. I had to sand off the Elmers. It's just like the big bottle of mask it. For some reason they both adhere too well to acrylic paint, but they don't adhere to enamel paint. the Elmers worked fine for the old gto model that I had painted with Testors enamel in the seventies, but it did not work on the comet as a good masking agent because it would not come off unless sanded off just like if it had been paint. I will try again with the skinny blue tape but this time close to the tape i will use a very small brush and not let the paint build up along the tape line then I will switch to the larger wider brush to finish painting the roof white again. i will do this again when masking between the red sides of the car and the black portions of the car. I already did the white roof and it turned out pretty good using this technique. I'm not giving up.

Wow again, Pierre. You matched the purple to the roof number perfectly. The decals are put on perfectly. Need to get her finished. This is going to be a one of a kind build that is going to be stunning. I did not know you had done a 60 Rex White Chevy. I would really like to see more shots of that one. He was my favorite all time Nascar driver. That is his championship car.

I was thinking about how the liquid mask was like Elmers glue so I decided to try it on an old model body I had left over in a bag from the seventy's I masked along a feature line on the old body and then put a piece of tape along the line. I then smeared some Elmers along the top of the tape and waited for it to semi dry and removed the masking tape. I waited till the Elmers dried to the touch and painted along the line made by the Elmers. when the paint dried I removed the dried Elmers and it left a straight paint line with no paint incursion like the tape has been doing to me. I did the same thing to the comet and painted it and will remove the Elmers today and see if I get good results. Below are pictures of the process. You can barely see the Elmers when it is smeared on the body, but it peels off much better than the liquid mask I bought did. You had to scrub the liquid mask off.

Wow, Pierre. That purple is gorgeous. Can't wait to see this baby finished.

You should be, Pierre. It looks fantastic, and you know it will fit the body like a glove

Pierre, I think I will try cutting my own thin strips of masking tape from some 3m blue tape I have. I think in the past I might have had some success with it. It's just a big hassle to cut thin straight strips, I'm going to hobby lobby today. Maybe some fresh Tamiya tape might work better, if they have some. It seems like lately, every time I go to hobby lobby, they have less and less items to sell for modelers. The kits are supposed to be 40 percent off today.