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Thanks, Pierre. Yes I am hoping the liquid mask works out for me. I am always masked challenged when it come to masking tape. I can never get a crisp line between the colors. I'm hoping the liquid mask adheres better then the tape and it peels off leaving a nice concise line between the colors. And none of the paint sneaks under the mask like it does with tape. We shall see.

Sounds good, James. Have a great evening. 25 years is very special. Our fiftieth is coming up in 2023. If the Lord is willing and i'm still here.

I just need to smooth the areas around the headlights and maybe install some small .020 rods along the top and bottom of the center panel that runs between the upper and lower grilles. Looks like there was something like that before the front end damage that happened during the race. After that I will sand the whole body and prime it. then I will do the three tone paint job. I bought some liquid mask I want to try to hopefully get a sharper line between the different colors of paint. Aircraft guys use it when doing camouflage paint jobs, and it appears to do a good job. Apparently you just peel it off when you're through painting.

Thanks, James. I really appreciate the positive comments and I'm sure Pierre does too. I would really like to see Doug and Randy's work. Do you have any links?

Also red in this picture but headlights are silver. This might have been at Firecracker 400

This picture shows the car before the front end damage occurred. You can see the center bar between the two grilles was red.

Reference picture for this model.

Thanks, Bob.

Pierre, my way is not better. The cars are a lot different. Your way works for a 71 GTO, my way works for a 66 Comet. I don't think my rear flares are pushed out enough. but I'm not going to change them now.

Thanks Jo. I reached out to that forum knowing there was a lot of old guys like me that might know what it was. I don't know if he is an old guy, but Spooker posted a version of it and your version will also help me come up with some kind of decal. Thanks again.

Looks awesome, Pierre. Scratch building extradonaire.

I probably will, but I want to do a little research and see what the heck it is, just for curiosity sake.

Pierre, have you any idea what M&P is? Maybe it is some kind of coffee creamer.

Thanks, Mike. Your input is always welcome.

Thanks J.C. It's definitely M-P or M&P. But what the heck is that. I think with your image I can make a decal, because even if I knew what it was the decal I make will be so small, the writing on the bottle would be illegible.

I have all the contingency decals figured out except for one. Does anyone know what the decal right behind the Holman and Moody image is and the one right below and to the right of the grey rock decal on the gold car. It looks like a brown jar with a white label and a white lid. I can't find a clearer picture. It shows up on late 1966 cars and 1967 cars.

I forgot about the white roof. You definitely don't want a very light orange roof with the rest of the car purple.

The silver looks good. Should prevent any bleed through, but if you're going with purple, you might have not had to worry about it. The chassis looks like it came in the kit. Excellent job scratching it.

Thanks, Pierre and Gerald. I guess we could cut up some sprue, but that would be painstaking. And you couldn't really do sheets. We really do need evergreen. Unless you just want to do oob all the time.

Finally got the hood flat. Added some styrene that I will sand flat to fill the voids. They are slanted so the front of the filler styrene is higher than the rear which is flush already. I will use putty for any small gaps between the hood and the styrene piece. the Southern 500 car had a stock comet metal hood. They found that there was no weight saving using the fiberglass hood with the scoops after it was reinforced so they just went to the metal hood. Plus, the fiberglass hood could have been broken into pieces that would have been hard to tape back together during a race. The car started off using the fiberglass hood shown in the picture above at the Rebel 300.

Thanks, Ian. This is one of those holy grail builds I have always wanted to do, and I'm not getting any younger. So its now, or never.

Thanks Pierre. I was lucky to get profile shots of the car. Usually, you just get a half front, half side view of most cars. And that's it.