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Thanks, Wes.

Turned out looking really nice, looks like a proper old school drag car. I remember you getting fingerprints on that paint, did you clear coat it or did the paint eventually cure?

Nice. Good job on the wheels and the engine bay is nicely detailed.

haha, who could resist that little lot though? ..especially the '39 Chevy Coupe, and that Ford T Street Rod looks pretty sweet with that trailer.

Lol, It might as well say, "Never mind this extremely popular German product that took the States by storm, Ford was on top AND ALWAYS WILL BE, OK!!! xD

Turned out really nice. Those bubble arches were made for those wide wheels, looks amazing.

That thing is HUGE! I love it, what an awesome looking build.

Great seeing these posts, very nice builds. Quite the task to complete such an inventory but well worth it. I want to do something similar with Pontiacs, one from each year.

Very nice colour. I like the detailing in the interior, bits like the silver trim on the grab handle are not easy.

Nice group of builds. I'd love to see a new moulding of that Pontiac one day, beautiful looking car.

Very nice. I love the Nash, we had them over here badged as Austin Metropolitans. Before my time though!

Those look great. I love the colour combo on the Desoto, and the mild customising on the Ford especially, very nice builds.

Thanks, guys. I think the name of the paint was called Ford Nordic Blue, but I could be wrong.

Very neat and tidy job. Making me want to do the same on my current build, inspiring stuff!

Two new arrivals this week. 1957 Del Rio wagon, and the Buick Wildcat. I really need to finish current builds before buying more, lol!

ohh, I wouldn't be able to resist, haha! Looking at the box art there, a lot of those parts are in this kit.

They're not too bad to start with surprisingly for such an old mould but yeah, they do need a bit of finesse if you want them working properly.

Thanks for the tips, guys? I did some more test fitting of the doors. There are little hinge brackets that stop the door from opening too far and falling off. When fitted, the doors are too tight against the front wings and wont open. Pushing those little brackets back a little gave a nice panel line around the doors again but the hinges were then interfering on the pillar itself and pulling the brackets away:( Solution: I opened up the holes in the A pillar where the hinges slide in and out and now the doors open and close perfectly with a nice even panel gap all around. Light bezels fit pretty good, I'll glue those on before paint.

I do like that paint, very nice.

While I've been away doing other work I've been itching to get started on this one, so much so I did some priming and added a few details while I was busy on my other work. Multi tasking! I've heard good things about this kit, so when one finally turned up I bought it before they disappear again. The details I added was to scribe panel lines where the front wings meet the scuttle panel. I also scribed panel lines for the fresh air vent by the wipers and under the rear lights. The doors are a good fit but I did shave off some very fine flash on both the doors and the interior door cards for a perfect fit. I also found the hinges were touching the inside of the front wings preventing the doors from closing properly, they did close but depending on room temperature they would pop open, so I made extremely shallow 'pockets' on the inside of the wings where the hinges touched. I still haven't decided on a colour yet but it will be a two tone combo.

When the pandemic hit and lockdown happened I bought a kit for the first time in nearly thirty years. It was the Revel Ford Torino, it was only meant to be a one off. I never once thought I'd buy another kit, but here I am 28 builds later, a member of a model kit forum and now I'm starting to buy kits I want to do before I've finished the current one. I have three boxes on my table now and a Buick Wildcat currently on it's way in the post, Lol.

I think it's great, looks pretty good too. A bit of experimenting and trying out different methods with anything is how we learn.

Both extremely nice builds. Love the extra detailing under the hood and chassis, very nicely done.

I can see it, looks like the decal needs to be at least half the width of the real one.

Very clean build, looks showroom quality. Super nice paint, very nice.