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Primer is on and some mould lines smoothed out, there were hardly noticeable anyway. It's a very clean mould. Deciding on paint now, either silver with a black top, beige with light brown top or Jade green with white top.

Thanks. It's a Fiat colour called Blue Lagoon.

Thanks, guys.

Any ideas to what colour to paint this? I was thinking beige with a light brown landau top, or the other way around? These cars didn't seem to be painted in very exciting colours!

EL Torino, Gran Camino!

That looks good! Looks like a modern car the manufacturer would offer today with a nod to the classic design.

Hi Steve, welcome to the forum.

Plastic paint is good, it's pretty hard wearing stuff. I painted my 1961 Impala with a brand called Plasti kote, It laid down nicely and didn't even need any cutting or polishing.

Looking at some pictures of the Monte Carlo online I really like the look of whitewalls on these Rally wheels. The kit doesn't come with any but I had a set of unused whitewall decals from a 1964 Impala my son built, he did the custom version so was left with spare whitewalls:)

Thanks for the info, that's very helpful. I'll be building it as is for now, being a screw bottom kit it's something I can come back to when I get a GTO.

Looking in my parts tin, I found some incomplete engines and a gearbox. Not enough to attempt an open hood conversion, but I do have some custom parts left over from the Mercury Park Lane. I'm actually liking how the back end looks with that window frame, hmmm, I'm getting adventurous! Careful now, Lol.

This is ridiculous! (in a good way) I'm having a hard time telling which engine in the pictures is the real one, Lol!

Yes, looks like a very good mould. I am thinking of opening up the hood, that part is easy enough, but as you say, chassis is an issue and I don't think I have any spare engines to put in there. I'd also have to make a firewall, inner wings, and radiator support. It's not impossible but I don't think I have the skill to go that far.

haha, great stuff. Welcome aboard:)

This is my third kit on this forum in what, a week or two? ..the fun never stops, Lol! This is a Snaptite kit by Revell, so no engine detailing to worry about. A quick look in the box, and viewing built up kits online, suggests this can be built up into a really nice looking model despite the toyish looking box art.

Thanks, Guys. Definitely one of my favourite builds.

That's amazing weathering! I love it

Welcome! I joined myself only a few days ago, great place to hang out. Jethro Tull fan?

Thanks, Dave. Yeah, the body needed a fair amount of shaving. I managed to re-shape the peaks on the wings but they're not as sharp as they should be, but yes, it's barely noticeable. It was Steve that suggested the interior would look good in a colour similar to the body rather than black, he was right:)

Nice work!

It does look like chocolate, Lol! Common colour on cars this age. Brown does look good but it has to shine. A friend of mine painted his 1:1 car brown and thought what is he thinking, but when the trim and everything was fitted it looked amazing!

Thanks, Gary.

haha, the lizard is random! Yeah, I love these little extra accessories they include, they need to do more of that stuff. It's always fun and it's something to do when the paint is drying on the main build.

Nice. I love Cadillacs.