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Thanks David. No, though I have seen that car in many videos. I followed the guy who restored it for Roadkill. It looks the same on the outside but underneath it's a brand new, and very improved car!

I've yet to build one. They do indeed seem to be lightyears ahead from this old fossil. It says a lot for this kit when the snap version is superior to the regular version.

I was trying some colour out and ended up with a cool weathering effect! Looks like a restoration project, Lol.

Made some inner rear wheel tubs and cut out the fuel tank. The fuel tank had very little detail and I'd normally just leave it, but I had a nicely detailed tank in my spares I've been trying to find a use for, and it fits perfectly after filling the hole that was left.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I like this kind of model building, though a lot of the fabrication is just to make everything fit better.

Made some interior arm rests.

Made some firewall filler pieces for under the fenders and some trunk floor quarters. The chassis doesn't slide around anymore and sits exactly where it needs to be for the right wheelbase position.

Yeah, correcting the rear window would improve how it looks, but the entire roof section around the C pillars are wrong also. They're too wide. I can see why Round2 won't touch the moulds, the more I look at it, the more inaccuracies I see, not to mention the repairs it needs.

Thanks Dave. Yes I should do, being how much I like this kit. It would save me doing the mods all over again when I build another!

Apart from correcting the fit issues around the front grille/bumper there isn't really anything else I do with it. I sand down the inserts until they are super thin so they sit further back in the grille but that's about it. I've seen pictures of the original promo and the inserts look worse than these in my opinion. Both are inaccurate but the promo has just vertical lines whereas the '71 at least has some detail to them.

Got the front wheel arches and gutter trims rebuilt, also corrected the rear window by enlarging it and adding a new window trim. Scratch built the gearbox tunnel and some of the missing floor on the chassis and did a bit more work on the inner fenders. Hood is from the Revell '69 Charger but it's the custom option hood with the intake hole which needed filling in.

Thanks Peter. Cheers mate. Thanks. You don't have to go as far as I have with it, just fixing the front and rear bumpers will have it looking pretty decent.

I have wondered what the forum might think seeing me build this kit so many times, "What's wrong with him, is he mad?" ?

That's awesome news, Congratulations ? I bet you're already picturing teaching him/her how to build a model! haha.

Looks good box stock. I built mine as a regular car but kind of wish I did it this way now! Very nice.

Man, you put some work into this! Looking amazing, and really like that colour.

Nice work on the paint, lovely colour, and that gold stripe really shows nicely.

Bumpers and grill sorted, they fit like a glove now. Moving on to the chassis. I've started building up the inner fenders and firewall, and also did a bit of work on the dashboard to replicate the crash padding.

Beautiful. Very clean, and awesome detail on the dashboard. The silver paint looks crazy good!

Yeah, it's been butchered about pretty heavily since then. It's a shame really because the annual Charger looked perfect. Yes, some nice parts in this kit. The engines can be built up to look really nice if you have some spares laying around.

Funny you mention all those specs, it's very close to my build plan! No Hemi for this one, yes, I'll be using the 440. I have an auto box in my spares but not sure what car it's from. Air con would be nice but I'd have to pinch it from my '71 Charger, though I might still cos I plan on doing a base model of the '71.

I've a bit of an addiction to this old MPC Charger kit. It's my third one this year, or is it four? Lol, I can't remember! Anyway, first thing's first with this kit is to fix the horrendous fit issues. These all seem to come out of the moulds with different levels of crapness, no two are same but all are badly worn out and misshaped in the same areas. This particular one needed a whole headlight peak on the passenger fender, and some material needed to be added along the drivers fender as the top looked narrower than the other side. All sorts of weird goings on when it comes to the Country Charger, but, I enjoy building this one and the fixes are fun.

wow! Man, that's nice! Knockout looking build, what a beautiful colour. Very clean detail and lovely foil work.

I dip them in a tub of warm water for a few seconds, then ley them on the table until they loosen from the backing paper in their own time. Leaving decals floating in the tub is asking for trouble. They usually come away and get tangled in the water as you try fishing them out. Where I can, I usually lay the wet backing paper on the car and then slide the very end of the decal on to the part and then pull the backing paper away from under it.

I guess it's just a matter of practice makes perfect. Like driving two different cars from different eras, you have to adjust to the differences even though both cars have the exact same controls. It's all in the wrist, as they say. :D