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Masking tape is off, just got to wait a few days for the paint to cure before breaking a sweat with those 50 year old decals! I plan on putting the Mag alloys on this... but then I tried some Torq Thrusts and now I'm like.. Hmm!! Lol

Thanks Nigel. Not sure to be honest. I can't say I've seen any new Vauxhalls, or any modern car, in this colour.

Whow!! Nice! Do pictures have sound? cos I can hear that thing just looking at it!

Time for paint, and fitting the nearly 50 year old decals! Colour is Vauxhall Mustard Yellow. The hood decals wouldn't slide off the backing paper so I just peeled them off with my bare fingers and hoped for the best! They were very dry but laid down ok, though I did need to use decal solvent to flatten some raised areas that wouldn't settle. Lacquer has been applied so they are now locked in. I'm hoping the side decals for the body will cooperate just as well so fingers crossed!

Thanks mate, she's getting close to the finish now.

The headlights in this kit are awful. They don't fit the recesses of the headlight pods and both are misshaped. I cleaned them up and painted them black. Rear panel trim is ok and didn't need any work.

Going with some Mag alloys from my spares.

Thanks guys. The chassis and engine are done, I just have the suspension tower braces to do to finish it off under there. I've got the interior painted and detailed, I did paint it black first but then I seen a '73 with a brown interior, vinyl roof and mustard yellow body with black stripes, so I've decided not to do the WFIL radio car.

The under hood detail in this kit is non existent so I did a bit of scratch building and added inner wings and suspension strut towers.

Nice clean work, it's looking good so far. Looking at the masked up lines I can't wait to see the paint! Love these old school custom builds.

I'm likely going box stock, but here's couple of fun ideas I'm thinking of going with on this car.

I scribed the panel lines in the body today and also opened up the intake on the lower valance. The radiator is comically wide on this kit, so I shortened it and made a new frame. It's not accurate to the real car but is miles better than what it looked like off the sprue.

I haven't had a problem with coloured plastic, though I know many have and do.

Congrats, Dan! Tough choice on which one to vote for this year, well done eveyone.

A scene from the 70's TV series "The Sweeney" where he's building a hovercraft. There is another scene but I can't find it, could be from a different episode, where he's building a semi truck. I think it's this Airfix kit from the early 70's

Amazing first big rig build, very clean work with beautiful detail. Love the colour, your paint looks flawless!

Doing some cleaning up and fine tuning before glue and paint. So far I've cut out the hood vents and made the rear window louvers fit nicely. I've also lightly reworked the front panel and grille to give it a rake like the real car. It's almost dead flat on the kit. Left to do is to score a panel separation line on the leading edge of the hood and wing tips.

oh nice, that's looking good. Man, I've been keeping my eyes peeled wide open for this kit since it was announced last year but still no sign of these in the UK.

I've been keeping an eye out for the 007 version since it was released but they still seem to be unavailable here. Thanks for the info. I doubt I'll find the correct engine but I will be adding my usual little improvements to this basic kit:) Thank for the link, John. Interesting read, I'll have to look for the book "Pontiac Pizazz" if only for the artwork by Art Fitzpatrick! Yes, looking over the body earlier it looks good. I did some test fitting of some parts and there's nothing that looks like it's going to give trouble later. Although very basic, it seems an ok kit so far.

Thanks John. We never had bumper jacks in the UK, bumpers on British cars back then were too weak skinny for those. Scissor jacks were just as bad really. I have many memories of using the scissor jack on cars with rotten sills where the car would drop and crunch the jack into the floor and get stuck there! Lol

Thanks Helmut. Yeah, kind of. I thought it looked very much like an FBI or CIA type car so I just put one of those portable lights on the roof to see how it looked. It works, but would be more convincing if the interior was also black. It's just as dubious as the real thing I guess! Is that FBI or just a regular car? You decide, Lol

I've heard this isn't a great kit, so I went and bought one! Not sure when this one was released but it's old. Most of the parts were loose off the tree but everything seems to be there. Love these old kits though, pretty cool looking through this when I opened it. Check out the instruction sheet where you can win all sorts of goodies, like Rupp mini dune buggies and bikes, and Jim Wangers Chevy Vega van... no idea who he is. I did Google him but came up with the guy behind the Pontiac GTO? There's also a "Street is Neat" medallion in there too... might wear that with an open shirt next time me and the Mrs go boogying on down to the discotheque! xD

Beautiful Galaxie. Love the classic red with white roof combo.

Yeah, sure thing! I hope they help. The only difficulty I came across with this kit really was how the exhaust stack support bars went, the rest of the kit is a breeze. Good luck man, looking forward to seeing it.

ah, ok. Thanks. I forgot about the BRBO until I came across the new 2022 BRBO entry. Man does time fly!