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Been wanting to do another of the Mustang II. They aren't hard to find and the expanded decals don't do much for me but I'll probably end up with one.

If you are talking about the body of your car, are you using something to hold it that you can turn and manipulate while you paint? I ended up taking a piece of pvc pipe about 15 inches long and cutting two lengths of metal coat hanger than I bent in half and stuck down the pipe fare enough to stay. I use the four ends to support the body while I hold and turn the holder as I spray. For airbrushing I drilled a hole in a piece of 2x4 that the holder stands in and use that as a stand.

Only my third year and first with a mustang, but that is only because that is primarily what I build. This will be my first coupe though. I love seeing what everybody does with the mustangs as it gives me lots of ideas for future projects.

My bad. I just looked at the 66 kit and realized it doesn't have an engine compartment at all. Now it all makes sense.

Woo hoo it's gonna be Mustang party!! Lots of awesome builds this year.

Love this box art.

Planning on doing almost this same thing, mostly. Looked through your last build and it was great! Will be following this one closely. Curious how different the 66 engine compartment is to the 67. Based on your work I assume you can't just put the 67 chassis under the 66 body without the engine compartment swap.

That would make sense. I just remembered I have a 67 I have sitting around just waiting for primer. Will test fit on that. Thanks for the heads up on what to look for.

Makes sense. If I was able to actually maintain focus on one project I might not have 5 different ones in various stages of completion.

Patience never being something I possess, I couldn't wait for my main model to show up before starting the engine. Hopefully the svt engine will slide right in to the 66 without issue.

Minor update?? You are gonna finish before Spring?

I agree on the 20"s. I don't get why aftermarket wheels always seem to be listed in 1/24 scale. When you get down to wheel and tire sizes the difference in scale is noticeable. Actual tire size seems to be an afterthought. But I'm just grumping... Still like the 20"s.

Bingo. That makes sense. Somewhere along the way i mixed this in with an uncompleted kit I was bashing. Thanks for the help!!

Have a parts tree I can't identify or figure out where it came from. Any help is appreciated.

Waiting on my base kit to show up. Scavenging the engine and some parts from this kit.

I was going back and forth thinking about using this kit when you jumped in. After looking at the frame I was glad you made up my mind for me. I was not looking forward to the molded in detail removal. Will definitely be following your progress. Can't wait to see what you do.

Ok I'm in. Took a bit to figure out what the build will be and my initial idea got snatched up so I will go with a 66 mustang hardtop. Should have the kit in the next couple of days.

This. 100%.

At some point it is just going to have to come down to whoever leads this thing to make the decision on the boundaries of the build. If we leave it up to committee we will never have a solution as everyone will lobby for the rules that suite the build they have in their head. I'm just going to hang tight until it all shakes out and see what I come up with after that.

So this then. Seems the best description I have seen so far.

www.scalemates.com/products/img/5/7/9/1373579-29-instructions.pdf

Also painted up the weapons box I made that will fit in the bed of the truck.

I have some misc. ones up here: https://cults3d.com/en/users/Joemama51/3d-models I haven't charged for anything yet. When I did the Supernatural Impala I didn't have a 3D printer yet and scratch built all the trunk stuff that I couldn't source somewhere. I am now in the process of creating STL files for the trunk box and then might move onto the actual trunk interior. Opening the trunk on that kit was not as easy as I thought it would be and it had to be build out a lot.

Got the interior mostly done. Added some messed up seat covers and the printed steering wheel worked out. Weathered the whole thing. I should mention I am horrible and taking pictures. But they did allow me to notice some fixes I need to make.

You can blame my impulsive nature and general laziness. I saw a kit at the shop, said, "I can make that work" boom. research complete. Didn't even stop to think there might be a better suited kit.?