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+1 for Maguires

A mustang I never finished because I rushed the paint job and it turned to cracked BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH.

I would be worried the thinner would end up making more of mess than fixing the issue. I would sand it and repaint the trunk.

I have faith in humanities ability to turn any technology into useless entertainment. I can foresee some group of folks purposely feeding total garbage to the AI world until it is overwhelmed and becomes of no value other than entertainment.

Too many people who don't know better will accept whatever AI spits out as total fact. Kids don't question it because technology told them. Meanwhile I can't tell my teenage daughter anything she isn't immediately skeptical of... "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"

Another tip that I forgot: Using a lead pencil will give you a shiny areas that can replicate metal nicely over flat black, darker greys or gunmetal. (see the shovel, machine gun and tracks on the above model) Oh and don't forget the interior.

One thing I remember from back in my armor building days is a little weathering can go a long way. I tend to have to stop myself. I find an affect I like and its easy to overdo it.. I like to use pastel chalks that I run across some sandpaper and grind down to powder. You can either just dump it on and blow off the excess or lightly brush it on. I have even wet a spot and let it dissolve in the water and clump and dry. This is a 1/76 armor piece weathered using a wash, dry brush, then pastel powder.

Do you seal the foam with anything before painting?

Ahhhhh that's the key!!! All great information!! I find that putting the PE parts on a piece of doubled over masking tape help from the little parts shooting up into the air, never to be seen again.

Well there goes that plan....Maybe i'll compromise and drink as I do it.

Tried the foam thing once. It made the seat size and depth too fat.

Having just completed Revell's version ('99) I don't know that the mustang shelf needs a '97. Decals look nice though.

To me it just looks like a massive search engine that rapidly grabs whatever data it can find and right or wrong, throws it together and regurgitates it. I don't know that I would call that intelligence. If it finds garbage, it regurgitates garbage. Unless I'm missing some computerized thinking process, in the end it can be totally overloaded with false information rendering it totally useless.

Definitely going to do this!! I hate fighting the ribbon. Just need more bottles of wine!!!

Good to know. I may just be better off converting a standard mustang.

I've got a sheet of chrome that I can't get to stick for anything. I think there was a bad run for a while.

Currently it's this one....but I tend to change my mind a lot.

Point taken, and I agree. Complainers are always going to complain. Social media is almost entirely built on the idea of people just complaining about something or other. As long as they have a stage, there will always be those people who rubber cement a model together, dip it in a bucket of latex house paint, then say it is the manufacturers fault for it not looking as good as all the really great looking models out there. I've learned to ignore the complaints, but I have a teenage daughter in the house so I get lots of practice.

In the end, If someone uses the Jo-han name to come up with affordable models, in a subject matter I want, I will buy them. I am cheap and price for me is important. There are lots of really wonderful kits that I just won't pay for. The company name is just that, a name used to generate feelings of nostalgia. An example is my 1:1 motorcycle. I bought an Indian (the new versions made by Polaris after they killed the Victory brand). Not because it was an Indian but because I got a way better deal than HD was willing to give me. All the talk about assemblers vs builders is silly to me. I have just as much pride in the promo I repainted and changed the tires on as I do the models I have built with totally scratch built suspensions, kit bashed engines and detailed interiors. Do what makes you happy and let others do what makes them happy. People will complain about anything and complaining about the complainers is still just complaining. Just so long as everybody keeps building they will keep making kits.

Same... I remember hearing the music and that clown laughing and thinking OOOOHH BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH here he comes again. Then getting blown to bits.

while on vacation

I make notes when I am away from a project and have an idea. That note goes in my pocket and the the washing machine most times. I should probably keep better notes. It might keep me from forgetting what the plan was for something and then ordering a totally new set of aftermarket parts for something I already ordered aftermarket parts for. I do use pictures though. Lots of reference pictures I print out and keep either in the box or in a folder.

I don't remember if this kit came with the 8 lug wheels as for some reason I remember getting some from Fireball. I can look through my parts box later and see if I still have the kit wheels.

Here is a picture of the above mentioned 4x4 kit (the 1970 but with a grill from the 69 kit). There is no separate trim in the box as i recall. The lower trim is molded in and I had to sand it off as i recall. The molded upper trim can be chromed and painted to match the trim. I sanded it down a little because I didn't want the trim. Ironically, I turned this into a 2 WD. I ended up using all the 4x4 parts on other things or I would send them to you.

Looks awesome. Great job on the paint and engine detail!! Previous owner seems to have put GM seatbelts in. Overall really outstanding work.