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Thanks for the kind words! The darker wood grain is a vinyl sticker that comes with the kit. The emblems and scripts are printed on the vinyl. The lighter wood (fiberglass) is molded with the body and includes all the little carriage bolt heads. I hand painted it with Model Master acrylic sand followed by 2 or 3 coats of clear lightly tinted with transparent amber. If you look really close you might see that I drew darker grain patterns on the sand color with a sharp water color pencil. A Molotow pen was used for the bolt heads.

Really well done. Glad you brought it back into the daylight.

Just finished the Paul Hettick resin '63 County Squire. It's factory combo Colonial white over Chestnut. Besides the body Paul mastered new taillights, hub caps and rear bumper. This is a high quality, accurate conversion kit that goes together flawlessly. Great job Paul and thanks for your help.

I've been out of the hobby for several years but picked it up again this year. I'm into pickups mostly. The Ranchero is in progress with a resin 6 and a Mustang chassis. In factory color Belmont blue. Happy 2021 everyone!

Thanks everyone for welcoming a fellow oddball.

I've heard that one and I tell kids about the pet dinosaur I had as a child. But hey, we paid $1.29 for our first AMT models. It is amazing that I've loved and made model cars for 61 years! Wish I still had all of them.

I have come back to the hobby again after a long absence (15-20 years) and am enjoying every day. I bought my first kit in 1959 from the neighborhood general store, an AMT '58 Ford. Yeah, I'm really old! My eyes and fingers don't work as well as they used to but my skills are good enough to produce satisfactory results. I've been enjoying this site for six months or so and find that it keeps the fire burning to finish the next project. Good to be back. Dave