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I’ll follow along as this is one that I’ve wanted to build myself!

Great start Dennis, happy to see you back at it again.

Looks darn purdy there Jim, are you using the stock trunk handle or something a little more svelt?

Don’t get me wrong Bill, I’m not against an airbrush, just to do a proper setup the cost outlay is way out of my modelling budget at the moment, I’ve got a good process for rattle cans and I’m happy with the results.

Thank you Ken, it’s back on track! still not a Oilers or a hockey fan!

Cleaning…. Ohh maaann that’s like work😜 Well I’ll give it some consideration, the initial cost outlay is a bit out of my budget atm unless I buy a cheapo chinesium one from Temu or Amazon. 🤔

I don’t own an airbrush, maybe I should! 🤔

Me too man, me too. Gonna let it gas out for a couple of days before I handle it to do final assembly. Just have to find the fancy bits for the final push like door handles, mirror, tail lights headlights.

Thanks for the kind words gents, persevere I shall. I had another body(like who doesn’t have a spare 32 3 window shell just laying around) and I went through my usual prep and paint process this time with my dwindling supply of Tamiya primer and paint( gonna be a sad day when it finally runs out) and the results show the difference. To those who might say it was something in my process that went bad I’ll say nay it was the subpar primer that I was sold like a bill of goods, duplicolour is no substitute for quality, I’ll save the can and use it as intended on some random piece of farm/garden implement as it’s only fit for.

Yeah it’s got the beginnings of a great patina job…

Well I can honestly say that I’m hugely disappointed with the duplicolour primer, I went through the exact same process of prep and paint that I’ve been doing for years with the only exception of the duplicitous Duplicolour primer, I feel duped. So now it’s gonna sit in the purple pond of doom. After months of waiting for good painting weather, this “dampens” my spirits. And lastly the sad sack mock-up to try to cheer myself up!

“Restraining” the criticism might be a tall Ask Jim. I like it.

It’s great to see that almost a year later they there are still builders plugging away at the finish line and have not abandoned their builds!

Can’t fault Atlantis as most likely they are copy/paste from Revell instructions. I attempted the 55 with all the opening bits and failed horribly in the early 90’s!