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  1. Thanks for posting this excellent WIP Bill, cool to see so many other guys here share our love of these 60's door slammers. So far your S&M Paper Tiger is coming out sweet! Kudos to Moebius for issuing these AWB Mopar A/FX kits, hoping someday they produce an accurate Holman & Moody '65 A/FX Mustang (with that beautiful 427 cammer from their Comet kit so that's a few less mold cavities they'd have to EDM!) I attempted to include 0.5 mm solder wire fuel lines on my S&M Paper Tiger build two years ago with less than perfect results (hard to see much down between those velocity stacks). In hindsight, it was probably not worth the frustration.... I used this image I found on the web for a reference (sorry, can't recall the source). Hope this helps! Correction: Ooops! Look's like my ref. pic above is late! I just saw your fuel line plumbing after I posted the above, it looks fabulous!!!!
  2. Thanks Bill for the MAD link. Interesting stuff at very reasonable prices. Good to know if I screw up one of the resin 727 engine mods. $4 is amazing these days, I think I paid $10 -$12 for the resin ones I bought a year or two ago.
  3. Ooohhhh...at the risk of starting a 1/25 TorqueFlite 727 transmission supply chain crisis, could you please pass on the info for these? Are they actual 3D printed or resin casting parts or just 3D STL files? Thanks Bill!
  4. Thank you Bill (gtx6970)! I got lucky on my build of Grumpy's Black Arrow car and included a column shifter with the automatic. It's tough to find much in the way of interior photos of these old door slammers and so it's usually a WAG as to the interior config./ color. Funny on your timing on pulling up and commenting on my old (2 yrs ago) posting on my Plymouth builds, I just finished a "dry-run" build of the new release Moebius's '65 Dodge AWB A/FX Strick car, it builds as nice as the Plymouths: I have three more of these Dodge AWB kits with the plans to build reproductions of the Landry, Mr. Norm (Gary Dyer), and Harrop cars, ALL AUTOMATIC TORQUEFLITE 727's cars. Unfortunately, Moebius only supplies the manual transmission version of the 426 Hemi in this new Dodge kit. Fortunately I purchased three resin 727's over the last few years that I can graft onto the engines supplied with these AWB Dodges. Strangely, Moebius supplied their AWB A/FX Golden Commando Plymouth kit with hemi blocks with both transmission types and the automatics were much much more common on these AWB Hemi's. Makes me wonder why they didn't include an automatic option on these new Dodge kits??? Looking forward to seeing your two '65 Plymouth A990's come together! cheers, John
  5. Yes and IIRC I enlarged the holes in the Moebius kit supplied pie crust slicks to accept these larger Revell mags using an X-acto knife with repeated radial inside diameter cuts & tries. I believe these rear wheels that S&M used on this car were made by Keystone (early "Kustomag Klassic" wheels?) (please correct me if I'm wrong). I'm finally starting to build a few of the Dodge AWB A/FX cars using the new Moebius release and decals I've collected over the years. The Gary Dyer Mr. Norm's Grand-Spaulding supercharged match race car (drag racing's fastest door slammer back in the day!) look's to be the most challenging and will require a straight axle front end, anyone here build one yet that I can see & copy? 😁
  6. Sad news yesterday, Shunsaki Tamiya, CEO of Tamiya, passed away at the age of 90. A link to the obit is here. It sounds like he was the primary reason that Tamiya kits have been so excellent for so many decades. The image described in the obit of him greeting all the children entering the Japanese hobby show conveys the image of a joyous man whose life work involved much more than just making money. Thank you Tamiya San! RIP. Maybe we can all honor Mr. Tamiya by building one of his wonderful kits or, better yet, gift one to an adult friend or a child we know and get them "hooked" on our wonderful hobby!
  7. Fabulous job Bill on this build, especially the paint & decal work and all the little things (AT, wheels, side window frame colors & un-chromed rain gutters) to match the period photos. I'm loving all these builds being posted of this excellent new Moebius kit, keep them coming! I need to get off the stick and build and post one and join the AWB A/FX Mopar fanboy club.
  8. Ooooh! Sweeeeeeeet!!!!!!! Time to order yet another kit to add to my morbidly obese stash! Thank you Justin!
  9. I noticed this kit is now available at a number of dealers. If anyone out there has already grabbed one (or has seen a review posted), I would love to see photo(s) of the available engine part runners (is a 289 with the webers included or is it just the 427 cammer from the A/FX kit?).
  10. 1962 Austin Healy 3000 Mk II. Not because it was the greatest sports car of all time but because it was my dad's mid-life crises "new" used car in 1964 (in Florida Green). I remember riding shot-gun cruising around town and watching my dad row through the gears and thinking I was the coolest and luckiest 11 year old in Lakewood. CA. The sound and shake of that tri-carb straight six, the smell of the worn leather seats and occasional wisps of motor oil and brake fluid. When I see one of these I think about my wonderful childhood and the incredible father (and mother) that I was blessed to be raised by. Mid-60's in America....sweet spot in time!
  11. Fabulous job on this "rarely built stock" classic. I'm particularly impressed with the work you did on the interior tub re-build/ door panels/ window cranks. Too bad it's a hard top and not a convertible! It's amazing how good some of these old tooled AMT kits are. The molds for this Merc were built in 1963, the equally excellent AMT shoebox '49 Ford molds were made in 1962. Makes one wonder how many products are manufactured for +60 years off of the original tooling!
  12. Beautiful beautiful job Tom. Are the black panels on the hood and trunk part decals or did you paint them? What part of the final assembly did you find finicky? Getting the chassis-interior-body to fully seat?
  13. Fujimi kit from the 80's? Love the purple with the dark grey wheels. Looking forward to building the new tooled Hasegawa kit.
  14. Hope they issue the A/FX version, I've been hoarding decals for the Dyno Don, and Ronnie Sox cars and would love to do those two as well as a Sachs & Son's supercharged car. I grabbed the recent re-issue of AMT's Curbside Caliente with the intent to build the Dyno or Sox car but procrastinated due to amount of work required to kit-bash with the Moebius '65 Comet and Revell '64 Thunderbolt kits. Please please please Moebius issue a period correct '64 Comet A/FX kit (preferably with the 427 FE high-riser engine)!!!! P.S.: how about a '64 East African Rally Car version for extra points?
  15. Oooohhhh, nice job Michael! This kit held no interest for me until I saw your WIP. This blueish metallic grey that you picked as well as omitting the CF decals really compliments the classic 911 lines of this beauty (I hate CF). I wish Tamiya would offer a non-racing stock version of this 911 992 without the wing and all the extra air scoops and black fender fascia, although even with these GT3 RS details, your build makes me want to add this kit to my wish list and copy yours (ultimate compliment!).
  16. Another magazine cover masterpiece Mike! I grabbed these decals off of Joe's eBay store awhile back when I saw them, this build is the first I've seen to use them. Bovan's story is a sad one, he evidently got involved in illicit drug sales in the early 70's in order to finance his racing and was ultimately murdered in a drug deal gone bad.
  17. Great job on the rust weathering, perfect example of "less is more".!
  18. It's in the kit. I believe all the Moebius Hudsons include this cool feature. Would be great for a '50's gas station diorama.
  19. What a gorgeous Starliner Bob! Your BMF work is A+ as well as all detailing in the interior, engine bay and chassis. The PE grill and little star dohickies on the rear roof supports really kicks the realism up a notch on your build. This AMT kit is truly one of the best 1/25 auto kits out there.
  20. Very cool AWB Chevelle Michael! World's fastest teacher on the drag strip in '65! The rear chromed steelie wheels and front Halibrands really make this build look accurate relative to period photos I've seen. Great job! I built and posted a non-AWB version of this car a few years back using the Revell kit and boy what a hassle to have to cut out the goofy integrally molded battery from the engine bay. I gave up trying to alter the rear wheels after the engine bay fiasco. Your build makes me want to take another crack at this car using this re-issued R2 kit.
  21. Gorgeous red-on-red 'vette Randy! Nice job on the fuelie engine bay and very impressed that you were able to paint the red steelie parimeter aound each wheel cover (that's a challenge I've yet to master!). The '62 is my favorite C1 styling year with the sneak-preview of that sweet C2 rear end. Buz & Tod would approve!
  22. Many thanks to all you guys above who left such kind & generous comments/ compliments on my Hudson build. Now that's it's finally warming up, I hope to build and post a few more shiny lacquered model cars in the coming months including that new Moebius '65 Dodge AWB A/FX I just started. Thank you Moebius! Happy modeling! John
  23. This is my second 1/25 Moebius Hudson kit, a "birth year" car for me. Man-oh-man these Moebius kits sure are nice!!!! This Hudson kit assembled like a Tamiya, everything fits and just looks right and the engineering is A+. I built this one pretty much OOB except for some plug wires, fuel lines, battery cables and radiator hose clamps made from wine bottle cork foil (getting low, guess I need to buy & drink more wine!). I airbrushed this box art two-tone scheme using Scale Finishes '53 Hudson factory colors, "Broadway Blue" and "Honey Cream" and then clear coated with Gunze Mr Hobby Super Clear III GX-100 lacquer thinned with Mr Color Leveling Thinner (1:1). The blue came out lighter than the box art and photos I've seen of the actual factory color but I'm happy with this "slate blue" color with the cream roof. The other parts were painted using Tamiya acrylics. This one was a beast to foil but after a few afternoons of persevering (and cursing), I got her done. Thanks for looking! Cheers, John
  24. Love that two-tone color combo, looks like a scheme I remember seeing on '57's as a kid. Your foiling result is excellent, it definitely gets easier with more practice and can actually be "fun" after a while. Bravo!
  25. Great subject! Amazing engine bay detailing! Super realistic neat clean build of one of my favorite AMT kits! A terrific tribute to a legendary builder/ innovator/ driver/ team owner and all around good guy! Dan Gurney for President!
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