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Gorgeous build! The interior is particularly well painted and detailed and nice that it’s a convertible so you can show it off. I’m also impressed with how nicely the hood with those chrome “eyebrows” fit so nicely with the front end of the body and grill which, based on other Monogram/ Revell ‘59 Impala builds I’ve seen posted, these features don’t always fit so well out of the box. I have a hardtop version of this kit in my stash but would love to find and build a convertible now after seeing your beautiful result.

Another beautiful classic mid-60’s super stocker Eric! Love the understated almost showroom stock look of this one. I’m impressed how quickly you’re knocking these out! These are my favorite vintage of drag cars - keep building and posting!

Very creative! Beautiful craftsmanship! Love that bomb fuel tank!

Nice build and I particularly love that tire repair / bumper jack pic. Brings back memories of all the lousy bumper jacks that came with my first few $300 “transportation” cars. I am so glad someone invented the scissors jack that came with the later cars I had back in the ‘70’s.

Yeh, I think engines are generally the weakest areas on OOB builds of Revell and AMT/ Round 2 1/25 car kits. I have become totally addicted to Fireball Resin carburetors as well as Detail Master parts - you can easily double the price of a car build (triple it with good paint!) but what a difference these aftermarket parts can make.

Fabulous engine detailing Ryan! Love them all but especially the Jags. Hard to believe you’ve only been at this for eleven months. You sir have a talent at this hobby! Keep building and posting please!

Thank you Engineerbob (Grant) for the detail instructions, looks like a good way to go. I’m hoping to push the front axle forward as well on a few of the cars which may be a challenge. Not too worried about the chassis and interior mods. You do really nice work btw. Much thanks!

Really impressed with all these AWB builds done by modifying stock wheel base kits. Are most of you guys using two bodies/ kits to do these or are you cutting out the wheel openings on the bodies, shifting them forward and filling in the remaining cut open areas with sheet styrene? I hope to build the AWB ‘65 Chevelle “Seaton’s Shaker” using the Revell kit soon and wondering if I need to find a second Chevelle kit to do the body mods. Would rather not use an AWB resin body or one of those crappy AMT AWB kits.

Nice Thunderbolt Eric! Old Fred Cady decals? If so, how did they work? Any cracking? I’ve seen old sets for sale but have been concerned that they might fall apart when immersed in water.

I agree Robert. MCW offered a resin ‘63 Catalina set but they’ve been out of stock for sometime. I would love to to kitbash a ‘63 resin body with the ‘62 AMT chassis to make this Arnie Beswick car: With dark decals on a silver car, I might be able to do my own decals at home. Decal availability seems to dictate what I build as well as kits. When you look at George Klass’s website, it’s amazing how many hundreds (thousands?) of super stockers that burned up the strips in those early days.

Your Camaro with the integrated flip hood and doors is totally bitchen. Here’s a shot of the Camaro-Corvair car (with a 409!) that I mentioned, I think this roof actually improves the appearance of the first gen. car.

Amazing creativity and workmanship! If you were to ever apply to Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, CA, this collection could qualify as a portfolio. My favorite is also that rear engine Charger, it would be an absolute hit in 1:1 at the National Roadster Show. Speaking of NRS, I remember seeing a first gen Camaro with a second gen Corvair roof grafted onto it, it was wonderful and it would be my request if you were ever to do a commission for me.

That is one impressive gullwing! Next best thing to dropping a mil on a 1:1! And those scratch-built eyebrows you did came out perfect, bravo! If $$$ and space we’re no object, I would love to have two of these kits to display, one complete and one with a naked chassis.

You build ‘em neat tiddy & FAST! They are all beautiful but that Z/28 is my favorite, classy and unstated with the black stripes against the charcoal, look’s like a 1:1 in your photos.

Really like the paint scheme on this, the slightly dark metallic red stripe in the silver came out sweet, really pops! Silver can be challenging - this one came out great!

Looking good! Nice job on the painted window trim and the redline tire decals. I also like the look of the black steelies with the yellow. Looking forward to seeing this beauty come together.

Thanks guys for all the “at-a-boy’s”! Such nice folks on this board! I wanted to post a few shots of the interior during assembly, not to toot my horn but to show how nicely tooled this Revell interior is right out of the box. The separately molded door and window crank hardware and chrome pieces on the dash and back seat makes this kit so easy to detail.

Thanks guys for all the kind comments and encouragement, a lot of amazing builds on this board so it’s an honor to even be noticed! I do have a set of Sox & Martin decals for the AWB ‘65 Ply along with sets for Shirley Shahan’s Drag-In-Lady, Gumpy’s Black Arrow, Dick Brannan’s ‘63 Galaxie, the Seaton’s Shaker AWB Chevelle and Dick Harrell’s first AWB Nova all in my decal and kit stash which I hope to build in the coming months.

I've had '60's super stock drag cars on the brain since start of the pandemic and have built twenty of them since late 2019, here are my latest three: AMT/ Round 2 (Lindberg) '62 Chevy Bel Air 409 A/S "Northwind": OOB except for Fireball resin carbs and Detail Master ignition and linkage parts. Old AMT decals are incredibly brittle, I had to spray these with acrylic spray to get them to hold together. AMT/ Round 2 (Lindberg) '64 Dodge 426 Hemi (the Ramchargers kit) - Dick Landy's original SWB car before he altered the wheelbase. I used the excellent Slixx decal set and added Fireball resin carbs and Detail Master ignition and throttle parts to the engine and some after market seat belt parts and tach, otherwise pretty much OOB: Moebius '65 Comet A/FX w/ Ford 427 SOHC - the Dyno Don kit car: This one's pretty stock other than Fireball resin carbs and Detail Master distributor and plug wires and throttle linkage parts and after market seat belt/ harness parts. Unlike other Moebius kits I've built, these decals cracked on me so I suspect there's a limited shelf life on the kit decals (build 'em soon if you got 'em!): I still have like a dozen or so sixties super stock kits in my stash so hopefully I'll post more in '22 if you like them. Cheers, John

This is a very nice kit (originally Monogram?) that Revell re-issued in their "California Wheels" series. I built it OOB other than plug wires. Base paints for the exterior are from Scale Finishes and were mixed to match the original factory colors "Suntan Copper" and "Fawn Beige". Metal trim was masked and airbrushed using Alclad chrome over black enamel. The trunk is openable on this kit but I managed to glue mine shut due to excess epoxy on the rear chrome light pieces. My favorite part of this kit is the interior, an absolute jewel that is really easy to paint and detail. I highly recommend this kit if you can find it.

That FRS resin body looks like a perfect fit on the Moebius 65 Plymouth AWB chassis - did you have to do much in the way of modifications to make this all work? Very nice job on a classic AWB super stocker that’s probably been rarely if ever modeled. Love your taste in drag cars - keep building and posting ‘em!

Another masterpiece from the Mr Lin workshop! Builders like you and Steven Guthmiller set the bar so high for the rest of us “imperfect but always striving to do better on the next build” modelers here. Inspiring! I always thought this first Z and the ‘90 300Z were the best looking of all the Z designs. I got a chance to see the new Z at the local auto show last month and was blown away, it is absolutely beautiful, nice sports car size and super clean styling reminiscent to me of this original 240Z.

That filthy barnyard gasser is outstanding! I particularly love the homemade signage (“Homemade Hell” - what a great name for this car!) the steelies with front whitewalls and the windshield wiper view. Did you learn to do this by building weathered AFV’s or did you just apply those techniques directly to cars?

Love the side profile look of the channeled version of this kit. Also really like your understated color choices, the reddish-black + wine interior + gold wheels all just tastefully “clicks”! Beautiful build! Makes me want a 1:1 of this car to cruise around town in!

Much thanks Ryan for posting you’re painting process in such detail in response to my questions. Like you, I think increased patience has really improved my painting as well as general model building results. I have found successful scale model builds are about 85% masking and painting and WAITING and 15% everything else! I look forward to trying out your process on a future paint job.