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Great job on the rust weathering, perfect example of "less is more".!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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!

Hey Mike, you are the "master of kit bashers", really nice job on this one! That cover brings back high school memories for me of being at OCIR in '69 and watching Jungle Jim rule the night. What great times those were! Sadly other than Pomona all the great strips of my childhood in So. Cal are gone, replaced by container yards, strip malls, and industrial parks ..... 😢 One of these days you need to line up all your drag car builds (with or without mag covers) and take and post a few shots for me and your other fans here, it would make for an amazing miniature museum!

Really nice job David on one of my favorite American milestones autos. That "coffin" grill is timeless and one of the best all-time front end auto designs IMO. Nice to see one in blue (vs. black/ white/ red/ yellow). Your chrome look's "toned down" and not as toy-like as I've seen on other builds of these old kits, did you re-spray the chrome parts with Dullcote or re-paint then with Alclad? Whatever you did really helps take this old kit up a notch. It's amazing how good these Monogram 1/24 classic kits are that were molded back in the 1960's/ '70's. I built and posted a '30 Packard Speedster Phaeton a few years back and enjoyed building it so much that I started buying up other kits in this series at kit swap meets and on eBay including this Cord. My local club has a "classic kit tooling (pre-'79) contest coming up next month, your Cord is inspiring me to take a crack at mine (or maybe that Lincoln Connie?) . Bravo & thanks for posting!

Great job on one if not THE absolute best 1/24-1/25 auto scale model kits out there. Love the dark silver over red. Your pics makes me want to build another one of these.

My favorite auto racing books: "Black Noon" by Art Garner - about the tragic '64 Indy race - fascinating read about Mickey Thompson, Dave MacDonald, Eddie Sachs, Jim Clark and many others. Would make a great documentary. "Go Like Hell" by A. J. Baime, basis of the movie "Ford V Ferrari" but much expanded background history and additional interesting stories. Baime's other books (Arsenal of Democracy) are also excellent. Someone needs to write a really good book and/or make a good bio-pic about Tazio Nuvolari, most interesting and some say the greatest race driver of all time.

I feel bad for Moebius and other equally hard working entrepreneurial small companies that are the foundation of our economy and are now caught in the middle of this &#%. Interesting reading the responses here. In the coming months, model kit prices and availability will probably be the least of our problems, economic and otherwise. Hope I'm wrong! Buckle-up! Model on!

That is very cool. The pics with the salt flats and racing activity in the background are amazing. Well done!!!

I've never had any luck applying tape over Tamiya gloss acrylic paint. The flat (XF) Tamiya acrylics are rarely an issue with any masking tape. When I spray two-tone auto models, I use lacquer based auto base paints such as Scale Finishes/ Zero Paints/ MCW Paints and an airbrush. Hot lacquers such as Tamiya lacquer rattle can paints tend to bleed through masking tape edges, no mater what brand of tape I use. Once the two-tone matte base paint scheme is cured, you can use whatever clear coat to produce a gloss finish without worrying about mask edge bleeding.

No pics of my first ride but I did build and post a model of it a few years back. A '56 210 post coupe with a tired 265 V8 and two-speed PowerGlide. I think I paid $465 in 1971 to a really old couple (OMG! They must have been in their late 40's?) who lived down the street and were original owners. The car looked this good but needed new hoses and belts, a radiator flush, oil change and my Dad helped me extract and replace corroded carb-to-manifold bolts that was the cause for an intake manifold leak. I remember Dad putting an old rag in the manifold carb hole to prevent Easy-Out drill chips getting into the cylinders. I miss the simplicity and joy of working on old cars. Ran like a top without one damn integrated circuit! I drove the car to college for several years until the first oil embargo (late '73?) which prompted me to sell it to my brother and buy a 10 speed racing bicycle to commute to school. If I only knew then what we all know now, I should'a could'a would'a kept it!!!!

Love it!!!! Nice fade paint work, the green/ white with the B&W decals all work together well to make this model pop. Sometimes these simple classic old kits can provide a lot of nostalgic fun. The CO2 cartridge and Jetex engine references really brings back warm childhood memories of juvenile garage mayhem! I feel so lucky to have been a boy back in the minimally regulated mid-twentieth century. Also lucky to have survived those times with all my fingers and both eyes still intact!

The engine bay is my favorite part. An amazing job on the dual carb throttle linkage and fuel lines, one of the best detailed hemi's I've seen posted in this forum. Sweet!

Really nice job Hugh on this less-than-perfect kit. I've built a fair number of Trumpeter aircraft and ship kits and the quality varies all over the place. Our next door neighbor had one of these '61's in a white hardtop back in the days when middle class folks would upgrade every 1-2 years. I like your green one better.

Scalefinishes website says Tamiya’s primers made after 2022 are not compatible with their base paints. I’ve been using Mr. Surfacer (Gunze) spray lacquer primers (1200, 1500) with Scalefinishes base paints and they seem to work fine. For clearcoats over the Scalefinishes base paints, I’ve had the best results and minimal decal compatibility issues by airbrushing Mr Color (Gunze) GX-100 Super Clear III lacquer clear coat thinned 50/50 with Mr Color Leveling Thinner. I previously used Tamiya’s TS-13 rattle-can lacquer clear coat but found it occasionally “too hot” for the Scalefinishes metallics (reacting in spots causing uneven splotching of the metallic) as well as eating the decals when a wet coat is applied (even after multiple thin dry coats). Hope this helps! Those greens look cool - good luck!

Great job making a silk purse out of pig’s ear kit. Love the wide-white slicks and the giddy-up giddy-up 409, very cool 60’s drag strip look & vibe. Nice!

Look’s like it’s gone again ☹️!, hopefully not forever! Thank you robdebie for the link you posted above last year. This site has been a goldmine for 60’s doorslammer drag car modeling inspirations!

Nice! Love this car in the box art red and the sleeper look with the stock steel wheels and dog dish hub caps. I have this kit in my queue for when the weather warms (for painting shiny lacquer) and hope to build a drag S/S car with it. Other than the hood fit issue, this build came out really neat & tiddy. You might be able to adjust the hood fit by sanding the paint and excess plastic off the side edges of the hood until it fully seats and then covering any exposed white styrene on the hood side edges with a black sharpie or thin coat of FB paint.

Thanks Tim, hope that’s still the case. I would love to make Doug Nash’s B/FX with this kit and some aftermarket or home-printed decals.