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Wow Jeff! You don’t waste any time working on a new release! Very nice job and good to hear this new Moebius kit builds as nice as their Plymouths. I’ve only seen pics online of the “Virginia Twister” as an AWB A990 sedan, did Warren also have an AWB HT like a lot of the teams back then? Looking forward to seeing more of these new ‘65 Dodge kits built and posted soon using some of excellent decal sets out there and hope to build and post a few myself soon (Landy’s, Mr Norm’s supercharged match racer,….). Thanks for posting!

Wow! Hard to believe you built this from a kit with +60 year old molds! Beautiful paint, perfect BMF trim, toned-down chrome and black washed grill and wheel covers, everything just about perfect. Did you replace the kit tires and adjust the ride height on this Fury? It just looks so much more realistic (better) than a typical 60’s 1/25 model car kit. Sure wish these molds were still around and I could pick up a ‘62 coupe for cheap, I would love to build an early super stock drag car. I always thought the styling on these ‘62 Mopars was really ugly when I was a kid but now I kinda love their weird lines (probably nostalgia?).

Hasegawa makes nice car kits. I have the old Aoshima kit in my stash but I may have to pick up one of these to reproduce my first “nice” 1:1 car, a green ‘76 Liftback. It was the first reliable car I owned after several beaters in college and allowed me to take many fun roadtrips back in the 70’s when gas was cheap and national parks were empty.

Fabulous job Eric on this first Moebius Dodge A990 purchased kit that I’ve seen built and posted on here. Can’t wait to receive this sedan as well as the two AWB HT kits I’ve ordered. Your custom decals are fantastic as well as that engine detailing (Fireball resin carbs?). Beautiful clean accurate realistic build! Bravo!

That is one beautiful GT40. Thank you for also posting the extensive WIP earlier this year, amazing craftsmanship! I’ve read of a lot of criticism about this 1/12 Trumpeter kit but to me the body and ride height looks so much more realistic than the new 1/12 Meng kit. Sounds like both kits have multiple inaccuracies within the internals. Too bad MFH doesn’t produce a full detail 1/12 GT40 kit (or Tamiya for us poorer less skilled modelers!).

This big roadster look’s really good in this red. Beautiful build!

Another terrific restoration! I love your taste in auto subjects!

Nice restoration of a very cool & rare subject. Great color. Many of us old guys wish we still had all those old dealer promo models from our childhood.

Amazing build, particularly the scratch-built period correct furnished interior. Bravo!

Gorgeous build of a very cool subject. I love these old Monogram 1/24 classic kits, they assemble nicely and have terrific potential for detailing. I have this Packard boattail kit in my stash and you build is inspiring me to move it up in the queue.

Wow! Fantastic subject! Fantastic execution!

Well deserved Steve! Your models are simply amazing and an inspiration to the rest of us mere scale modeling mortals here. Thank you for all the effort you put into posting here and sharing your techniques.

I predict we might soon encounter a shortage of 1/25 scale resin 727 Torqueflite’s in the marketplace with the release of this Moebius AWB Dodge! Better get your parts orders into SpeedCityResins ASAP! The last ones I bought from a vendor on eBay a few years ago to use on the Moebius Plymouth A990 sedan kits (that came with a manual) are no longer available.

Congratulations Jeff! You’re leading the Moebius ‘65 Dodge AWB assembly line race! Wow! Three already painted & decaled and all three look fantastic so far. I’ve got three kits & resin parts orders in process and hoping to also do Dyer’s and Landy’s AWB hardtops and then use the AWB Strickland kit decals to do Strickland’s standard wheel base SS car using the A990 sedan kit. Are you planning on grafting Torqueflite automatics onto yours or just using the kit stick trans? Also are you planning on doing the match racer version of Dyer’s car (supercharger, no radiator, dragster style exhaust headers)? That car (originally the “Color-Me-Gone” car?) was so fearsome looking back in the day. Really looking forward to watching your progress and seeing these three come together.

I’ve always had a fetish for any sexy fast-back: This one’s not classic (yet) but if $$$ was no object for me I’d be driving this one around town instead of my 4 cyl old man sedan:

Great job on both of these restorations, love ‘em both but that yellow rail is a real standout. I remember my older brother building this kit in 1961! I was seven years old and I just turned 71 last week! ? It’s amazing how good these 63 year old molds are, this double dragster kit is still a real bargain for old-school parts for kit bashing.

Beautiful job Jason! I built and posted a S&M hardtop last year I built using the Moebius AWB kit and have seen two others posted. I like that you accurately painted the undercarriage white, something I believe they did to increase visibility during wheel stands. I love these early ‘65 AWB funnies, looking forward to seeing a bunch of ‘65 Dodge AWB machines posted here soon now that the Moebius kit has been released.

I resemble that comment! ? In addition to the Strickler box art car, I have some nice decals of and look forward to doing Landy’s, Harrop’s and Gary Dyer’s AWB cars (Dyer’s blue supercharged Mr. Norm’s Grand-Spaulding will be a particularly fun one to kit bash and paint). A minor disappointment that these new Dodge kits are all sticks but no big sweat, just need to order some more resin TorqueFlite 727’s to graft onto the blocks. Wonder who’s going to be the first to post a Landy car build with the historically accurate rear body sag! It’s been a while since I’ve built any door slammers, been distracted by alternative scale model shiny objects lately (Japanese aircraft carriers and British AFV’s!), time to order a stack of these very cool ‘65 Dodges. Thank you Tim for posting the link to these excellent kit photos and thank you thank you thank you Dave M & team from Moebius for your tenacious hard work in producing such fabulous kits!

Really well done Terry, especially that sweet engine bay. The actual car must have been a real hand-full to keep straight on a run.

Absolutely gorgeous 356! Great job Marcos! These Fujimi Porsches are not easy to fully assemble and get right (all four tires touching the ground, an accurate ride height). You nailed it! And the after market knobs and toggle switches in the dash are so cool. I have a Speedster in my stash, you are inspiring me to get it out soon and attack it.

Thank you guys for all the nice ‘at-a-boys’! Love that graphic of the pink & grey convertible at the Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance. They should feature a row of ‘55 - ‘57 Chevies one year amongst all the Bugatti’s and Delehayes. Sometimes it’s nice to just a build a couple of easy clean out-of-the-box model car kits. These two are the first I’ve built since I was a kid without adding plug wires, other than some foil they’re pretty much out of the box.

Here are some more pics of the '56:

These are both recent issue Revell 1/25 kits. I painted the ‘55 ‘vert in a popular two-tone color combo, Coral and Shadow Grey that I remember seeing all over town during my early childhood in Southern CA in the late 50’s/ early 60’s. The ‘56 210 sedan in Tropical Turquoise over India White, is an exact scale model of my very first car purchased from a neighbor in 1971 for $450 (and yes, despite 120k miles on the drive train, it looked this good! Obviously wish I still had it!). I airbrushed MCW lacquer base paints (that match the original factory colors) on both models and unfortunately had terrible spiderweb issues with the coral, grey and turquoise. I'm thinking maybe they put too much thinner/ solvent in the paint? Going forward, I think I’ll stick with Scale Finishes and Zero Paints for my auto lacquer base paints. Here are some pics of the '55, I'll post more of the '56 in a separate post below. Cheers, John

A very accurate model of Landy’s first AWB car. I’m particularly impressed with both the elongated front & rear wheel well openings, you nailed it!

Does this mean Moebius (/Pegasus?) has acquired the Galaxie molds and will be re-releasing these kits? Any idea when? Would love to get a coupe kit at a reasonable price.