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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.

Great color and nice to see one of these Moebius Hudson’s built with black walls, a more common sight from my 1950’s childhood. These Moebius Hudson’s are such excellent kits. I had a blast building a ‘54 Coupe for my brother a few years ago and have been buying up a few more to build (this ‘54 fastback, the ‘53 coupe and the ‘52 convertible). I’m learning to grab kits like these when they come along and are still in a reasonable price range ($25 - $30), they sometimes get scarce, go up to crazy prices (Galaxie ‘46-‘48 Chevies) and disappear pretty quickly.

Beautiful job Walt! Neat clean build and a very accurate reproduction based on the 1:1 photos. That engine bay detailing is particularly sweet. I’m surprised you ran into issues with this Moebius kit, I’ve built a few of these and, unlike the ‘61 Pontiacs (front window, front grill), I’ve never had an issue with the interior tub or window fit. Cool to see a standard wheel base A990 drag car built with FI. Imagine this car really roared back in the day. Thanks for posting!

Fantastic job Thomas! The New Yorker trim you added is really well done and really supports the two-tone scheme (perfect 50’s colors BTW). I wish Moebius would issue marquee variation kits such as a New Yorker and a De Soto Firedome. Nice to see this 300 kit in something other than black, white or red (original factory color choices).

Neat tidy build of a sleeper classic muscle car. Would love to see you you do another one of these with one of the upcoming Moebius ‘65 Dodger.

I gave up using TS-13 over decals, I think Tamiya puts tolulene in their rattle can lacquers which is hard on decals. I’ve switched over to Mr Color (Gunze) GX-100 bottle gloss clear coat mixed 50/50 with Mr Color Self-Leveling Thinner. I have found the GX-100 to be much easier on decals than TS-13 although it can still react with with them if you go right to a heavy wet coat without first applying some thinner dry coats.

Another terrific build Mike! You are prolific in these classic drag car builds! Thank you for building and posting so many of my favorite period of drag racing. Wish I had a set of these decals. Hope you stocked up on SMP decals, I just learned today that they are no longer around due to the passing of the owner, Bruce Sadewater. He put out great decal subjects at reasonable prices and good service. Will miss them.

I love it Jim! Came out beautiful! Where did you get these decals? I assumed you used SMP decals and just went to checked their website (SMPdecals.com) found this website is no longer in existence and learned that the owner, Bruce Sadewater, passed away last month. Sad news. Despite the rastor graphics, I loved the subjects that SMP made decals for and appreciated their reasonable prices and good service. Will miss them!

No model kits in either of the two Michael’s nearby me in So. Cal. I suspect kits were hot sellers during the pandemic years but, like dog adoptions, have cooled way off since.

Just now discovered and got caught up on this excellent kit-bashing WIP. I’m particularly impressed with the scratch-building on that interior, really nice. I built and posted a resin bodied ‘62 Galaxie A/FX three years ago (here) and remember it being a lot more work than I anticipated. It made me think if $ was unlimited kit-bashers should buy two of everything and first do a dry-run build to figure out how to do the “official” build (and make all the mistakes on!). Your MCW Corinthian White in your photos look’s about right to me. I used ScaleFinishes CW and it became my favorite off-white car model paint. I love these early 60’s door slammers and you’re doing a fabulous job on this one Jim, looking forward to seeing this one “under glass”!

That is really cool and very well done. I’ve seen this technique used on AFV models but never on a car model. Bravo!

Not surprised, one of the best car model builds I’ve seen on this forum or anywhere else. Congratulations Steve! That Showtime mirrored X-frame is a great way to display it, I gotta get one of those!

This Merc look’s so so good in that color. Great job on a timeless classic!

Thank you Bill for posting your clarification and the warning above. As a cancer survivor, I try to encourage fellow modelers here and elsewhere to take precautions with the toxic materials we handle. Let’s all try to grow old together and leave as few unbuilt model kits as we can before we check out!

Really nice job on this iconic car. I got to see the two blue & white ‘77 versions of this car race at Long Beach (47 yrs ago! Eh gads I’m getting old!) and they were very competitive, sadly the six-wheelers were discontinued in later years due to unavailability of the small front tires. You did a great job with those scratch-built brake cooling ducts, not easy to do. I tried that method on a build I posted a few years back of a ‘65 Mustang SOHC A/FX for the air inlet lines and it was a struggle, what kind of wire did you use? Copper? Brass? Solder?

Is that a “closed ventilation system” face mask? (fully sealed around your face where you’re only breathing clean air from outside)? If so, good for you, you’re a smart dude. These 2K 2 part urethane clear coat paints are very harmful (carcinogenic), not worth the risk IMO for the sake of getting a shiny car model. I worry about all the guys using 2K without adequate protection.

Wow! What an amazing transformation! Your floor selection is perfect, should be easy to find those small dropped parts!