Junkman

The easiest way to tell whether a Corvette is a 59 or a 60 is to look at the seats. The 59 seats are pleated side to side, the 60 ones front to back and the pleating is much finer, i.e they have a lot more pleats per seat. The wheelcovers were a running change during model year 1959, so some 59s have the 58 style wheelcovers, whereas no 60 would have them. All other changes are under the skin and can be neglected when modelling models of this vintage.

Pink? For a man? I'm getting too old for this world...

I do a lot of detailing with a paint brush myself. And the golden rule is that you must stir the paints thoroughly. I stir my paints for at least a cigarette length before I use them. That's around 7 minutes for a non smoker. Stir, stir, stir, stir. That's more important, than the best brush or a special technique, which probably doesn't exist anyway.

Actually, the MPC kit is a total dog. I hope they stop reissuing it before the end of the space-time continuum collapses. I just measured this styrene atrocity and it is 182mm long. The real car is 4710mm, so the model is 1/25.88 or 1/26.

Which engine comes with the kit?

I only get the member not found error too.

What is in the Gator's Grime tins?

For 1970 orange is correct.

Well, I would appreciate if they release a '57 Chevy model that actually looks like a '57 Chevy. Until then, I build '59s.

You guys up there are in your own league when it comes to modelling.

Does anybody out there own a Riptide '60? Can this person please confirm, whether the contents are the same, as in the kits, that were labelled "'59 Corvette", for decades? Not an 'issue' at all. Just for the sake of styrene archeology.

Steering wheel is on the wrong side. Otherwise superb!

Pics, or it didn't happen!

Well good for you then.

With resin you can even use oridinary cellulose thinners.

You don't want to know. "Britain's got Talent"

You have a point there, m8. No, two. Actually three, when I think of it. At least they don't unleash Britain's gotta be stopped onto you guys. At least I hope they don't.

Pretty sure this must have been discussed before, but I did not find a thread about it. I dug up my 1959 AMT Corvette (not telling yet why) and something struck me as odd. It is a 1960 Corvette! To double check, I looked at my 1960 Revell Corvette (the old flatpack one) and lo and behold, it is a 1959 Corvette! I cannot believe both companies got it wrong coincidentally! So did AMT call their 1960 a 1959 because Revell called their 1959 a 1960, or did Revell call their 1959 a 1960, because AMT called their 1960 a 1959?

WOW! This is beautiful. If I get mine near this I'll be over the moon. I do encourage everyone to highjack this thread to show off his 59 Chevy! Revellogram or AMT, please feel free to show them off. Gunze Sangyo anyone?

Well, our opinions are not the same. Not at all.

Eh? Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP??? Engrishy, prease!

It just doesn't look right to me. I find it too wide, the beltline too high, the windscreen too low, the bodysides not tucking under enough at the sills, it just doesn't look like a 59 Chevy to me. Great build btw.

A what ???

OK, you can't really call it driving, but this is what we are tinkering with for the past three years or so:

I'm old enough to remember the movie. The car was tropical turquoise, had a continental kit and a NuVue spotlight mirror.