Junkman

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.

So far pretty much all 1/25-24 '57 Chevy kits ever released suck. One way or the other. For some odd reason, the '57 Chevy seems to be tough to capture correctly. There are cars like this, for example the beetle and the 59 Caddy, too. Nobody seems to be able to ever get them right. If you want to model a ragtop, then I assume you mean Bel Air. My bet for a body is on the Revell snapfast plus (Schnaps Fass plus, for our German speaking readers), which is still rubbish, but better than the sorry efforts which preceded it during the past 50 odd years. Whack off the roof, open the bonnet, and use the underpinnings from the 55 convertible you are going to butcher anyway. Oh, and don't forget the sunvisors. Convertibles without sunvisors look stupid. The passenger side one should have a little mirror.

I haven't got it physically in front of me yet, but how much would you like to bet that Lindberg did bugger all to the molds?

I use wood glue. Costs about 3p a ton and does the job beautifully.

Something must be wrong with me then. This level of stupidity and wank just fails to entertain me. Maybe that's why I hardly ever watch TV at all. Makes the brain go mushymushy.

What kind of glue do you use to bond your windscreens?

How much does a year's road tax cost in Sweden for a car like this?

@ garryrenfro If mine will look half as good when I'm finished, I'd be tickled pink. @ charlie8575 As we all know this can change in seconds. @ moparfan426 I use ordinary household bleach from the supermarket. It's called 'thick bleach' over here. The essential thing is to keep it in an absolutely air tight container, like Tupperware or similar, and use it completely undiluted. Once it loses it's 'bite', you must change the whole lot, i.e. completely empty the container and refill it with fresh bleach. @ jeffs396 It crossed my mind. But in the end, I'm too riff raff for such expressionism.