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Ooo, definitely snatch up all those roadster kits, the parts in there are amazing!

My vission with this car is to do a Wimbledon White car and make it look like it came straight from Dearborn Steal Tubing. Plan is to use MCW Wimbledon white and with the gold intirior. I just want to make it look like a factory R code. The Thunderbolt is by far my favorite car and I'm excited to get started on it.

1st air brush job, pretty pleased with it.

Thanks, there were definitely challenges and the tooling 100% showed it's age. The thing is you exchange quality for total 70s style!

Thank you! I take pride in my 3 generation model building history. I also feel like the models go really well together.

Awesome man, love this body style of ford truck!

Welp, it took me a little bit to finish this kit but I finally got it done and... I'm quite pleased with the result. This car had a couple paint issues mainly because it was the first car I airbrushed but I finally got them settled out, the color is testors red metallic flake with DupliColor filler primer and decanted Rustoleum enamel clear (only way I could spray it without it lifting the paint). There are not many things in the terms of modifications on this car. Really the only thing was the intake, where I shortened the carb mounting plate because originally they were too far apart, and parts box carbs/ air cleaners were added. The cool thing is when I told my grandfather that I picked this up from the LHS he said he built this kit back in the 70s as a kid. I didn't know that and thought it was pretty cool. I also happened to have some of his surviving models, low and behold, I HAVE HIS ORIGINAL BUILD UP! I was so happy and almost emedietly started building my kit. Oh and don't ask where the passengers side tail light went, I swear I don't know (6 tail light mod) Photo of his original build up. The back portion of the interior felt quite bare so I decided to add the racing fuel tank that comes with the kit. Of course it's my standard to at least do spark plug wires on each model. I decided to experiment with fuel lines to, turned out pretty well I think. It was a blast building this kit and was a pretty good learning opportunity for me. The struggles were worth it and I definitely learned how to avoid them. I guess now I clean off the bench and start another kit, what do you say fellas? Thanks for looking and I always appreciate your comments and feedback! Elliot

Mine is pretty stereotypical of us car guys, Milner's 32. I even built a replica out of one of the mpc switchers kits. Just something about this car is so cool. Oh and almost forgot, my second is Falfas 55. Elliot

This looks so good man, it's super clean and I can't wait to see more updates.

I ended up spraying over, it really wasn't sitting well with me on this car.

Nice I always thought the front was way to far forward and was going to do the exact thing you did! Cool cool cool.

Just a mock-up, body resting on chassis. Still needs decals and side pipes. Elliot

I got some more for you guys! Did these this week.

Cool build! Can't wait to see what you do with this, uh, poorly molded kit. Those tires looked really bad, nice job!

This is such a cool build. I love roadkill and all those other shows, I'm just sad they canceled them all. 😔

I know you were 😁.

Thank you very much. I don't do graffiti because if you look at most of the railroads shown were defunct roughly around 1980 (besides the Burlington Northern). I model the 1970s, graffiti wasn't really popular like it is now.

Well its better than me, and done faster than me so...

I weather model train cars and something I've found for a smooth even consistency is using 99% isopropyl alcohol. You want to mix it till it's the consistency of whole milk. Aply in thin coats to get your finish super smooth. I used to use water and it would just bubble up. I also suggest you don't use the alcohol with Createx paints, even though there acrylics they turn into a slop. Pictures of my weathered freight cars using craft paints from Hobby Hobby. Elliot

Ah yet again Bob showing us all up 😁. Good job I love the paint, the maroon just pops.

I don't like it. 😐

Mmm... never mind, I'm keeping it. Not worth the work, probably do clear some time today.

I was just thinking about it and think that it's will just put a darker shade of red on top of it. It's not worth striping.

I guess your right, no use going through the trouble. I just wasn't expecting this color. Thank you.

Well I got my 67 corvette repainted and picked up some more testors metallic red, or at least I thought i did. I ended up buying metallic red/rouge and with the tinny faunt on the bottles I didn't see the rouge. My corvette is pink!! I wanted red! I might Layer some actuall metallic flake red on top to make it look better. Elliot.