LennyB

That’s bad new for McDonalds and Burger King

FREEWAY, no wait it’s Freebird…. FREEBIRD!!!

Break, it really annoys me when someone uses this spelling in reference to car BRAKES.

There once was a princess that lived in a tower, she would let down her hair once every hour.

1960's I remember well, last week, now that's another story.

Catch a few more minutes of sleep before I'll get up for Mikes Scrapple.

Or dashboard?

Actually I put one of the rub and dry transfers of a surfer from one kit on the base of my work lamp and it’s held up to this day. Looks as good as the day I did it. Used a lot of rub on transfers for lettering at the time and they were better then decals as you didn’t have a clear halo around them like decals. What bothered me was the simulated sheet of turned metal sticker that came in each kit to be put on the body, such as on the rear fender on the 49 here. I have a whole bunch of them somewhere that I never used.

I don't really spray enamel anymore but when I did I let it sit for a month.

We are going to start at the bottom and work our way up. Being this is a promo it doesn't have a proper chassis. Trying to find a suitable candidate I looks at other year Galaxies to see if they would work. From 1965 to 1969 (and I think 70 is the same as 69) they are similar, but not the same. You can see the progression below of the changes AMT made. You can get all of these chassis today from various re-issues except for the 1967-68 style I need. The 1965 chassis that is now available is very much the same as the original. Original on the bottom here. The 1966 chassis has been slightly modified with changes to the front suspension. Original on the left in both pics. As the 1965 chassis has the exhaust molded on and the 1969 has a simplified front suspension and holes through the trunk I decided to use an original 1966 chassis. Here is the 1967 chassis on the left and the 1966 reissue on the right. The interior floor has texture molded into it which is why the middle of the chassis is cut away. I'm going to cut away the center on the 1966 chassis. Here we have an open window to the interior. But it's not that simple. We have a gap at the rear of the interior. The side rails are also too wide. This is the reason for the gap. The shape of the rear inner fenders. The 1966 stand tall in front and the 1967 slopes rearward. So we have to do some cutting. And splicing Getting closer. The gap is gone and some strip styrene has been added to the side rails to fill in there. Next time; more chassis work, see ya then.

Jimmy worked at a Ford dealership. Every two years Jimmy bought a new Galaxie. You would think he might be a sales rep or some bigwig in the company to buy a new one every other year. No, that was not the case. Jimmy was the shop gofer. Jimmy, go pickup parts. Jimmy, go drive this customer home. He did all the odd jobs around the place. In 1966 Jimmy bought his last Galaxie. A Burnt Amber 2-door hardtop with a 390. I worked on Jimmy’s car many times with my father. Anything from brakes to tune-ups. And every time we worked on the car we were rewarded with a spaghetti and meatball dinner prepared by his wife Annie. Homemade meatballs and gravy (don’t call it sauce) and Vermicelli pasta (Ronzoni). It was a tradition up until the 80’s. And always a Saturday night and always started with a shot of Black Berry Brandy. I still use the recipe today, the pasta, not the brandy. Jimmy loved that car and Jimmy loved Annie. They went everywhere in that car with their dog Feefee in the back seat. They celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with that car. There was one thing funny about Jimmy however. When he first met Annie, he was too embarrassed to tell her his real name. It wasn’t Jimmy, it was Joe. But for the rest of their time together she always called him Jimmy. So, this is really the story of Joe’s 1967 Galaxie. This is a project I first started planning for back in the 90’s when I found a rather sad AMT Galaxie Promo at the Hershey AACA fall meet. I paid $3.00 for it and purchased a number of other sad promos from the same dealer on the White field. When I recently got the idea to start on this model, I went through my stash to find it. I found I have four 67 Galaxies; guess I had the idea of building this more then once. Well, they won’t go to waste so let’s get started. This is what we are starting with. Pretty sad, huh. I think I have my work cut out for me.?

Yes, sir!

Ketchup, ketchup in a bottle, first none will come then a lot'll

Yet again I'm stuck here in this bunker with the enemy cooking all around me and I don't have any bullets

I can't say I've ever lost a model in the house, 'cept when I was a kit and my mother threw them out. But I regularly loose parts, not to the carpet monster but to the Dylan monster. Just found this 429 sitting in the middle of the living room floor. Don't know where the rest of it went. Might show up again tomorrow ? But worse then that is I don't know where he took it from?

My neighbor down the road had a '49 until recently. He turned 94 this summer, decided he couldn't drive it anymore and sold it. It was a bit of a bear to drive and kept you busy every minute. I don't think he would have let me chop the top.?

Smokey and the Bandit of course. Good 'ol Jackie Gleason

Popcorn would be good right now but I over cooked it and broke the microwave.

to the ashes

John, I was really not expecting any exact answers because as I said from the start there are variables between the type of paint, number of layers, etc.. In fact I didn't really know what to expect for answers and in that respect the board always surprises me. So I put the question out there just to find out. For instance Mike 1017 how does the liquid mask factor into this? I'm curious. Although that might work on my Fairlane trim.? But since I just jumped back into modeling earlier this year I thought maybe someone would have some insight as to how they determined if the gap was large enough. But fiddling with ideas is what we do. Now maybe using a piece of paper to measure a gap might seem odd but what it did show me is that my gap was not even. Not that you would notice the difference by eye, I now know I have an even gap FWIW. The 60lb paper measures out at .010" BTW. Now after four coats of paint, Scale Finishes basecoat, I can still slip the piece of paper between the gap, albeit snug. So the basecoat takes up very little space. I won't know where we stand on the clear as I probably won't do that until next weekend, but I will keep you posted. And Bill, that is very true about 2K clear, it's very easy to put it on too thick. But I've had thickness issues with Testors Extreme Lacquer clear sprayed right from the can. That's one of the reasons I switched to the 2K. But your never going to find out until you try I guess.

Conversation with friends is always better with a bottle of chianti until one of them tries to eat you.

Coughing all week I can't seem to get rid of this cold.

Healthy appetites are starting to develop as we get closer to Thanksgiving day.

Thanks Trevor, as long as you ignore the wrinkles on the back side. But then again I’ve got wrinkles too.?

Fingers crossed Bil that it’s a nice piece.