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  1. Candy Apple Red, decided to spray it like the one on the cover of one of the Muscle Cars Magazine issues. Completed July 18th, 2023.
  2. This kit was the AMT 1964 Galaxie 500XL kit, though I had chose to downgrade it to a regular 500, for the sake of gifting it away. I had built it as a Christmas present for my Great Uncle, (currently owns a 1965 Ford Thunderbird Landau he's restored had for 30+ years) who had two of these cars back in the day, though his green one was was more memorable as he had fitted it with exhaust that came out behind the front wheels. At night, flames would come out those things! For a more authentic build, we actually went to find a real Ford paint colour, and so that is Amazon green, or something like that; anyway, it was close enough to what it resembled in the only colour photo of the real car (bottom photo). As I don't have the kit anymore, these photos were taken on date of completion, December 2nd, 2022.
  3. The 1956 Chevy Del Ray kit has to be the most atrocious kit I had ever built. Everything gave me a hard time, I was surprised I was even able to finish it. The first photo is when the car was completed on November 21st, 2021, but has since just deteriorated in the box. Built at the time when I didn't realize you had to scrape the chrome plating, most badging and stuff like that came off, but three of the four wheels would not click in, so they just fall off. If I do anything further with that thing, I'll make it one of those "Barn Find" buids, where you melt the plastic and make the car look all crusty and rusty and dusty. It was brush painted. The '57 Bel Air was considerably more appealing to build, but the tires didn't come pre-padded with white walls so I thought I could paint them. I was wrong. They're still sticky and may never dry. Overall, it was ok to build, but I wouldn't do it again. Just recently, the box took a minor tumble (with the car in it) while I was moving the stack it was in, luckly, nothing major happened to the car, just one of the hubcaps came off. Spray painted, the kit was completed June 29th, 2023.
  4. This kit was bought for a little bit of nostalgia purposes. Back in 2009, I was 3 years old, and across the street from where we lived was this old Lady who owned a big, green, mid-80s Cadillac. Four door with a darker green half vinyl roof. That car was the very first "classic" car (if you'd call it classic in 2009) that I ever saw, and would usually run across the road to see it, and I was apparently let in the backseat once. After we moved, I never saw the green machine again, and just a few years ago, after the Lady passed away, I found out she had won the car in a draw when it was new. This kit was supposed to be homage to the green machine, but it was sold as a lowrider kit. I got confused on how I could make it a regular old sedan, so I just succumbed to the customness and made it a lowrider. It's green though, but painted with a brush (THIS is the worst of my brush painted cars, so I may or may not consider sanding it down and spraying it green). This kit was completed November 6th, 2021.
  5. Another one of my dad's kits he picked up in the '90s, though he had the reciept for this one (last photo) which states that on January 22nd, 1993, he bought this kit for $12.99. This was the last of his stashed kits that I built; I had contemplated doing it for a while because of how unusual it was. But on November 11th, 2022, this kit was completed. Though this kit is from 1988, the decals were considerably well enough to apply, though on the rear of that thing I had some issues that led to me gluing some areas so the decal would stay in place.
  6. Just painted with a brush- no sanding or polishing. Took quite a few coats though. Glad to see people like my brush painted cars.
  7. I was very pleased with how well the brush applied the paint, too; the Van's red was actually done with the 1979 capsule of Testor's paint. Though that was the last time it was good to use. Doing the Pinto the second time, I had bought new brushes, and while I was applying the paint, little bristles kept coming off the brush and stuck to the car, so I had a heck of a time with that; I was surprised the Pinto turned out that good after what I went through painting it.
  8. Surprisingly, the decals went on like they were new, which is odd because I have a year 2000 Revell model 1967 Dodge Charger (you'll see it soon) and it's decals disintegrated in the water and they're a full 10+ years younger than these decals. Some age well and some don't. Glad the decals in this kit aged well.
  9. The confusing tale of these kits started when, in the '90s, my dad picked up and built the 1966 Shelby kit. He built it like on the box, but didn't like it because he left the plastic white instead of spraying it. So he took it apart and began in a different direction, by spraying it black. He got considerably far, then put it away until I finished it on March 30th, 2021. It turned into the Hertz GT350 rental car, though it was originally the Shelby GT350. Then, just last year, I had recieved kits from a cousin who didn't really have the knack for building kits, and a GT 350 Hertz kit was one of them. I figured, why not build it like the Shelby GT 350, and so the two Mustangs were originally supposed to be built as opposite to each other, but you can't tell the difference. The Shelby GT 350 (originally Hertz) had been attempted to be built, with the interior and windows put in with globs of glue; tricky to remove. Nothing was painted, and so the tailights were glued in so I figured I could pop one out with the exacto blade. Famous last words right there. I sliced my finger with the kinfe, and it would not stop bleeding, at all. I had to use liquid stitch to close the wound. That kit was completed October 20th, 2023, and I still have a scar on my finger.
  10. These are the Coca-Cola 1977 Ford Econoline and Pinto. The Van was completed March 28th, 2021, but the Pinto was completed November 20th, 2022. Both kits were atrocious to build, but they're here. At the time of the Van's completion, I had not yet learned to put black paint and thinner in the grille, but you can see that I had the knack for it by the time of the Pinto's completion. Both kits' bodies were painted with a brush. In the back of the Van (you'll see in one of the photos) I put a bed that was a part of one of my dad's long-lost 70s custom Van kits. I had started to paint the Pinto a darker green; from a Testors Paint capsule from my dad's original paint carosel kit from 1979 (which he still has and I use for the new paints). The first coat went on fine, but the second coat was like thinner and it took off the first coat. So that paint was no good anymore, however quite a few of those paints from 1979 still work. The Pinto was re-painted lime green; a new storebought paint.
  11. This kit was another one of my dad's he picked up in the '90s. Unassembled until April 5th, 2021. One of the very first kits that I had sprayed; interestingly enough, with paint from a '90s spray can. I guess the paint was still good, because the car's paint job looks fantastic, in my opinion. This is the 1988 Monogram Shelby Cobra kit.
  12. One of my dad's old kits, originally completed in 1983, when he was a kid (see "Blast From the Past Camaro"). It was also taken apart so I could build it. Originally molded in yellow, my dad hadn't painted it, but had cut a large hole in the hood having a massive blower sticking out, and painted the hood and trunk flat black. We decided to build it the right way, for it's second life. This is the original 1979 AMT "Snakebite" Shelby GT500. The box was long gone, so my dad re-created it since he works at a print shop. The hole in the hood was filled with another piece of plastic. This kit was completed October 28th, 2021. Should've been built like this the first time.
  13. This is one of my dad's old kits. Originally completed in 1983, when he was a kid, he took it apart so I could build it. The box was long gone, so he re-created the original since he works at a print shop. It's the 1977 Monogram model 1969 Camaro "IMA Z/28", completed, for the second time, on October 9th, 2021.
  14. The only kit built in the summer of 2021, (June 27th completion date) it is possibly my most favourite from that year, but I had painted the body with a brush, so it looks sort of crappy. May or may not consider sanding it down and spraying it the right way, but here it is.
  15. Completed March 19th, 2021, this is the Revell Classic Ford Bronco. One of my early kits, the body was painted with a brush; I didn't have them sprayed regularly until 2022. This kit was fun to build, and from my recollection, everything went well with this kit; no issues what so ever.
  16. This is the second kit I had ever built. The 1986 Monogram model 1965 Corvette Stingray "Black Rat" was one of my dad's that he picked up in the '90s. Unassembled until February 13th, 2021 (date of completion). I had never knew about this site until last week, so I'm putting all my kits on here for you to see. This particular kit was also where I got my first model-kit-related injury; while scraping off burrs on the tires, I sliced my finger with the exacto blade. I think it was worth it, though. The kit is one of my favourites.
  17. This was the first kit I completed. Originally bought as a Birthday present for my dad back in 2012, he tried to show me how to build a kit, but I was only 6 at the time, so I was more interesed in how fast my HotWheels could go, but by 2021, I finished what was started, and so here it is. Completed February 8th, 2021, (I've kept a list of when I complete my kits) this Revell 1941 Chevy Truck is the first model I completed. Hope you like it.
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