jTorge

Hi All, I appreciate all the replies. I have a confession though... I build pretty much straight out of the box. Browsing the forum, I see there are a lot of members who do A LOT of customizing. I have purchased some parts and decals to complete the look of a replica or tribute, but the closest I've come to doing anything custom is an Air-Grabber delete and fabbing some vinyl roof molding with styrene strips. So, not much. I hope we can still sit at the same lunch table.

Ha! Yeah, it has been a busy year. It must be that first-year enthusiasm. It will wear off, I'm sure. I had a little pressure moving me along. A lot of starts, stops, shuffling, even building three kits at once. My first kit was a gift from my son, so I had to do a super good job on that. I wanted to build it as a replica of a local car I would see often when I was a kid. But I had no idea what I was getting in to, so I set it aside and built a different kit first, just for practice. Then an old friend reminded me of a car he had in the '70s - so I built a replica of that. And then... I came across a decal kit for a vintage Minnesota Highway Patrol car that another friend had in the '70s. We got in trouble a time or two with that, so I had to build a tribute to it. A best friend from Junior High School passed this year. He was a model car builder. So, of course I built a tribute to him. Then a couple more cars just for fun - and here we are. Thanks for sitting through a very long-winded reply. -jT

Hi John - Thanks for your kind words. It will eventually get sprayed with Testors Extreme Lacquer Bronze Metallic. And a Satin Black "vinyl" roof. If you have a snapshot of your 70 road runner, I would like to see it. I have built that kit twice and enjoyed it. It is a long story why I built a second one, and have a third one in the box. Here we go... (Don't feel obligated to read on.) The first 70 RR - I bought at the local hobby store as a practice kit. My Marine buddy (of long ago) saw it and said, "Do you remember my '70 RR? (1:1) Oh dang, yes I did, so I had to get a second kit and build a replica of his. But none were to be had as that kit was in short supply last spring. I ordered one from the local hobby store and after several weeks they said they couldn't get it. So I ordered one on-line. Got that one - then the one I had on order that the local store couldn't get, came in and I bought it anyway. I will either do a triple black with that one, or silver paint and red interior.

Thanks Stuart - Yeah, so far so good. I am hopeful things will go well the rest of the way.

I'm pretty excited about the progress I made today. Finished up the interior and I was able to do some dry-fitting to the not-yet-painted body. I had been trying to imagine whether it was better to attach the interior to the body first - or to the chassis first. Getting to try it for real made it apparent - I'll be attaching it to the body first, then adding the chassis after. Everything lines up really well. I was especially glad to have the front of the body (inner fender wells) mate up tight to the chassis.

Hi All, I've been building model cars for 1 year. It's my retirement hobby. Just getting to where I can probably contribute the same amount of advice as I seek. I'm on my 7th build - it's the Revell 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. I had a good day at the work bench - dry fitting interior, body, chassis to determine assembly sequence. Things are working out well, and motivated me to join. I hope to chat with some of you.