roadhawg

Very nice!!! I like the wide whites too.

I'm most definitely in, with a Nascar Monte Carlo. It'll be my first 24 hour build, I've had to work every other time.

Looks like a '75. Do you want to trade it?

While that might be, I tend to doubt it, since every single one is the same exact way. Sorry. I have the latest reissue, and the body is just as bad as ever. The good news is it's really not that hard to fix it.

It's a straight reissue, nothing has been changed at all except the box art.

It's not really a bad kit, but it requires quite a bit of work to get it right. There's several minor fitment problems, but the two main issues are the front fenders slope uphill and the 429 will not fit in the chassis without modification. Here are a couple of links that will help you get everything corrected.... http://public.fotki.com/lannyhaas/polar_lights_build_up/ http://www.mnacreations.com/Models/index.htm (Go to the "tips" section and you'll see info on building the Polar Lights Talladega) Good luck, hope this helps!

I'm no Petty expert, but I've been told that Tamiya TS-23 over white primer is pretty close.

Hey, that's a WHOLE lot better than a Billy Big Mouth Bass.

Great build, and captures the right look perfectly! Big Daddy will always be the king of drag racing. And I too love your building philosophy....it's something I'm working to accomplish myself.

Thank you, Ken. I just make a few minor changes to the Revell ASA Camaro kits to turn them into All Pro cars. I'm actually starting on Darrell's car this week. I sent you a screenshot of the decals in a PM.

More than I ever thought I would......10 so far.

I've been using the stuff put out by Flex-I-File, called "Plast-I-Weld".....it seems to work better than all the above.

Won't work....the ink just beads up. Even if you did get a good print you'd have to clearcoat it, thus losing the full BMF effect.

I'll be following this, since I'm planning a very similar project.... This was my cousin's car back in the 70s: I'm interested in how you handle the top on this...great work so far.

Looks great so far!

Looks great, Terry. I'm impressed by your NMF paint jobs.....I'm trying to gather up the courage to try it again myself.

Not 100% sure, but I doubt it since all the races he ran in '70 were on superspeedways. No short tracks at all.

Thanks, guys. Harry and Bill, Gerry Anderson did several of these type shows starting around 1960, using those marionette type puppets for characters and scale models for everything else. Supercar was first, then Fireball around '62, ending up with Thunderbirds around 1965. All the special effects look pretty bad now, but back in the early 60's it was state of the art. They actually made Thunderbirds into a live action movie a few years ago, starring Bill Paxton, but I think it sorta flopped. George, I have one of those Supercar kits around here somewhere. I tried to build it years ago and got frustrated trying to cut out the vacu-formed canopy....I put it back in the box and packed it up, now I can't find it. It's around here somewhere! Lol.

This is the clone, but there's a couple of interior shots here that should get you in the ballpark..... http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z10507/Chevrolet-Series-150.aspx

Thank you! I thought I was the only kid that watched it, lol!

I don't build a lot of whimsical, fantasy type stuff, but hey...when I was a kid, Fireball XL5 was one of my favorite TV shows! Every Saturday at noon, I was GLUED to the TV so I could see Steve Zodiac's latest adventure....filmed in supermarionation, of course! I found this kit many years ago (1993?) at an IPMS convention and HAD to have it. It's made out of resin and white metal, it's about 12" long, and it weighs a ton, lol. I recently dug it out while doing some organizing, dusted it off, and thought I'd share. There's lots of clips of Fireball XL5 on YouTube, along with producer Gerry Anderson's other shows Supercar and Thunderbirds, and I guess as a kid I didn't realize just how cheesy it was...but it was made for kids, and everything in it is a model, so it's ok! By the way....I have a half-built resin model of Supercar around here somewhere. I might finish it, if I could just find it....

Looks great!

I remember that car. Another clean build!!

looks great....a LOT better than the kit decals would've looked, in MY opinion.

SELtd has them, but they're $5 each......I think I would try Rob's suggestion. http://www.seltd.net/ez-catalog/X344897/21/24642-a