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Safety third! I love it. The world has such a stick up its backside these days, it's good to hear sanctioned, carefree irreverence still takes place somewhere. I hope these events still take place.

Interesting method of rendering the window trims. I'm keen to see how well this works, but at first blush, I'm not a fan. I can see several problems here.

Yes, curious myself. Cool project you've got going here. Nice work so far.

I could never get the second coat to come out nice with the dirty pinecone. Always too lumpy. I'll try harder. I can attest, however, to the abilities of a live squirrel's tail to provide good coverage. A squirrel will sometimes trot into my garage. One managed to dip his tail in a pan of used motor oil. Before he found his way back out of the garage, he had laid down a coat of oil on just about everything in there.

As long as I have been a member of model car forums, it has been a regular source of amusement just how many people genuinely believe this. And yet, if you put a dozen of them in a room and ask them to put their heads together and come up with a list of the five model car subjects most wanted by builders, they would tear each other apart trying to reach a consensus.

That's a sharp looking Mustang, John. These always look great in yellow. Nice work, including the tidy foiling. I feel much the same way about louvers. I used to think they were necessary, but in more recent years I enjoy the clean fastback line. When I built the Monogram 70 Mustang a few years ago, I painted and detailed the louvers for it. But at final assembly I couldn't bring myself to install them, it looked so good without them. I can say this though , in 1:1 they work very well to keep interior temperatures down in the summer. I have a 69 Mach I with black interior, and that big window makes it a hot-house. With the louvers on, the interior temps are much more reasonable.

About seven posts down in this thread, JayMacminn suggests using Tamiya Rubber Black for the tires, then applies Tamiya Oil Stain weathering pastels to the tread area. I haven't tried this myself, just passing along info, but his results look good.

Great sighting!

I have been following your build with interest. I missed out on the Scale Coachworks Dart when it was available, but this Bandit body looks good, seems to have a nice shape and proportion. I am thinking of using a Demon to convert one to a Dart. Your build is coming along nicely, the white stripe really wakes it up.

Very nice. That's one sweet little Alfa.

Stellar! Man, that's looking sharp.

Looking great. I really like the 90 degree boots at the distributor.

This is too cool.

Cheers Daniel! It was never made clear exactly what rights, benefits, and privileges I was entitled to. The Revell Master Modellers Club was a cool deal in its day. I was nine when I joined, and was very excited the day the membership package arrived in the mail. Neat stuff, except for the complimentary 'tool kit' which was merely preparation for life's disappointments. Do you remember those. A sprue of soft red plastic 'clamps', putty spatula, glue applicator, etc. The very definition of useless.

I think it has a lot to do with the notion that, by and large, model car builders are... let me see, how shall I put this... more 'cost conscious' than builders of other genres. I'm not saying one way or the other, but you can't fool them circle flies.

Danial, that is super cool. I thought these were the neatest things when I was a kid. Here are the ones I still have. And I have this thumbtacked to the wall above my bench. Pete Miller cartoon, Back cover of Vol. 1 No. 1

Cheers mate. Thanks for checking.

Good to see you back at it, Pete. Don't know if it's just me but I can't see the photo. Sounds awesome though. Edit: I see them now. They look fantastic. That's a very nice set of slots.

Outstanding! Very impressive work. The body looks gorgeous.

If there's a bottle of Testors dark green 1123 there, I'll trade you a kit for it.

Did you use Tamiya tape? Just curious as I have had Tamiya masking tape seriously damage two well cured lacquer paint jobs.

Nice mix of machinery. The old Lambo is cool, and I dig the Frog Eye Sprite.

Yes, beautiful work indeed.

Indeed! And I don't know if you are familiar with the early 70s police detective show Columbo, but the show's producer must have had a hate on for XKEs. If one shows up in an early scene, they will be chucking it off a cliff.

I dig that big Ford wagon. And I am amazed at how good the Pacer looks as a panel. I think AMC might have missed an opportunity there.