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Decals, cool decals. Beside the sponsor decals for racing most the decals suck that come with the kits. Real nice flames not the hokey piles you get most times. Not to sound negative but the decals are my biggest gripe:) Hopefully, AMT reproduces some original ones for the old kits. Happy otherwise, well maybe somehow produce the chrome with out damage where you remove it from the trees
RW
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I have always had the best luck with using Duplicolor white primer with the White Lightning. It took a couple of tries to shoot this color and make it look good. Very light mist coats and 1 semi heavy. When its cleared it looks awesome.Don't spray with a heavy finger, its hard to see your coverage. Once you get it figured out it looks as good as the other One Coat colors. It's a great lineup of paint. I wish they would release a few more colors
Randy
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A big thank you to Ed for the pictures
Randy
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I looked at the box art again and noticed at least they would be pretty distinct in a box of tires .. thats if they actually match the box.
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Would anyone here be able to post a picture ( close up) of the tires found in this kit. I have two of the kits that were purchased in a mixed up collection. I'm not sure what I'm looking for exactly. The artwork/picture shows some kind of Goodyear tires I think. I'm not so sure Doyusha had anything but generic tires in those kits. I know its not a really common but I know there are some really sharp people here with thier knowledge of vintage kits. Thanks for your info guys
Randy Webster/fanofratfink
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- That is really nice looking. You have to like those big old Buicks with all the chrome and fins
- That is really nice looking. You have to like those big old Buicks with all the chrome and fins
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Steve
That website is put together by Bob Black here in Omaha. At one time I gave him a crapload of old instructions/box covers to scan. He also has the cool Traditional rod & custom website/forum
Randy
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Very,very cool. I will be watching this post till the end. Maybe go pick one of these up?
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Tim and Darin A BIG thanks for all your info and to Tim... Thanks for all the great pics.
Randy
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Alright folks
thats the same picture i was going by. Heres my question. I) Those chrome wire wheels: are they found in any other AMT kit possibly another one of thier T-buckets? I am missing one inner rim half. The front tires could be easily scrounged up from a dragster kit I assume. The rear rims look? like steel slots. And if they are those can be found in another issue of the touring car along with that Frontenac 4 cylinder. 2) Are those any particular brand or a no name slicks on the back. My build up has skinny pie cut slicks with steelie rims on it- may I asume the rear tires are the correct ones? What I want to accomplish is replicate the above box art. Just trying to get as close aspossible. If my first post confused you I apologize for not being clearer in my writing. That happens when you work 11 straight days at ten hours a day. -
Hey, noticed my subject title was screwed up. Now it makes sense
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Hello everyone
I just picked up the old Amt double kit in the mentioned topic title. Does anyone here happen to know if the front chrome rims for the hotrod version of the touring tub can be found in any later AMT kits? I know the back rims (chrome slots? Right?) can be found in other t kits along with the hotrod tub racing 4 cylinder parts. The rear tires on my build up are a set of piecrust tires. Are these correct rear tires for the hotrod T?
Thank you for any info you can reply or PM with.
Randy
Oh by the way I dont have the box so I cant really see anything on the rear tire rim combo. I found a few pics online but none to clear to see what I'm looking for
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Nothing but good things to say about Steve at Star Models!! I live a short drive away from him here in Omaha and go hang out at his place everynow and then. I see nothing but AAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++ customer service when I'm there. No ones more honest in his product descriptions.
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I got some through Model Roundup a few weeks ago and liked them so much I bought half of what our local Hobbytown got in stock. Not trying to be greedy but ya never know if you will see them again for varius reasons at those stores
Randy
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I have never seen a hemi run worth a ###### on plain pump gas on the street. I always heard rumours of some fast Hemi mopar on the street. Never saw one produce the stories. I know they were out there but the average high schooler didn't drive one. Not to say the least they werent out there. Saw plenty of othered Mopars that were fast but with a more common 440 and such. Cant knock the performance on the strip or oval though of the Hemi..Saw plenty of 455 powered Buicks haul butt in my days.on the street.As far as a Mopar motor in a Buick that is different but I'm not knocking his build in any way
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I have used Duplicolor paint quite a bit. It may seem to be a tad heavy in the spray but nothing that cant be figured out. They have primers in red, black,white, a couple shades of gray. I use the primer/sealer for the colored plastic and it works great. A lot of people use Duplicolor. Tamiya primers and paint spray way to light for me and the colors seem to take too many coats to cover for my liking. It seems to come out extremely fast and I believe a lot gets wasted. Yep, I really dont know why people like Tamiya paint. I think its the Japanese syndrome that they build better stuff. I have had not much luck with thier products. Try testors lines of Laquers in metalics and muscle car colors that are very excellent Sorry about my included rant. I drive American and paint American
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I'll be there vending. If ya want to stop by the tables and say hello I'll be wearing a Rat Fink shirt and a Dale Sr hat
Hope to meet you guys
Randy
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I'm guessing here . I would venture to say five dozen ...... Ed Shaver
I guess I have around 100 built, twenty or so that survived from early years of building. I have around 125 unbuilts,and about 600 in our vending rotation. Oh yeah, about 125 old builups from the 60s/70s
Randy
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I got beat to the punch by one of the above post but P.T. Barnum was correct that..... I'm just lost for words. People its a model.
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Very interesting answers guys. On the Maverick, I have a set of glass marked AMT Maverick and its roughly shaped the same but is bigger and doesn't fit my Johan Maverick or Comet bodies. I knew about some of the other swapping/aquiring of molds as Linberg now haveing the AMT 34 Ford P/U
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Hey everyone
I have a question that I think you guys can answer for me. While sorting out a model collection I picked up I noticed that AMT released the 68 Javelin kit # T-294 and Johan released the same kit of the Javelin. The parts are the same while the instructions are identical except for AMT and Johan putting thier name on it. They are both 3-1 style kis. Whats the story behind this? Maybe this is really common knowledge to most but I have never really messed with a lot of Johan kits although they put out some really cool stuff
Randy
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I have had resin stuff turn out good and bad getting chromed. Bob, from chrome Tech even called me once and said he couldnt stand behind how the resin parts on one of the three trees I sent would turn out they looked to him of poorer quality to him ( which was obvious). The other two trees of resin were chromed perfectly by him. I think it has to do more with the quality of the resin used and craftsmanship
Randy
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thats the same picture i was going by. Heres my question. I) Those chrome wire wheels: are they found in any other AMT kit possibly another one of thier T-buckets? I am missing one inner rim half. The front tires could be easily scrounged up from a dragster kit I assume. The rear rims look? like steel slots. And if they are those can be found in another issue of the touring car along with that Frontenac 4 cylinder. 2) Are those any particular brand or a no name slicks on the back. My build up has skinny pie cut slicks with steelie rims on it- may I asume the rear tires are the correct ones? What I want to accomplish is replicate the above box art. Just trying to get as close aspossible. If my first post confused you I apologize for not being clearer in my writing. That happens when you work 11 straight days at ten hours a day.
Happy birthday george53
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Happy birthday George. !
Randy