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Oh yeah, I can make that look pretty dang good. Some stainless steel metallizers, even brushed on, some black and some red. Way better than kit chrome, which to me, just looks toyish. I found on a recent build that spraying kit chrome with some clear with a drop or two of black mixed in, looks way more real.

after seeing more and more on this one, it's just too modified for what I like to build today. I was initially excited, but that has passed. and I shall pass on it as well. BUT... I do look forward to seeing what others make of this kit. It is beautiful, just not something I want to build. Give me a stock version though.... even with all the other modern amenities and I might buy in then... hmmm would those wheels fit my Caddy lowrider though???? lol And the engine.... protouring? I gotta stop thinking about all that...

Cool thread. My ex didn't care and was supportive mostly. She kinda liked me modeling because it kept me away from her - part of the reason she is my ex. New wife likes me around more and is much more persnickety about keeping house presentable - ya just never know when someone (celebrity, president, etc?) may pop in and the house must be presentable. that's a good thing that has taken some adjustment on my part. BUT, we have 180+ cars of various scales on shelves around the top of the living room and cars in every other room in house except master bath and kitchen. She gets shelves at top of kitchen and no place in master bath...yet. I have little shelves in other 2 baths that can hold a few cars. Hall bath is "flame room" - everyting displayed has flames (2 - 1/18 flamed 32s and a handful of flamed HotWheels). 3rd bath has a little shelf with Minis in it - a 1/43 new mini and 3 1/64s Hotwheels and Matcbox. I have a row of 1/64s sitting in front of TV facing the TV most of the time like a drive in. She makes a big deal about it, but also does look at stuff and takes an interest in the cars I'm working on. She also helps incorporate the cars into her interior plans. So in our situation it mostly works - I would love to have more model time, but then she is supportive. And unlike her ex, I am home and involved with her. Not out running or avoiding her.

I can't add much, but I have found that the gallon plastic ice cream buckets are great for this. And you can store a whole kit/project in an empty one to keep everything together. You can store paints, hot wheels, etc in them as well. My building isn't heated, so in the winter I have a couple of the ice ceam buckets loaded with things to bring to house to work with. Then I can put everything back in the bucket and keep the missus happy. The new missus likes a neat, clean house, so I'm not allowed to have hobby sprawl. The buckets work good. Plus you get ice cream. The pond doesn't strip like I thought -it lifts the paint instead of melting it in most cases.

Beautiful, but I gotta ask.... So... what are you going to do with the stock wheels? I'm working on a bone stock 6 cyl stripper. PM me if interested in trading or selling the stock wheels.

Hmmmm might be able to build one in tribute to my Mom's basic model 72. Not sure I'm up to the task of converting something to make it a 72. And I don;t know that anyone ever did the basic Torino in plastic. The race version has the "fancy" front bumper. Cool to see the plain wheel covers too, but wouldn't it have been cool with a set of optional wire covers for even more upscale and/or parts box stuffer?

Beautiful!

Google "59 chevy seats" or "dash" or "gauges" or whatever part you are working on. Usually there will be pics of the surrounding parts and areas as well. These are great kits. Enjoy the build. Edit: just realized you are working on a race car - a little different to Google, but google other drivers of the era and see if you can find their cars - a lot of similarities that only an expert could spot and who;s to say it wasn't that way at some point?

Thanks guys. Xingu: I do not have any interior pics as I was working on this concurrently with another car and didn't take pics of the interior of this one. I should have because this one was very challenging. Maybe more than the body, with all of the chrome surrounds on the seats and door panels and even around the carpeting at the rear armrest area. I tried foiling on the interior but ended up using chrome paint mostly. And the insets on doors were a metallizer. The dash presented it's own set of challenges as well. Google images is usually my biggest resource on detailing my builds any more. You can find a picture of about any part of a car you want to detail. The white stripe on the roof is a bit heavy, but all I could find in my decals. It's actually stripes from a Home Depot NASCAR sheet. I debated leaving them off but they are a part of what makes the real car so fascinating to me.

Thanks - I love the old cars where the interior was same as exterior. Building kits of them is easy - paint everything one color then paint the details!

Your builds inspire me to do cleaner work. And keep it more stock. I remember your 66 Impala and that started me trying to build as clean as possible. Such nice work. Keep them coming.

Looks nice to me. No need for complaints, nice, clean build.

This is my build of the 67 Charger. Original issue. Been holding out till the right paint scheme hit me and this was it. Needed to be less common yet a real color. Wheel covers from a 68-9 Dart just 'cause I'm tired of Magnum 500s and didn't want it too hot rod (Cragars in box) Bronze lacquer from Testors. Inside and out. I didn't have my airbrush set up when I painted body, so not too shiny. Embossing powder for carpet. More of a "day 3" car, so to speak. Paint's a little dull, different wheel covers, but still clean. Box stock except the wheel covers.

looks like a fun one. Can't wait to see it finished. I've built 3 or 4 of those Darts. Not sure I'll do another one. But I do like the Dart.

The TWR is nice! Built it years ago.

Looks great! Wait till you get to the REvell 67 Charger. Another foiling nightmare. LOL. You Elky looks great. I had one years ago and really loved how it came out.

That kit comes out GREAT! I did one just as a time killer build. And was amazed at how good itlooked sitting on the shelf. Beautiful builds you have.

LOL. I was moving some display cases around last night and came across this one - you know the one made from the 340T/A Challenger kit. I have recently built the new Cuda and it is diplayed prominently in the living room, where I see it every day. So looking at the AAR, it is just plain evident how BAD that kit's proportions are. So if you are reading this and wondering if you should buy it and build it, the answer is NO. RUN AWAY!!!

$50 from Tower hobbies. a little less from others, and as low as $28 with $12 shipping. Either way, I can't justify that for a curbside and no door panels. Even though I think these are GREAT looking little cars and I would love to build one for a friend that owned several of these. The door cars were fairly simple, but still, why no door cards? Doggone it.

Was there ever a Dodge Shadow kit? I just saw one of those on the net this morning.

NICE! I'm doing a diescast Maverick (!) for my wife, whose first car was her mom's Maverick. The Vega is definitely more exciting. Did you strip it, repaint, and all?

I'm not sure there are any comments to be made for "constructive criticism". It's beautiful, except as you say, for thte WW tires. They look like the JC Whitney things you could buy back in the day. Just say that's what they are! lol. Beautiful. And cool that your daughter loved it as well.

lol, where are the Mopar children???

That one always builds nicely. Good job.