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Love the purple, you said Createx? Where did you pick it up from, and is it an acrylic water base paint?

If you want to darken your blue up a bit, use a black base coat before applying the blue, using a black primer and adding some medium lacquer thinner and shooting through an airbrush you should get a smooth enough finish to use it like a sealer, and no need to sand before top coating with your blue.

One reason you see orange flames is this car runs on gasoline, not nitro, or methanol.

I know it's to late now for these builds. But a couple of tips on styrene plastic sizes in scale, the.062 is approximately 1-1/2" in size and the .080 is equivalent to 1-3/4". But a real easy way to judge sizes is the metric sizes are also on the packaging, and 1mm works out to about 1" if you keep that in the back of the old memory bank it's a lot easier when looking for a particular size in material for your builds. Oh yeah, pretty good builds.

The fore mentioned horse with it's eyes partially shut went on to share the Oscar with Lee Marvin for the role he played in Cat Ballou, sadly his problem with alcohol ended his career prematurely and he died penniless and alone roaming the canyons of Los Angeles.

Yes it is 1/24 scale, it's basically a rebody of the Coddington Smoothster kit, so if you've ever seen that kit you know what you're getting. The kit hasn't been around that long as far as reissues go so there shouldn't be any problems with a lot of flash., but the tires suck, unless they changed formula all the original Testors kits I've had have all had the tires break up after a few months of being put on the wheels, one kit build up I acquired had excellent tires, but the builder of that one sanded the wheels until the tires just fell on the rims, then glued them on, this is still my favorite among the "Smoothster" based kits, unless they figure out a way to fix the roof of the '38 Special.

Coincidence, I was looking at one today in Wallyworld, I'm gonna have to dig through my stash to see how many of those I've got put away. I'm thinking I've got at least two left.

I know I got into this build really late, but for future reference, starting in 1958 Chevrolet distributor caps were held on with two screws, not spring clips.

being the OCD detail freak I am I just have to let you know either the car is being parked, or you haven't noticed the steering wheel is upside down. Like I said, detail freak.

I like where you're going with this, in its current state that splitter looks like it came off a modern F-1. car.

Thanks, had the silly thing in reverse, color me red.

The roof on the '50 Olds kit is a sedan, the coupe roof and quarter windows are different, so just swapping out the roof will give you a sedan, not a coupe.

Just a suggestion but way back we used to polish out real show cars with a toothpaste and cornstarch mixture, it is a little bit less hazy than straight toothpaste. One of the best polishing cloths I have found is from white briefs, this was a suggestion from an optometrist, this material is safe for cleaning plastic eyeglasses and won't scratch the surface so it's just common sense that it would make an excellent polish and waxing material. Just don't let your wife catch you cutting up your clean underwear, lol.

I'm going to do a small block version too, but I chose to use the '69 Nova engine and headers, thinking about finding a cross ram intake manifold, but just might stick with the factory single four barrel high rise.

The seller on eBay is supposed to leave feedback for the buyer as soon as they receive payment, the way I look at it is if they don't they're holding you hostage to make sure your feedback is positive, in that case I don't leave feedback. If they contact me asking for feedback I remind them I'm still waiting for them to leave feedback for me. You can still leave a positive feedback but leave unfavorable numbers under satisfaction, it won't show on their ratings, but it effects the rates eBay charges them

Always been partial to the '56 Chevy, since my first car was a '56, but mine was a Bel-Air sedan, 283 4-speed, not near stock, got 5 mpg on the highway. But you might check your math, 2015 is the 60th anniversary of the small block Chevy.

And now that I've figured out how to do a durable brushed-metal finish (for the Caddy roof) I just MAY have to build one of these as a stocker.

On the other end of the scale. Just think of the money AMT could save if they didn't print up all those extra complete instruction sets, and the extra space in the box they'd have. Their New kits would probably be at least five dollars cheaper.

Tim, I should have clarified myself in that I meant THAT particular '26 body, it's always been my opinion that Revell might be a little bit short of 1/25th scale on the entire series of Buttera kits, but I could be wrong, I don't have one in the shop to measure from, I'm just comparing how that body fits on AMT fenders from the same general years.

I think the '32 rails might be a bit beefy for that dainty l'il '26 body but the Z'd A chassis seems in my thoughts anyway to be the best choice.

Haven't seen a '56 molded in pink, but I do have a couple of the "Skips Drive in" '57 hardtops (the same as the "new" Roth '57) that are molded in pink. There's also a metallic bronze. '57 Nomad, and the '56 Sedan with multiple trim options that is molded in metallic green.

'31 A body,'32 commercial (truck) radiator shell and grille, but we get the idea, we can get that commercial shell from the AMT/Lindberg '34 pickup, same basic part.

I found one of those boxes in a friend's garage and he let me have it, after blowing the dust off it looked like the day it was sold. I let it go for$8.00 at NNL West about fifteen years ago.

From what I understand there was a complete run of these that actually made it into the country. Another one of the cases of the Chinese workers not having any idea of what the car being boxed was supposed to look like so the wrong lid was placed on a lot of kits.

I think you might be thinking of the restoration of the Barris built Super Van that was done on Chop Cut and Rebuild by Canadian company the Guild, on the now defunct SPEED channel. Chop Cut and Rebuild can now be seen on the new Velocity channel.