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Very well, I worked in an auto upholstery shop years ago ( the man I worked for was the one that came up with the formulas for the SEM dyes, they started with Pactra Aero-Gloss Dope for model airplanes) anyway I have re-dyed black interior in a Mercedes to a light tan for a dealership so they could make a sale, wasn't hard at all, still looks good 20 years later. I saw the car at a local car show last week-end.

John if you get stuck on something, you can call Todd Vanboekel in Redding, he's listed in the book (T&T Vanboekel) I'm sure he;ll answer any questions you might have, he might even have some better pictures of the car both finished & under construction that might help you out.

Beautiful job, this is (was, as it is now sold) a local car for me, there are a couple of things to point out, there is a raised panel that is sort of an arrow shape on the top of the cowl, if you look at the pictures closely you will see that it is not just a painted shape it is actually raised. You are very far into the build already but personally if it were me after seeing the car "up close & personal" I would have used a model A coupe for a start as it is extremely close to one of these in person, in fact one of the things Todd had a problem with is that people were always thinking it was a modified A coupe. For those that are into '60's Gasser types, Todd & his son are working on a '55 Chevy sedan that is just as far out there as the Nash is.

At first glance it sure has that "model" look to it, but on closer examination, there are just to many things that point to real, or it's a very large scale model. But I went with real on this one.

Might be just my perspective, but I was just looking at this month's Car Craft & there is a picture of a 1-1 car, & I'll be darned if it doesn't have the same misaligned side mouldings along with the mis-shapen C-pillar,& out of proportion roof mouldings, they must have used this car to get the measurements for the new model from Revell. Oh I will give you that on the real car the lock is in the proper position.

Or you can go to your local automotive paint supply & pick up some interior dye in the color you want, this is for use on flexible vinyl, plastic, etc. so it will work very well on the flexible parts in the AMT kits.

I can understand the rise in price from the time I bought the first one I owned, ($2.00) we all know what inflation is & what the cost of crude oil has done to anything that has to do with it. But,,, the one I picked up at the local Hobby Shop with a sticker over $30 is just to much for me, I don't need to relive that part of my youth that bad, there are newer kits coming out that I feel are a far better deal.

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The Barnabas Van is based on the '33 Panel, that used '32 passenger car front sheetmetal, until around '37 this was common practice with most of GM stuff, the commercial vehicles used front sheetmetal from the previous years passenger cars. Of course this applies to Light Trucks, the '30 Chevy Truck would look like the '28-'29 front passenger cars that were drastically different than the sheetmetal that was on the Barnabas Van. Unfortunately I don't know of any plastic kits of the real early Chevy's I would like to find some also I had a 1:1 '31 Coupe years ago & would like to make a model of what it would have looked like if I hadn't sold it before I finished it (the guy I sold it to hasn't touched it since '86, so I don't feel that bad about not finishing it either.

I think this one's a model, or they really got carried away when they aired up the tires, one of these babies would definitely have a flat spot on the bottom of the tires.

The Monogram kit is in 1/24 scale.

It says in the original post that the wheels are from the "Orange Crate" & painted magnesium.

All it needs to look like a fresh "barn find" is a little hay & some "chicken droppin's" lol. Nice little A-Bone though!

I hope so, it'd be nice to see a '56 Sedan Delivery, ala John Diana, from Revell, wouldn't take a lot to do it either,

I may be wrong, (I thought I was once, a long time ago but I was mistaken)lol But there were a couple of the ASA kits that came with the wide five wheels, these appear to be the kit wheels, there are quite a few places that make some nice wide fives, you might check with Dirt Modeler (I think) they have some nice stuff.

From what I've read about this kit, it is highly recommended that you "anneal" the photo etched hinge parts before attempting to use them as it seems they are of a brittle nature as they arrive.

You did see the posts about the fact that the picture is of the real car didn't you?

So, the best I can tell from looking at the links is that they made models of the REAL car, but the picture shown is of a real car that was used to make a MODEL from, so if I'm not losing the remaining marble, those that said real are correct as the picture is of the real car, not the model? I think that the "article" got Harry this time

Like they say, "Even a blind squirrel gets finds a nut on occasion".

The Street Rod "Big n Little" set that the produced, was the tires that came in the Testors "Aluma Coupe", but without the nasty habit of splitting after they were mounted for awhile, I especially miss their "Pro Street" tire as it was of a small diameter compared to most other tires that are out there, as it is only about a 28" tall tire in scale.

You can also go through your local R/C car dealer & pick up some belts that are for the RC helicopters that have a fine pitch & you cut the belt to length & glue it to the pulleys with the ends butted together on the bottom, you can get several cars out of just one belt.

I doubt very much that they will want it back. I got one these with a really bad rear window (must've been out of the same shot as that frame). & they sent me a new body after filling out the forms online.

I'm going Lemming on this one, if it's a model I'm going off the cliff with all the others that thought real!

Very nice job on this one! I (like a few others) especially like the great job you did on the Woodgraining, these can be a rough (pun not intended) kit to get a good finish on due to the texture of the finished bodies, I think that the final finish on the masters must have been 220 grit paper lol.

This particular series that was released by Testors in the late '90's are virtual bricks as they are solid resin just the shape of the car in a "box".