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It's been a while since I had ordered from them but seems I recall that it was decent quailty. The ones I had ordered were for my brother and father and they haven't built them yet.

I was looking as well for a project I have going and couldn't find anything. So, I decided to take the kit bumpers (56 Nomad) and shave them myself. But if anyone knows of some that are chrome plated please let us know.

Shaved bumpers

Has one mentioned a better detailed 1963 Corvette based off the Revell 65 & 67 Vette kit instead of the AMT 1963 Corvette? If I remember correctly the AMT kit didn't have seperate suspension parts and the detail wasn't quite as good as the Revell kits.

Thanks for the comments guys. Got decals printed, applied and fresh coat of clear sprayed today.

RMR Resins has one as well. Scroll down to the 60's catagory http://www.rmrmodels.com/Products.html

Yes he is still in business. I sent him a e-mail on Saturday June 18 and got a reply from him Monday June 20.

I need to look at ride height yet. It was just sitting together in the pics. May want to lower just a bit.

The rain stopped, the clouds opened up and the sun is shining. Grabbed my tape and prepped to spray the blue. Let it dry a little and couldn't wait any longer, had to untape to see what it looked like. Had a quick logo that I had printed to see about size and just laid it on the panel to see how it would look. Time to print logo on to clear decal film. Baremetal, decal and then clear. Need to paint interior yet. Thinking about pearl white with blue dash to match body with blue carpet.

Got the Tamiya Pearl White sprayed on the roof and waiting for the rain showers to stop to tape and spray the blue. Thought I would do a quick mock up with wheels and tires. Tires are AMT Parts Pack White Walls.

Nice

Paint has started to be sprayed. Got it primed, based in White, and got the pearl white on the roof. Tomorrow hoping I can get the blue sprayed. Got the interior pieces primed as well. Waiting on an orer from Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland for engine work.

Just purchased the rerleeased hardtop kit a few weeks ago. Looks like a great kit. The only concern is that the roof is pushed to the drivers side a little bit. Hope when the windows go in it will straighten out. Had the convertible years ago and it came with foil for the side trim but the new kit has the chrome trim on the decal sheet but looks more like silver thatn chrome.

Took the plunge and cut the stock grille out to see what it would look like with the tooth grille.

Been thinking about paint again on this project. Any thoughts, just a pearl white panel or the whole roof from beltline up pearl white?

Got the stock rear seat bottom cut out and the tuck n roll rear seat in place. Took a little to much out on the wheel wells. Need to add some back I think.

Got the resin tuck n roll passenger side door panel modiied from a 57 Bel Air to match the shape for the 56 Nomad. Didn't really realize how different they are. The dash location, shape is different, the door tops are different, even the height of the panels are slightly different. I sanded the rounded door tops smooth and rescribed the tuck n roll up to the top of the panel then cut the panel tops of kit panel and sanded down top of resin panel to get the height that I needed, wasn't much. Glued the kit door panel top on resin panel. Then held up the kit panel and marked for the dash cut out and glued that onto the resin panel. Had to shorten the panel in the kick panel (front) area as well. Here is a picture of the modified and "stock" '57 door panels

I gota Tuck n Roll Interior packa from Ed Fluck for a 57 Chevy and will modify it to fit Nomad. This resin kit is very nice. Looks amazing. Very clean. 57 Bel Air Tuck n Roll door panel to a stock 56 Nomad panel comparsion. I think I might have found a custom grille to use as well. I found an older 57 Chevy Bel Air kit as Slusher suggested that had a few custom grilles in it. Found a tooth grille that looks similar to the grille posted earlier in "Miss Taboo". Stock grille with custom tooth grille below Overlay of tooth grille

Got my donor and have had a chance to look at it to see how things will work. With a little work in the body due to thickness of resin the windows from AMT 57 Chrysler will work. After this past weekend, my office where the resin body was got hot and humid, 90 degree weather, and the body wasn't sitting flat on my table, it warped all to heck. Had me worried but, sink full of hot tap water and a short bath in it, it's back in shape. So I am in the works of working and trying to get the chassis, floor pan fitted to try and keep this from happening again.

Keith Maks Decals http://public.fotki.com/mofobow/chevy/camaro/69_camaro_pace_car/69_camaro_pace_car.html Maybe e-mail him and see if he can set you up with some if you do not want the whole sheet

looking good

NICE!!!! Great color combo.

Which AMT 57 Chevy kit? Do you have pics of what they look like?

Looks great. You did a great job. Thanks for sharing. I built one the other year and had to paint all the colors on it. Did you or were you able to get the Slixx decals?

No matter what I do with the grille, I willcut out the stock one. With the Desoto grille, I just placed over top of the stock to try and get an idea what it would look like. I did have an "In your Face" look about it that way but just didn't want to cut stock up yet. I did find this picture of Ron Luchs "Miss Taboo" that was restored in 2011 i believe. It had a 54 Chevy grille and 57 Chrysler headlights. Here's a link with more info on "Miss Taboo" http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Ron_Luchs'_1956_Chevrolet