Carmak

A good friend of mine did new tooling and tooling repair for Ertl back in the day. He was always amazed at how poorly the tooling was labeled. He would occasionally have the wrong tool sent to him for repair. I have a test shot of the 66 T-bird craftsman/promo from the 90's. It came out of a molded labeled 63 Thunderbird. At least it was a Thunderbird

My son built pole barns (here in Iowa) for a summer when he was in high school). He was good with the hard work but didn't care for walking rafters up in the air.

Bill, In general, I fell we are on the same page here. There was something "special" about that old school amber SLA resin that after 20 year it did not degrade in UV. Aside from UV damage I am also concerned about stability of SLA resins. If UV is the only issue, then a good primer solves the problem

I will take the JoHan kit with it's no-detail chassis and interior over every other Barracuda/Cuda kit available in the last decade. The Body proportions are just so spot on. This is a body Round2 should clone!

My company bought a 250k Stratus Systems SLA in the mid 90's not long after I started. The resin was a semi transparent clear with an amber tint (the only resin available at the time). I have pieces from that era that look like the day they were printed and are not brittle at all. We have had our current 30K resin bed printer a year or so and some of the parts printed on it this year have become brittle already. I know that once a SLA part is cured it typically do not age well in daylight. I agree with other that IN GENERAL FDM parts are more stable over time than SLA part but specific SLA materials could be as stable as FDM.

That was originally the MPC 69 Mustang. If I remember correctly, it was "recreated" from the Dick Trickle stock car body. I have an original MPC 70 Mustang (molded in yellow) and it is also small.

Notice how the door is different between the uni-cab and the separate cab and box versions. The uni-cab door has a straight body crease while the separate cab door has a jog in the body crease. The 64-66 Fords all used the door with a jog in the body crease.

I think the best body out there right now is the Lindberg 72 Challenger. This was originally the PSM (Palmer Scale Models) that started as a 71 (picture below) and was revised into a 72 with a nasty hood scoop and side scoops. The Lindberg kit interestingly has the base model dashboard. I am going to kitbash a Lindberg body (with side scoop removed and a resin hoot) with an AMT 70. Someone on this board has done this with impressive results.

Nice clean build. Great choice of color. The vinyl top is perfect! Very cool.

Super clean build. Really like the hubcaps, great idea!

That looks really good. Well done!

I was talking to person at a local cruise night last month and he told me he built one Mopar model a year when he was a kid. He called me a couple days ago to tell me he found them. I picked them up today. One a year from 60 to 64. The 60 and 63 are going directly to the survivor display case. The 61 and 62 (and the 63) need a couple parts. The 64 looks like it got dropped so it will need a little resto work.

We just got a parts car for our 60 Buick. We are going to load it with skeletons and put in the front yard for Halloween (we live in rural Iowa). More decoration than yard art. BTW - Before anyone asks - the parts car has a perfect crack free dash, It was parked in a timber when Nixon was president, so the dash never got any sunlight.

The same only different. The Vegas kit is from 1979.

Something originally molded in yellow would be wonderful!

Does anyone know if the 65 El Camino will have taillight bezels? The original issue had a bezel the taillight lens sat in. Without a bezel the lens is lost in the hole in the body. I have a couple original issues with bezels. Not sure if the bezels just got blocked off or were cut up to add another feature to the chrome tree.

I picked up a can of the Rustoleum 2X paint at our Menards (like Lowes or Home Depot) that has the mid 60's GM aqua interior look and it has a little metallic which looks right to my eye.

Very cool kit and tough to find in any form. Congrats!

Very cool concept. Really nails the factory stock look. Nice!

Thanks! The first issue Big T was the one I needed to complete my collection of the first four rods (plus a first issue Vette and a later issue Big T).

First issue Monogram Big T. Found locally in Iowa City, IA

I just went to their website. Some cool 1/25 scale drag racing stuff. Slot car site but looks like good stuff for kit builders. Cool.

Nailed it! The Timing belt replacement cost, frequency and down time was the nail in the coffin for his 308.

My wife's uncle had a 308. The service and maintenance issues with the engine kinda made the car suck. The Honda is a major improvement.

Even more fun. Dajiban look.