Carmak

I saw the 66 Bonneville on E-bay. Was not sure if TM made it or was just selling it. Did not have look of other TM resins. Also saw the Coronet wagon TM has. I owned a 68 Coronet wagon for years and I would advise comparing the rear of the TM Coronet and a 1:1 to be sure you are OK with the differences (bumper and roof). Carmak

Very nice work! I have been thinking about printing a retro camper but I have been to busy with other projects to model it up. Which cad program did you use to model you truck? Would you be willing to share STL files? Carmak

Last night my wife calls me into the living room where she is watching the Hallmark movie Elevator Girl. The male lead in the movie builds model cars. I sit down and watch and they refer to them again and then show them again. All of the models are Revell / Monogram. So I have now watched a Hallmark movie looking for model cars. How about that! Carmak

Built one of these years ago. Great kit but test fit the upper roll cage, it need some work to look right.

There was an FM3 Charger R/T with the dual pin stripe on the side the go over the door scoop (no bumble bee stripe) in the Cedar Rapids / Iowa City area. I have talked to the original owner (also a model builder) and he has some good pictures taken of him and the car back when it was new. As the owner of a 68 Coronet 500 convertible myself I have talked to many Mopar people in the area that remember the car. It was stolen in the mid 70's and never seen again. Carmak

I know for sure a 69 convertible was made. The gold convertible in the picture a couple replies up is a 69.

Here is my stash of late 60's full size Pontiac projects. two 67's, a 68, two 69's and a 70 HT. Had all but one of the 67's for 25+ years. May start on them some day. I used to show a 67 ambulance and a 65 2+2, daily drove (summer) a 67 HT. I still have a red 69 428 convertible (owned for 28 years). Now my son is restoring a 65 GP. It's a darksider thing Carmak

The shown on the box lid was at the Des Moines, IA Good Guys car show this weekend.

My question is why are those boxes sitting on your 68-70 Charger and why is your Charger sitting outside long enough to have tree debris in the back window?????

The 65/66 Ford trucks should be a natural for Moebius. Aside from some details the chassis and drive-trains (straight 6 and FE V8) are the same 65-72. Moebius only has to tool up 1/2 a kit to get a new kit. Thinking of kits to take advantage of existing tooling: * 65 Plymouth Belvedere wagon (same wheelbase as the Satellite) * 61 Pontiac Catalina wagon (same wheelbase as the 2drHT) * 67-72 Ford truck with a period pickup box camper (big pieces but simple tooling)

I built the stock version of this kit when it came out. I think it was one of the best kits of it's era.

Also a very good chassis donor kit for other 68-72 GM A bodies (specifically the AMT 69, 70 & 72 Chevelles and the MPC/AMT 70 & 72 GTOs).

I think this is a great mid winter slump buster kit. If you are a "box stock" builder it does have some pitfalls as noted already. If you are more of a "parts box" builder and swap out pieces here and there this a is a nice kit. I swapped the wheels and used a modern R-M 440 in one build and just wheels on another. A couple issues I remember not already noted is I had a little issue with the hood fit (easily fixed) and the position of the front wheels being a bit far back in the wheel well (also easily fixed and a good time to lower the nose just a bit). Since yours is a red one paint the interior dark metallic red.

3D printing will change parts of the hobby just like resin parts did. How---I don't know but it will. I am working on a design for a 3D printed canned ham camper. My66S55 is right, all the work is in the cad design. 3D printers like large flat things (with some ribbing or they can warp) - like the sides of a camper. Thick or tall things take more time and cost more. On a tech note the new SLA style "printers" have some really good results. My company had one of the old SLA printers that cost 250K in the late 90's. We now have a high end FDM style printer but we are thinking of supplementing it with one of the new SLA's due to the quality and lower cost. What cad program did you use? Carmak

My plan is to use a junk box Pontiac 400 and a 72 GTO interior in the 69 "The judge" funny car body with the 69 442 chassis and then put the funny car chassis under the 69 442. All fun builds.

This is a great build! I like the way you are making the clear sections. Back in the late 80's/early 90's I parted out scores of 64-68 full size Pontiacs. Since you are going to this much work I wanted to share that the clear sections of the wheel should be tinted slightly in a shade similar to the color of the metallic plastic the rest of the wheel is molded in. The tint gets a little darker on the 67-68 wheels. Although many of the re-cast wheels on restored cars are clear I was able to find one good picture showing an original blue tinted wheel (a 65). Carmak

I am an engineer at a medical company that has used multiple methods to make short run (less than 1000 and sometimes less than 50) parts. My company does not do it as a service but I know two former co-workers that are now on their own that may. Nice looking masters. Are those printed or SLA? Carmak

I have been working with low volume injection tooling for 15+ years in the medical device field. Is you plan: * print the master and pour the injection mold components. * print the mold * print the master to confirm the geometry and CNC machine the tool. I will share with you that our low volume presses would not be able to fill and pack a body tool or any origin. The clamping pressure required by the surface area is way to high. You could easily be into the 50 ton+ range. You may need to shoot multi-piece bodies. I would rather have an ABS multi-piece body than a resin body. I am glad to hear someone talking about low volume tooling to aftermarket parts. My vote is for the 71 Polara 2drHT or 4drHT! Carmak

Reminds me a bit of my wife's car. We have had it for 18 years. I can see how you would miss that 58. We had a 58 Coupe before we got the 57. There is a 58 Coupe with a similar color combo in a junk yard in Burlington, IA. Craig

My spin on this would be the most of the same kit I ever bought at once. Back in the 90's I bought a 12 kit case of the MPC 69 442 kit. I was at the old Ertl outlet store and a worker came out with the case which was ripped open at one end. I asked if they would sell the whole case. Yep, $6 for the case as is. As I wanted them for the chassis I was not concerned about the case being ripped open (turned out none of the plastic was damaged). I sure do miss the Ertl outlet store.

This car is also missing the filler piece between the hood and the grille. The 68 and 69 hoods are the same except for the bolt on filler. As the filler is bolt on there is a panel line also.

Useless trivia: I had a 58 Fleetwood parts car years ago. There is no sheet metal behind those massive qtr panels. They are screwed on along the top and have a couple angled supports.at the bottom. Also the skirts are nearly as heavy as a cylinder head.

I would rather have a curbside with a spot on body (like an AMT craftsman) than a detailed kit with a proportion issue (Revell 69 Mustang) and other people would rather have the opposite. None of us are right or wrong. As an engineer that designs injection molded plastic parts that are tooled by some of the same tool builders that made AMT tooling in the 90's I can tell you that a new multi piece chassis tool is a way more costly than you think. A "simple" change like removing the exhaust from a chassis could easily cost tens of thousands. My vote would be to use that limited cash to restore "long lost" tools with missing parts of subjects we have not had in decades (like the 68 Coronet ).

Very patiently waiting for some parts from Modelhaus before I start in the 68 GTO.

Nice job on your Rustolem paint! Nice clean build. I built one of the pre-painted body versions about 10 years ago. I really like they way they look. I lowered the rear suspension and changed the wheels but built it stock otherwise.