Mr. Metallic

The widely available AMT 53 Ford pickup will give you the frame you need.

The "gold plating" is just yellow tinted paint applied over the chrome. I have successfully removed it with a short soak in 91% alcohol.

Any of those Model Master paints the Metallizers? I'd be interested

Jay this thing is killer. I don't get to come around here as often as I used to, but when I do it's nice to have some detailed hot rod and kustom action to check out. You nailed the stance and body mods on this. Looking forward to color.

Engine is looking good, and I love the stance on this thing. Lets see some color!

Very well done mods, but we've come to expect nothing less from your bench. Keep it rolling.

Are the air dams/flares molded in or seperate?

You're still waiting on that slow boat?

Scorpion? Excellent!

The "stock" (chopped) windshield may be in the box, but cowl has been smoothed to fit the Duvall style windshield, so there's no place to attach the "stock" one

Can't believe there's still comments coming 4 months into 2025 in a thread about expected releases for 2024 when there's a perfectly good thread for 2025 floating around 😄

Thanks for sharing. So the Nomad kit includes the gasser front end parts?

Could someone post some pics of the contents of the Atlantis release? On the fence about getting it just for the decals but curious if there’s other cool parts

Once tooling is in China, it doesn't leave. This has been a "policy" for at least a couple decades now. So anything that is there will remain there, regardless of the tariff situation. But we should probably get back on topic so it that this doesn't get political and locked down.

There's plenty of people and equipment in the US to support injection molding. There is tons of plastic injection molding being done in the US. I speak from experience. The thing is will it be any cheaper than the imported product for our hobby once you factor in the higher labor costs here?