Jordan White

Looks awesome! Love the color and the stance!

My Jeep is a stick and I enjoy driving it, even in stop-and-go traffic where I've determined ways to make it as least-stressful as possible. Of course I barely ever get stuck in it because I know several ways to get home and don't drive around the big cities around traffic time. Oh, and I can drive a stick and drink beverages...it's called drinking when not shifting! Even if the Taurus has all the fancy gizmos that make it appear you're driving a manual, it just wouldn't be the same. I've driven my uncle's 2008 Infiniti M35 with the auto that has the manual shift option on the shifter, and though the car was powerful it just wasn't the same feel as driving a true manual.

As far as the engine goes, it does actually seem good, not to mention quite a few build choices. -ram's horn manifolds or headers -stock 4bbl, 2 4bbls (came with 2, manifold only good for 1, gonna see if I have a 2 carb manifold laying around), or velocity stacks -stock air cleaner or tall aftermarket air cleaner

I plan on building up this model when I get home from school this summer. I just wanted to get a few opinions on the actual kit as far as how well it goes together, any tips on building it smoothly, and of course some pictures of how other people have built it. I looked through the parts in the box and I love how many extra pieces they give with the kit!

The Fusion was the Taurus replacement, and the Five Hundred was more or less the Crown Vic replacement. But since the Five Hundred wasn't selling great, they changed the name to Taurus, thus the Taurus is now a full-size car rather than a mid-size as in past years.

Lookin sweet so far! I do think the sidepipes would look awesome, but have the tips not go past the edge of the tire. What taillights are you planning on using?

Here's one I've seen at a car show...also I guess it's the only one built with the green body and black painted roof, it's quite gorgeous.

Awesome! The Wings are my favorite team, hope they win! (I'm sure they will ) While you're at the Xcel, may I suggest getting the pizza, it's excellent.

Seeing as no one else answered, and since it's not the 21st yet, I'll help ya out. First off, no stores with plastic models in MoA, just a diecast car store. I found a place in Richfield, which is the next town to the NW of the mall. It's called the Hub Hobby Center and I guess it is fairly big. Hope this helps! BTW, who is the Wild playing? I love going to their games, the Xcel Center is an awesome rink! (I'm from Minnesota)

I'd say go with the gold Cragers!

"Duude, why are the footwells so small?" "Well how else are you going to fit 24's!"

Good thing!

Click free! Looks great so far!

Great color and very clean engine! How come you didn't paint the underside of the hood?

Looks great! I built this with the same grille, but in German Silver with the black stripes. I noticed that you have that orange rotating paint jar holder, which I also have!

Looks great! I built this kit with the tow body and it didn't turn out too bad, though I did have a hard time getting the fuel tanks to stay attached until the glue finally dried. I noticed the regular tractor pieces, but it never occured that you could actually make the tractor version of the truck.

Bugs are great. Easy to work on, fun to drive. In fact my dad has a 1969 Baja Bug, it's awesome to drive especially off-road, and it has one of the best sounding 4-cylinders around.

I'll mostly be sticking with the smaller guys, due to lack of shelf space, but it would be nice to do at least one more!

Love the Tamiya kits, always so detailed. I built this in red with white wheels, turned out great. Course I have a problem of when I try to move it around when dusting, the body shifts and the rear lid falls off. Probably should have tried to glue the body somehow.

Beauty! I have the 3 n 1 El Camino kit and the Choo Choo kit. The 3 n 1 kit was fun to build (came in Black Knight/SS, Custom, and lowrider version), especially since it came with turbocharger (I believe) and topper. Speaking of the bass boat, I have the kit with the 80's Dodge Ramcharger and bass boat. Great kit but I wish I could rebuild it again...(built it back in the low-quality days )

Hey, I'm Jordan, and I'm a noob (to the site, not to model building ) I built up the 1/12th Bel Air over the summer (right now I'm at college, so no building!) Figured I could show it off. Basically 3 coats Testors yellow spray, wheels painted like the charcoal American Racing TTD's (even though they are Cragar S/S), brake and fuel lines from solder wire, custom exhaust with shortened mufflers (as other builders of this know the stock mufflers are twice as long) and belts made from rubber bands. This was my first big boy, and it was a blast because of the detail I could incorporate. I may have gone a bit overboard with the yellow parts, but I tried to get a sort of black and yellow theme going, like a street rod. Anyways some pictures. Hope you enjoy it!