Chuck Most

Good plan- unless you're into gray chrome.

Best thing about the AMT Belvedere is that you can use the chassis and drivetrain under a Modelhaus body.

Yeah, I guess screwing people to make boatloads of moneh with crappy phone and internet service could be considered pretty cool, depending on which end of the stick you get.

A guy who builds Pochers complaining about the price of a little jar of paint? I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.

Richard Branson (I refuse to call him 'Sir')? He's too busy counting the cash he's raking in from his crappy cell phone and ISP companies to actually do anything cool.

Well... I have one in the works that will be powered by a Plymouth flathead six, so I can't suggest that. I'd go with a variation on option 1- but I'd flush the small block Chevy down the nearest toilet and put that log manifold on a more deserving engine- something like a 392 Chrysler Hemi. Or if you really want to get kinky, an Ardun-equipped Flathead. It would be cool to keep the stock V6- maybe hop it up with a Paxton blower, or make up a manifold with mechanical injector stacks.

Hey, Rob? Where did this one go????

Do what I did. Move into an old, circa-1903 farm house. When one room fills... just put up some shelves in one of the six or seven spare bedrooms you'll have!

My junior high English teacher told us the same thing. The word 'very' was also discouraged. Anyway, all I can say about the Olds? Very nice!

Glad to see you back!

Managed to get a few shots before the rain REALLY came down.

That I've tried so far.

That thing you did? It's there, and I saw it... Anyway, this car didn't sell well in a country where some trucks are still built on a wooden chassis? Yeah, they'll do really well here, where vehicles are required to have some degree of safety features built in!

Good to know the Italeri kits are LHD. I haven't built a 'late model' Italeri kit, it'll be nice to finally have an excuse to do so!

Krylon looking glass works okay... IF you spray it on the backside of some thick acetate (it'll craze styrene), or over some thick glossy plastic. I sprayed some over an old Tamiya gloss black paint can lid and it did look like chrome, but I haven't found a gloss black basecoat that it will work with to get the same effect yet. I tried sealing the gloss black base with Pledge Future, but it did not seem to help. I have found that it will help restore old dulled or scratched chrome, though, and when sprayed directly over kit chrome it looks a lot more like 1:1 chrome. Other than Alclad, there really isn't any 'chrome' paint that actually looks like chrome- the Krylon, Rustoleum, Duplicolor, and Testors chrome paints all more closely resemble aluminum than chrome. As for the clears, I've had good luck with the brands you've shown, but DO NOT spray them over the chrome colors- in my experience, any gloss clear coat over a chrome paint will dull it and turn it into more of a medium gray. I've never tried spraying Rustoleum from a pot through an airbrush- I've only decanted it from a spray can and airbrushed it, and that worked okay. Can't vouch for the stuff in the pots, though.

That they did.

'58 Fury... in red and white, and with four-doors (as described in the book). No such Fury existed in 1958, but it is a work of fiction after all.

I find the lack of bodacious tatas in this thread disturbing.

The '73-77 Generation was quite similar in design to the '67-72 as far as the 'hard parts' (chassis, suspension, drivetrain, etc.), so parts swapping is not only possible, but you'd be well in the ballpark as far as accuracy. If you have that Model King '79, or any of the '70's AMT Ford pickup annuals, combining the bodies from those with the chassis and engines from these upcoming Moebius kits and you'll be able to make a pretty good model of pretty much any Ford F-series from the '70's you'd want to replicate. And there is absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the engines, drivelines, and rolling chassis in these will be several steps above the old AMT stuff in terms of detail present. Another reason I'll be buying more than just a handful of them once they're out.

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So do I, even though the Fords are more my thing. Not saying I don't like those- I really do! But I never really thought I'd have a legitimate reason to buy that Modelhaus Tucker kit. I think I might have one now, though...

The '66 to '67 AMT top-swap wouldn't be a huge deal for a guy with your skills, but even so, I'd go with Rob's suggestion and get the MCRC body. It'll save you loads of time, and Jeff's stuff is beyond reproach in terms of casting quality. And his prices and delivery times are very reasonable, to boot.

I wouldn't! I'd be too busy pleading for my life to worry about the condition of the rope. I'm not gonna complain about this one because I'm not going to buy it. Revell has plenty more kits and subjects I want more than this either already available or in the cards. From there, my only complaint will have nothing to do with the kits themselves, but with me a) not being able to afford to get them all within a reasonable timeframe and actually FINISH any of them in a reasonable timeframe.

Awesome! Great way to get rid of those meddlesome Corvette parts, to boot.

My great uncle had a bunch of Bumpsides, and only one met with an unfortunate end, around 1970-71. Proof? Here ya go...