Reeves Racing

AMT kit. DupliColor paint. Slixx Decals. Parts box wheels and tires. Sheet plastic side windows. PE emblems Revell 69 Nova door handles. Plug wires and BMF.

That is true but Revell repopped it a few years ago, and I have found several on eBay that were very reasonable. I have a couple that are unstarted and one that I built but recently disassembled to start making it into the roadster version. You did an amazing job converting the wheels into Halibrands by the way. Another way to put the gold or blue stripes on the tires is to use your mask to scribe a groove in the sidewall with the xacto and then later gingerly fill the groove with paint. Its easier to scrape off the excess later too.

Great job on a lot of conversion body work, it seems if you would have started with the Accurate Miniatures Grand Sport Corvette kit you would a little bit ahead in the game. But rock on, this one will be all you.

When I grow up I want to be as cool as you Mark.

Thanks Nacho. My only regret is I put a little too much silver in the gulf blue. But I think it still looks good.

100% Out of the box. Very well engineered kit.

Belsnickel is neigh. Happy Erntedankfest

Probably not a color I would have chosen on the real car myself but the dark gray metallic was a very popular color for this car back in the day. Black, white and silver were the other popular colors. It's a European's Shelby Cobra. The muscle is understated and the refinement and class are more showcased. Not so much flashy as elegant.

Thanks, I got the kit off of Ebay. It was missing all the clear parts but I had a couple of Revell pro stock Camaros and Firebirds that I had used the chassis on as donors. So I trimmed up the back glass and taillight insert to fit this and boom, Bob's your uncle it works.

Dwight Schrute's car. Just for fun.

Thanks guys. It's a very well engineered kit. I had no issues. I did lower the suspension 2.5 mm in the front and 3 mm in the back. And its design lent itself to those modifications nicely.

Revell kit. I added piping on the dash, door panels and around the inserts on the seats as well as plug wires, fuel lines and flocking for carpet. I also sanded the back off of the solid grill inserts and made real grills from 030 wire. DupliColor paint and clear exterior and ModelMasters paint on the interior.

Great idea. Very nice job.

I had been reluctant to do this one because of all the fine brush detail painting it needs to look good. But did the Monogram Mustang GTP kit a couple of weeks ago and it was fun so I dove into this one. I had to engineer a couple of posts on the front to hold the nose on nice and tight but otherwise it was a straight forward build.

I was just having some fun with the screen shot post, ?. I was gonna say you-all missed that I only have 35 rivets in the fuel cell top instead of the 36 it really needs but you beat me to it with your "Not trying to rivet count or split hairs here" comment Steve. Thanks for the nice comment on the build Dan. I'm sure you guys are right. Except for an SCCA sticker instead of an IMSA sticker they all look pretty much like the same car to me. I guess Revell thought so too since all of the releases of those kits share the same chassis, including the Camaro Hot Wheels version which had the unchromed Ford valve covers I used on this build included in the kit lol. Its a fun kit. I haven't been at the bench for a year or so and I am building some out of the box to get my mojo back.

Yeah, I had IMSA on my brain when I posted this one. Trans Am or GTO is probably the more correct designation.

Revell kit. Pretty much out of the box with the addition of tire decals and plug wires. Duplicolor color and clear 29 year old kit decals that broke apart once they slid off the backing paper. The worst one was the hood decal. I ending up losing a section of the red stripe the size of a jelly bean. You can see where I brush touched it up and sanded it down before clearing. I also had to paint in one of the very thin black lines on the roof too. Not perfect but better than a big chunks missing.

You're a great teacher Mark. I always appreciate your threads and the time you take to answer questions. I know some of my questions have been dumb ones but you answer mine as well as the good ones.

That is a really neat concept. I don't like the wheels either and I think the wing spoils the awesome roof line you created. But man what an imagination. I'm watching.

The engine is from a Revell kit. They really are some of the best Ford engines. My uncle's Mach has a 351 in it and I didn't think the MPC engine looked right.

Ray, like others have said it isn't perfect but I don't know of any other option for this car. It can be built up nice as a stock Mach 1. I used it to do my uncle's car. url=https://servimg.com/view/19289769/157][/url]

Revell kit completely out of the box. The pictures help see I need to do some touch up lol...

I glued the cage part of the front end to the frame and just used the firewall as a guide. I didn't install the firewall at that time. I cut the molded in front shocks off and put them back on later. I used a little Tamiya putty to smooth out where the separate parts of the front cage joined together, then I primed and painted the frame with the front cage as a unit. I painted the lower control arms and upper control arms black. When I put them on my kit has two raised spots to locate the upper control arms on the top of the frame rail. After they were installed is when I put the shocks back on. With the shocks molded on you would have to put all that together at the same time because the shocks go through the opening in the upper control arms/A frames. I found it easier to put together and paint my way. The sun was setting when I took the pictures so they aren't the best. Sorry about that. I have stopped taking pictures while I'm building so there aren't any wip pictures.

Very nice work. Love the Pontiac body.