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Very good Rob! Welcome to the forum... you'll fit in nicely.

Nova, Rule of thumb is 4 or 5 pictures per post. The software shifts to a second page after so many posts but if each of those posts contain lots of pictures then it takes a long time to load. Hey, can I get you to post your name in the Signature Text box please? That is found in the Profile section and then will end each post you... ah, post? Thanks! By the way, love the dio!!! 5 thumbs up!

Welcome Robert! Actually, subjects CAN be easy to find if the poster startes it with a simple descriptive subject line. There is also a search method that uses key words or posters name.

Interesting! Very interesting.... 8)

Naw, I have ruined two bodies so far.... that's enough.

Very 8) !

My only problem with your way Ken is that you trap water between the paint and the body. I am not sure that there is a best way when the variables are soo random, example: paint thickness, swirl patterns, body size and shape. It's a crazy way to customize a model! :wink:

There is no end to greed! :cry:

Hey Groucho, love you movies! If that is your real name then fine, but if it's a handle (and I suspect it is) then forum rules require you to put your first and last name on each post please. Best way to do this is to put it into the signature text box found in the Profile section of this board. Thanks!

WELL Duh! (Just wait until the guys feast their eyeballs on the next issue!!!)

"Missed it by that much!"

All appreciations can be written on the back of a twenty dollar bill and sent to: MCM is great, 4528 2nd Way SE, Salem Oregon 97302!

Very cool Gil! Good idea on the scatter shield.... Thanks for posting the pic and the wiring looks good.

Darin, give me your address if you want an Edsel body for stripping purposes....

(Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!)

Monty, My 351C had so much of the original paint knocked and burned off I thought it's natural color was cast iron and rust... Seriously though, take a blue you think is close and add a drop of black. Simple! Most of the time, after you put on a black wash, the color gets darkened so much that it looks right anyway. Also something to remember, Ford would use whatever blue paint they managed to find at cost. If one supplier raised the price too high then purchasing would find another source that was close enough. Sometimes during one models production! I would not worry about a "Correct" blue... or even a correct firing order. Just make it LOOK like it's correct and the viewer will thing it's correct. It's all an illusion after all!

Monty, feel free to post some of your views, pictures and ideas about building Mustang models!

Nice paint! Can you show us what's under the hood?

Izzy, your drooling again... :roll:

Provided someone doesn’t show up with proof of the lie. This is that proof! In 1981 Monogram released one in a series of fantastically detailed, very accurate muscle car kits, the Boss 429! I owned a 1969 Mustang as a daily driver back then, wasn’t married and slept, ate and drank MUSTANGS! My favorites were the ’69 – ’70 models of course and I absorbed everything I could read about them… which back then was not a lot! The lie: One of the glaring errors Monogram foisted upon us in 1981 with that first kit were the chromed headlight rings from the box art. It was the early 80’s and Monogram was either afraid of paying royalties to an owner for the photographs or afraid of being sued for misrepresentation… whatever the reason they began putting photos of built up models as an excuse for boxart. The problem with this is that the buildup becomes a representation for many builders of what the finished model should look like. Many builders painted their cars just like the box art. The first picture shows the end of the box. I scanned the end because I was sooo incensed at how wrong the headlights were back then that I took a black felt pen to the rings… Anyway, this is how it looked in 1981: Ten years later, 1991 Monogram releases the Boss 302 kit. The box top contains a photo of a beautifully restored Boss 302. Why do I say restored? Because the grill and headlight rings are painted flat black. Incorrect, as these were suppose to be painted “Argentâ€! Argent is a dark flat gray, not black! Most of the trim pieces are suppose to be painted this Argent color. The hood stripes, rear trunk lid, wing and sports slats over the rear window however are indeed flat black. The side stripes were reflective… NO, REALLY!!! Check it out sometime. Anyway, the box top is sort of correct but the built up models featured on the box ends are once again perpetrating the lie with chrome rings around the headlights. Why does this bother me you ask? Because it makes the look of the car appear wide-eyed and simple minded. And it’s simply NOT RIGHT! Plus, the lie keeps spreading… check out the images Ismael posted of his friend from Venezuela. Felice painted the grill of his beautifully detailed and painted Boss the same way as the box art. It’s really not his fault as his car is very nicely built. He simply followed the box art as a guide. And the lie keeps being told through re-releases of this very same kit! Now we have as the final picture a beautifully restored, and correct I might add…. Representation of a Boss 302 with the correct grill headlight rings. Breath taking isn’t it? Notice the hood fit… the grill trim and the hood trim don’t match and they never did. That was a fit problem from the factory due to the use of hoods from 1969 with a new front end for 1970. If an owner were to lower the hood and make the chrome trim line up… it would place the hood lower than the fenders. From now on I expect each and every 1970 Mustang posted on this forum to have the headlight rings correctly painted! 8)

Very nice! Get rid of your finger... and it could be mistaken for real!

That's pretty nice Rob! I was around when that kit was new! Brought it from the local Coronet store for about 2 bucks came with a clear body, rubber blower belt and a decal sheet that stated that this car was the one in which Don Garlits was the first to break the 200mph barrier in the 1/4 mile! Nice build up dude...

Now THAT's really COOL!

Very nice stuff there Izzy!