W-409

Very Nice Demon FC! I like the paint a lot, decals look great too. Fine job with wiring the engine, too. Those wheels got my attention-what did you use to paint them? The shade of Silver/Grey is just perfect.

This turned out very nice! I really like the paint and weathering on it, and engine is excellent too. You really nailed the stance and tire and wheel choice. Nice Job!

I'm suprised that no one has posted this yet. The legendary AMT Flip Nose Corvette! When I bought this kit, I thought it would be cool to build, since it looked nice on the box art. But then I found out that parts don't fit at all, and noticed the Retouched Photo Of Actual Model on the Box Top. Edit: Why part of my text dissapeared, and I had to write it again?

Yep, got to agree with the others. I really like Pro Tech's Braided Line. I've had it once, and it was fantastic stuff. Now I had Scale Dreams' stuff, because Model Car Import had no ProTech lines in stock when I bought that last time, it's far away from Pro Tech's quality. Next weekend there's a Model Car Show, I hope I can get few packages of Pro Tech lines there.

I have a Soft Spot for these GM H-Bodies. They are really fun cars in 1:1 scale, and I'm building one in 1/25 too. Your progress looks excellent so far, but for the wheel choice, I would think about Centerlines or Weld DragLites. Those look like 90s hitech to me.

Excellent engine choice on this one, can't get better than those Old W-Blocks! You are doing excellent job with this build, I will be following this one surely. The best 409 Engine I've seen, is in the new Revell '62 Impala. Here's picture of my engine in progress, only those carburetor linkages, plug wires etc. are added details, other than those it's box stock. Ouch, just noticed mold seam in this picture....Gotta Fix that one.

Very cool Dragster! I like the paint job on it, looking Vintage-style. The Slant Six is an excellent powerplant for this one, nice details too. Maybe moving the engine bit closer to firewall would still work?

Nice looking Pickup, Ian! The weathering looks excellent, and I do like the stance too. Dodgefever, sure, I'll add you on the list. Thanx for joining in.

Both look very good! You do very good job in short time, that's always great to see. Especially I like the Cuda FC, the paint and decals turned out very nice.

I think the front end looks okay, and side profile isn't too bad either.... Only the rear end looks bad for me, where are the round taillights what have been in Corvettes from the Early days? But overall, it's pretty nice car, and especially I like that GM builds Front engined sports cars with powerful engine, not as europeans or japanese manufacturers, who make Middle-engined cars.

Thanks for the great comments. Steven: I use Flocking which I bought from local model car show maybe few years ago. I really don't remember the manufacturer, but I think the bag looks like this:http://www.modelcargarage.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=70 . It's really easy to use, just put enough material over wet paint, and when it dries, knock all spare flocking away and you're done. I'm planning of starting the interior tomorrow.

Then I started cutting the door panels. I want them to be smooth, that center section looks bit modern to me, so let's draw the cutting lines and let the sawing begin! Glue some styrene to the hole, and use Super Glue to fill the gaps.... Then I came up with this. Putty time.

Since many of you know, I really don't like seeing Old Classic cars being modernized with big wheels and/or modern engine and transmission etc. Also I got Revell's Chevy SSR Model kit as a prize on local Model Car Show... ...So I decided to start building it as Old School style Pickup. I'm planning to add Chevy Smallblock from the Street Fighter '60 Chevy Nomad with Old School style speed parts. I'm going for '60s look with the engine. Wheels and tires will be of course 15" Steelie Wheels and White Wall tires. Also the interior is way too modern for me, it will need a lot of cutting and smoothing, but I hope I can do something for it. I started today by gluing the engine block together. Can't really say that the engine is good quality, needs to add some putty on it tomorrow. Once test fitted on place, I had to cut part of the front suspension off so I could get the engine fit right. Once I get bit further, I will glue the part back to little different position.

Thanx Kerry and Matti ! Here's some more... I painted all of the chassis parts yesterday, and today I installed the Front and Rear Suspension pieces to chassis. I had huge problems with connecting to rear tires to the chassis... But somehow I got them on place. Also flocked the interior floor.

Very nice work so far. The detailing is incredible, I bet this will be cool to follow. Lifted Pickups, Jeeps and other OffRoaders are cool to watch come together, hopefully I'll be building one some day too. ('66 Ford Bronco kit, anyone??? )

This will be cool build to follow, even if it would be a Curbside. The 1:1 car looks very good, and I really like the first Mock Up too. Keep coming, I will be watching this one very closely.

Looking very good! I really like the subject on this, and you are off to a good start. Keep it coming. For the sanding, I would use 1000 grit paper which works the best for me. And if you use Enamel Paints, like Revell and Humbroll, you need no primer for the resin parts. But if you have somekind of other paint planned and they need primer, I'd like to hear it too.

Back from page three. I had no time to build for the past week, but now it seems I can get something done again. I added some thinned gold paint for the carburetors, to make them look more like metal parts. Then I painted the chassis with flat black, and after that I painted the frame Gloss Black. Trying to get it on four wheels soon.

This has been on a hold for a while, but I'm back at it! Now this time it will get finished, I'll promise. I finished the interior, dashboard is painted body color and foiled and decaled. I found no problems with putting this interior together, and this interior is really easy to make look good. And started Polishing the body.... Top, trunk lid and part of the side is polished...Still long way to go...

Cool Gassers! Very Nice! I'm looking forward of seeing more of them. I will add your name to the list.

I have done something for the interior of my '86 El Camino. Because the quality of it is very poor, I decided to go simple way and paint everything with different shades of black paints. I didn't have any good seats for it, so I used those from the kit, dashboard quality is not very good either, but I had to go with it this time. I added those little door "handles" to the door panels. They are made from Solder. Still missing Shifter, some adjusting to the cauges and other cleanup.

There was a thread in Drag Racing Models section while back, but don't know what is the situation. I'd really like to have one.

You do fantastic work with this one. I like that detailing very much, it looks just like 1:1 car. Over all it looks excellent to me, oh and those wheels are super cool! For inspiration, Robert Joosten's Camaro ProMod at Alastaro, 2011.

It is an excellent kit, here are some pictures of the parts, in build process. All Pics: http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/rr225/nigot58/62%20Pontiac%20Catalina%20Super%20Stock/?start=0 That time I tried to use Fotki, too. So here are the pictures of parts trees. http://public.fotki.com/NostalgicDrag/62-pontiac-catalina/

Very Nice! I've seen one of these in person, and after that I appreciate your work even more. It's not easy to convert a Promo to this nice model! Like the look of those wheels and tires on this one, those match perfectly with the paint and engine choice. Overall fantastic build, only those headlights would be bit more realistic since now they look chromed to me, but that's very small thing.