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Yesterday we went to Sweden to a Swap Meet that was meant for Drag Race / Street Race parts only. Very good event and I found bunch of parts for my Chevy II project. On our way back home, I saw these in normal traffic...

Personally, I'd go with a Blown Small Block Chevy (with one Blower only). Big Block is so much heavier that I'm sure a Blown Small Block would be definitely enough for a tiny car like this without making the nose too heavy. This sounds like a cool project.

That turned out excellent! And as always, you built it incredibly fast, especially considering the amount of modifications you did to the kit. The end result is nearly perfect, as always from your bench. Fantastic paint and detailing. The opening doors and hood/trunk lid are great touches as well. This has to be the best build that I've seen done from this kit.

Fantastic looking T-Bird! Great to see these unique subjects built. Very nicely done overall, very realistic looking model in every way. Fantastic paint job and flawless BMF work too.

Finally the Thunderbolt is back on the bench. The first thing was to paint the area between those side moldings white. The kit had decals for it, but they just didn't fit on place at all. So my only choice was to paint it by brush. After a bit of thinking my only choice was to use a regular brush paint called Miranol from a local hardware store as it was the only white that would cover good enough. Of course the paint needed a bit of thinning before it could be used. Once I get BMF applied, I think it should look pretty good. So the next job was to polish the body. This will take some time, but I started from the easy part which is the roof. It turned out pretty good, now I just hope that I don't polish through the clear coat while polishing the rest of the body...

Very nice! I've wanted to build a box art replica of that kit since it was re-released so it's nice to see one built like it. Really good job with it overall, paint and decals turned out excellent and BMF looks great too.

And the X-Frame might make things a bit more complicated on the rear suspension. Just guessing. But no matter what I'm interested in seeing your build, because this is something that definitely could have been done back then.

Very nice job on that Van! I like what you did with the grille, in fact it's the same thing as I'll be doing on mine as I want to replicate my former daily driver and I already have a couple of A-Team Van grilles to start with... Your build turned out very nice. The overall look is spot on, especially I like the black steel wheels on it. They just fit perfectly to one of these.

Impressive build! I've always liked this Ford body style so it's nice to see one that's built this well. I definitely would like to have one of these on my stash too... Anyway, your build turned out very nice. Especially that weathering is top notch. Excellent work.

Very nicely done as always! I have to admit that I've never even heard of this Truck make, but I'm very glad I saw your build. Really nice work with all of the modifications and your detailing looks great as well. Overall a very clean build.

Can't say that this was easy, but I have to admit that I got pretty lucky on my Google search. I just searched something like "70s Sports Car" and after some scrolling down I found a picture of one of these. Interesting to see what car is posted next week...

It's a long time since I've been here in Big Boys section so I just went through the whole thread. Really nice work so far! Great job smoothing out the body before painting and the paint job looks good too. Now I need to follow this one...

You nailed it... It looks excellent in every way. Paint job is very smooth and your BMF work looks flawless. Really nice details everywhere finish it off. It's nice to see something like this built, we don't see these done too often...

Personally, if I buy a kit, I always have a plan to build it. Doesn't matter how rare or common the kit is, they are meant to be built in my opinion, so I'd like to see you building that kit your way.

Even though I'm not that much of a Circle Track guy, these old Ford GT40s are cool cars. And your build is definitely one of the cleanest that I've seen. My hat is off for that flawless black paint job, and overall a very nice and clean work...As always.

When I saw who had started this thread I already knew it's going to be amazing. But, this is mind blowing! Fantastic work in every way (as always), especially the paint and decals turned out really good. If I had a hat, I'd say that "My hat is off!"

This was actually pretty easy, or then I just got lucky. After searching for "regular" car makes for a short while, I thought this has to be made in Australia or Brazil or something like that. And then I came across this thing pretty fast. That car actually looks pretty good, would be an interesting one to have in 1/25 scale!

I have a couple of TDR Innovations' Turbochargers that I bought from Ted's Modeling Marketplace. They are 3D printed, but very nice. I highly recommend buying them, and Ted is a very nice guy to deal with. http://www.tedsmodelingmarketplace.com/

Wow! That's one beautiful GTX! I think you nailed the overall look on this one, it looks like it was just driven out from a dealership. Very nice and smooth paint job with a great color choice and sharp BMF work too. I find nothing to complain about.

That Moebius AWB car has been announced for a long time ago. There should be a thread about it on the Car Kit News & Reviews section somewhere. I'm looking forward to that kit for sure, you can never have too many AWB Match Racers! Edit: Here it is... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/112838-seen-in-the-mobeius-booth-at-nnl-east/

I would probably wait until this Moebius kit is out in the stores instead of making my own conversion.

I was looking for cars from Soviet Union but found nothing... Why Soviet Union? Well, I thought it had to be the only country where they could have produced something that ugly!

You're right on that! Luckily the only warped bodies that I've heard of are on these '65 Plymouth kits, as I have a couple of Hudson Hornets, Chrysler C300s, Ford Pickups and a '61 Pontiac which have correct shape bodies. Of course the problem should be fixed somehow as far as future kits go. Thanks, this was just the info I needed! What do you mean with hot water, just "a bit hot" or nearly boiling? ...Or something in between?

I agree with that. And even though I could get a new replacement body, I should pay the shipping for that one. So instead of trying to get one, I guess my only real choice is to try and fix the body that I have now. I also have the Melrose Missile kit and it has a warped body as well, but it's luckily not as bad as this one, but then again my regular Belvedere kit has a perfect body in it.

Fantastic work as always! The body looks so good in paint and your detailing is just mind blowing. That hood....I mean trunk latch is something I haven't seen done before, great detail!