MrObsessive

I must have been thinking too loudly as I just ran across a 1/24 kit of this on the 'Bay. Not sure about its quality though (resin) and the price is a bit high for starters. We'll see..........

While we're at it and since Italeri is an Italian company, why not this one?? 1959 Fiat Abarth Zagato "Double Bubble".

YEEEEESSSS! Ebbro PLEASE!!

Oooooh! I just looooove this car!

I wrote them a while back to ask about their '67 Shelby wheels. I didn't hear back from them and this explains it. Sure glad I got a set when I did as not long after I got 'em, they were 'out of stock'. Hopefully when he's up and running again they'll return..........they are the nicest set of 10 spokes I've ever seen!

Nice and clean! I like your choice of wheels with the whitewalls.........it really suits the car! That's what's kept me from building mine......glass is a bit too distorted for my tastes. I'd be vacuforming mine when the time comes that I want to build it.

Wow, just catching on to this thread! VERY nice work and man this thing is a beast! It's reminding me of my 1/8 scale Shelby that I'm very slowly chipping away at. One nice thing about these big scales..........the sky can be the limit for the amount of detail you want.

Ooooooh! Nice to see this one as a WIP! I'm DEFINITELY following along! I have two of these kits actually. One to build as what's shown and another as a donor for a HRM's resin roadster kit. A kit I had won at the NNL East years ago. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I could have swore someone made a very detailed set for this. The set included turned aluminum trumpets for the carbs, a PE set which included more than what the kit gives you and some other niceties. Anybody remember that or was I dreaming?

BEAUTIFUL! And a very good idea reinforcing those A and C pillars! I'll have to keep that in mind if/when the time comes to build mine. Great job on the wheels too......that's something that stuck out to me like a sore thumb when I first opened my kit. AFAIK, all GM B and C bodied doors swung outwards on gooseneck hinges through 1966. There were some exceptions......the Toronado for instance used gooseneck hinges through 1970!

Ain't that the truth! Or HUGE regrets if you had one and got rid of it!

One of the more annoying things to see on eBay is exactly what you said! Drives me crazy and especially when they can't get the year or description of the car correct!

1977-'79 T-Bird.................YES!!!

Hugh, it looks good from where I sit! Glad my tip helped you out!

Your son is waaaaay ahead of me at his age as I didn't start building till 17 and mine was nowhere near as good his! Congrats and with the big grin he's got, he's mighty proud of it!

Noooo..................I'm talking about the very first resin model pictured Joe. Chris followed up with a picture that obviously shows what was correct for a '60 Bel Air rear end. Seeing with my own bad eyes I can still tell that the tail panel on the first resin model is not correct. Since more than a few Bel Airs were sedans I had assumed he was talking about such. Maybe not.....he can answer if that's the case---I can't speak for him. Either which way, the first resin one shown is not right..........the one you're showing (which I had no idea about) is correct. That brochure you're showing? It's obvious from where I sit that the person that did the rendering, took some 'artistic license' in the drawing of the 'sedan'. All I can say is.............. This........ Is NOT equal to this..............

Now it’s true that Chevy did make a ‘60 Bel Air hardtop (rare), but the taillight panel wouldn’t be like the resin. And then there’s those way too thick center roof pillars which wouldn’t be quite right for a hardtop with the windows up.

The ENTIRE resin kit is incorrect as the roofline is nothing more than a hardtop with center pillars added. The sedan roofline is quite different.......a bit taller and more “stretched out”. ?

After seeing Superbird McMonte's excellent video on making your own redlines/whitewalls, I went and ordered this and it came in the mail............... I have some projects pending where this will come in real handy. Last week I saw this on the 'Bay and decided to follow the auction......I decided to bid and won! I built one of these many years ago (mid '80's) and while it wasn't bad, there were some fit issues that I could fix today. I can already see some body changes I'll need to do to cure some of the fit issues and those door hinges are tricky at best, but I have a cure in mind for those also. Anyone have an idea what year this is supposed to represent? I'm thinking a '63, but I don't remember what year IMC originally released this one.

Super Sharp! That's one truck that never seems to go out of style!

Now that is some NICE Nomad! Love the color combo and I like the undercarriage painting. Pretty much the way Chevy would have done it in '56-----especially the Southwest and non rust belt cars.

Thanks for that tip Steve! Just goes to show that even after many years of building, there's always something neat and new to find out! I'd like to have learned that trick when I had to create wheel arch mouldings for my '67 Mustang GT build. They were non existent so I had to scratchbuild those. There was a little bit of a 'lip' as I made them, but that tape would have made a much more stable 'guide' when it came time to do the BMF. Next time I get to the hardware store, I'll be picking that tape up!

Kurt, you're a braver man than I in cutting out those air vents! VERY good tip and something I'll have to try sometime, especially cowl vents on some cars. For the heater knob in between the seats, when you mentioned it the first thing that came to mind was this............ TONS of watch gears I have and somewhere in that pile is a tiny gear with just the number of 'teeth' that one would need to recreate that knob. Of course, the one you made looks great and it's another one of those tiny details IMO which goes a long way in getting things the way you want 'em. Lucky you! I was born just a few months later and I got to come home in a 1955 Plymouth Savoy two door hardtop! Mercedes was one of my Dad's favorite cars, but he wouldn't get one till many years down the road.

Excellent and absolutely beautiful! Love the body colored wheels-------gives it a 'all business' look! I see you opened the trunk and that's a very good hinging job on that. You have the same idea as I......leave off the floor pan as it hides all that beautiful detail underneath! I haven't built mine yet, but this is what I'd like to do. Or just leave it clear and say it's a 'museum piece'.

Snake, I still have the paint that was used. It's the original '64 Olds Jade Mist poly. I don't like that hood AT ALL and if/when I get around to it, I'll definitely get the plastic one I have now painted--------Matching it should be no trouble. I'll have to live with it a very long time and I don't want to have to stare at that warped hood. I may not have the ambition to do it later as I'll get distracted with something else. We'll see how things go after the '68 'Vette gets done. The way I am, I have to zero/focus in one project at a time. The other things I can let go as you mentioned with the emblems and air cleaner. The air cleaner would need proper decals and such (or I'd make 'em), but that's no big deal. That hood however.............I can't stand it!

Plastikote Gray T-35. I've been using it for years, covers well and dries fast. No crazing issues like I've had in the past with Duplicolor, but I airbrush everything now so that's not as much an issue either. Rustoleum's Red Oxide Primer I've had very good results right out of the can on chassis' where it's needed. I don't worry about crazing if it happens on that as it's just the floor pan and not the body.