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Yeah, just to bad Ponch's Trans Am was a 73 or 74 and no where close to a 79-81! I have some Testor's reboxed kits I found maybe 10 years ago now at Big Lots, and two of them were a 80? Trans Am very similar to the one as Ponch's T/A and the same era Camaro that does have some engine detail as well. I'm almost thinking they MAY have been these old Revell kits, because the front end of the T/A I have snaps on very similar to a kit I had way back when I was young. The best snap I ever found was the Monogram 85 Camaro issued years ago as the "Simon & Simon" Camaro, and it actually includes a FULL engine, not just a basic suggestion. I think that they also did a custom John Travolta version that had the custom parts.

That seems about right, because I had one in the early 90s and I was a high school student working part time as a grocery bagger and had a 1:1 '79 Firebird and I could afford one! Then as an adult about 10 or 15 years later I found a mint version for around $100 to replace the high school one that never got finished because I found out at a young age: model on rear package shelf of the 1:1+rear window glass+May sunshine coming through glass for 8 hours=A pillars and top windshield frame touching top of dashboard! I'm not surprised to see the huge crack in the body of the one in the listing, because the 2nd attempt of finishing this kit has not been much better. I had to repair a badly warped hood and tried to reshape it heating it with hot water, but that just led to it snapping. There have been other pieces that have snapped on the body as well, hopefully all easily repairable though because none of my damage has been as severe as the listing's. I would love to see this reissued as well and a 1/24th or 25th scale version as well, Revell had a decent snap tite, and it may have even had an engine. I just would like to see the big one back out, maybe I could FINALLY build one without destroying it in the process!

It is VERY unlikely, because just as the pic of step 4 posted previously above shows with the new suspension, in the concept's kit all of that and also the driveshaft is molded as one piece. The 2006, while being a full detail, is still simplified compared to the new one, and the only thing I could even imagine the 2016 having anything in common or being derived from the 2006 would maybe be the frame and main body, but I think that is even highly unlikely! By the way, how is this considered a "6th Gen" car?? I also heard it referenced to that on the Velocity Channel's "How It's Made: Dream Cars" and I'm sorry, but I do not see much if any difference in the main body shell to the 5th Gen car to make this a new generation Camaro. Honestly to me, it would be like saying early 70s F Bodies were 2nd Gen and later 70s models were 3rd Gen. There were updates to the front and rear of those F bodies and even larger rear window openings to the main body shell around the 76 model years but even with those changes those cars are all classified as Gen 2 F Bodies from 1970 1/2 to 1981, and that is honestly all I'm seeing to the 2016, new front and rear end treatments and maybe a little slight change to the rear quarter windows, but nothing large enough to make it a new generation car.

It really seems to me that everyone talks like they are going to trip over their feet making a mad rush to get this kit just because it is a full detail kit. I have to wonder if this full detail Camaro got that response. It's from the RC2 era of AMT of the 2006 Concept, but was the FIRST NEW GENERATION Camaro kit available, before Revell's full detail production version and Round2's Showroom Replica curbside versions. Though the concept doesn't have nearly the parts count of the new release, it still is a full detail kit, and has always made me wonder why Round2 was not smart enough to have a full detail kit of the previous Showroom Replica versions all along.

I bought one from Hobby Lobby a couple weeks ago and it was fine. Although I wouldn't have minded if it had another hood or no cab, because I bought that one for the engine anyway!

Thank you Jeff.

This is starting to look like a truck, though it has been fighting me every step of the way! I have never had an older kit give me so many problems with parts breaking, but just preparing the frame for paint I had one of the rods holding the front rear axle in place that also holds the brake chamber snap off as well as one of the fuel tank steps. Luckily I had a bag of K&S scrap pieces I found at one of the hobby shops I stopped at a few weeks ago, so I made a new rod out of a small piece of brass tubing. While I was mocking this up last night for pics, the other side snapped, so I now have to repair it. Thankfully at least the frame needs a few more coats of paint, and I still need to paint the red on the cab and trailer still too. I also have to diagnose the issue the trailer is giving me that my Ford's trailer didn't, the side walls are not fitting properly to the front bulkhead and rear door frames.

A little progress on this old girl, and the trailer roof and floor are complete! A Super Boss also has graciously "donated" its "Buzzin Dozen" for under the hood! Of course, the other engine in the pics is the Kenworth's V16, everything is fighting for bench time!

I spent some of my weekend off practicing using my airbrush more, and since most of the use my airbrush is getting right now is painting metallic finishes, what a better project to practice on than something that is almost all natural metal finishes. I also used it to see what some of the various aluminum colors I have not only look like but look like together to add contrast. The body of the tank is Testors Metallizer Aluminum Plate, the top is Alclad Duraluminum, and the fenders and wheels are Alclad Hi Shine Plus Aluminum. I also used Alclad Black base for the rear suspension. I was hoping the body would turn out closer to the look of the fenders and wheels, but it still has a little shine and sort of gives the tank a used fleet look. I think the variance in color gives everything the look of a used trailer that has had some new parts, especially the nice shine of the fenders and wheels compared to the rest of the main tank. Here is a comparison of the wheels for the tank compared to the chrome wheels for the tractor. Also, without the flash on my phone. I don't know why, mainly because I'm not used to my new phone yet, but the flash on it darkens everything behind it, but it has a 16 MP camera where my old camera is only a 5 MP! I need to get better lighting in the model room soon!

You're welcome, and if I didn't have 4 projects all fighting for bench time, I would!

.....other than bad spelling, bad grammar, or just general butchery of the English language from those members whom have English as their first or only language, is when pictures are posted in a WIP thread OF THE SAME THING!!! I have seen it in a few threads, someone will take a pic of a piece, for example a dashboard, and post multiple pics of it from EVERY ANGLE! Here's what it looks like from the driver's seat.....here's from the passenger side.....here's looking through the windshield....here's from the floor.....here's from the roof.....here's from the back seat....and so on. One picture showing the entire dashboard centered in the pic is all I needed to see! That usually also seems to go hand in hand with the "before the glove box door lock was painted" and "after the glove box door lock was painted" type of post.

Very nice! Now you have me wanting to start mine! I also went to a hobby shop in my area yesterday and found the SPM version on the shelf, but it didn't stay there long!

Yes, it was. It is sort of "local" for me, if you call a 60 mile drive "local"! That is my only problem now, when I lived in the Wheeling, WV area, I had three LHSs within 5 or 10 minutes of me, but now the closest to me in the Wintersville, OH area is one about 20 miles away, or just go the extra few miles to Wheeling that is now 30 miles and almost 45 minutes away, or head to the Pittsburgh area which is now just about the same drive as going to Wheeling. They have already became one of my new favorite "local" hobby shops!

Not really a kit, but a little of bringing my work home with me. The rolled Swift truck was the tractor that came with the trailer, and shows even model Swift trucks can't avoid wrecking , and I bought a pack of 4 Schneider daycabs to have something close to the trucks we have at work. I wanted a sleeper version, but I didn't find one, but there are a few of the white daycabs in our fleet. The other 3 in the Schneider pack of tractors I picked up are an orange and a black Cascidia just like the white version, and an orange Prostar daycab.

I went on a little trip to another new hobby shop for me in Cranberry Township, PA today and this is what followed me home.

Yes, I use an extension of the Avast antivirus I use on my computers called Avast online security, and I have it set to block ads. Of course the simplest thing to do is NOT CLICK ON AN AD!!!

Nice job! Jan is correct Jerry, here are what the real ones look like on a 2012 Peterbilt 386 I drove. It wouldn't be very difficult to still paint them if you would want to, I usually always do like you did and paint them with the frame unless they are separate pieces, then I leave them out until the main frame is painted. These, even though they are a different style, were originally painted the same color as the frame and then carefully painted with black paint. Also another tip that I do just to add a little extra color to frames is to paint the shocks, I usually choose yellow because it seems most companies I've worked for use yellow shocks when replacing the factory set. This is actually a trailer set, but still the same idea for the shocks and the air bags for the axles. This is also one where I painted the axles and trailer frame without the airbags in place since the Moebius 53 Great Dane has the airbags as separate pieces.

I'm guessing you mean the swing doors??? As for the decals, I think after you get the sizing worked out, (and you didn't mention if it was a pic as a trailer sized mural or just lettering and/or striping) but I'd suggest printing them out on regular paper first and see what they look like. I know the mural I have a pic of for my custom Ford started getting grainy the larger I made it.

Yes, the two small parts (parts 29 and 30) are front fender trim that go on the lower front of the fenders to match the slightly less tapered nose of the season 1 car, and the steering wheel (part 51) is the season 1 steering wheel, and the season 1 kit also includes the also the extra later steering wheel. I found this pic supposedly of K.I.T.T. in a museum that shows the "hole" in the center, and most other pics if you Google image search "knight rider car interior" show the later wheel without the "hole". There is just enough changes between the season 1 and season 4 kits to make them different, but the differences are very hard to spot. The only other differences between the two, which is why other than the wheels and the fender pieces not used in the season four car the front bumper and dash have their own separate sprues, are that those are the only other differences. The season 1 dash has two smaller TV screens instead of the single large one in season 4, and the front bumper is not quiet as sleek on the season 1 car. The kit I still want is the Super Pursuit mode, and the pic of the convertible inside the first page makes me wonder if there might not have been one of K.I.T.T. in convertible mode too. I also want to get a couple more of the regular versions to do K.A.R.R..

I'll be watching this for sure! I just picked up that kit and also the season 1 version a few weeks ago.

I've seen every episode probably about a half a dozen times each!!! I used to drive heavy wrecker back in the younger days, so "Highway Thru Hell" was a must watch for me just like the old Speed Channel series "Wrecked" that followed O'Hare Towing in Chicago. I hate to hear Jamie sold the rotator, but at least I get to see it every day, I have a pic of it as a background just like O'Hare's "Mistress"!

So did the nearest one to me in Robinson (Pittsburgh) PA, I grabbed the only one they had on the shelf! The rest all came from a smaller local hobby shop, and I noticed the Freightliner was $5 more at Hobby Lobby than the local shop I picked this one up at. I would have gotten the Boss there too, but they didn't have any yet. That's OK though, I need more Bosses anyway, this one is already a parts kit, the Buzzin Dozen is going in my custom Ford!

That was why I was wondering if my Cobalt was under this or not too, because it has not only the ones in the front, but in each A pillar and each C pillar as well.

I didn't know there was a recall on my ex wife!!! I'm guessing since Mercedes and VW was also mentioned, this includes more manufacturers than just Ford. Does anyone have a list of affected vehicles and the problem or a link? I don't plan on using the airbags in my 2008 Chevy Cobalt any time soon, but then again I don't want one coming out and saying "HI!!!" either.