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Simply beautiful. This metallic blue is one of my favourite colors. But why did you paint the rocker panels black before applying the foil?

Did you ever consider mixing metallic paint with solid color to "kill" the metallic effect?

Perfect color

You call lthis quick and simple? By the way, where did you get the six cylinder engine? The Nomad comes with a V8.

I built it several years ago. Magnificint car, but an awful kit, both accuracy and quality wise sadly. I hope the 1/16 (Revell) and 1/20 (Do not remember) Versions, which I have not built yet, are better. However, I like your color choice. I tried to follow the instructions with a green shade which ended in a disaster. Anyway, I do not regret it since the kit is terrible, as mentioned earlier.

This one (Well, a Biscayne) is available as 2 DR Sedan form MCW.

I have no clue of what you do not like about it.

If the Renault 4 and its van variant, and the DS is eccentric, I am eccentric who loves companies with eccentric taste

I have always dreamed of a DS in 1/24, but no way I am going to pay 60 $US for it.

During a visit to the attic today I discovered that I have an Airfix/Heller 300 SL. It is a different kit than the Revell with a more detailed chassis but no open doors. I do not remember the Italeri 300 convertible, and as I said, never seen the gull wing, but somehow you feel Italeri finger prints there. It has separate front and rear clips. However, they do not affect the assembly of the kit. They can be attached before the body is mounted on the chassis. The revell kit has a primitive base plate which includes a front clip. This means it must be glued to the body in the very last step, i.e. after painting. The kits are compared in the photos. Right, Airfix, left; Revell, and in the center, the king.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Doplication XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX During a visit to the attic today I discovered that I have an Airfix/Heller 300 SL. It is a different kit than the Revell with a more detailed chassis but no open doors. I do not remember the Italeri 300 convertible, and as I said, never seen the gull wing, but somehow you feel Italeri finger prints there. It has separate front and rear clips. However, they do not affect the assembly of the kit. They can be attached before the body is mounted on the chassis. The revell kit has a primitive base plate which includes a front clip. This means it must be glued to the body in the very last step, i.e. after painting. How to remove this?????

Get a TKM kit and you will start to aprpeciate JF casting

Jimmy Flinstone resin body would be easier than doing the conversion.

I have both Italeri gull wing and convertible 300 SL in 1/16. I have also the convertible in 1/24. Judging the 1/24 and 1/16 convertibles shows that the 1/24 version is a faithful down scaling of the bigger brother. Since you cannot down scale everything below a certain minimum when it comes to casting, you see notciable degradation of accuracy in the 1/24 version compared to the 1/16 (which is beautiful by the way). I guess Italeri did the same with the gull wing kits deriving the 1/24 out of the 1/16. Since I built the 1/24 convertible already, I can assure it has nothing to do with the Revell version. Frankly, I cannot remember if my collection includes the Heller/Airfix version. Digging for a kit in my messy, half finished attic is an adventure in itself, especially when three little monkies follow my steps. So I cannot confirm the similarities of Heller/Airfix with the Revell kit.

No idea. Perhaps because the car is so special. Perhaps because it marks a turning point for Tamiya doing great classic cars. These two points created the impression it will be an exceptional blockbuster. BTW, I digged my ancient, still unbuilt Revell kit. It dates back to 1986. http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=3320 Quick comparsion showed it was a very good kit for its age, at least accuracy-wise. However, it has a two-piece body. Now with the Tamiya kit released I do not have to fight with it.

That is tragic. God be with you.

Got mine two days ago. Outstanding quality as usual. However, I expected this kit to be a breakthrough in detailing, but it turned out to be of the typical level Tamiya "detailed" kits. The multi-piece tube chassis is inspiring. It is an excellent guide to build a brass chassis. Never worked with brass tubing before. What kind of equipment are needed for soldering brass in this scale??

Yessssss...... http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Pontiac/1961%20Pontiac/1961_Pontiac_Prestige_Brochure/1961%20Pontiac%20Prestige-14-15.html and even better..... they made Candian Pontiacs with similar dimensions to the Ventura/Catalina http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/Canada/1961%20Pontiac%206%20Brochure/1961%20Pontiac%206%20Brochure-04.html ... but with 6 cylinder engines, probably taken from cheverolet.

IIRC Toyota built Chrysler cars under license. Therefoe there is a very good chance that the AA was based on one of Chrysler's Airflow models. But as far as we, modelers, are concerned, it does not make difference whether they copied them legally or not, rather, our primary concern is they copied them accurately to do our conversion :P

This is hard to imagine after all the tooling investments and possibly licensing royalities.

Email Tom for the price. Tom sells complete kits for around 90 $. The price of this kit should be around this figure.

Strictly speaking: No, since each GM brand used its own chassis and engine(s). Check this link for frame differences: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-an-x-ray-look-at-gms-x-frame-1957-1970/ But if it will make you happy to have under hood and under body details regardless of accuracy then go ahead. Model car building is to have fun, not to torture yourself.

Grocery shop, flower shop, pet shop, plumber, painter,....

After a long period of silence, Tom Coolidge is active again. He finally decided to go with the long awaited extension of his 1959 Olds line: a station wagon. Few pictures but they say a lot: http://public.fotki.com/tomcoolidge/1959-oldsmobile-series/

Chuck, since I am against mixing politics with hobby, I will not comment here, rather in the personal message.