Drake69

I'm building the MPC 1970 Coronet (new tooling) and the instructions say to cut or file the glass 1/16th of an inch under the side windows. How can I even do that?

Thanks everyone! Yeah, I was trying to eyeball rather than measure out what I wanted. It's mostly the bottom valences front and rear that are off, since they would not lay down very straight. Had I been more precise it would have looked much better.

I'm subscribing to this thread now. One of the guys in my model club just gave me his Revell AAR kit he hadn't built yet. Decals are in great shape, kit is completely intact and untouched (some parts floating around in the box but no big deal...), and once I acquire another '71 I think a more accurate AAR will be in order! Well... as accurate as I can get with the Revell kits anyway...

Thanks guys! I get first dibbs!!! (as soon as I can figure out where I left them!!!) Tony, the redlines came from the Revell MotorCity 1965 Mustang 2+2 Fastback kit. I never used them in my earlier build and thought they'd look good with these wheels.

Just finished this one, had a ball doing it!!!!! Diamond plate is from Plastruct, paint is Model Master De Ja Blue, and decals are from a number of kits, Car was initially a GT350H but no longer had the hood scoop, so the gold stripe decals wouldn't have worked anymore. After scrounging through my decal bin I came up with the idea of building an "oval warrior". Comments welcome!

Just finished. It will have its own thread.

A few more pix, car is almost complete....

Thanks guys. This is what I'm looking for, but in a red-gold color..... And this is the '72..... Yup, I see the difference now....

I'm looking to see if anyone knows if there is a resin hood out there that converts the Round 2 '72 Pontiac GTO to a '71 LeMans. Looking to retro the kit to something my father used to own.

Car body is drying after a dip in Future. Red lines added to tires. Pix so far....

Okay. After the debacle with the AMT '67 Mustang GT, I had to get the bad taste of "poor kit" out of my mouth and broke this one out for fun. It had started life as a Hertz Mustang kit but I had swiped the hood for another build (War's Mustang from Supernatural), then replaced it with a normal hood from the 2+2 Mustang kit. However, when I did that it messed up the possibility of using the gold striping that comes in the 350H kit, so I started looking through my leftover decals to see what fun stuff I could come up with. I had lots of sponsor badges from cars I didn't build pro stock, so I decided to build a weekend lapper. Pics so far....

Ok. I have gone as far as I want to take this kit. It's the one from AMT and the only real good points about the kit is the realistic 289ci K-Code engine, nice wheels, and not too bad of an interior. But the car body to chassis fitment was a literal nightmare, and it didn't help any when I saw just how much warping this kit had gone through before I got it. Anyway, pix. I'm going to try the Revell '67 GT kit later on to see how much of a difference there is.

I have a new project I'm working on which I'm making into a track car. It's a '66 Mustang GT350-H Revell kit and I'm making it into a "Saturday Nite Special" racecar. Keeping the car pretty much stock except for deleting the chrome bumpers, so I have no idea what "class" I would be in. I do have a series of sponsor decals for each side of the car plus a sheet of window decals that would be the competition lettering. I have Pro, Street, Stock, Heavy, and one other, plus the track times for drag strips. First, I need assistance on understanding the different competition levels, and second, would I need to include any of that for an oval racer?

Nice Sportwagon. I need to get me another one of these! Here's mine....

You can also dip a model in Future and let it drip dry in a "clean room", like a box you can seal up so air does not get to it. It will self-level, and you can use Windex to wick away any buildup you might get, or you can brush the area with more Future to thin it out again.

The current kit I'm working on (a 67 GT Mustang by AMT) has magically avoided the destruction phase most of my non-Revell kits seem to want to go through, although it keeps getting dangerously close. Grrrrr.... Actually, only ONE kit met a disasterous fate, the Testors Toyota Supra MKiii. That thing said something about my mother and paid the price for its insolence! Even the Round2 Daytona, the absolute WORST kit I ever worked on, is still sitting on my shelf of models now, just begging to be stripped of parts before it gets scrapped.

Wow. My thread on nuclear cold fusion using recycled beer cans and model car cardboard boxes is gone! Whelpers, back to my <BELCH!!!> Research....

A friend of mine did one with magnetic locks all around. He had a bar magnet as long as a key and attached to his keyring that tripped the manual lock whenever he "completed the circuit". Didn't require any power to use and everything from the doors to the hood latches had this setup. The drivers side door also had a hidden cable release that could be pulled in case anything went wrong with the magnets (like locking the magnet in the car!). He's also the guy that wired my gas and ignition with kill switches. Smart guy.

No pix yet but this is almost finished. This kit has serious fitment and warping issues, and I'm doing my best to straighten them out. I'm going to have to get the Revell 67 kit just to get the bad taste of this one out of my mouth!

I've seen them made from cut and sculpted styrofoam (made for railroad displays). Just paint them flat white or a combination of white and light gray (also seen them in DOT orange, asphalt black, and caution yellow as well) and you have a decent barrier. You can also duplicate asphalt roads, speed bumps, and highway sound walls (7' tall interstate barriers) the same way. Same friend did a highway backdrop with two planks of styrofoam, jersey barriers, and "alligators" scattered on the wayside from shredded capped tires! (Don't know how he reproduced the gators tho...)

Exact same paint I'm using. Cool!

Nice paint job, is that Wimbledon White or brighter? I'm currently building a WW '67 which is why I'm asking. Love to jump in that thing for a few laps, you mind?

Which kit is that? It almost looks like the Motorcity Boss repop. Nice!

No I think he means neither of the cars are silver, but he's got a silver Yenko in the group shot above. Two more projects on my shelf just waiting to be built, but I'm going to have to look into that Deuce some more to see what was done different. My Yenko Camaro is going to be Fathom Green. Great cars!

Another kit I've got waiting to be worked on. Sweet car!