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62rebel

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  1. before AMT "updated" it, it was a really great kit full of optional parts and loaded with chrome. now, it's had the full custom interior parts replaced by what looks like '80's tweed recaro stuff.... unidirectional (and ugly as sin) '80's rims... but, given a little patience and reference material, it builds up dang well for a fifty-odd year old tool. upside on those gosh-awful rims? they provide nice inner rims if you carve out the centers. no "modern" rims make it into my parts boxes intact.
  2. sharp build of a sharp car. I wish I'd left mine alone instead of hacking it up to make a slot car.
  3. got a thrift shop Revell Sidewinder kit. minus instructions and decals... good thing it goes together logically! the chassis is completed, awaiting paint... the body was brush painted, and i'm not really fond of it.... but the chassis might go well under something else....
  4. sharper than the crease in a pair of tuxedo pants
  5. very cool!
  6. I missed the last reissue, not going to miss this one. I have two builtups, one from the "Street Demons" release and one an actual SWC issue. neither is in SWC livery, so I need at least two.... one box-stock and one more street freak...
  7. i usually refrain from excessive compliments on a build... but not this one. great work! that is a cool well thought out execution. i think i can even hear the funeral march being played...
  8. maybe I'm being too picky, but a 1:1 with the glass removed wouldn't be likely to retain the windscreen trim. If I were doing one like this, i'd remove the trim, then install a ledge along the inside of the body that would represent the actual ledge the rubber would hook over to hold the glass in. perhaps add a remnant of that rubber seal hanging from the body as well. the doors on top of the front fenders are also notorious for rusting away, as well as the corners of the hatch where the window sits. the dash top should be split in at least two places and curled up away from the windscreen (this is common on otherwise well-kept Datsuns!) And, as was stated elsewhere, anywhere Datsun made a hole in the body, it rusted... even where they didn't.
  9. googled '56 mercury, it fits. '55's have different trim, '57's are altogether different.
  10. the '69 chevelle, '65 wildcat, '57 fairlane from amt had injection options iirc
  11. "Gentlemen, prepare to clear out your parts boxes and junk kits!"
  12. yeah, like last week!
  13. the 1:1 item has a foam insert under the mesh, supported by a plastic frame. it's not particularly the BEST filtration in the world, but it beats open carbs.
  14. that's a carefully painted kit chassis. pretty convincing, i'd say.
  15. no stock parts in the kit. i had one years ago that i tried to kitbash with the venerated AMT '53 F-100; it wasn't even close.
  16. Superb work as usual, Tulio!
  17. i remember an article decades ago that covered the process of converting the platform chassis to more-or-less full detail for a Grand National stock car build. I wish I could find the book it was in; it was of the era when we had to use INDEX CARD for sheet stock, shellac for sealing it for painting, as well as detailing how to shellac a styrene body for automotive paint... I used as much info as I could recall to gut the platform chassis under the '63 Mercury to build a stock car when that model was reissued around '95 or so.
  18. it's fun playing "where each part originally came from" with these cars...
  19. 1/25th, and nobody makes it anymore. Johan made it.
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