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you're not allowed to clip the axles off a little shorter? that's a pretty nice result for a three-day build. a street survivor, not a trailer queen!

George 53, feel free to chime in as i will have two restorations going on soon.... i figure the Shelby GT500 kit is the closest donor for these, but i had a Micheal's 40% off coupon that would have expired today, so i grabbed a Revell '68 Mustang in case it would wrk as well. i know Hobbytown has the AMT Shelby's in stock.... but i need a coupon to get a deal there... so; the initial version of this kit was a Ford Concept car called MachOne (or Mach1) before the production car came about, amiright?

ooohhh... i like this one. geat build!

wow... you have definitely got it going on. it's tough to get that much detail in models twice that size...

are those the custom seats from an AMT '49 Mercury? you're right, though; better packing probably would have made the difference. that looks saveable though....

welcome to the hobby! paint is a highly subjective issue among the members; you're going to get a lot of conflicting advice regarding it. Testor's enamels can tend to run on the thick side, but dipping your brush in thinner each time you use it will contaminate your thinner and cross-tint other colors undesirably. stir your paint with a piece of sprue, and see how thick or thin it is when you're done. it should be thin enough when stirred to flow off the brush onto your surface, but not spread on it's own. add a FEW drops of thinner IF you feel your paint is thickening up on you. some builders pour a small amount of paint into a separate container and cap the bottle again, to keep their paint from drying or skinning over. flat paints can't be thinned as much as gloss paints, in my experience; they turn into "washes". keep your bottle threads clean and keep your caps tight when not painting. get a dedicated bottle of thinner and use it only for cleaning your brushes, and keep your brushes clean. a single drop of red can tint a whole bottle of white paint PINK.

i was thrown by the actual steering wheel instead of the typical-for-the-time tiller steering... i was looking a decade later and found Riker and kreuzer electrics.... i knew it had to be electric because of the huge (relatively) rear hubs, which must contain motors. it's certainly a pretty thing....

getting down to floor level? at my age? it it hits the floor, it's gone....

the big three got a lot of mileage out of kits just by changing the box art sometimes... cutting a new section of tool or removing one...

you can't ask for much more than that.... that's really pretty.

sorry Ed, i was referring to the Chevy truck-based kits, the vans were an unfortunate casualty of being disappointed with kits like Midnite Express, etc, with generic smallblock engines and non-typical frames. i was so peeved with those i swore off Revell kits for a long time and missed some of their really accurate stuff. the vantasy won't have roof ribs? shoot; i thought they were ALWAYS on vans.... so... ahhhh... hmm. curiouser and curiouser.

could i get you to post some WIP pics on the workbench forum? i'd like to see what the kit starts out like. is it basically the normal kit with additional Nascar parts

seems like we may as well close this thread.

my peeve with Revell's product from that timeframe is inaccurate chassis and running gear on their trucks, and their habit of using the same frame and running gear on several different kits, all of them supposedly heavy duty working trucks.... that gave me pause in buying their stuff for years afterward. i missed out on their van series and the truck/van accessory parts packs that came out because of that. maybe if we'd had some sort of shared information network in those days?

so it appears to actually be based on the '67 Mustang, not the '66 i thought it was. there's a lot of body modification aside from just the chopped roofline, apparently!

real.... and i'm sticking to it. ooohhh... you're asking what it IS... i'll be back.

even with an opening hood, you can barely see much more than the radiator on one of these. most didn't have side windows so having a detailed interior was hardly worth the effort. they're blank canvas for side murals, mostly... but i remember a lot of guys going full tilt boogie on them and opening the doors, hood, even opening the roof and adding full interiors back in the heyday.

wouldn't the fact that the model car builder only built STATIC kits make it all the more ironic? Ribisi is almost an overlooked actor... his agent needs to push for some leadin roles. his Medic in Private Ryan haunts me.... we'd be missing a critical character, though; no "co-pilot" in Attenborough for Harry Townes to explode on... no bus line requires a ridealong mechanic or co-driver....

i look at "drifting" as a tarmac equivalent to dirt track racing... same technique; opposite lock and steer by throttle! some of the cars have crazy performance... i don't go for some of them but i appreciate the work that goes into them.

i think it was a reissue of the Ford concept MachOne based on the '66 fastback; it had a chopped roof, trunk mounted filler caps, cibie headlamps, and a full window insert (all the windows in one piece)... it had the same 289 with performance parts as the regular '66 mustang kit..... anybody seen one? i got one waaaayyyyy back (probably the last time it saw styrene) and made the goof of putting cement around the window surround BEFORE putting the "glass" in place.... so, the glass was ruined an the model got trashed (what can i say? i was a kid...) instead of saved. i have never seen another one; never heard a reference to one, and would like to have a second chance to add this one to the shelf.... maybe i have the name of the kit wrong in my memory... this was around 1974-75? maybe?

ah,, the Macabre-mobile! i got one for Christmas one year, and built it stock... must have sold it somewhere along the line. it's a nice kit.

cool, Darin. very cool.

"Josey, you think we oughta bury these fellas?" "To **** with thoe fellas, Buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms."

naaaah, no need for zombies... starving wolves would be enough! ahhh... you know what? part of my scenario HAS been done, sort of... "Tremors", where they bug out of town riding in the back of a cutdown tanker truck pulled by a bulldozer. still.... what's the smallest 1/25-1/24th bus kit out there right now?

still-soft paint should come off with WD-40 on styrene... i had to strip lacquer off a kit body this week and used plain thinner on paper towels to rub it off. i have never used resin parts, but if the paint has cured, you MAY be able to chip it off or scrape it off. i had a promo Dodge Challenger from 70-71 that had been brush painted and i was able to chip that paint off, slowly, and get a clean surface. hundreds of little yellow paint chips, a millimeter at a time... and if you do use WD-40, wash the heck out of the body before you try to repaint it.