Chris in Berwyn

I have had the same problem. I emailed and they sent me a few more sets which weren't any better until I coated them. Their advice was also to use very hot water out of the tap - not sure it really helped but I followed that advice. They said do not heat water on the stove - that is too hot.

I’ve got a couple of the old Revell Custom Body FCs, but decided to use a recent Ed McCullough Duster version for my build. I’ll use a set of the CB decals from the kit. The kit body isn’t accurate for the CB car as it’s a Duster , not a Dart Sport. The real car also had the windshield and roof moved back with bigger front wheel wells. I didn’t want to try moving the roof, so I moved the engine forward to at least get it sticking out the windshield like the real car. I flattened out the hood to get rid of the ridge Dusters have, and I’ve also added a bit of a beak to the grill and will use a grill decal from Slixx. Lastly I’m using Comp Resins wheels and am in the midst of opening up the front wheel wells. Im hoping to have it at NNL East. Thx to Charlie at Pro Tech and John Teresi on the tip to use Aileen’s Tacky Glue to mock this up. First time I’ve done that and boy does it help!!

I found Marco Cruz’s Facebook page but couldn’t find the 2019 Philly NNL pix. Can you post a link? Thx.

And the orange on Petty cars was day glo, so the decals you have may not be too bright!!

Cool engine!! On a semi related note, I was looking at my MPC/Round 2 Kalitta Mustang FC today, and the body decals say M and H, and the slicks are pad printed “Goodyear.” Back to McEwen, it would be nice if R2 reissued the Nitro Vette with McEwen English Leather decals.

Nice?

I had a lot of fun building up the generic kit. It doesn't represent a real Dyno Don car, but I've seen them build as the DD car and they look cool!

First, nice builds!! Those slicks look good. However, other than buying a Revell kit and junking the kit while keeping the tires, is there a source for these tires? I'd like to use them! Chris

I’ve got those comp resins tires too and mine’ll need a ton of sanding too. Personally I think they are too big for 70s cars, although a lot of people use them for that. I’ve used Stevens International repops of the Revell one piece 70s slicks but they seem a bit small...Rhe pix are not perfect for this discussion, but the Pinto has the Revell repops, and the Mustang II has the big AMT slicks.

Great build!

Whole thing looks good! Chassis very nicely done. Nice work!

That looks great! It's a nice color scheme too.

ROfL! I’m enjoying this thread. Entertaining!!

What dilemma are you referring to? I thought you said race kits are what sells so that’s what they should be making. Given your favorable comments about the kit I am surprised you didn’t buy one Also, I hate to have to break the news, but this release of the kit does not have a clear body. It’s molded in petty blue. It was going to be clear, but I seem to recall that they couldn’t fully reverse mold changes made over the years and plastic wouldn’t flow into the mold properly to get a swirl-free clear body.

My Miss Deal has a huge sink mark on the top of the scoop. I had to use a scoop from another kit.

That is nice!

I’m not very familiar with the car, but this slixx sheet has part of what you need. http://www.slixx.com/8069.htm?id=5513

I need some tools, tool chest and such and this looks good to me. As long as the price isn’t outrageous I’ll pick a set up.

Regarding the AMT Lightning. I bought one when they came out, but I was never sure why. I am a serious builder, but when our friends’ boys got into rocket powered Estes cars, the dads decided to make their own with bigger engines, and the Lightning was my choice to soup up. And it turned out to be best engineered and the fastest! As it happens, I just harvested the seats to go into a Ford custom, and I think it’s got some other nice parts that may end up elsewhere.

I forgot - they had Deoras and Silhouette a too.

Thanks for posting. I saw elsewhere a '99 Mustang was chosen as Best in Show. Do you know if that one is the orange Mustang that you have a few pix of on the first page of pics? I was at the show and my personal favorite was the #43 Daytona Pro Mod. Thanks again for the pics!

The Cherry Hill NJ store tonight had what is shown above except no 60 Vette. They also had the 1/20 Camaro, assorted Nascar, and the Revell prepaints and some Lindberg stuff from a few months back.

OK, I need to hit Ollie's. The appearance of so much AMT/MPC stuff makes me wonder how much volume Round2 really sells at full price. They seem to have a lot of merch to liquidate, but maybe that is their business model - sell as much as possible at full price, then maybe (and I mean maybe) break even on what needs to get liquidated. They must have had waaay too many - they clearly didn't see a need to keep them in inventory to fill orders.

Here you go! Hopefully the whole sheet shows - thumbnail looks chopped up.

Chuck Boerner will be selling decals for the 73 Custom Body funny car. The car is painted as a Challenger but it is a Cuda body. I’ve attached a pic of the car and of Chuck’s decals. I’ve got an old Good Stuff Cuda body. Does anyone have an opinion as to whether that’s better, worse or the same as using the Competion Resins Cuda for this build?