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Picked up a blue Maisto Chevy Colorado at HL last Thursday. Got it home and unboxed it. It looks like they ran out of paint by the time they got to the bed. Wasn't really obvious through the clear plastic on the box. I returned it yesterday. Too bad, it was nicely done otherwise. I might look online for a white one. Looks like they also make a modern Ranger as well.

Yeah, what Snake said. I buy kits from HL, but they have a poor selection overall and it seems to take forever for them to get the new stuff (except the 64 Belvedere which I have no intentions of buying). Other kits, paint, BMF, etc. comes from the LHS. I bought one new Revell kit and one recycled Round2 kit from the LHS ($80) a few weeks ago because I didn't want to wait for HL to get them in. A few weeks before that, I bought the Tamiya Mustang GT4 from the LHS.

LOL, it was meant that way. You review stuff that is different, I didn't mean that the reviews themselves were different. You don't want to now what I did to myself the first time I used my mandoline slicer.

Or Acapulco Blue

You are welcome! Your kit reviews are different than most, and I appreciate that.

Not to derail your thread, but I am going to be watching your build. I have never had one of these myself. Last weekend, a mother and her son approached me at HL and asked me a bunch of questions about paint, tools, glue, etc. She was trying to get him off of full time video games and they decided that he needed to build a model car. This is the kit he chose for his first-ever model. Not sure how old, I would say 14-15. I hope he has fun and doesn't run into too many issues with the kit. Beautiful blue BTW.

It's been a zillion years since I built one of these things, but my guess is that the chrome one is a magneto for the 409 that is no longer in the kit.

with good stuff

hot in here!

I'm trapped inside!

with no windows

Saw the pic on YouTube. Yikes!

a unicycle naked

Molds don't last forever. Who knows how many of the masters Don is in possession of so new molds could be made if someone wanted to.

I was just at my closest HL and I am not sure what is going on with their cases This is what is currently on the shelf, along with a very few of the older style. "Entrust Collecting" purports to be in OK City, so maybe HL has launched their own label. Didn't see any mirrored bottom cases. One of the other stores had all of their cases together, like the big wood and glass ones plus the model-sized ones.

The 40% didn't excite me all that much. I don't need much right now and I have a HL about 15 minutes away and another in a part of town that isn't unusual for me to be in on Saturday. There are a few things there that I eventually want, but I can wait and get them one at a time with a coupon. I totally understand that this is huge for those of you who have to drive an hour or more to get to a HL. I was just at the closest one this afternoon and didn't come home with anything.

I have several of the "CD" (mirrored botom) cases and they are very nice. In last year's reset, HL had them marked down to less than $4, so I stocked up. I have four of their 1/64th scale big rig cases on my desk at work. You can put 10-12 1/64th scale cars sideways in each one. I will definitely order a case the next time I need some.

LHS need to grow up and realize this if they want to survive. It's not 1967 anymore. The best LHS we had closed a number of years ago because they were tired of running it. They had a "clearance" sale and I suggested they list their stuff on eBay. Got a deer in the headlights look. Found out that most of the family had never been on an airplane....

The Rustoleum 2X aluminum is amazing. It covers completely with just a small puff of paint. I have been having trouble finding their other metallic colors, but I think I will look online. The Metalizer stainless steel was my go-to for exhaust systems, but I am sure I can find something else.

Nothing to do with paint, but I have been carefully dipping my (hairy) big toe into doing some baking for the last year or so. Having a scale to weigh the dry ingredients is very important, especially the flour. Just want to agree that weight of ingredients is better than volume if you are looking for consistency. Paint or bread.

By the way, for those of us "rule breakers" that don't want to follow the instructions due to ease of painting or whatever..... The instructions call for mounting the engine to the frame before mounting the frame to the floorpan. It's not a big deal, but you will have to remove the locating pin from the transmission tailshaft housing to get the engine in if you assemble the frame and floorpan before mounting the engine. The engine mounts are positive enough that you don't need the extra pin location on the transmission.

I was working for Ford in the 80s and 90s. In the case of the engines with the oil filter screwed on the side of the block, the filter was painted grey when the block was. I think that some of the other engines had plain white filters with no emblem or other marking.

The paint reference chart in the Chevelle kit is kinda jacked up, and it calls for gold on the oil filter. I know that's not right. I was thinking white as well. As I said, the stripes aren't part of the decal. If I wanted a 100% correct oil filter, I would print my own from a 1:1. Not counting rivets here, but the Chevelle build will be as new because it may wind up on my AMT Haulaway trailer with other '69 Chevrolets or other GMs as a "last mile" truck from the marshaling yard to the dealership.

They're in Woonsocket

Was asking questions about OEM filters on another thread related to the Revell 69 Chevelle SS396. The included decal in that kit is for a PF-25 as well, but there are no stripes, just the middle part of the decal. Was wondering what the color of the original filter was. Seemed to be split between white and blue.