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I should add that I always use primer on body parts, for all the reasons stated by others here. I generally spray frames, suspension parts, rear axles, etc. right over the bare plastic. Same with most interior parts unless seats have a seam that needs to be filled. I lived a little dangerously a while back and used Tamiya pink primer under auto parts store Chevy orange engine paint and was very happy how it turned out. Since most of my subject matter is American muscle and pony cars, floor pans get a coat of primer because it is part of the final finish. I don't see the need for using primer over white plastic when I am painting a control arm black or exhaust pipes steel though. It's whatever works for you.

This is probably my favorite build on here for 2020. Looks great! I have a donor Lightning that I was planning on combining with the AMT F-350 and a Model King repop of the Open Road camper. Figure it needed more power!

Please go outside!

sounds 100% awful

LOL, their latest annoying thing to do is to gnaw on my plastic sprinkler heads to the point of chewing right through them. I would hate to see what they could do to model parts.....

I typically paint outside because I am too lazy to move the cars out of the garage. Because of that, the parts I am painting come back inside with me between coats. I don't want a stupid squirrel stealing my parts and using them to sharpen their fangs with.

I have used it over bare plastic numerous times with no adhesion issues. In fact, it is just the opposite. I have yet to find the magic cocktail that will do much of a job of removing Tamiya from bare styrene. Yes I have tried all the usual and unusual suspects.

I have successfully used it in the mid-50s. Parts to be painted should be house temperature, and I warm the can in some hot water before spraying. Parts come back in and get hung up in the laundry room to dry. In some cases, I have found that it almost works better in lower temps than it does at 90F.

Pretty much my experience yesterday.

My only 1:1 experience with Mr. Haught was a PM conversation with him asking what he thought of his advertisers taking money from his subscribers and not delivering product. You know, a few of those resin guys that have been discussed here and there for years. It was pretty clear that Mr. Haught did not want to get involved in any way that would offend his advertisers.

I don't know, but the briefly alive Hobbytown USA not far from here had the 62 Impala convertible on the shelf for about a year. Not sure if it sold before they closed shop.

Absolutely. And the Mustang is only $55-ish compared to the Nova. Lots of folks are upset that is is curbside for the price, but to me it makes a great shelf model. I never had any of the AMT Novas back in the day. I may get one of these, or I may not. My childhood friend David's dad drove a brown one (I don't remember what year). It became an extra car when he bought the new 70 Coronet. None of us wanted to ride in the Nova after that. The Dodge had some magical thing that blew cold air from vents in the dash.

We liked Murder House, Asylum, Freak Show, and Hotel. Not a huge Lady Gaga fan (music), but she is really a great actress. Just our opinion from the other end of US 50.

must buy some

Some folks do. The Mustang GT4 doesn't look like a blobular AMT kit when you turn it over though.....

It was a BMW. Fun car to drive, but rubber parts just rotted away. Rear subframe bushings were toast at 90k miles and the fuel lines were a bonafide fire hazard by 80k.

My daily driver from 1997-2004.

Three legged models!

Yeah, we have watched a few episodes. If you are a fan of American Horror Story, you will like it. If you aren't, you won't. Had some internet problems this week, so so Netflix. Fixed, now, so more episodes in store.

Original Revell '57 Nomad! (just kidding)

It's fun to put a backstory to a model, and I can totally imagine your truck moving north from Long Beach to Challenge-Cook and getting the mixer conversion. From there, who knows? If the final customer was on the west coast, it could have been driven from the Challenge-Cook factory, or it could have been loaded on a flatcar and sent east. I love your builds of older trucks. It's too bad that AMT didn't start making them in styrene until the 70's so the older stuff just isn't represented.

Probably my favorite book, ever. Too bad that Salinger's head was too big to ever allow it to be made into a movie. It's too late now, nobody would understand it anymore. It should have been made into a movie around the time of The Graduate. I am just not sure who should have been cast as Holden.

down by the

Driven in convoy north to Challenge Cook along the route that is now the 110 from Long Beach Assembly? Not sure if they built "Big Jobs" there or not, but it appears that they did build trucks at that plant. Beautiful build BTW.

Got some "C" stripes for my AMT 1/43 69 Torino. This guy was mentioned in another decal thread, and I checked him out. I sent him the dimensions of the body, and he scaled down his 1/25 stripes to fit. Seems like a nice guy, very professional, and he answers e-mail right away. The decals look to be kit quality. The registration between the stripes is very clean for such a small size. https://www.facebook.com/ScaleModeldecals/ http://www.kennyterry.com/