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Looks good Chuck. It's always fun cutting and splicing a body to finally get the right look.

You can try this site as well. http://vsrnonline.com/GregsDecalGraphics/index.htm He has a pretty good assortment of AWB decals including a lot of Mopar related ones. Here are a couple of examples of his work. And the Buckeye and Vernon car in this pic.

Here is the chrome tree from the YA kit.

Looks good Tyrone. How on earth did you find time to at the workbench on Christmas? Hope your holiday was a good one.

Apparently I now have a new hobby. My wife (of all people) got me the Auto World John Force HO slot car drag race set. I would have picked this up two years ago, when it first came out but I was avoiding the "That's just what you need! Another hobby to spend money on" speech, from my wife. It's pretty cool. 13' long so I have to figure out a way to permanently set this up somewhere. And, I've already spent time on Ebay this morning looking at availability for extra cars. I also got a new Nikon digital camera as I destroyed my last one when it fell off the workbench onto the concrete floor and scrambled the insides.

You are correct Jim. I was under the impression that they used the same grill decal as what was on the red car, which is flat. However, in this picture here you can clearly see that the blue car had a recessed grill with the center hump raised, along with the marker lights.

The bodies are identical. The angle gives a different persepctive. The blower scoop difference is simple. The early Revellution car did not run a blower hat so nothing was sticking through the windshield area. The front grill on the Hot Wheels car is simply a flat panel with a 3 demensional decal. And most of the rear spoilers were different from car to car back then.

Sean, all of your builds are always stellar. I like them all but the big Plymouth and the Monaco are my favorites.

Tamiya Toyota Land Cruiser.

May everyone have safe travels throughout the holidays and cherish their families and loved ones and extend a prayer for those not able to do the same this year and see you all back at the workbench in the coming year.

Excellent Daryl. I don't remember seeing the black Olds. before.

All very nice builds. Hard to pick a favorite out of that bunch.

Very cool Rob. I do love the front fender treatment.

Thanks for all of the comments guys. It was a pretty good year for building and next year should be just as good if not better. The IROC Daytona did come from a plastic promo.

Let me jump in with my pictorial of all finished builds completed this year. From start to finish they are as follows: Bill Elliott Burger King Monte Carlo My End of the World Apocalypse build Alaska State Troopers diorama Super Gas Cobra Jimmie Johnson Lowes Impala And here is what I have worked on this year that did not get finished. Hopefully they will make the yearend cut next year.

Got my decals today and they look great. Thanks!

Revell doesn't have a body that fits the 70-76 era. The body that is included in all Revell Duster funny car kits from the 70's is a 70-71 style body. Anything later than that requires changes made to the body in one form or another to properly represent a Duster body from 72-76. Here are a couple of good examples of what I am referring to for anyone that doesn't already know. This Mcewen car can be built using the Revell kit. This one needs a resin body or changes made to the Revell body. This one can be built using the Revell body. This one would need the resin body or changes made to the Revell body. But as I stated above, this is only for those builders that require the utmost accuracy in their detail of building a model. Otherwise build whatever you want using the Revell kit and if your happy with it that is all that matters.

I have both of those. Yes they are hard to come by.

The Comp resins Duster represents an early 70's Duster body, as does the Revell kit body. The only problem that any builder faces is knowing whether or not the decals they have are for an early 70's body or a mid to later 70's body, which is much different than either of these bodies. The later year body has more of a downforce look to it, wheel bumps (in some cases) and the greenhouse sets back much further than the early body design. Unfortunately for Revell's sake, they produced some later 70's kits with the standard early 70's body. The recent reissued Mcewen kit along with the Revollution car in the tin have the inccorect body for that era of car. There are resin bodies still available for later years cars but I don't believe that Comp Resins has one yet. With all that said, unless you're a stickler for accurate detail, you can use these early 70's bodies for just about any Duster project from the 70's, if you choose.

I went back and read all 10 pages of this thread and all of the intense discussions regarding the desirability of this kit and here is my take. I'm a Mopar guy at heart but to me it doesn't matter who the automaker is, when you see something that strikes interest, you go after it. I didn't realize when this kit first came out until reading this thread, simply because it wasn't something that I was looking for/waiting for when it was first released. But, sometime around mid 2002 I saw a picture of a car in an issue of Street Rodder magazine and had to run right out and pick up one of these kits as I wanted to attempt to build a replica of what I saw. Here is the real car. With a lot of kitbashing, styrene and filler I was able to come up with this. Not a true replica but I had so much fun creating it. The point to my response here is simple. If not for this motivation to replicate this real car I would have missed out on a very nicely detailed and designed kit. So much so that I had to go out and purchase a few more. Granted, I haven't built any of them since but then again, I have over 400 models that I haven't found the time to build yet either.

Tim, according to the instruction sheet it appears that this small tank mounts at the front of the chassis, just in front of the fuel tank, and hooks up to what appears to be a dual oil filter system. Nothing is identified on the instruction sheet so you almost have to be knowledgeable of the cars from this era to know what it might be. Also, Jesse's review of the different chassis is a pretty good ref. to the difference from one kit to the next. In terms of the 1:1 cars, if my demensions are correct from what I recollect, the Ramchargers car would represent a 140" wheelbase car whereas the Young American car is from the era that saw F/E dragsters up around 200" to 220" in wheelbase.

Here you go Tyrone.

No problem Mark. And now you have my money. Thanks for the nice decals. Any other decals to look forward to in the future?

Well, I'm not going to leave Vince hanging here. I've visited the dept. store makeup counter many times purchasing different wild shades of nail polish to spray through my airbrush.

I can't speak for others but I have multiples of the same kit (especially drag and Nascar) because there are so many folks creating decals for other cars that can be built from that same kit. Plus, when something new, or reissued, comes out, and it's desireable you've got to pick up at least one before they run their course and you miss out. If you do this enough times then you eventually find that you have enough unbuilt models to last at least three lifetimes. Because of this I have actually found that over the past couple of years I have sold off some of my stash that were at the bottom of the "to be built" list. So with that being said, here's my stockpile. And all the racks shown in these pictures are all two deep so there is almost twice as much as what you can see.