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Nice job on the overall rod stance and flavor, but I really like the strong color choices and your work on those flames! Great job.

Another home run! Nice color choice, too. If you're fixing things anyway, you might want to foil those rocker panel trim pieces. Revell molded on the optional stainless trim for the rockers; not every '57 kit does that.

Got to echo the vibe; one of the most attractive '62 birds I've seen built in a long while. It seems every time my eye is caught by a really nice color on the cars on this forum, it turns out to be from the Tamiya pearls line of paints. Exemplary build.

Great looking build; beautifully subtle color combo. Very well done! Looks like the modeler's ol' trick of using an electronic diode for both line and filter. ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/303614285730?hash=item46b0d257a2:g:gr4AAOSwSVxhPLmM ) BTW, anyone know the last time this kit was re-issued? I've never come across one.

I really love following your progress. Your attention to detail and conviction to accuracy are impressive. I really want to see that Dodge project completed, but I understand the need to look away for a while! Good luck!

Cool project! Will be following along...

Nice job! IMHO no collection of '57 Chevy models is complete without one or two of these excellent kits.

In the midwest US, and probably other regions as well, they were "freak-drops"!

Agreed! That model has lots of potential; the body looks nice. Should be great kit-bashing fodder.

Good job; that is SUCH an improvement! Love that color choice as well!

Quality over quantity anytime! Very nice builds all around, and as much as I love the properly scaled details on that engine, you really had me at Me-262. Great job on that one.

That's just pretty! Nice work.

Early Iron series was from Monogram, and all 1/24.

Gorgeous shade of blue, and I really like how clean your engine is. Shaping up nicely!

Nice! What did you have? I amassed Frankenstein's Monster, Dr. Jekyll as Mr.Hyde, Creature from The Black Lagoon, Dracula, and The Forgotten Prisoner of Castle Mare! All lined up on one shelf where I could see the glow-in-the-dark parts from my bed at night. For good measure, and because he was the right height, I also had a Godzilla at the end of the row! My mom wonderfully understood that I would always be happy at gift-giving occasions to receive any model kit with "Aurora" on the label. Oddly, I never had any of their car kits, but planes, monsters, figures, and dinosaurs were all welcomed, with the F-9 Panther being my first ever built-completely-by-me. I considered the big green Allosaurus my greatest triumph as a kid! Man, thank you so much for jogging those memories loose; what times they were...

Cool stuff! It reminds me of my old Aurora Movie Monsters collection WAAYYY back! SO much fun. Nice job on this one.

Exactly my first thought! Nice job on this build.

That DecoArts color reminded me very much of the old Testors color "Lime Gold". That Lime Ice really has that 70s show car/bike metal-flake look, and its perfect for this build!

Love the color, and how the red-lines work with it. Well done!

Here's a nice build thread ( this guy does really nice work) https://www.hobbytalk.com/threads/apollo-11-eagle-by-monogram.525986/

"The Dirty Half-Dozen"

Here's another version of the instructions that show it is indeed the left-side manifold to use for a single exhaust setup. This kit was never a 2-in-1 kit, but there was a different version: the 53 Indy Pace Car. https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/linberg/lindberg-53-ford-vi/1953fordcrestlinevi-2.html#media

There was an excellent article some years back in FIneScaleModeler magazine that dealt with detailing this kit that went into it pretty deep as I recall. The lander was built to be light weight, so most of it is aluminum or some alloy of it, so using your favorite metal paint finishes in assorted textures ( flat, polished, etc.) make for a fairly attractive model straight out of the box, but there is always room for improvement! I would trash the mylar, and go out and buy a couple of Rolos candy "bars". Each segment of Rolos is wrapped in a very nice, thin, gold colored foil that will yield absolutely realistic results for the gold foiled areas of the model. It will take just a small dab of glue ( Elmer's, super glue, anything really) to hold it in place since is real metal foil and will wrap and crinkle and nearly hold itself in place. If I can find the article mentioned, I'll reply here again with the info. As for the base, just use some plaster of paris powder, arrange as desired and mist with water in a very fine spray , like from a Windex bottle. Good luck!

Possibly early 60s Pontiac, Bonneville or Catalina. Here's a '63 from the web that is VERY close, differing in minor engraving details, so could even be AMT vs, MPC or some such. Definitely has the Poncho style frame rails, making 90 degree-ish turns abruptly at each end of the rocker panels, where most other GM frames curve more gently.

Cool stuff! Very nice finish on the Mondoshawan.