Hi everyone, new guy here but building since the mid '70s. I didn't want to step on anyone's thread, so here is a car that I brought back from a glue bomb about 20 years ago. Back then, a Futura was a very rare and expensive kit to find, and unbuilt originals were crazy money. This one showed up at a kit swap, complete down to the antenna, painted Batmobile black and looking quite tired with most of the chrome worn off. I did some trading, and got to work. All of the chrome was sent off to Chrome Tech, and the body was stripped with Easy-Off.
I had a few pictures of the car in an old book, with one sort of faded color shot with two women in it. I didn't have a computer, and the internet wouldn't have been much help in researching it anyway. So I took a best guess at the color, and combined Plasti-Kote GM light metallic green lacquer with silver lacquer to get what looked like the right shade. Both were decanted from the spray cans, mixed, and airbrushed on over Plasti-Kote T235 primer, and it was rubbed out with a Millennium 2000 sanding cloth kit. I took a wild guess at the interior color combo, added BMF to the canopy, and it was done.
Of course, a few years later, the kit was reissued, and it wasn't the first time that I rebuilt something rare to have it become available again. Always mixed feelings, but overall positive for the hobby. I took about 15 years off to build 1:1 cars, but I'm getting back into it to build some cars and trucks that I always wanted to do.
-MJS
