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Looking forward to seeing it in paint!

A word of caution: If any recessed areas of the wheel cover need to be painted black, you have to exaggerate the depth, and possibly width, of those areas. A wheel cover drawn to scale will have those areas too shallow to paint, and they'll fill with the plating process.

It is hard. That's partly why I cast parts, if I screw it up, I try again. The first pic are parts for the Montego, the other is various other grille masters.

Yes, but I had to assemble the sections. When the holes are that small, I have a real problem with bubbles in the mold forming in the cavities. I don't have a vacuum or pressure pot, so I can only do simple one-piece molds. I did the center eggcrate section for a '73 Chevy pickup grille, but the spaces on that one were larger than the Montego grille. The '73 Camaro grille I was able to do in one piece. All of the grille patterns were created using evergreen/plastruct strips.

Yeah, I decided to live with it so builders might use the Revell Torino windshield.

Hopefully you can own another in 2021.

I started with the Revell Torino. The idea was, if I made a low-line Montego, the builder could use the interior right out of the Torino kit. I scaled the grille and headlights, and arranged the front end to get them to fit.I cut the front wheel wells out of a second Torino and used them for the rear wheel wells. I made the wheel well flares larger. I still need to do the back end, I'm waiting on some strip styrene to be delivered.

I made a master for the grille pattern. I couldn't find stock with the right size rectangles. I also made a '73 grille for the new full-bumper Camaro kit.

I really hadn't intended to cast it, as some parts would be difficult to cast, but if there's that much interest, I could re-engineer certain things to make it castable. The one thing required of the buyer is to narrow the chassis a bit. While I was modifying the body, I went ahead and kinked the bottom of the body in some more. The Revell Torino doesn't roll under enough at the body bottom. (JoHan's does).

I know of a few others on this board who have taken on the project of building a 1976 Montego. I started the same project some time ago, and thought I'd share what I have so far of my take on the Montego.

Anyone ever notice the kit has one too many hashmarks? I also believe the kit says "Pontiac" on the front of the hood instead of "Bonneville".

Thank you. I appreciate the kind words!

To push the nitpicking further, the earth spins on it's axis, orbits the sun, etc., If you went back in time, what if the earth was at a different point in it's rotation, or the earth was in a different spot in it's orbit? Would you end up in the middle of the ocean? In deep space? It is almost unthinkable that you would end up in the same spot with all the movement going on.

I don't know if you can see in these pictures but: See how the top of the front fender doesn't really start sloping down until it's halfway toward the front? The AMT body starts sloping almost right away (top pic). The MPC is much closer to the real car. To me, this makes the MPC look more Mustang-y. If you have both, compare them. This fender shape also affects the hood, to a degree. Again, I like the MPC body, but the AMT front end, back end and hood. The lower chine also looks better on the MPC.

This is definitely a modified reissue of the MPC kit. I see the hood vents are still there. Oh well.

The '71 and '72s have the best front ends (so far). The '73 front end isn't perfect but better than MPC. The JoHan has a nice flat hood that fits the MPC body great (you have to cut it from the body, though). The Macho and Street machine do not have stock front seats, but none of the interiors are outstanding, anyway. By the way, the AMT interior has the fold down rear seat, the MPC has the standard rear seat and package shelf, so you can make either interior. The retooled MPC front end (the 007 car) I haven't seen yet, and the coming Revell is also unknown at this point. I'm glad Round 2 has retooled the 007 Mustang front end, but we can also only hope they got rid of the incorrect hood vents below the windshield. The AMT hood has more accurate scoops anyway, plus no hood vents.

As for me, I think the MPC body looks good, the AMT hood is better, and AMT did the front and rear ends better. If you mix and match, you get a really decent Mustang body. Even if the Revell kit is off body-wise, there is no doubt every other part will be vastly superior to MPC or AMT. As an aside, I heard Round 2 retooled the MPC (supposed to be a '73) front end to 1971 specs. Then they went and molded the kit in red.

It's a 1974. If I ever finish it.

I assume the big rigs are European models(?)

I got a set of those, and the relief is so fine (after plating), I had to do all the black areas with decals. Ended up looking pretty good. Mine are for for a Scamp.

Even less...I made mine a base Ventura.

My Texaco build ended up being a shelf. Maybe someday...

Trunk is same as on kit. It's not extended.