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Great looking paint finish and color. Like the stance and the wide tires. The interior color looks good. Nice clean look without the bumpers. Did the kit have a "down top" option as well?
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The paint finish is beautiful looking.
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From the past. I retired in the summer of 2005 and it happened to be my birthday month. My wife had listened to me wax on about wanting either a '65 GTO or even a new one. I almost fell out of my chair when she said to get whichever one I wanted. I went for the new one because it would be faster, last longer with less repairs and had all the niceties of the newer cars.
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1/24-1/25 scale fuel filler doors
espo replied to mark 23's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Most of the racing series you mention had exposed fuel fillers for quick fueling. Sometimes they may have used a recessed area in the body for the fuel filler, but the cap would be exposed, much like a stock fuel filler behind a license plate but without the license plate. This could be made with some small bits of plastic glued together to form a box for the filler to sit in. -
I like many of my friends started smoking very young. Guess we all thought we were so grown up even though we hadn't started shaving yet. I suffer from seasonal allergies as well as Asma and have no business smoking. In my early twenties I got very sick and even had a sinus infection. Long talk with the doctor convinced me to try and stop. I also found for the first couple of years that having a nice cold Beer without a Cigarette was all but impossible for me. After a couple of years, I started to be put-off by the smell of smoke and haven't smoked since. Maybe after rejecting smoking in time, you will be just fine without. I chewed a lot of gum as well, but sometimes it's just the ritual of lighting the cigarette and handling it that is sort of a habit that is also hard to break.
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Next time you go to the market or some fast-food place and give them some coins, change, to even the balance so that they only have to give you paper money as change and watch their head explode. I don't like to have a bunch of coins in my pocket anyway, but this is something I have found entertaining at times.
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Like the settings in your photos. The paint looks great and nice body trim details.
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Great looking paint work and colors. The body mods look good, always wondered what the roof would look like if it was made into a Hardtop, they did offerer a hardtop in the 210 line. Nice job on the interior.
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This is about the lowest roof I can remember seeing on this late of a model car. Your front and rear body mods all blend smoothly with the body and the colors look great.
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Beautiful paint color and finish. The stance looks good with the big slicks.
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Great looking Chevelle. The look of the time when new. Paint finish and color look good. Wheels and tirfe remind me of when it was common to put really wide tires on rims that were not really as wide as should be.
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Beautiful looking chassis and engine detailing done in a concours style.
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Great looking color combination and paint finish. Like the well detailed engine room.
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What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)
espo replied to Snake45's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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When the original AMT '57 Chevy Bel Air came out years ago it was a go to kit for me. Something about the kit left me thinking something was amiss about it. Later I noticed the body side trim is wrong and that is what bothered me, but it did take a while to figure it out. Beyond that it is a great kit even still despite its age. The later AMT Pro Series '57 Bel Air or whatever it may be known as would be my suggestion for a Hardtop build. This kit offers a well detailed opening trunk and lots of detailing thru out. The three Revell '57 kits, the 150 series Black Widow and the Bel Air two door post and the Bel Air Convertible are the best offerings for those body styles and are all well done. My hope would be that Revell would use these kits as a base to replace their present '57 Nomad that has been out since the last century and has several body proportion issues. Which one you use would depend on the body style you are wanting to build.
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Beautiful looking paint finish and color. Well detailed engine.
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Chevy Nirvana custom van
espo replied to Limeyglue's topic in Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Great looking paint graphics. Clean looking body trim and the wheels look right on this. -
Great looking Hemi Road Runner. The added side paint stripe looks good. Nice engine detailing.
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Great showroom looking build. Good color for a base model. The interior looks nice and clean as does the engine.
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Chevrolet offered a few color combinations that at first may look like they shouldn't go together until you look at them for a bit. GM as a whole was pretty progressive with their color palate at the time. On the Bel Air models White or Beige was most often the secondary color and that would include the roof, trunk lid area, and the chrome outlined area along the center of the front fenders. That said, I have seen the color locations reversed on a few models. Was this an option or something an owner did at a later date? Maybe a color you have seen on a later model car could be a primary color? Make it whatever looks good to you.
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Great color and finish. Like the stance along with the wheels and tires.
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You had me believing the story as well. Should this model thing not work out for you could always write fiction. Just the right patina for an old car that hasn't been properly stored or cared for.
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Like the color combination and notice the SS style lower front spoiler.