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While its "beauty" may be in the eye of the beholder, this is certainly a well preserved kit. Just polish to plastic and add some chrome trim and it would make a great shelf sitter.

POWER OUTAGES !!!! Just got kicked off line again by power outage. One of those 1 -2 second type outages. Just enough to have to reset every clock in the house, starting to wonder why we really need this many clocks. The problem stems from the buried cables that are being installed everywhere. I'm not talking about the installation where they dig a trench and put the lines in and cover them. The last few years, mostly Fiber Optic cables, they just have someone siting on a machine and drilling and forcing the cable along parallel to the grounds surface. There are already a lot of things under ground like old phone lines, electric lines, gas lines. The companies doing this work keep drilling holes thru the existing infrastructure causing power outages and gas leaks. There should be a law against this type of indiscriminate drilling. A couple of years ago here in KCMO they drilled a gas line that then filled a locally famous restaurant with natural gas that exploded killing one of the employees and injuring several other people and caused extensive damage to office buildings next to it and leaving a smoldering hole where the restaurant once stood. The Gas Company had sent someone out to check on the smell of gas before the explosion and they told the manager to just air out the restaurant and they would be fine. So you have the people that are charged with monitoring this activity and they're just as bad as the people drilling every where willy nelly or as they please. What could go wrong ?? I'm just thankful that it just bumped me off line. This all still makes me wait to here what they've blown up next.

You might try a search on this Forum, I recall someone doing just that in the resent past.

Revell kitted a very nice '57 Bel Air Convertible based off of their '57 Black Widow and Bel Air two door post body tooling.

Hopefully there will be pictures for those of use unable to attend. Always nice to see what other builders are doing.

The first thing I noticed was the realistic looking body finish. There're many trucks running around here that look just like this. That's pretty realistic. I had watched everything you had done on the Chassis and the Engine conversion, and they turned out great. The body conversion was really interesting to see, a lot of body work went into this.

I'm going to have to build one of these.

That is one beautiful looking '57 Ford. I had seen part of your build you referenced and how you created the Continental Kit. That was a pretty expensive and popular option in its day. The bold colors also make it standout and your paint finish looks right on this.

Very cleanly built. Your correct about dark colors and photography, that's a hard one. They way you used different colors, especially on the Chassis, looks great.

Great looking Mustang. The color and its finish as well as the way you shot the pictures really show all of the nice body lines on this Mustang. Very clean chrome trim and detailed wheels.

I'm not normally a fan of Green anything except money, but I do like the looks of this. Like others have mentioned the chassis and just a hint of grime on the Engine look great. You mentioned trying to blacken the door seems, I've started using Tamiya Panel Line Accent Color on some of my builds and have been very happy with the results. The cap has a tiny brush but in fact just a drop and this stuff shoots down the gap by it's self. They offer a couple of different colors also. Should this young damsel not like this build maybe it's not to be.

Beautiful looking Mercury, I wish the model companies had shown a little love for some of the great looking Mercury body styles. The body and interior colors are spot on for the time period. The chrome Wire Wheels would have been pretty special at that time. I remember a neighbor who had a Salmon & Black roof one with those and it was an outstanding looking car also.

Very realistic looking details on this engine. I like the Fuel Pump and Blower Drive especially.

This engine has got to be one of the best detailed engines in a long time. I like how you used different colored wiring on the Alternator. I'm looking forward to the rest of this build.

That carpet is awesome looking.

Beautiful looking paint work and finish on this build. I like the interior also.

I notice that the Funny Car kit is representing a 1969 body style. br67's kit is a '67 year model and the proportions in the picture look good to me. Would be sad if AMT, all those years ago ,butchered this.

Finishing the ignition wires on the engine for my '50 Oldsmobile CHP build. White paint of the doors and look to spray the Black body paint tonight.

So they made it into a Funny Car ? Nothing against Funny Cars, but that does leave the kit very one dimensional and limits any future sales.

This last week I visited the three HLs close to me. The first two looked very normal in the kit display area and nothing in the clearance area. The third one had many open holes in the kit display. Could be no one had restocked the shelves or were about to since it was Friday. One thing I noticed was the absents of Tamiya masking tape. This was the reason for my visit and I have bought the tape there in the past. They were offering a different brand that I had never seen or heard of before. I went to a local Hobby Shop that I often use for supplies and the not only had the tape I wanted but it was also less expensive than HL.

Round 2 should reissue that if they have the molds. The chassis wouldn't be as current as the new Revell kits but would offer some different build options.

The '59 El Camino would only need a body cast as a 2 door wagon or even a 4 door wagon. The Tail Gate is already there. Just add a roof and a couple of different interior panels. The chassis, while somewhat plain by todays standards, already has the correct Fuel Tank and other basic features.

The name Reliable Resin is a misnomer., for a company that's not reliable.

Any time the basic formula is changed they raise the price. The change over to winter blend or summer blend gasoline works the same way. The Oil Companies have you by the short hair when it comes to gas prices. What else are you going to use for fuel ?

Keep taking real good care of that rig and it will last for a long time. There was a time not that long ago, well maybe in my mind, when you could buy a very nice new 3/2 home for less than half if not a third of what a new truck costs today. I think they call that inflation.