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I'm glad you included some construction photos, nice to see all that went into this build. The finished model looks great and the body lines all flow like a factory type body would.

I like your color choice . Unusual paint stand, does the body ever stick to the plate ?

Great link. I really enjoyed the music also. Nothing like Booker T & the MG's , Hip Hugger and Green Onions were my favorites.

I have used Floral Stern Wire from Hobby Lobby. The 18 inch length wires are 22 ga. They can be easily bent by hand and they may even offer larger gauge wire. The 22 ga. wire may not be strong enough to position the other craft.

The chances of the Decals not lifting are somewhere between slim and none. I'd suggest trying another method of getting the stripes you want.

I Minn. based trucking company with a terminal here in Kansas City just closed last week. Drivers are left without a pay check and just have the rug pulled out from under them. If these companies are hitting the wall the least they can do is give employees, many of them have been with them for years, give them some other notice and not just leave them out in the cold.

Very clean looking build. All of the fit and finish look perfect. Always fun to build a model of vehicles you have been associated with in the past.

Very nice looking build. I like the main stream color combination.

Great looking replica. The OEM paint had a very light gold flake in the orange as I recall. I had a new '72 Nova SS that was very close to this color or may have even been the same color. Sometimes GM would share the Corvette colors with the lower line cars, but usually they were unique to the Corvette.

Very nice clean looking build. Great color choice.

What a great find. It looks as if they guy was a very good model builder also.

The auto producers have brought many safety advancements to the automobile thru the years. While not perfect, the Anti-Lock Braking comes to mind as one of the most useful. The problem with so many lane departure sensors and blind spot monitoring and backup cameras are that they all are designed to compensate for the lack of skills of the driver. This combined with everyone multi tasking and far to many have the attention span of a field mouse. I know I'm considered out of touch and old fashion about many things, but a good 6 speed manual transmission would go a long way to get drivers to start paying more attention to situation awareness and less about the person they're texting about something they had to eat yesterday and where they are going now, OOoo I forgot that also.

I did just that a few years ago using the Revell ''66 Chevelle 4 door wagon. I used the El Camino get for a guide on door size and B Pillar shape and location. The door lines had to be redrawn and the old lines filled. I raised the window sill level where the rear door was to match the appearance of the 1:1 '64 & '65 Chevelle 2 door wagon. The B Pillar was made using the back side of the second door on both sides and all of the molding details line up pretty well. The last side post was piece of spruce and I used the clear plastic from a new dress shirt for the side windows. As for a 1:1 '66 Chevelle wagon, there was a national Chevelle owner's meeting and show in the area a couple of years ago. One owner created his own by using a 2 door Chevelle body shell and then added '66 Chevelle front sheet metal and modify the tail light area to match the correct Tail lights. All of the interior and exterior trim was '66 Chevelle specific including Lemonwood Yellow paint and the tutone beige interior. You would have to know that Chevrolet didn't build a '66 2 door to know this wasn't a showroom restoration.

This would almost be worth it just to see if you could get away without getting a ticket.

I'm far from comfortable with this technology. This may seem like a good idea on paper for a politician who is looking for a campaign contribution, but the reality is these things are still running into other vehicles on the highway driven by you and me. They are still doing the R & D on the development, but they are running in an uncontrolled environment. Besides the issues with some of the cars that have run into something or someone, what happens when and if something goes wrong with the electronic controls ? Do these things just go into a safety mode and lock their brakes and sit were ever they are until some reboots the system or do they just coast off into the sunset until something else stops them ? Ask any accomplished driver about sudden weather conditions changing, will this rig have "seat of the pants" feelings when the steering starts to go to sudden understeer. When a rig this size starts to get out of shape it can turn really bad very fast. I guess sensors maybe faster than a humans reaction but I'll still trust in someone who has ridden out a down hill slide on a whiteout roadway with ice under the snow. That will get your undivided attention faster than anything, been there and done that and that was in a car.

Thanks. There are a lot of good looking trailers. This could get expensive.

Great looking color and very clean assembly. These were very stylish vehicles in there day.

Beautiful looking build. The colors really look perfect for such a grand car. I always thought the hidden Golf Bag storage was a neat feature.

The Green color you are using will really standout with the White trim. I like that you're building it as a "Post" car instead of a Hard Top. You have a neat looking Travel Trailer in the background in the first picture. What's the story on that ?

I think the Metal Foil would be the best way to go. As sensitive to touch as everyone has said of Alclad and other products I think you might end up with a real mess. If I may offer something I noticed from your picture. The picture makes the filler panel appear as if it isn't fully covered. Some times masking in tight spots like this it is easy to lose any body lines you may be using for a masking line. You may already have done this, but what you can do is use your #11 blade and draw where it is you want the line to be before you mask the panel. This will give you the visual as well as a line that is visible after you put down the foil. This line will be far easier to see than just the line on the casting. Use than as your cut line for the foil, a light clear coat to create a barrier from the Chrome Pant that you use. After all of the chrome paint work is done and before removing the foil, lightly follow the edge of the foil with a #11 cutting thru any chrome spray on the foil. The foil should come away with no problems and give you a sharp clean edge between the two colors.

Hi Bill, My friends Olds wagon was a darker color, almost but not the same as a '60's Mopar Purple. Theirs was a solid one color car and had the lower line Hub Caps. The wagon in your picture is a far better looking car. If you build this please allow us to follow as you usually do.

Great looking Convertible. Ford sold a lot of those Stainless Steel Fender Skirts in that era. The up top is better looking than what you usually see.

Great looking truck. The weathering looks spot on. Don't be shocked if this gets moved to the Truck section. The bed sides remind me of some of the owner built side rails from the past.

Thanks. I'll have to remember this on my next build, I use little other than Tamiya paints is why I asked.

When I was in High School one of my friends father had a '58 Olds 88 station wagon in a new color that year that was very Purple. The car was only a couple of years old at the time but it just looked like it was designed by a committee that couldn't agree on anything. The rear area was so big that we would put an old mattress in the back and leave the tail gate down. He'd wire the back up lights to stay on and we would drive the Farm roads in our area and shot Rabbits all night long. Just a couple of teen age guys with a 20 gauge shooting rabbits during the winter and the Rabbits were eating everything in sight. In the rural areas not far from Chicago there was a very large agrarian population. When I went back to visit in the '70's the old Farms were now all housing developments.