Scottnkat

Thanks, guys. The plug wires were actually a purple color that looked like it would go with the nailpolish color when the nailpolish was still in the bottles. The body ended up darker than I thought it would, but I liked it. Unfortunately, the engine had already been done by that point, so I was stuck with that wire color. The woodgrain on the inside was painted with Testors dark brown, then I drybrushed tan on and used a paper towel to wipe most off - it leaves some streaks, but it's not overly done. When that was done, I used a quick wash of thinned down black, then coated it in Pledge for the shine. ...and yeah, my son calls this my Hot Wheels model.

Here's my Firebird 400 all finished. I added flocking to the interior floor and door panels, I wired the engine, and sprayed the car in Wet & Wild Under My Spell nailpolish. I also tried my hand at using decals for the redline tires - I can use some more experience with this as I kinda stunk. Here's the interior and the engine one final pic

Nice job! Love it!

Here's my version of Wendell Scott's '66 Galaxie. This was based off the AMT kit. The gauge insert didn't fit, so I had to modify the dash to make it appear as it should have. The pad on the floor was replicated by using athletic tape. The shocks, rollcage and headlight covers are scratch-built. The car was lowered all the way around. The decals are by PowerSlide. I don't like the kit-supplied rear window straps, so I'll be replacing those. Here's the dash the engine and the chassis

Genevieve says thank you to everyone. She did design this herself. She picked out the pic, measured the hood, figured out where it would go, decided on the lettering, and everything. The wheels had to be drilled out in back to fit on the axles. This whole car was her choice without any concessions to anything. She enjoys model building and has built probably a dozen cars, a couple of Star Trek ships, and four sailing ships (though she hates the rigging part of sailing ships). James, the color is Krylon X Metals purple over Krylon silver paint.

Damien says thank you. He's 13 years old. We haven't really done a family build off because everyone always seems to have different models in different states and not everyone enjoys cars. My 15 year old son is building a Warthog, my 16 year old daughter just finished a Ghost Rider vinyl figure, and my wife is building a sailing ship right now. With all the projects going on at the same time, it would take up even more space than we already use.

This started life as the 2010 Mark Martin Impala with a wing. I used a resin nose and resin rear spoiler to update it. The decal started life as Regan Smith's Furniture Row decals, but I made some new ones myself to change it to Kurt's car. The paint is Krylon black gloss, but with a coat of Testors semi-gloss over the top. I also wired up the ignition modules so the dash wasn't so plain.

Here's my daughter's AMT Toyota Supra. This was a yard sale find that she bought for $1. It was missing parts, but she made due (with some help from my parts stash). She also changed the wheels and tires over to these ones - she really liked the wire wheels rather than the spokes that came with the kit. She decided to have the hood made into a large picture of me and her together. She also flocked the interior and used her own personal tastes in the color selections. We hope you enjoy this: Here's a close-up of the hood: and here's her engine:

My kids and wife build models too, and my son has finished his Chevy. It's built box-stock except that he had to widen the body to fit the wheels and tires under, so there are spacers that he made between the chassis and the body. He's was still debating on adding the decals or not when we took these pics. Here's the engine After consideration, he decided to put the decals on the side.

Thanks, guys. Tom, the wheels were not loose at all - they fit just fine on mine.

Thanks, everyone. It would have been nice to have a resin body to work with (would have saved me alot of work) Here's the engine

Here's how I defile a model of the AMT Beretta GTU kit. Well, it was the only one I found that had the right wheels and body treatments, so I just had to use this kit. Anyway, I cut the roof off and made it into a targa top. I added the turbo charger to the 2.8 liter engine (after all, it's gotta go quickly since it's a pace car). I created the hard boot cover for the body out of styrene. I also created full decals using Photoshop and Illustrator. Hope you enjoy this:

Here's the Pontiac Banshee - I used nailpolish to paint it with, then "cooked" the nailpolish in the dehydrator for a while which darkened up the color a bit. Compared to the red I've seen in other pics, I prefer it darker. This is completely box-stock. The interior: The engine: The underside: a final side-view:

I typically get it at my local hobby shop. When they have it in stock, I'll buy 3 or 4 bottles at a time. Once I had to order online from Model Roundup.

Thanks, everyone - it was fun re-doing this one

This kit started as a broken used model. It was missing a couple of parts, but was mostly there. For this build, I started by taking it apart as well as I could, then stripping the paint. I had to do some bodywork by removing all the body trim and filling in the insets in the hood to make it flat. It was missing the rear bumper so I modified one from the AMT '69 Torino. I tossed the interior and made my own sidepanels, rear panel, and rollcage. I had to modify the engine just a touch to make it dual carbs and I made the exhaust. The only shocks were the two on the rear axle, so I found some extras in my parts stash and added two more shocks to the rear and another four shocks up front. The wheels were ones that I had cast myself and the tires were from the spares box. The chrome was ruined so I sprayed the bumpers and grill with Alclad. The decals were from the old Fred Cady set. Here's the "before" pic: Here's the "after" pics: Here's the engine compartment and one last pic:

I don't know how many of you guys have problems with glue bottles that like to spill over, but with my occasional hand spasms and even just plain klutziness, I haven't yet had a single bottle of glue last me - every single bottle has been knocked over at least once, sometimes completely ruining the model parts on the desk at the time. Here's what I did to resolve it: I picked up a round wood plaque at Michael's for about $0.80 or so. I brought it home and drilled a hole in the middle just slightly larger than the bottle of glue. I was able to finish the old bottle and I am now halfway through this bottle and not a single spill since.

Thank you, guys - I appreciate it

Thanks, guys

Bob, the decals came with the kit. This was a re-boxed Little Red Wagon, but packaged as a Coca-Cola truck. Here's a pic of the box:

This kit started as a broken used model. It was missing a couple of parts, but was mostly there. For this build, I wanted to take it all apart, but some parts such as the doors were glued in so well that it was not possible. I started by stripping the paint and I cut off the roof. I ripped out the seats front and rear. I had to scratch-build the rear bumper and the rollcage. The seat for it was modified from a '66 Fairlane and I added seat belts. I used some wheels and tires from the parts box. I used copper tubing to reflect the tailpipes that go through the rear taillights. I made the tonneau cover out of tape. The decals were a combination of homemade decals and old Fred Cady decals. I used wire for the hood and trunk tie-downs. Here's the "before" pic: Here's the "after" pics:

That looks darn good, man! Nice job

Looks great!

She did great

Here's the Lindberg reissue of the Little Red Wagon with Coca-Cola decals. I decided to build this with the stock truck equipment instead of including the racing items. As such, we've got plain old steel wheels with dog dish hubcaps and the sedate stock engine with single exhaust. The kit doesn't come with any regular pedals, but I did have an extra set of foot pedals in my parts box. The rest of this was build box-stock. Here's the pics. The doors do open The underside One final pic