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    That sucks Niko. Good luck with the respray.

I just cleared the Skyhawk. I love 2 pack.

Plain Brown Wrapper/Poverty Pack Cannonball. Anything goes under the skin but from the outside it must look like the base model. So six pack Dusters must look like they're running a slant and no Porsches unless they're rebodied with a Beetle shell. Steelies (albeit super deep dish) and dog dishes rather than mags, plain paint and keep all your power adders under the hood.

Thanks Karl.

72 works for me but are we going to police things like wheels and engines or say as long as the base car is pre '73 it's OK? I do like the idea of Whacky Races as well as Junkers/Rat Rods/Basket Cases (Basketball?) And how about Zombie/Post Apocalyptic/Death Race 2000 Cannonball, Demolition Derby Cannonball (no weapons but rams, spikes and roo bars allowed), Vannonball, Wagonball, Fourdoorball or Dodgeball? 2015 is also the 60th anniversary of the small block chevy. Anything goes as long as its powered by an SBC?

Unless they've changed them the wheels are too small. Any paint masks in this one? The deluxe kit mentions them on the box but they never got round to producing them so they were not inside. The decals don't quite fit and if you use them you'll have to touch in the gaps. Gunze Sangyo Mr Color acrylic Orange mixed with Light Gull Grey gave me a perfect match.

Thanks mate. I just painted the inside of the body and the engine bay red.

I love this time of year. Summers nearly here and I can paint again.

Brake fluid leaches the plasticisers out of the styrene. This is what causes embrittlement. How brittle seems to depend on the kit rather than the brake fluid but I haven't made an in depth study of the subject. If you put resin parts into brake fluid they will turn into jelly. If you put vinyl tyres into brake fluid they will to hard and shrink. Solid ones will split. This shrinking can be useful if you need smaller tyres but it's a slow process (weeks) and you have to keep taking them out to check if they are small enough yet.

She'll be right. After all, I got a whole month left. All the hard work is done - the scratch building & modifying to fit the Firebird chassis & interior tub. Now I just got to paint it all. Body got white pearl on it today so i'm moving along.

you know me. Do nothing all year and then in the last month panic. Those wheels are growing on me (like a fungal infection...). On the Firebird they are nasty but they might work on a Skyhawk. I need to look into some larger rear tyres though. i had to do more to the body on this than I expected. I've built in the complete Firebird engine bay and scratchbuilt lips around the tailgate. I've stretched the interior and have started on the engine having gathered all the tuning parts I need - i've got the twin blower set up from the Revell Pro Street 'vette which will fit nicely onto the Poncho donk and should be low profile enough to avoid having to cut the bonnet. Paint will be pearl white with red racing stripes and a red interior. I'm also feeling the urge to knock up some big knarly 70's style side pipes. No roll cage though. Don't know why so many entrants are bothering. I'm not planning to roll it...

Good work folks. I've finally done something. Body is ready for paint. Here's a mock up.

Here you go. AMT Parts Pack T Bucket on AMT Parts Pack "Hot Rod" Chassis. Both from the releases of 5ish years ago when they were in full sized boxes with Allison engines and other stuff. Engine is (I think) a Revell Parts Pack Caddy. From memory the body did not fit the chassis very easilly and cutting was needed. I modified it anyway reducing the "tubs" to give more room for a seat.

Use the camshafts as spreader bars between the frame horns of hot rods.

When will we see a new tool AMT kit? When they get round 2 it...

No it's not. The roof is too tall in comparison with the height of the body from sills to top of doors. They got it right with the soft tops but not the 2+2s.

Just checking in. I may have dobbed some filler on the Skyhawk body but I haven't sanded it yet. You're all doing very well. Fred

1? Robin appears to be texting. These'll be pirated and copies will be on evil-bay pretty soon.

Kit form services in the UK does a set of resin truck drivers/passengers. http://www.kitformservices.com/tq.html

Interesting. And not too hard to scratchbuild...

Now, what about a quad cam engine he asks innocently pretending he doesn't already know the answer...

No, it's tinted chrome. See here for how to remove the tint. http://ozautobuilders.forum-motion.com/t4909-removing-gold-chrome Metho is methylated spirits.

I built this using parts from the AMT USA1 Monster truck. It still has most of the stock pickup parts in the box. You'll need to find a chassis though - I used a Ford one...

The other engine is from an early Skyline.

The cammer in the AMT 33 Willys kits has a chunk missing from the top of the gearbox. For some reason AMT chose to do this so it cleared the firewall/trannie tunnel rather than mould the tunnel higher. There is also a cammer in the IMC/Union/Testors '48 Ford convertible. It's made undersized as it has to fit into the space normally occupied by a flathead V8. Cammers can also be found in the AMT/Model King King's Comet Mercury Cyclone Funny Car and Kenz & Leslie Cougar Funny Car. This is the AMT '66 Galaxy cammer stuffed into a Batmobile.