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Great work! I love me some Danica cars. Looks real!

This is the coolest thing I've seen all year!

This is the usual AMT kit, I had this sitting around for a long while before putting it together. A decent kit but the wheels and tires didn't fit well; if I had to do it over again I'd pick up some AMT redlines and use those. There's almost no BMF on this car; nearly every bit of the brightwork was done with Molotow Chrome markers. I'm sold on those forever, so much easier than BMF.

Here’s Ernie Irvin’s Wildberry Skittles Pontiac. JWTBM decals and kraft paint from Lowe’s were used. These decals were incredible.

Here’s an oldie off my bench, I built this about 20 years ago. It’s Geoff Bodine’s QVC Gold Rush car, run one time at Michigan in 1997. This is the only time I’ve ever seen a Tbird with headlight decals. Slixx decals and automotive touchup paint were used.

Built box stock. Color is close to GM Frost Blue.

I'm pretty sure I used MCW Saturn Yellow. Any really bright yellow will work, Tamiya has one that would work well.

One of the first models I built when I got back into the hobby as an adult. A Stage 2 Buick GSX was faster than a Plymouth Hemi Roadrunner at the time, probably making it the fastest muscle car of the era.

It's even more direct than that: in the show they raised the Yamato from the ocean and fixed her up to be the starship.

From the old Star Blazers show. 1:1000 scale. My first sci-fi model in 30+ years, a good friend gave me this kit.

Thanks for the compliment! The rear window is still a mess, so I took the picture so you can't see it, LOL.

Not a problem, we're all here to show off our stuff and to improve our skills.

Hi Steve, Thanks for the feedback, it's very much appreciated. And I agree, the seams are too close together, it's something I noticed was an issue only after the model was completed. I'll make sure to make the seams further apart on any future builds.

I bought this as a glue bomb off eBay. It wasn't in great shape, and in some places I couldn't completely save it, but I did strip it down, rebuild and repaint it as best I could. To me this is the best looking of the big Pontiacs of the era.

This is Casey Atwood’s Busch Series Castrol ride, 1999 or so. He won 2 races in this car in the Busch series for Brewco. Atwood was supposed to be the next great young driver but his career never really took off. Slixx decals over Tamiya paint

Sometimes models can relate to family. This is a ‘66 Chevy Impala kit; my parents owned this car in this exact color scheme when I was very young. I even made up license plates for the model to match the ones on the real car (RI plates PX429). My very earliest memories include this car. Willow green over a dark green interior. Paints were from MCW.

I built this one in the box cover color of Evening Orchid metallic. This is a great kit, although I somehow got some glue on the windows like a fool. But I love the lines and the color.

Thanks, I think the GM color I was aiming for is called Kensington Green.

Probably the most advanced kit Revell/Monogram had ever made at the time it was released. Tamiya Green Pearl on this one.

Honestly, they may not have. I know at one point this era of Cutlass offered the color, but I may well have used the color on the incorrect year. But I loved the color so much when I saw pictures of it that I decided to use it on this kit anyway. This kit is probably my absolute high point as a builder in terms of getting a finished product close to the image I had of it in my brain pre-build. I built it box stock because I wanted to see what I could do with just making it look as good as possible with basic techniques.

My first Hemi! Testors Plum Crazy lacquer spray paint

Thanks, Geno, don't encourage me, I got a bunch of pics.... More incoming