Ace-Garageguy

Yeah, I got lucky. But I need to get on the stick pulling molds. I don't know how it survived so nice for so long; I can almost hear it warp and shrink as it sits on my desk.

Pretty cool, but I'd still have to go with Tony Stark's setup...though I believe I'd need to lobotomize Gwyneth.

One of my all-time favorite truck designs, the White 3000...

Bottom line on this kit...and I've built several including the very first release when I was young and the Nomad version...as with older kits in general, it'll make a beautiful model with applied thought and skill. But if you just want something to gloo together with minimal effort, this isn't the ideal candidate.

Compare previous box-art re: Scalemates. Pretty obvious what kit this is. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/atlantis-h1371-57-chevy--1402839

But they had some redeeming aesthetic value...

Yup.

Very nice indeed. Thing that really stands out to me is how perfect the gloss is for "scale effect". Many otherwise good models have visible orange peel, and others look dipped in syrup. This one captures an absolutely believable surface gloss.

Not entirely. It may be

The answer is 47.332.

You guys are killing me. Based on this thread, I just chased down vintage Monogram GTX and GTP Mustangs, fairly cheap. I had a built GTP to restore, but didn't know the GTX existed. Ford Aerospace had significant involvement with the GTP composite chassis and body development and construction. My, how times have changed.

Lots to like on this one.

What was the question?

Atlantis is just squirting out kits from old molds they bought; some of them have been around for roughly 60 years. And I'm still trying to understand how this thread belongs in "questions and answers".

Beautiful truck, sir. Great color choices, scheme design, precise masking, and your realistic shop setting is always impressive.

Yes, beautiful. One of my favorite racing Ferraris.

Great...but how is this a question or answer? Maybe more appropriate in "industry news" or "what I got today"...

That stuff looks great, and apparently it's plenty durable for handling during assembly if gloves are worn. Assembling "chromed" parts on a car model shouldn't take anywhere near as much pressure as snapping the parts together in the video. Thanks

Might be just the thing (depending on how well it self-levels) for 3D-printed parts with unwanted surface texture or lines, or other parts that are very difficult to sand smooth.

There are probably dozens, if not hundreds of "chrome" treatments for plastic on YT. The most worthwhile are by people who have no affiliation with the products, and who actually make stuff.

That's the idea. All the stuff I love that I was too busy doing "important " stuff to get to earlier. I've kinda redefined what "important" is though. Sure wish I'd known back then what I know now. (EDIT: I did, actually. I just wasn't paying attention to what I knew was true.) But I have enough "dreams" to keep me going another hundred years. Long as I get to spend my remaining time working on them, even if it's not much time, that'll be OK.

I slipped the leash and went for about a 4 mile hike after lunch. It's hard to get away from the urban sprawl, traffic, and constant background droning in this county anymore. When I came here decades ago to escape all of that in Atlanta, it was mostly rural, clean, and traffic-free. Farms. The county cops drove pickups. Now there's trash everywhere and rush-hour lasts from 06:00 until 19:00. Ticky-tacky McMansions and malls and car dealers and parking lots and 4-lane roads to nowhere are where rolling green fields used to be. And wherever you go, there's no quiet. Except for the very middle of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield National Park. It's still just possible to get far enough away from developments and roads to find a little peace, to hear to the bees humming, the small stream playing over rocks, and not be bombarded with mindless urban idiot noise. Yes, you still hear the odd airplane fly over, but I've always liked that anyway. It was a perfect afternoon, low humidity and an occasional breeze to ruffle the treetops. Wildflowers are beginning to bloom, the air smelled fresh and new, and wild roses seemed to be around every turn of the trail. I must have heard 20 kinds of birds, watched a woodpecker hammering a dead trunk looking for bugs, and spent a few minutes waiting for a 4 foot black snake to cross the path. I felt like a little kid walking in the woods, not hurried, interested in everything, reborn. It's times like this that keep me going.

I kinda have a thing for the '50s cars that I remember being around when I was a kid. I've picked up several early AMT kits and rebuilders, and filled in some of the holes with diecasts, but there are still just a lot of cars that were never offered, or are way more expensive than what I'll pay. I usually stay away from early promos, as the deterioration and shrinking of the acetate plastic they're made from is universally pretty bad by now. So I was surprised to come across this genuine AMT '57 Buick Roadmaster 2-door promo in pretty decent condition. The little car is shrunk and warped less than anything I've seen in years, has zero rust on the stamped metal chassis, looks to never been been played with, and the friction motor works just like new. It's a real time-capsule find Yes, it's acetate, and it's going to keep on shrinking and warping, but if I pull molds from it SOON, at least I've got something to start with, and the bumpers, porthole inserts, and quarter cladding are made from a non-shrinking plastic.

I'm real late to this party, but it sure is nice to see an oldie reverse-engineered and brought back. It's probably a better business case doing an expensive kit, like this, that's most likely going to appeal to adults, but there's still a buncha graybeards out there who'd happily pay to get reverse-engineered repops of unobtanium kits from their yoot. Fewer every day though...