Ace-Garageguy

Bingo. The only way you'll learn exactly what works for you is to do it. You can, however, get some highly relevant experience by primering smallish soda bottles, and painting them as you intend to do a model. When you're satisfied with the finish, paint your model exactly the same way.

It's a real shame Tim Boyd got dumped on for trying to be helpful to the forum, but it's hardly unusual behavior here. It's also a real shame that people blame those who point out shortcomings in a kit as the bad guys, rather than those who actually have the responsibility for avoiding said shortcomings in the first place. It is their JOB, after all, for which they're PAID. Personally, I rather like the "chopped" look of the little Nova gasser, and whatever the discrepancy between the model's dimensions and stock reality, it sure as hell won't stop me buying a couple. Confused yet?

Yeah, there's not much that's cooler than a little mild-custom shoebox with a Y-block sporting three twos. Those rounded hood corners, frenched headlight tunnels, rounded rear wheel cutouts, and custom grille opening are pretty slick. Wonder where she is now?

Add mine too. It doesn't take "thousands of dollars to fix a problem to sell a few more kits when the majority is happy with the product". All it takes is to get the measuring right BEFORE the tooling is cut. It's called "professionalism", AKA "competence".

Nice old car. My father had one as a company car when I was a little kid, and not too long back, I found a junkyard in Az. with several solid examples. 4-doors make useful daily drivers too.

I've found that using a dull butter knife and a tree-size bow saw for model work really raises the degree of difficulty to where the feeling of accomplishment as I "build for myself" is unsurpassed. Likewise applying paint with a roller, or better yet a dirty pinecone.

Glue-bombs, throwaways, trash...it's all just source material. Personally, I enjoy making something out of what some chimp has destroyed or given up on. Case in point: Still a WIP, but she's coming along nicely...(and I most likely wouldn't have built a radical custom from a pristine kit).

if you happen to live near any kind of decent hardware store, you can get 3 feet of 1/16" steel welding rod for about a buck. Cuts easily with dykes. Permanent replacement.

Why would you think that abject stupidity, ignorance, and incompetence are purely American problems?

I have a couple, but I'd like to have 'em all. The Exner-esque styling, though outlandish, has always appealed to me.

Yup.

Yeah, but today throwing the rock is probably the wise choice...

I know only too well. And lest I forget momentarily, I need only listen to mainstream media for 5 minutes, or look at a few social media posts...when I can stomach it...to be reminded unequivocally.

...for a Revell model made in the 1960s and never repopped.

...and where they were when they offloaded same 6 hours later.

Interesting, however, is that all the "confused" response almost universally demonstrates is that the person using it can't read and comprehend simple English.

Oh, the humanity !!!

My parents taught me when I was about 3... But then they weren't selfie-obsessed politically-correct know-nothings who spent every waking moment online, rebleating the mindless virtue-signal du jour on social media, or ordering useless Chinese-made stuff they don't need, or food delivery because they can't cook either...all the while ranting that successful people should be penalized for earning their own wealth.

Especially the unearned just-for-showing-up kind.

To paraphrase John Wayne: numbers are hard; they're even harder if you're stupid.

With a little measuring and simple arithmetic, you can scale quite accurately from the light blue side shot posted above. Assume 15" wheels and go from there. Easy.

Non of mine run at the moment... Great old car, by the way. I'm genuinely envious.

Yup. There's lotza "obsolete" NOS electronics available to keep most anything running indefinitely...unless one has the throw-it-away mentality, and has to have the latest BS-hyped-and-gots-all-the-useless-bells-and-whistles Chinese-made version. I bought a couple 4.1 megapixel Nikons @ about $15 each for my model and real-car build records, and they're perfectly adequate for that. I bought a sweet-sounding 1990's vintage stereo amp as a backup for one I bought back then that's still going strong, and sounds better than units costing ten times as much. A pair of NIB chargers for my old flip-phone for $5 each, CB radios, long-range walkie-talkie pairs, etc. etc. etc. Cheap, functional tech that does the job.

That's the way I look at it. A gallon of gas could be had in 1971 for $.35 (that's 35 cents for the math-impaired). Or a beer. In a bar. Whatza gallon of gas today? $2.80- $3.50. Somewhere around ten times as much. Howza bout a beer in a bar? Maybe $3.50 for the average stuff most people drink? Again about ten times as much. So...if your earning power has kept pace with inflation, you're really not paying any more for anything (as in: if you were making $100 per week in '71 and make $1000 now).

Or forgive...