Shunter

This should be good, body looks great.

I do like the older kits, they make you work for a decent finish. Nice start keep it up..

Great job so far, feeling your pain with the issues..

That is a rare build....looks great.

That looks excellent...great start.

I love the Thunderbirds....Very cool with the Little Caesars

Very nice work....Love the OLDs

Nice work SF...

Very cool collection....

Beautiful looking build....nice!

Nice work on what i think is not an easy paint job, i am yet to build this one due to that. Great job.

Sweet build i love the Monte's and i am also a BIG Ernie fan.

Thanks so very much gents..

So I managed to finally get my hands on the decal sheet to do this car, it would almost be one of my Holy Grail cars and so I am slowly working on it. Paint is Tamiya TS-15 for the body, the inside is AS-20 Insignia white. I filled the front air intake on the left light, along with blending the nose clip and rwar clip with the main body section. I have had a few issues with dust, orange peel etc and then I rubbed it back and got a good covering of 2K and so far I am happy with it all. It is nice to make progress with a model and I have now decaled this beast. The decals are by Race Scale and went down really well, I used a little Micro Sol & Set to help here and there but for their age they were fantastic. I have washed the body with some warm water and detergent and then polished with a soft dry cloth, I think I might leave it like this rather than a gloss topcoat. I will get to doing a chassis for this one soon, I want to keep painting some bodies while we have gorgeous weather here

Great effort for the time frame, well done.

Nice start...

Love this car, very cool and great build.

Looks good, they are not the best of kits so you have done well to make it look soooo good. Well done.

Do not forget the car was fluro...

Looks great...Love a Petty ride.

Thanks Art, i appreciate it and coming from a top modeller like yourself.

Great start, not a fan of the AMT Nascars mainly due to scale. This is coming along well and i was a big fan of AK's.

Appreciate it...thank you. It might help with me trying to make the nose grill section i am still to do.

Thank you all for the comments, i am envious of those who were at the first tests.....would anyone have more pics of the car? It is too late now but i am curious about the roof number etc... Cheers Shayne

Well I am going to call this finished bar one thing, the grill facia is still to be done which I will work on shortly. I have ended up happy with the overall build, it was meant to be an out of box which it is almost but due to issues with the 2K etc this has been around for a LONG time. Paint was Tamiya TS-14, Testors Competition Orange and 2K prior to decals going on. I like the look of the car as it is simple and without all the contingency decals has a clean finish.