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Keep the ideas coming fellas. I am soaking them all in. I picked up paint yesterday.and plan to keep moving on this as time allows. And while the desire to do this is hot to trot. Not this weekend though...I am painting the floor pan on a shop customers 1968 charger......if all goes well it turns blue by the end of today. ........

Picked up some paint yesterday...and will be picking up some spoons this weekend I want to get moving on this while the desire is there.

Very well said . I agree 100%

Depends a lot on which car your trying to replicate. In a single season most of the cars /chassis designs were very similar ..if not the same. From about 1970 thru 1972 a lot of changes took place.....especially on the big name cars.

Holy cow that loosk sweet. I love the color , wheels , stance , everything

If your really up for a challenge. try this one

But the chassis designs in the johan kit is all wrong for the MrNorm car Like mentioned .it's right for Gene Snow car. It's pretty close for the Ramchargers 1970 only car,,the 1971 car use the MPC kit And the 1970 dodge fever car is another one pretty close. which I think is 1970 only ( no decals avail that I know of ) I think someone was doing the decals to do the Marv Eldridge car ? Not even close for the . Bob Banning. - The avail decals are for the 72-73 car color me gone .. decals avail are for the 72 car chi town hustler.. -decals are for the 71-72 car, which used the chassis design in the MPC kit, but the Johan body would be more accurate ) FOR THIS CAR or soapy sales cars - decals avail are for the 72-73 car ( Soapy Sales was using a Dave Beebe driven demon bodied car in 70-71 ,aka Pure Hell ) ..for those use the mpc reissue

Looks good. My personal favorite year Impala body styles So, what ever happend to the 1/1 ? My mother inlaw used to have a white with red inter 61 Impala conv. They sold it when my wifes younger sister was born

Ok, picked up some aluminum plate metallizer today as well as some alclad dull aluminum Question, does the alclad require an undercoat like there chrome does . is so,, I am all ears for recomendations I've got a couple test bodies I am going to use as guinea pigs ( only have the one ClubDeMer kit ) ..so may start this this weekend

I forgot about Alclad ,,but that requires an airbrush . If I can get say 90% close with a rattel can, I'll go that route. If I cant acheive my goal that way,,,,,,then airbrush it is . Its just not my first choice With it being a full body handleing it will be a must to assemlbe it,,( its multi piece body ) I may build one with no paint to see how the kit goes together as a test run and get familiar with this things nuances . I really like the finish on your Challenger build. Thats exacly what I would like to have once this is all done

Thanks fellas. To my eye the more pics I see,,the less I see any blue tint . And its got me leaning hard towards just a bare aluminum finish. A brushed finish if I can pull it off . Big question for me ,,, is how to do that. one I dea I had is once the metallizer is dry ,,,,,,lightly drag a scotchbrite pad thru it, then clear top coat it .

Ok short version of the story I want to try to replicate what looks like a brushed aluminum finish . with very, very little gloss if any . I'll call it a satin finish would be pretty close I am somewhat familiar with the Testor sprays. As i've used them for exhaust systems finishes with good results. But I see Buffing and non buffing. Clear tops coats - buffing and then non buffing. Whats the diffrences ? This is the finish I am after. And I am not totally against using an airbrush but would prefer rattle cans if at all possibile

All were one and done,,but I wish they would all come back,,sooner than later MPC 1968 Coronet MPC 1969 Coronet AMT 1965 Coronet MPC 1971 Demon as far as ones that shouldnt have. No idea . I wish they all would get re-issued at some point to expose them to an entirely new audience

Here is the build . If they come above in the original post I'll delete them here. All the exterior decals have been added since this last picture was taken . It is 100% done.

I dont know. And I cant log in to the pictures hosting site server either. Hopefuuly its something server related and all my pictures are still there ,,,,,,,,,

Such a negative nancy I actually laughed out loud at this one ,,my daughter looked at me kind of funny when I did ( more so than she usually does)

I buy it at my local auto body supply store ( KOI here in northern Ky ) Like I said earlier . I no longer use enamel clear,,,,. I build a lot of white cars . And dont want the yellowing issues to happen again like it did here. So I use either Laquer clear ( Testors, Tamiya or Duplicolor or Upol urethane in the tall gold rattle can )

I remember when Ronnie Sox was driving one like this many years ago , and always though it would make a kiiler looking model . I'm tuned in to watch this one come to life

How did I miss this one. The color combo looks amazing. Not that I would have expected anything less from your bench. I gotta ask though A - how did you do the antenna ? B - why 3 heater hoses going into the firewall ? should only be the 2

Here is the best picture I have been able to find of the original car. And in these pic it sure looks like its a brushed aluminum with at least a blueish tint to it . I' 'think ' this is the original car....... Then in some pics I've found it really looks light light blue ....what to do,,,what to do . Was thinking to do it in a silver base with a VERY slight blue tinted clear top coat. Then cear it all . I would love to hear ideas on the best way to do this one. I had also thought about some testors aluminum metallizers and go that with no blue tint And if anyone has done one of these and has any build tips,,I am all ears. Thanks all

Anyone know for sure the color of the original car. I look from time to time and in some pics it looks silver yet others it looks a very light blue I did find out a there was a replica built sometime recently ,,, and its painted in what is being referred to as Cerulean Blue...problem is I dont think the original car was that dark of a blue I have a Club De Mer and a Lincoln Futura on the very near future to do list and I want to do them right.

I have a boat load of builders. But I think the only one I personally started and not finished is going on 15 years give or take . ( mid to late 90s time frame ) Its Slixx decaled Pure Hell Demon funny car Its going to require an airbrush to correct the paint,,and I never could get excited about tackling it,,,maybe someday. Its been sitting in the same spot in a clear case on my desk all this time

Yes. Got everything to build the 59 stock. The silver 60 is really nice and I like the color combo...so I will leave it exactly like it is. And I think I did ok price wise

I just picked up a 59 and a 60 Bonneville convertilbes this week and a 60 Hardtop. so you definitly have my attention as to how this one comes together The color is starting to grow on me ,,I wasnt diggen it at first

Cool beans. I built one of these about a year ago, and really liked it. all except the tri tone interior,,that was tough Mine was Duplicolor paint as well,,,no idea what the name of color though