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I'm also without courage to start my Academy Minicraft Titanic. I have the Revell 1/570 kit that came with an 1/1200 kit also included in the box. This one is also unbuilt. Back in 1994, or so, I built one 1/570 Revell kit, and remember having trouble with the fit of some parts, the two halves of the main hull in special. Anyway, I bought a second Revell to modify and build like a Olympic replica, but the Olympic from before April of 1912, with the standard amount of lifeboats, because after the Titanic, the Old Faithful was given a bunch of lifeboats more, just like they did to the Brittanic. This is my old build Titanic:

The custom edsel:

You kids are going to get tetanus!!!!

I wish I weren't so lazy on adding extra detail. It's a pain to add spark plug wires and fuel lines, because once the parts are painted, I kind of get an urge to see how the finished thing will look like...

Thanks Niko!! The kit quality is good, with no fit problems, almost any flash, and great detail, but, and that's a really big but, if you compare it with the actual car, you will notice the front bumpers are too wide (in the vertical), the engine is a little too small, the rear end is too thin, and the body looks sectioned between the front and rear wheel wels. This is only noticeable if you compare the model with the actual car, and it still represents the car very well. Thanks a lot Mike!!

Thanks John!! Yours is looking nice, the prepaint kit is good, I built one, and with some foil it really pops. The major flaw I see with the prepaints, is that you almost have to be lucky on buying one, as the paint's quality is not even. Some models look great, and some have big noticeable paint flaws. Mine came with a big dust particle on the roof, and I almost buffed the apint trough to remove it.

Time to build it!! I just recomend you get aftermarket tires for it, if you are going to buildit stock, because the BFGs that come with the kit are not the best. In my case, I took the stock tires from a Revell '55 Chevy kit.

I'm with the "not so bad" crew. Looks nice from here.

The interior:

I'll have to take a fewshots of the custom Edsel, as I just noticed I have none on my hard drive. Here goes the "rust bucket" Edsel, that's a little sad looking but runs fine, after all, it's a Ford product

This one is a AMT '58 Edsel Pacer painted in the factory colors of Frost White and Horizon Blue. I wanted something different from the traditional red, black, red and black, or red and white combos. Even tough I love the red and black two tone combination, everybody would think the model is one of that AMT prapainted Edsel kits. I built two Edsels at the same time, one as it was when new, thats this one, and other to represent a car left in a field for some (long) time. A short time after this ona was done, I was given another Edsel kit, and I also built it, but this time as an early 60's custom. Anyway, here goes the Blue/white factory stock Edsel: Any imput is welcome!! Thanks for looking.

Thanks for the feedback!! I have some experience with Galaxies, and I drive one daily, it's a Brazilian made '74 four door sedan, but it's just like the U.S. built '66, in fact there are some '66 Imports here, and I'm glad to say I do service a very nice and unrestored original '66 500 XL convertible, so, I can say I know the car in detail. The only thing I didn't do right with this model was the underside, that in the real car, left the factory in brown primer with some areas of black undercoating, and the eventual body color overspray. That side trim, is white contact paper, that I carefuly cut and placed on the body. To make it more resistent I clear coated the body after having some trouble with the contact paper geting deformed every time I cleaned the model.

I liked your idea on the chrome nameplate. I tried a variation on the theme: Before aplying the color to the body, and after the primer coat, I did what you did: BMF the trim. When the paint was dry, I polished it untill the chrome shows trough. The result was good enough to recomend the method.

My '57 Bel Air: All box stock, and also factory stock:))

I loved it John. Any chances of seing some more pictures?

I liked the V16 Cadillac a lot!!

Thanks Mike!!! And also thanks for showing me this forum!!

A couple more from the botton:

I built this one box stock. It was hard to resist adding more detail to it, but I wanted to see how it would look like just with what was inside the box, plus paint, and foil. I have more of those kits and plan on building another with lots of extra detail, just don't know when just yet. The only thing I did add was one piece of stainles tubing to each exhaust tip. The paint is Tamiya TS-14 black, from the mini spray can. The interior was painted with tamiya Italian red and Testors flat black. The frame was painted with Testors flat black, the floor pans with red-ish brown primer, and some eventual black undercoating was simulated with Tamiya X-1 acrylic black. Gas tank and engine were painted with testors acrylics. Hope you like it Thanks for looking!!

Looks very "period correct" in my oppinion. Any fit issues?

Thanks for the feedback!!! I'll be posting some more soon.

I would love to know why my profile picture is wrong...

Hi to you all, My name is Túlio, and I'm new to this forum. I'm from Brazil, city of Florianópolis, that's in the Southern portion of the country. I'm into building 1/25, 1/24, and a eventual 1/12 model. The cars I like the most to build are Fords and Chevys made between 1920 and 1980. Like my username says, my all time favorite cars are Ford Galaxies, in special the 1966 model for U.S. built cars, because our Brazilian made Galaxie was nothing more nothing less than the old '66, built here from late '66 to early 1983!! (with modifications, of course). So, it's natural for me to build Galaxies, and in this first post I would like to show a '66 7 Litre from AMT I built some time ago. The color is Emberglow, a Ford factory color, and the car is factory stock. Here are some pictures: Hope you like, and please, tell me what you think.