1969 Mustang Snake FU'd

[madhorseman]

Snake FU'd Crown Premium Boss 302

Edited March 15, 2020 by madhorseman

[Snake45]

Looks good! Tell us what you did to it. 

[Gramps46]

Well done.  I remember this running in the Trans Am back in 1969.

[madhorseman]

3 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Looks good! Tell us what you did to it. 

Well Snake,

removed some tampo printed numbers and renumbered with a Fred Cady sheet, added a combination of Slixx and old kit contingency decals. Painted the headlight buckets and continued the white stripping ( and not very well..shaky hands) around the same area. Dechromed the wheels and repainted them. Removed the rear plate that read 1969, and it also had a gas cap on the rear panel.

You know the tampo was surprisingly hard to remove from was the tires?

Edited March 16, 2020 by madhorseman

[vamach1]

I have not seen this paint scheme for sale before as a 1/24 diecast but I saw there are a few on Ebay.  It's a tough paint scheme to do in plastic and there isn't a racing version anyway which makes it doubly difficult to replicate.  I assume you removed a few of the "sponsor" decals or maybe removed them and started over wtih Fred Cady decals.  I was still typing but you just verified my suspicions.  Well done.

Edited March 16, 2020 by vamach1

[randyc]

Looks good.  Those Mustangs were really cool.

[Snake45]

11 hours ago, madhorseman said:

Well Snake,

removed some tampo printed numbers and renumbered with a Fred Cady sheet, added a combination of Slixx and old kit contingency decals. Painted the headlight buckets and continued the white stripping ( and not very well..shaky hands) around the same area. Dechromed the wheels and repainted them. Removed the rear plate that read 1969, and it also had a gas cap on the rear panel.

You know the tampo was surprisingly hard to remove from was the tires?

Thanks for the details, much appreciated. 

I think I might have the same basic model, but mine's blue with spurious Federated race markings and Torq-Thrust type wheels. IIRC, I measured it once and it's 1/25. I'm thinking of doing something with it, as the front end looks MUCH better than the Revell kit, even the new revised one. Thinking of removing all the tampo, and then putting the Boss decals from the Revell kit on it. 

I just took the Federated tampo off a '64 GTO, what a nasty, nasty job THAT was! I had hours in it. The nail polish remover (thanks again for that tip, BTW!) would break the stuff down but then just smear it around, not really remove all of it. I discovered that if you hit it immediately after that with rubbing alcohol, that would take the smears off fairly easily.  The GTO is silver, too, which didn't help much. I'm hoping it will be easier on the blue, and I think the blue paint can be polished, worse comes to worst. 

[vamach1]

More expensive than toilet paper.   About $100 with tax and shipping.  Nice job on the white on the roof too.

Edited March 16, 2020 by vamach1

[Snake45]

Here's mine, for $17 plus shipping. Such a deal! 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ertl-Federated-Auto-Parts-1969-Ford-Mustang-Boss-302-1-24-Scale-New/273615542554?hash=item3fb4c1d91a:g:yIYAAOSw8R9cGDoJ

[madhorseman]

46 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Here's mine, for $17 plus shipping. Such a deal! 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ertl-Federated-Auto-Parts-1969-Ford-Mustang-Boss-302-1-24-Scale-New/273615542554?hash=item3fb4c1d91a:g:yIYAAOSw8R9cGDoJ

Hey Snake,

I bought one of those as well, Ebay seller took my best offer of 10.00.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/130937-hey-snake-heres-what/?tab=comments#comment-1902004

The biggest difference between the 2 is the Crown Premiums version has opening hood, doors, and trunk.

Edited March 16, 2020 by madhorseman

[vamach1]

I do not have the blue #2 version but I have this other yellow one and I used parts from yet another one for the interior of this Monogram 70 Boss which I started a very long time ago with the Boss 429 kit becasue the 70 Boss 302 kit was not even out yet.  Needless to say I assume the diecast interior should fit the 69 kit but I have not test fit one yet.  This 70 T/A is probaby my oldest unfinished in progress build as I did not want to cut any corners making it accurate as possible.

[madhorseman]

1 hour ago, vamach1 said:

I do not have the blue #2 version but I have this other yellow one and I used parts from yet another one for the interior of this Monogram 70 Boss which I started a very long time ago with the Boss 429 kit becasue the 70 Boss 302 kit was not even out yet.  Needless to say I assume the diecast interior should fit the 69 kit but I have not test fit one yet.  This 70 T/A is probaby my oldest unfinished in progress build as I did not want to cut any corners making it accurate as possible.

COOL!

I'm starting on the same project, but there are others that I'm wanting to work on ahead of it so not sure why I did that.

Nice start on Yours Rex.

Edited March 16, 2020 by madhorseman