Double Survivor Resto/Rescue: Two AMT Annual '66 Mustang Fastbacks

[Snake45]

On 7/16/2020 at 7:06 PM, Pete L. said:

Super saves, both of them...I'm on kind of a Mustang kick myself right now, I hope to get underway soon.

 

Thanks! Can't wait to see your work! Drive on! 

On 7/17/2020 at 10:12 AM, ATHU said:

They both look great, excellent work!!

Thanks so much! 

On 7/17/2020 at 8:02 PM, RAMBENNA said:

nice saves , they look great

Thanks for your kind words! 

On 7/16/2020 at 6:32 PM, Faust said:

That's some good work, man!

I love that these old things, so long forgotten, get to see the light of day again. 

I have no history with those particular kits, but I always have a soft spot for "toys" that get neglected, and then get a chance to shine again. 

Clearly, when you get them, shine they do! 

See, for me, modelling is often about making the old things shine by building them with my newest skills. I love to build the dogs no one else will build, just to show it can be done. What you do is the other side of that coin, and show that even something old, built old, is worth saving and displaying. 

You're a keeper of a styrene time machine, my friend!

Keep it up, man! Someone's got to keep the past alive!

 

Thanks so much! You really get me! 

But I also get what you do. I like that kind of thing too. Someday soon I'm hoping to build a series of about a dozen old Aurora, Hawk, Lindberg, and Revell airplane kits as gear-up "desk models" and display them all together. I really need to get on with that. One of the first will be the ancient Aurora P-51H. 

[Faust]

Oooh... I like where that desk model thing is going... I like that a lot. 

That's some good work in the making, my man!  I will look forward to that one! 

[ChrisBcritter]

Both very nice saves, Snake - and I can commiserate on the way the paint jobs photograph; I have a '60 Corvair whose metallic paint job looks good to the naked eye but looks very thin in pictures. I didn't prime before I painted, and have a sneaking suspicion your Mustang wasn't primed either, right?