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Tim Flock kit has corrected decals

Doesn't matter where the kit was bought- just send us a Self addressed Stamped envelope - we'll send decals back to you in your envelope..

Dave

Edited by Dave Metzner
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I didn't have any trouble with the body (Krylon primer & paint) but the smaller parts which I paint with acrylics have been reluctant to accept paint (the gold on the engine was particularly bad about this).

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I didn't have any trouble with the body (Krylon primer & paint) but the smaller parts which I paint with acrylics have been reluctant to accept paint (the gold on the engine was particularly bad about this).

had that happen with the firewall , im at the point of soaking it in acetone.

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FYI- Moebius has fixed the mold issue- so the mold lines on the body won't be as prominent. B)

And Dave posted elsewhere on availability of corrected decals. Buying a couple more of these kits tomorrow!

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had that happen with the firewall , im at the point of soaking it in acetone.

Umm, do that my friend and you will remove the plastic as well as the paint. Acetone is a far hotter solvent than laquer thinner, and will easily dissolve the paint and the plastic.

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Umm, do that my friend and you will remove the plastic as well as the paint. Acetone is a far hotter solvent than laquer thinner, and will easily dissolve the paint and the plastic.

nothing happened?

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What happened to the Tim Flock version? Will we ever see it?

Last I heard, it was scheduled for a December release.

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FYI- Moebius has fixed the mold issue- so the mold lines on the body won't be as prominent. B)

And Dave posted elsewhere on availability of corrected decals. Buying a couple more of these kits tomorrow!

I just got done cleaning up and painting a sample of the convertible--and sanding off the mold lines took less that 15-minutes! I also have a sample of the coupe kit that was done pursuant to complaints, and it's the same way. Mold parting lines are a fact of life with injection molded styrene plastic bodies--always have, and always will be--but the bodies I have here now are a testament to the millwrights in the factory--as perfect as perfect gets!

Art

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nothing happened?

Then it could not have been acetone. Acetone should have melted the plastic.

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Those Hudsons had an interesting structure...interesting how the frame rails run on the outside of the rear wheel wells...

Actually, there are two sets of frame rails, one outboard as you see in the pic, an another rail on each side, inboard of that. Those bodies were so stoutly built, as well as being completely unitized, that wrecking yards would pretty much refuse to take them for scrapping--as their early, somewhat more primitive crushing equipment simply could not crush a Step-Down Hudson.

Art

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I just got my first Hudson kit a couple a days ago and when looking eagerly through the box, I found that my chrome is quite dissapointing. It has that AMT from the '70s look to it.

Where the bumpers are pretty much ok, the wheels and some other prominent parts look to have dust or sand underneath the chrome-layer.

Are there more that have had the same problem?

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