Tye Brown Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Can anyone help ID this decals heet please man? Any pix of the box art or model would be kool
AC Norton Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Tye, that sheet is from the original MPC 73 corvette convertible.......but the nice part is that it will give you that 70s era wild paint job look for any 68-73 mpc or amt vette...even the 70 coupe or 72 conv. by amt ertl from the 90s....fits them all....the ace.... Edited September 22, 2016 by AC Norton
Tye Brown Posted January 28, 2015 Author Posted January 28, 2015 Hey Ace Thanks man, I knew you would know Now the search begins dude lol
AC Norton Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 Tye, that should be a fairly easy search....the amt ertl 70 corvette from the early 90s is a very nice kit, and a big block will drop in easily, if that's your idea. even the vintage originals by mpc vettes sometimes sell on ebay quite cheap,,,compared to 10 years back. you will most likely get something easily, and your photo is the billy gooche repro. I may even have an original sheet around, if you need it...just a thought....the ace....
Tye Brown Posted January 29, 2015 Author Posted January 29, 2015 Cool man, thx ACE!!!!! Is this the one dude? And do you have a pix man of the model or do you just have the decals? Yes they a from Gooche man & very very nice too I must say
AC Norton Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Tye, I have a partial sheet that I have had for years.....never built a vette with this, but a friend did back 40 years ago,and everything fit the body well, and it looked neat...maybe a chrome yellow, or pearl white.....will look great on a nice paint job. the pic you show of that blue vette kit is great for this build...decals fit that as they were on the original,,,,but wait, it gets better....the 72 vette conv. kit that was out at the same time as the blue one...its red on the box.....it has one of those neat clip on style factory hardtops, so that is another possible use for those decals......the ace...........
Mark Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 It's surprising how close all of the Corvette kits (MPC and AMT annuals, AMT/Ertl and recent Revell kits) are in terms of parts and decal fit. Nothing is an exact fit from one to another, but it's surprising how close they all are when you realize they were done by competing companies, with half of them done thirty years after the others. The AMT annual kits start going off the rails after '72 (MPC was doing the promotional models, leaving AMT on the outside looking in) but other than that, they're all pretty close to one another.
Tye Brown Posted January 30, 2015 Author Posted January 30, 2015 Hey ACE Groovy man I have one coming I got the red version one man, looks right on dude Ace, here's another one for ya man if ya can shed some light on this sheet man you are truly god worthy man hahaha
AC Norton Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) ............that's the sheet for a AMT 69 Camaro ss kit no. Y913 original 1969 annual.....owned and built a couple of those about a million years ago.....one of my all time favorites,,,,,keep 'em coming, Tye, we can play NAME THAT SHEET.........the Ace......... Edited January 30, 2015 by AC Norton
Tye Brown Posted January 31, 2015 Author Posted January 31, 2015 Hahah cool man hey thanks heaps man I think they will work on the latest AMT 68 Camaro as well man Hey ACE are ya on freakbook man? Cheers
AC Norton Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 no, I am not....this forum is about the only computer site I use, other than for buying on ebay......never really saw the need,,,the ace....
Snake45 Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 Hahah cool man hey thanks heaps man I think they will work on the latest AMT 68 Camaro as well man Well, they'd "work" but '69 hockey stick stripes would look very weird on a '67-'68. IMHO of course.
Snake45 Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 It's surprising how close all of the Corvette kits (MPC and AMT annuals, AMT/Ertl and recent Revell kits) are in terms of parts and decal fit. Nothing is an exact fit from one to another, but it's surprising how close they all are when you realize they were done by competing companies, with half of them done thirty years after the others. The AMT annual kits start going off the rails after '72 (MPC was doing the promotional models, leaving AMT on the outside looking in) but other than that, they're all pretty close to one another. I dunno, I bought an eBay "Corvette Junkyard" a couple years ago that turned out to have a bare AMT '73 body in it. It didn't look too bad to me so a few weeks ago I scored a mint unbuilt AMT '75 roadster to use for an organ donor (hood, front bumper, etc.). Everything seems to fit and I think the finished model will look pretty darn good on my shelf.
Mark Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 The '73 'Vettes still had the metal rear bumpers, so that body isn't altered all that much from the earlier annual kits. The later ones kind of drift away in terms of accuracy, much like AMT's second-generation Camaro annual kits from '74 on...
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