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• So much to look at in those photos, great job! *NM*
• Cookies *NM*
  • Oreos! *NM*
    • Snickerdoodles..... (The wife and I just made a batch of them this morning.... YUM!!!) *NM*
      • Never had one of those cookies, don't even know what's in them. *NM*
        • They are a soft chewy buttery cookie, that are rolled in a cinnamon sugar mixture before baking... One of my favorites 😋 *NM* *PIC*
          • I HATE THEM!!!!!!!!!!
            • My Mom had an old family recipe for them too. They are the best!!! A Christmas tradition. Mom baked pink and green ones. *NM*
  • Only cookie I hate is peanut butter. Can't even handle the smell and those are the wife's favorite. *NM*
    • LOL.... My second favorite (just not when my wife makes them... too dry) *NM*
  • I don't do cookies tho' have just made a batch of Mulberry Jam........special dietary food....lol. *NM*
• Off the bench......PICS......
  • Nice build and thanks for the comments on the build. Some nice good leftover parts too! *NM*
  • The interior door panels and front seats are from the lightweight cars not sold to the general public. Those cars did not get arm rests *NM*
  • Nice build!! *NM*
  • David........which kit is your build based on....the orange A990 Super stock kit or the blue 2dr kit?........I've built the A/FX Golden Commando & am undecided which 65 Dodge kit to get.......lol.i *NM*
    • The blue two door sedan. *NM*
    • So has anyone done an actual parts comparison between the Orange & Blue box top 65 Coronets?...TIA. *NM*
      • Didn't Tim Boyd do that? The red car (A990) has a cross-ram Hemi and no rear seat, blue car has a 426 Street Wedge, full exhaust system, rear seat, and street tired. Both have A100 front sears, bare interior panels, and dog dish caps *NM*
• The old custom parts are fun - esp. those that really integrate with the base kit like the T-Birds. Great Job! *NM*
• Does anyone know of a source, kit or resin, for a finned rear end cover? Preferably 12 bolt gm. Thanks *NM*
  • Revell 1972 Hurst Olds 442 Convertible has one that will need some work but its 3/4 finned *NM*
    • At least one of those Olds kits includes two complete rear axles *NM*
      • Yep, the convertible has 2 rear axles & both a finned and standard steel type cover . *NM*
  • R/M 1/24 '57 Vette has one, but may be wildly out of scale - think they were in the thrall of the Dana 60 craze for a while *NM*
    • That's the flip-front '66 Malibu. The 'Vette has one too (how do you put a cover on that particular axle, it doesn't have a separate cover!) *NM*
      • Back in the early 80's there was a kid running around town, with a chromed plastic fake GM 12 bolt cover on his Dart four door. If I remember correctly, he got it through JC Whitney....
        • Yep, people put them on 9" Fords and 8.75" Mopars! *NM*
          • Here in Oz theres a guy doing all sorts of finned covers & fake quickchanges, he supplies a circular drilled & tapped plate thats welded onto the banjo housing then you bolt the finned cover on, not needed with the GM style banjo tho' with either a 10/12 bolt cover. *NM*
• Thank you to Matt & Dawn. My package arrived today. Thank you. *NM*
• Hey Bill Goldbach & Tim Boyd: Revell '68 Dart GTS--Do I have to put the 2 stripes across the back end to be factory, showroom stock? I have a Mopar buddy who says all those graphics were optional. *NM*
  • From what I've read the stripes were no-cost option. *NM*
    • Three choices that year were no stripes, the bumblebee stripes, and narrow stripes that went front to back along the center of the side panels. The bumblebees were most popular, at least from what I recall back in the day. Hope that helps...TIM *NM*
    • Based on my observations, 97% had the bumblebee stripes, 1% had the longitudinal stripes, and 2% had no stripes! *PIC*
      • That’s really quite extraordinary when you think about it, as according to the document the side stripes were standard. One would think that more than a few would have been dealer ordered with the standard stripes. That said, the double bumblebee are my favourite…
        • It would be nice to know what the real numbers were. But it's doubtful if we'll ever really know. But you know, most cars were just built whatever way the factory deemed best (in order to sell fast) so they must have defaulted to the bumblebee style. Went right along with
          • It would be nice to know “the rest of the story”, but I can imagine a situation where the side stripe was made standard before the popularity of the bumble bee stripe was realized, since it was the first year.
  • Re: Hey Bill Goldbach & Tim Boyd: Revell '68 Dart GTS--Do I have to put the 2 stripes across the back end to be factory, showroom stock? I have a Mopar buddy who says all those graphics were optional. *NM* *LINK* *PIC*
    • The above post was for convertible. This one is for the hardtop: *NM* *PIC*
      • From the Scat Pack brochure *NM* *PIC*
  • A big thanks to Rich/NV, Tim, Bill, & Mark C. Exactly what I needed (and more).. *NM*
    • Glad to help! *NM*
• Not a 'funnycar'-- it ran as an Econo Altered.. Here's a link to a Hot Rod story from '87. *LINK*
  • Thanks! *NM*
  • BTW, the website says it was originally posted in 1983? I recall at that time I thought that the V6 would be the performance engine of the future. Other than the Buick GN, it never seemed to really play out that way, though. *NM*
• SOME of t he music.....I heard back when I was in high school...I graduated in 1982!!
• Simply beautiful *NM*
• Looks ready to go from showroom to the farm for some work. Nice. *NM*
• Looks terrific! *NM*
• Excellent ! *NM*
• There is a Jada 1-24 diecast of that '79 Camaro out already. Is the kit that is coming 1-24 or 1-25? *NM*
  • The Camaro is modified from the 45 year old Monogram 1/24 Z-28 *NM*
• While "wagon wheels" on cars is not my thing, the quality of builds and the INCREDIBLE paint jobs are amazing!! Thanks for sharing your pics! *NM*
• I got a similar one that was just a parking lot, no building, thinking it would work as a display for my Hallmark ornament cars, but had a brain fart about the scale and the painted lines for the parking spaces were all too close for those to fit. Doh! It came rolled up in
  • Look for a 1/43 scale mat for the Hallmark cars *NM*
• One of the famous movie cars that have been kitted. You did a good job with that one. Congrats! *NM*
• Its been posted here before...
  • "No word on if the scale versions will rust out like the 1:1 though.🙄🤷" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 *NM*
• More fresh car show photos.... Cordova Dragway is only about 15 miles down the road from Fulton, so after checking out the Kingpins' show, I headed there for Buick, Olds, Pontiac day.... *PICS* *LINK*
  • Thanks Marty! *NM*
• Fresh small town car show photos.... Images from the Kingpins Car Show, in Fulton, Illinois..... *PICS* *LINK*
  • How many car shows have you been to this year? Thank you for sharing all that you do. Lots of inspiration in every one of your posts. *NM*
    • 40 shows so far this year, plus another half dozen tractor shows.... Should make it to another 4 or 5 car shows, weather permitting, before the season ends next month. *NM*
  • Great PICS Thanks Marty!! *NM*
  • I'll 2nd the Thanks for all your postings! I have more ideas for my kits than I know what to do with, but hey, what's a few more? Seriously, it's all good stuff. *NM*
• Frank sent me a few pics of his latest build to share with y'all......... *PICS*
  • Great build Frank! *NM*
  • Thank You Marty... I'm still around but I had a lot on my plate. Still dealing with Bruce's stuff and having peeps stopping by two three times a week, caretaker to another friend that I have been taking to the Dr'z appointment at least twice a week, ****INSIDE****
    • "Sorry but with some luck I'll be back soon"...
    • We miss ya Frank....well...your cool builds at least.😂 *NM*
• That is true and they are great people. Very interesting to talk to. *NM*
• There were several interesting builds. *NM*
• No he wasn't. I don't think I have a picture of the BoS. It was a drag car which I thought was interesting being sponsored by a lowrider mag. *NM*
• There were several that blew me away. *NM*
• Your T-Bird turned out BITCHEN, Steve!...
• Thanks for sharing the PICS! *NM*
  • You are very welcome! *NM*
• Pics from our neighborhood car show yesterday *LINK*
  • Really digging that split bumper Camaro and the '56(?) Coronet! *NM*
  • Two thumbs up Terry!! *NM*
• Where is Frank? Is he OK? *NM*
  • He is fine..Just extremely busy with life things, but still getting much more model building done than most of the rest of us.... As a matter of fact he just sent pics of his latest build, which I will be posting shortly. *NM*
• that's awesome! Put a flat black roof on it and it's an exact copy of the first "Hot Wheels" car I ever owned! Nice work. *NM*
• kit historians...can anyone tell me what became of the AMT 63 Ford Fairlane 500 tooling? *NM*
  • I would assume it was updated to the '64 Fairlane. *NM*
    • 62 and 63 shared a tool. The 64 and 65 shared a new tool. *NM*
• Re: PLASTIC UNDERCOVER 2
• Nice job on both trucks, Ken! It's just not that simple converting brands or trim variations correctly. *NM*
• Very cool. My dad had one just like that. I have lot of good memories of that truck. *NM*
• Yup.... Stutz was one of the featured makes at the Geneva Concours that year.... There were several of them in the show. *NM*
• My little brother got one for Christmas one year and, honestly, I played with more than he did... Eventually wound up in Dad's toy collection.
• It most certainly does... *NM* *PIC*
• Okay. I can understand that. Just happy to see the show getting coverage in a magazine. They've tried for years going back to SAE days and could never manage to get the show covered. Thanks for deciding to (hopefully) give their show some attention. *NM*
• That's great, but it would be great if could also get representatives to submit pics for NNL Milwaukee, NNL North, etc. *NM*
  • You're nominated! *NM*
  • Anything you can do to help, would be appreciated, Marty *NM*
• Thanks, Steve. That's the way I've been doing it. Thought you might be doing something different. *NM*
• Hot! Live (well, yesterday) from the NSRA Nats North in Kalamazoo, Michigan *LINK* *PIC*
  • Way cool stuff. Thanks for taking the time to post, Tim. *NM*
  • Thanks for sharing the PICS Tim! *NM*
  • Thanks Tim! *NM*
  • Thanks Tim, that '39 ('40?) Merc rag top is really nice. Wish we had a kit of a '39/'40 coupe. *NM*
    • It's a '40, I checked! *NM*
    • That Merc also caught my eye Jim. It's my favorite of all the photos. *NM*
      • I have a 1/25 '39 Merc ragtop I bought built. I believe it's resin. It is one of my favorite cars. *NM*
      • Steve Perry joined me for this trip and he too was highly impressed with that '40 Merc....TB *NM*
  • Thanks for the awesome show coverage, Tim! I noticed the same thing at the Davenport NSRA show.... You can definitely pick out what era certain cars were built, by the wheels and paint jobs. Yet at same time, some looks are timeless. *NM*
  • Thanks for the pics and thanks for showing them off the board. I love that pale yellow '55 Chevy. A real beaut. *NM*
  • Not only is that a cool '40 Merc ragtop, there's an Acadian(?) lurking in the background. *NM* *PIC*
  • I agree. Very cool, indeed. *NM*