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One of the biggest issues with Tamiya paint is "in person" availability. The nearest one to me that sell Tamiya is a 2 1/2hour round trip. Tamiya is a pain to get unless you live in the right place. There are multiple places I can get Rustoleum and Testors within 15 minutes of where I live. When I rattle can I use Tamiya. I have a collection of Tamiya can and bottle paints. I know I need to get better with an airbrush but after 40 years I still struggle with thinning properly so most of my work is rattle can. I also use lots of Rustoleum but almost never on a body. Often their colors work well as interior colors with Tamiya painted bodies.

If I put my business hat on, I feel the best bet for sales would be a craftsman plus style (think the Lindberg Crown Vic) Blues Brothers (blues-mobile and Chicago squad car)/early Dukes squad car/"your state here" Squad car. Round2 currently has a Blues Brothers license (not sure if they currently have a Dukes of Hazzard license). I could see a blues-mobile/red pinto wagon two car set (or a blues-mobile/100 Chicago squad car set ). This would sell well to many different groups: Movie people, squad car people, diorama people, general kit builders and the derby car builders. Personally, I would wish for a 70 Fury GT

Nice clean build Nathan! Great color choices and clean detail work.

I was lucky to find a nicely built Survivor years ago.

Not technically on topic but this reminds me of the very unique wheels and tires on an Elvis Stutz at the Graceland Museum. Notice the ribs on the tires! Craig

I have a resin body to build one of these. Is that the JoHan chassis?

Dick Landy! Very cool start!

These are a couple assembled cars from a 1954 3 Car Assembly Kit. I found these cars decades ago with a VERY moldy partial box. Although I was unable to save the box the cars are my oldest built 1:25 scale survivors.

This is an AMT 1955 3 Car Assembly Kit. AMT started doing assembly kits is 1953. They are essentially unassembled promo cars. The kits included paint and tools. My particular kit is missing one of the cars along with the paint and tools. AMT was trying to leverage their promo tooling into kits well before they hit on the magic formula of "3 in 1".

I have a Harts Parts 71 MPC GTX hood. Mine fits well and sits flat on my original issue 71 body after a small amount of sanding. The original issue MPC 71 RR had an air grabber just like the 90's issue 71 RR. The original issue MPC 72 RR had a bird bath style hood similar to the MPC 71 GTX hood.

Very nice Non-R/T Charger!! It really captures the look very well. I like the correct red 318 and the buddy seat in place of the console. The 8 3/4 is correct for a 318 car in 68.

Added bonus, that is an early issue that has the separate chrome taillight bezels. So that is a somewhat uncommon version of a fairly common kit.

Jeff, I just saw this pic posted on the "Scale Survivors" group on Facebook. Monogram 34 Ford molded in the uncommon color teal (similar to the Monogram 40 Ford truck) and built with the custom wheels.

Although I was born in the late 60's I also had a large early morning paper route (actually three routes), and the pay was good. In the late 70's/early 80's nobody wanted the routes. There were times I would do a couple extra routes white the paper company was looking to hire new carriers (the pay for these routes was 2x but it was really tough doing 3 hrs. of routes in the morning). Every penny went to model cars. I would get done with the route and have an hour of modeling before I went to school.

Very nice clean build! Little details like the blue and red wash on the hubcaps really stand out! What method did you use to paint the bottoms of the floor pans? Thanks.

One issue with the modern AMT 67 Mustang chassis is that the front track is too wide. This issue shows in your pictures as your tires are out past the wheel lip. I pulled the spindles in a bunch (look at the relationship between unmodified tie rod end and the moved in location of the ball joint. I also lowered the front ride height to achieve a neutral stance (level).

First off, I have no problem with farming out paint jobs. My first thought would be to attend and possibly joint a local chapter of the IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society). These chapters are essentially individual model clubs. They are open to all model builders (cars/trucks/military/ships/aircraft/space/fantasy) and they typically tend to be more military oriented. Aside from the in-person comradery the chapters often have build sessions and/or training sessions. I would be cautiously optimistic that you could find someone at an IPMS meeting that could either paint your camo jobs or show you how to do it yourself. I belong to two local IPMS chapters and have made many great friends and learned a ton.

The Monogram 34 Ford kits are works of art. Just as good as it gets!

1937 Studebaker coupe express.

I can address your question about any styrene kits for a 71 Chevelle. Both AMT and MPC both issued 1/25 scale styrene 71 Chevelle kits in 1971. The mold for these kits were both modified to produce 72 Chevelle kits in 1972. The AMT and MPC 71 Chevelle kits have not been available since 1971 and are therefore fairly uncommon and valuable when found. The AMT and MPC 72 Chevelle kits have been available off and on, multiple times since 1972 and are therefore fairly common and of reasonable price. If I remember correctly Southern Motorsport Hobbies (SMH) or Vic's Resin offers a resin cast 1/25 scale conversion kit that works with the common 1972 Chevell kits. I hope this helps.

I love adult size sleds from the 50's and 60's. My wife and I have collected a few over the years. In a world full of pickups these cars easily fit wherever I need to get them.

For 8 years in the 2000's I daily drove this 65 Pontiac Star Chief 4drHT (in Iowa) and put 20K on it. Both of my kids learned to drive on it. I only parted it out because of extensive rust (it actually had extensive rust when I started driving it) and the ball joints were starting to make cool noises.

That is a 71 or 72 Buick Electra. I had an all black 72 Electra 4drHT in the 90's.

The story goes that there was a stillborn project at Plymouth in 1969/1970 to build a Superbird version of the 71 Road Runner. It is possible that some of the designs were shared with MPC and it's possible that MPC just did it on its own. The bummer is that these noses are too narrow and generally don't fit well on the Monogram Satellite/GTX kits. The 72 Road Runner also comes with a custom front end that looks a little like the RTS 71 Road Runner (it's the front end shown on the box cover).