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Post by donculley on May 23, 2017 15:27:13 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on May 23, 2017 16:51:23 GMT -6
Nice save! I wonder why nobody's built this in 1/1 scale yet?
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Post by timj on May 24, 2017 4:59:58 GMT -6
Great restoration job!
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Post by TooOld on May 24, 2017 12:37:29 GMT -6
Great save Don , you definitely had your work cut out with this one ! And Sublime Green is the best choice for paint , really close to the original plastic .  |
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Post by patw on May 25, 2017 16:10:01 GMT -6
Well done Don, one of my favourites that I'm still looking for!
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Post by hobbybobby on May 28, 2017 17:43:09 GMT -6
Also one, already forever, on my wishlist, fantastic job, Don, i love it! |
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Post by bugaboo on Jun 3, 2017 16:06:59 GMT -6
Great job on one of the kits Im still lookin for  |
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Post by donculley on Jun 11, 2017 14:22:58 GMT -6
Thanks for the compliments guys ! As for finding one ,I would say never give up - Believe it or not I won this on Ebay for a grand total of $15.00 and that was a week long auction ! Somehow this one went unnoticed , so I would keep looking ,you may get lucky too !
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Post by kabdriver on Jun 24, 2017 11:33:43 GMT -6
Great work Don! Too cool - very envious of you getting to build one of these!
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Post by Paul B. Canney on Aug 8, 2017 8:14:38 GMT -6
This was a Ebay gluebomb . When I won it the build didn't look too bad, but when it arrived it was really a mess- the motor was heavily glued in wrong, the rear seat was glued shut and thanks to NO packing in the box, the axles were broken. It took more then a few hours to cut the windshield out of the brittle frame . I took the rear seat apart, filed a groove across it and made some pins so it would spin. The door panels were put in wrong so I had to file the lower edges down and add a top piece to both so the hatch would shut right . All the wheels were drilled out as the axles were broken; Hotwheels Bob hooked me up with another builder who sent me some useable parts . Most of the chrome was painted with Alclad spray . Because of all the glue damage I couldn't save the green plastic, so I painted it in Testor's Sublime green. The decals are reproductions from Billy Gooche and were a good quality decal . |
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Post by kabdriver on Aug 8, 2017 9:48:09 GMT -6
I wonder what the chances are of a Horn Toad reissue?
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Post by donculley on Aug 9, 2017 9:11:28 GMT -6
I wonder what the chances are of a Horn Toad reissue? The Horn Toad got retooled into the Rattler so the molds may be long gone ,but with all the reissues popping up you never know ! |
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Post by kabdriver on Aug 9, 2017 13:58:13 GMT -6
I'd take a Rattler too!
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