Just checking in... STM is not quite dry so I can't put on the top coat. I'll do that on Monday. Meanwhile I've started another miscellaneous plastic project; recreating a 1:24 Ertl model of the car I owned as a senior at Michigan State in 1966. It was a 1966 Ford Fairlane GTA. It was quite fast, but like other muscle cars, didn't handle very well.
Car was pretty basic: AM radio, heater... power steering and brakes. That was it. And a 390 cu. in. V8 with 335 hp and a big Holley 4-barrel carb. It would burn rubber on the those Firestone wide-oval tires for as long as you kept your foot on the pedal. After we got married we didn't keep that car very long. The car that replaced it was...well... the sublime to the ridiculous; and AMC Rambler Ambassador with a straight 6 engine. It was an awful car that couldn't get out of its own way. We got rid of that one in three years and bought a great car; a 1972 Olds Cutlass S that we kept for a long time.
That nice-looking girl on my arm is my wife of 49 years. This was a memorial day camping trip to Muskegon Michigan in 1966. I found a light yellow lacquer that should work. I also found a website that has actual colors of this car if I don't like the yellow I chose. I'm blogging this build on the Fine Scale Modeler magazine web forum if you care to follow along.
