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mitchum
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While I was going through some stuff when I got home last night I found a diecast kit I had bought some time ago when Wallyworld was phasing out the models. Usually the only time I buy diecast is to use for "lot lice"to use as background for my photo shoots because I don't have to build them and they are extremely durable.
But, the subject matter ('56 T-bird) and the price (regularly $14.94 marked down to $4.00) helped me to make an exception and take a chance that the roughed up box didn't disguise lost parts.
I started cutting parts off the sprues while I was waiting on some pictures to download (dial up is a pain) and built this little Thanksgiving 'bird in between my surfing in about an hour. Seeing as how it's the first thing I've built in over a year, and it turned out pretty good, maybe I can get revved up to build some "real" models over the winter.
Not what I would have picked on the color (Tuxedo Black would have been my first choice) but with tampoed emblems I was pretty much stuck with this. Maybe it'll grow on me but I don't think so.
Oh yeah, what's missing? This is the first model I've built in about twenty years or more that doesn't have numbers on the doors or sponsors on the quarter panels. Maybe that's why that color looks strange to me. LOL
But, the subject matter ('56 T-bird) and the price (regularly $14.94 marked down to $4.00) helped me to make an exception and take a chance that the roughed up box didn't disguise lost parts.
I started cutting parts off the sprues while I was waiting on some pictures to download (dial up is a pain) and built this little Thanksgiving 'bird in between my surfing in about an hour. Seeing as how it's the first thing I've built in over a year, and it turned out pretty good, maybe I can get revved up to build some "real" models over the winter.
Not what I would have picked on the color (Tuxedo Black would have been my first choice) but with tampoed emblems I was pretty much stuck with this. Maybe it'll grow on me but I don't think so.
Oh yeah, what's missing? This is the first model I've built in about twenty years or more that doesn't have numbers on the doors or sponsors on the quarter panels. Maybe that's why that color looks strange to me. LOL
