Coastie

Agree that Mike's site is the best for a/m NASCAR decals... just got off his site after over an hour just looking for 97/98 season decals for the same thing... still cannot make-my-mind up but the Bell South/Joe Nemecek sheets are glorious !! Ian

Kit - Monogram Paint - Interior green, Tamiya acrylic; Externals and chassis, Humbrol & Xtracolour enamels. Decals - Fred Cady Sheet #603, Powerslide tyre decals. Extras - None As ever thanks for taking the time to look and/or comment. AFN Ian

Whilst this is my first post here, I'm not 'really' a newbie. Now in my forty-ninth year, I got my first ever kit for my 7th birthday, and even including two marriages and three kids, I've never really stopped - Lucky, eh ??. Well here I am back building 1:24/25 cars instead of my usual 1:48 & 1:32 aircraft, why ?? Well almost five months ago, my family and I left the UK for New Zealand, and whilst we're renting a house here, I simply don't have the room to build, paint and display the 'big stuff', so have defaulted back to my second favourite subjects... NASCAR and Muscle Cars ! So witho

Fred Cady sheet 603 is a direct replacement for the kit decals, (minus the contingency 'stickers' - these came from an Earnhardt 87/88 Aerocoupe), and is quite simply, fantastic !! If you've ever used any Monogram decals from this era and I’m guessing most folks reading this probably have, then you'll know that the lighter colours - especially the white - were very transluscent, Not too bad on an aircraft model, but annoying as h*ll on a car kit. Because the white characters on these Fred Cady decals come with separate overlays for the black borders the white can be printed with

As ever with these late 1980's vintage Monogram kits, the generic interior, engine & running gear is a truly awful fit and requires a shed-load of filing, cyano, patience, experience, clothes pegs and swearing to get all the component parts together.... Arrghhh - If I had any hair left I'd have torn it from my head whilst I was wrestling this lot. Now on to the fun part... the decals.

As you can see, the green is on – my own mix, the white has been primed and masked on the lower body, and just done, the masking for the black pin-stripes each side of the gold stripe – the black isn’t provided on the Fred Cady decals I’m using. Still unsure about the inside colour of the bodyshell, Really difficult to make out in the few photos that I’ve see. The roll-cage and floor pan area dark green and I don’t think I can go too far wrong painting the bodyshell light grey… unless anybody here can tell me otherwise !! AFN Ian (First

Whilst this is my first post here, I'm not 'really' a newbie. Now in my forty-ninth year, I got my first ever kit for my 7th birthday, and even including two marriages and three kids, I've never really stopped - Lucky, eh ??. Well here I am back building 1:24/25 cars instead of my usual 1:48 & 1:32 aircraft, why ?? Well almost five months ago, my family and I left the UK for New Zealand, and whilst we're renting a house here, I simply don't have the room to build, paint and display the 'big stuff', so have defaulted back to my second favourite subjects... NASCAR and Muscle Cars ! 1988 is