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Image 1 — Rusty Wallace 1997 Miller Lite, Monogram kit
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Rusty Wallace 1997 Miller Lite, Monogram kit

I just finished this using an old Brett Bodine kit from 1996 that I picked up at a model show. The scheme was made using decals from Porch Time and a Power Slide tire sheet. Everything turned out really nice, but unfortunately the 30 year old plastic had a pretty good upward warp on the left front.

I also included some companion pics with a fantasy build I recently did for a group build on the model cars sub. For that I put the 1998 scheme on a Tamiya Mustang GT kit. That one must also have been pretty good since I won my category, lol.

u/beeb_61 — 1 day ago
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Rusty Wallace 1997 Ford Thunderbird.

After I finished my DTS car, I really wanted to make the “real” car it was based on. The kit is a Monogram Thunderbird from 1996 with the same Porch Time decal sheet and a power slide tire marking sheet. It worked out pretty well because I used the 1998 sponsor arrangement on that kit and now I have the 1997 livery on this one.

The kit was in pretty good shape for being 30 years old. I built a bunch of these kits when I was a kid, but this was the first time I had one with the old shark fin roof camera. Of course I realized after I got the pics that I forgot to clean off the polish residue around it. The only real kit issues were a slight warp on the front end and some scratches on the glass. It was a nice day so I got some pics of both cars outside in the sun.

u/beeb_61 — 2 days ago