Mako Shark II

[59impala]

I like to build replicas of real cars and this is one that I really liked from the first time I saw the real car when I was in high school back in 1965.  I tried to get it as close as possible to the real car. 

[Deleted]

I'm not a Corvette fan to speak of, but I do like this. Very nicely done. Great paint.

[59impala]

Thanks Steve. I originally built this a long time ago but didn't paint it. So, I took it apart and rebuilt it and painted it as close as I could get to the color of the real car. To bad GM ruined the car by re-doing it as the Manta Ray, which in my opinion really screwed it up as far as looks go.

[gloozalot]

59 Dan, I have not seen one of those built in years. I really gloo-bombed a couple back in the 60's before I really took the time to realize what the car was. Somewhere in my pile of crap I have an unbuilt along with a $5 built up I got for extra parts. Maybe, just maybe I can get to it before I get too old and can't see the durn thing. Good thing is that all the stuff you post up makes me want to start some projects and gets me to the bench. I got plenty to do, just gotta make time to do em. Nice job on the Shark, I seem to remember some of the stuff didn't fit all that well but then being around 11 years old when I built em, my skills were not that great. I wore most of my early kits out pushing them around in the floor or they got buried in the sand pile. I cringe when I think about some of the kits I had as a kid and see what they sell for today!

[59impala]

Thanks and I hear ya on the days gone by. I did some of the same stuff to some of my cars back then. You're right about the fitting of the parts on this kit. It took a lot of patience to build it. The biggest problem I think is the fitment of the hood. That took a lot of time to get it to sit down and in the right place. I used different tires than the ones that came in the kit cause the kit tires were warped. I have a couple more of the re-issued kits as different cars and have re-built one so far and one more to go plus the Street Fever vette.

[dogfish7]

You did an excellent Fade Paint job on this Dan.

[59impala]

Thanks Bruce. I've been experimenting on doing paint without hard lines between colors. I like the fade paint schemes. I did one of the resin custom old Buick's with Gold and Green fade. I got some kind comments about that one from guys in our club.

[dogfish7]

Cool. I'd like to see that one also.

[59impala]

Bruce, I posted pics of it here fer ya.

[dogfish7]

Thanks Dan.