Building the 1971 Plymouth Duster 340: 1/25 Scale Model Kit from AMT 

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Thank you for watching! 👍

Good luck with it! This kit is a little gem!

Thank you, I appreciate it!🤟

Thank you! Cheers 👍

Final step after all assemblies are completed, we always finish exterior w/brushed on coat of clear floor polish. It's thicker so there's no brush strokes showing and we consistently get a much more lustrous & forgiving glossy top coat than we ever achieved with clear spray paint gloss👍 (it will, for example, completely conceal all the "orange peel" dimpling in the ext paint). Everyone's got their techniques but we find this works great on our builds. It also makes clear plastic windows look just like real glass.

@@jennifercole281 I wouldn't have commented if the finish quality was good. Sorry, but only 2 seconds into the video, where you sneak peak the end product, the finish shows up as rough. @ 0:02 Even at the end of video, the roughness and flat appearance is still there. @ 13:26 , for instance the rear quarter panel is not smooth. Now if you apply your clear, but don't show it on video after you applied the clear, then we can only comment on what we see. I used to brush paint 50 years ago when I built models, I'll never go back to that. I still recommend you airbrush and wet sand. You will see tremendous improvement in finish. Clear floor polish is inadequate. I see one very popular kit builder on youtube who uses that, and his builds are good except for his paint. But he cranks out his builds quicker that way, because he does no sanding whatsoever. Just to clarify, I think your overall build is very very good. I just think you can do better on the painting.

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Thank you and I appreciate the sub! Welcome to the channel!

The best there is! eh?

@@seeds4hobbies Ottawa here😁

Thanks for the advice on the mod podge , been hearing about it will try it next time.

@@GrandNational66 Toronto here 🤟

used rust-oleum gloss "real orange"

What do you mean ? .... orange peel ? .....clear coat ?

That is fair, I am the spray it a few times and clear coat it kind of builder. Sanding and air brushing is not something I do for now.

@@seeds4hobbies Spray it at least 2 times, 1 time and let it sit (2 min) and then spray it 2 or 3 times wet in wet. Normaly I use a primer to build up and then sanding, and painting (I use spraycans as you do) Another time you can sand it down and give it a respray

​​​@@seeds4hobbiesWe brush on clear floor polish for a very forgiving, thick shine. It will conceal all the exterior paint dimpling - but it really doesn't show up that much on this deep blue. I'm sure it's just exaggerated by the video lighting, you'll find it less noticeable displayed on the shelf.❤ You did a great job!

Thank you for the comment and welcome to the channel! I also like to build military vehicles but currently into cars as you can see. Never built a big rig before but something I always wanted to do, any suggestions for a first one? Hope to see you at the next build 🤟

I have never built any military models, or science fiction , or the show rods. I'm mostly into the older muscle cars and big rigs. As far as a first time build of a big rig, I would recommend staying away from any of the AMT big rigs for your first one. I'm not knocking AMT at all, its just that some of those kits can be very finicky and the directions are sometimes not as clear. Maybe start out with one of Revels big rig kits they have several that the frame is already built, you just build the rest of the model. Those kits go together nicely and look very good. After that first kit then If you like building big rigs get yourself anyone of the AMT kits or other brands. They are all great kits. I think its just the large amount of parts that make those kits look intimidating. Some of the kits are 250 -400 parts, AMT has several kits that have over 500 parts. You seem like you have patience ,and like to figure out problems, I'm positive you will enjoy and do well building your first big rig. I sure hope.to see it when its finished. Im waiting for your next build. Happy modeling.

Maybe Skill Level 2? it has to be glued together and painted