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Thank you for the kind words Hobie! Almost there. Just using the Daisy's Car kit decals from the MPC kit for the roof-section of the stripe, although the two end sections need to be removed. Daisy's car was in constant use on the country roads and so needs to have a generous amount of Hazzard county road dust. Just speaking for myself, I don't believe in making showroom-fresh vehicles with immaculate chassis and wheel wells to portray actively used vehicles. The overall dusting is a shade called Armor Sand, with some Military Earth Brown right behind the wheels and on the bottom of the fenders just behind the wheels.

Hobie's white lightning has a bit of a (hiccup) kick lol took me a day to recover. This past weekend was the Pocono doubleheader. Saturday's race the Hendrick brigade dominated. It looked like Kyle Larson was going to win his 5the consecutive race until his left front tire blew going into turn 3 on the last lap which gave Alex Bowman his 3rd win this season and Hendrick Motorsports 6 consecutive wins and 9 wins total so far this season. Top 10 1 Alex Bowman 2 Kyle Busch 3 William Byron 4 Denny Hamlin 5 Ryan Blaney 6 Kurt Busch 7 Joey Logano 8 Kevin Harvick 9 Kyle Larson 10 Brad Keselowski Race 2 ended up being a fuel mileage race. Kyle Busch had transmission issues that left him with only 4th gear which turned out to be a good thing for fuel mileage since he didn't down shift in the turns. His car handled superbly which allowed him to run almost as fast as the leaders who ran out of fuel. Top 10 1 Kyle Busch 2 Kyle Larson 3 Brad Keselowski 4 Kevin Harvick 5 Bubba Wallace 6 Ryan Blaney 7 Alex Bowman 8 Ryan Preece 9 Tyler Reddick 10 Joey Logano This weekend Nascar heads to Road America with Xfinity and Cup and some Cup drivers will also run in the Trans Am race there this weekend as well. Both races will be on NBC stations.

He was too busy watching me and Tilly May sneak off behind the hay bales !! LOL!

Now for the really scary part: the pinstriping around the main stripe. In my research, I took special notice of how they did the real one around the door handle and at the very front. I've got plenty of straight-line fine decal striping, but the curves are a problem. Trying to paint those fine curves right alongside the large stripe AND make them look good is an awfully tall order. My experience (both successes and failures) tells me to go another route. I decided an ususual approach: cut away the pinstriping from the decals of MPC's Daisy's car, the very-different '74 Roadrunner, and cut the curves into pieces to match each little bit of the Satellite's stripe. Wasn't easy, nor was it fun at first, but it actually worked!

We just got back from our daughter's in Virginia. On the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the way home I was being passed by an orange car and looked over and saw a big 01 on the door. And then I noticed it was a newer Charger with a Confederate flag on the top. You guess it. I decided to go after it.....keeping under the speed limit of course......I lost.....but still, not everybody can say they raced a General Lee. It turned on Interstate 99 and headed north toward Penn State. I think it had New York plates. I wonder if it was heading home after going to Cooter's.

And now the last daunting challenge, the stripe. To my knowledge no decals exist for this body type. I do have the decals from the MPC kit of Daisy's 74 Roadrunner, but this is a different body type with different contours, and the subtleties of the strip were very different between the two vehicles. I also noticed the first '71s they painted for this had stripes that didn't quite fit the countours of the new type, but by partway into the second season the paint crews seem to have mastered the marriage of '71 body style and stripe style. My solution: use the roof decals, the paint the thick stripe center along the sides, then use fine striping for the pinstriping. I used a photocopy of the roof decals from the MPC kit as reference to set up the masking for the side striping. Through this I saw the side square from each end would have to be cut off. The rest would work fine.

Okay, back to business. Earlier I had gone to the trouble of cutting away the GTX emblem from the grill (since all such emblems were removed from all cars in the show), then priming/painting and re-chroming the bumper with Alclad. Next the chrome bumper was masked, and the grill and its surround was sprayed with enamel Steel, and a wash used for the grill's recesses. Then to make the headlights. I use acrylic gemstones because they're soft enough to have the facets sanded away to make it rounded, then polished. When finished with Future/Clear acrylic floor polish, they make very convincing light lenses, better than what comes with any kit. In this case I used 5mm gemstones for the headlights, and 3mm for the signal lights.