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duster tops
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 12:33 PM
Big Smile [:D] Any suggestions on how to replicate the old Plymouth Duster " snakeskin" tops on the early 70's Dusters?I'm trying to do a model of my 1st car , using the AMT Duster kit...
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 1:53 PM
Do you mean the vinyl top? if so, this one is available at model roundup. http://www.modelroundup.com/mrcategory1051.htm

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 2:10 PM
Well, I just spoke w/one of the guys here at work who really knows his MOPAR, and he said a "snakeskin" roof was a vinyl roof that looked like a snake skin.

I found this at scaledreams.com:
http://www.scaledreams.com/SCALE1.HTM
I don't see snake skin listed but it does list lizard skin. Maybe they can make if for you.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:32 PM
Your friend at work is right the tops were vinyl.....terrible things really they tended to retain moisture under the top and help promote rust at a rapid rate! might try doing a search for vinyl....take a look at some of the various pics.....or you might want to post this in the techniques forum. Either way let us know how it turns out!
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  • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
Posted by lizardqing on Monday, December 8, 2003 10:20 PM
Welcome to the forum. If you are wanting to do one yourself here's how to do it with masking tape.
http://modeltech.tripod.com/vinyl_top.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 11:07 PM
Man I forgot all about the ModelTech site I ran across it some time back and forgot to bookmark it! Thanks for the link Chris
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  • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
Posted by lizardqing on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 5:03 PM
Glad I could help. Lot's of stuff on that site that I want to try out.
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Posted by Enzo_Man on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 5:08 PM
Heres something I ran into acidentally. I had a mustang model painted with Testors spray. I wanted to paint it over. Being young and stupid then I didn't strip the old paint. But to paint over I used Krylon gray primer to prime. The paint started lookin very very crinkly. I instantly went to strip all the paint. Turned out the crinkle was from the palstic doing weird things. Now that I look at it, it looks like what your pics shows. Obviously you'll want to try this on scrap plastic. Maybe it'll work for you? Lemme know.
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