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Mag Wheel cover by MissingLink Resin... *PIC*Posted By: john sharisky
Date: Monday, 27 March 2006, at 8:08 a.m.
...with this mag wheel cover design front and center in the June issue of Collectable Automobile magazine (in the article about '67 to '70 full-size Fords), I wanted to post a pic of the cover that I piced up from MissingLink Resin at the NNL East. Clean crisp casting with bright chrome - this is a very nice item. John
Hello Kevin,
Just a quick note to tell You, that I received the '65 GTO resin kit today. If it wasn't for the slight flash around the bottom of the body and a small air bubble in the roof, I'd swear it was made of plastic. The casting is crisp and clean and all the emblems are there with no pin holes and the chromed parts look better than kit parts. The quality of the casting is very good and I will recommend Your products to all my fellow modelers in our club. This GTO receives two thumbs up from me as well as a highly recommended rating.
Thanks a lot!!! I will definitely be ordering from You again in the future. Just let me know when you get the '65 Bonneville convertible ready and I'll order me a couple.
Best wishes for you and Bob and I'll hope, that Missing Link will take off like a rocket. The beginning sure looks promising. Keep up the good work!!!
Take care and have a Happy New Year !!!
Risto Pyhäranta - 12/28/2005
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Quickie resin review: Missing Link resin '65 GTO hardtopPosted By: Brian Huck
Date: Thursday, 6 October 2005, at 10:45 a.m.
There's a new resin company out there. Missing Link is a partnership of Kevin Lutz and Bob Daykin, who we all know and love on the board as Ragtop Man. When Bob mentioned in an email a while back that one of their first products was going to be a '65 GTO hardtop, one-piece body from the promo, I jumped at the chance to get a couple. These are meant to be a direct replacement for the convertible body in AMT's '65 GTO convertible kit.
These are some NICE pieces! The bodies are in white resin which is very smooth (you could almost just hit it with a polishing kit if you were building a white car). Typical of most resin bodies, there is flash that will need to be trimmed from around the edges/wheelwell openings/windows, and you'll want to make a few swipes along the edges of the rocker panels with a file. The body itself, however, is fantastic. Looks like a styrene kit part. I found a grand total of four pinholes in the two bodies, and they are tiny ones on the bottom edges of the rocker panels - easy to fill and sand. There are absolutely no dips or waves in the bodies, other than what AMT originally produced. The panels are all very straight, but there are a couple spots that reflect the typical old AMT ripples - very slight sink marks on the hood and trunk above a couple of the chassis mounting pins. Also at the rear of the front fenders. These will be easily cleaned up with some primer block sanding and maybe a thin coat of filler, nothing that you wouldn't do to the kit part. The '65 GTO has lots of sharp creased edges, and the resin body is just as crisp. The molded-in door handles and emblems are all sharp, too. You can even see the checkered pattern in the front fender GTO badges.
This is a repop of the promo body, so the hood is molded with the body, and will need to be cut out to show engine detail. The way that the hood and grill surround come together mean that it'd be easier to remove both from the resin body, then replace the grill area with the same piece cut from your donor kit's body. Also included are the bumpers, with the headlights attached to the front, and the taillight bezels/rear trim panel as part of the rear. The engraving is sharp and the parts are smooth and solid just like the body, with plating that's better than a lot of kits. There are two separate clear red taillight lenses included, too. Missing Link has a small ad at the bottom of page 8 of the October issue of Scale Auto. They are also offering the '65 Mustang 2+2 fastback, '70 Cougar XR7 convertible, '69 Mustang Mach 1 and '70 Mustang Mach 1, each with assorted extra pieces. And more neat stuff should be coming. Check the ad out, and/or look for them at the Toledo NNL.
Great start, guys!