The cracking you're seeing is the result of the layer beneath still not fully dry but the top layer was thinner and has dried. As the wet paint underneath dries out the shrinkage causes the dry paint on top to crack from the pulling effect. Happens a lot with most paints but Enamels suffer this the most, hence why we always say thin light coats lol. Many of my older kits all look this way till I got better. Great review of the kits this was a fun watch!

Nice look at those models Matthew. I think my favorite is the '69 442. Because everybody knows the best Oldsmobile is a Big Block Ford powered Oldsmobile, lol.

Cool stuff Matthew. I believe I can explain the Olds engine in the 40 Ford. That rolled over from the Sedan Delivery kit. And that was inspired by a car owned by my dad's best friend. He was well known for his belly tank that was originally powered by Ford Flathead V8s. Set lots of records. 1st car over 180mph at El Mirage (where the Bonneville guys race most of the year). The he switched to Olds push rod V8s. 1st car over 200mph at El Mirage. Car is now in the Henry Ford Museum. He had a pair of tow/push trucks that were 40 Ford Sedan Deliveries. Built them with the same blown engine as the belly tank. Tom made and sold blower drives. So in the late 50s, like 58 or 59, there were a couple of brothers, Walt and Art Arfons, who had a race car used for drags and Bonneville called "The Green Monster". Powered by an Allison V1710 out of a Curtis P40 Warhawk fighter plane. At Bonneville they couldn't get it to push start with their pickup. So they came to Tom and asked him to give the Green Monster a push with his supercharged Olds. His 40 Sedan Delivery was loaded with his rollaway tool box, a spare engine for the race car, spare wheels and tires for the 40, the belly tank and the trailer, an ice chest, etc. Slender Tom and his pal/employee Fat Eddie in the front. They never got the Allison to fire up that day, but not for lack of trying. Pushed the Green Monster through the lights on the course and in the process set an unofficial record for Utility Vehicles that stands today. It was a little less or a little more than 150mph loaded and pushing that 10,000lb enormous thing down the salt. As a little kid I thought the story was just bench racing BS. Then in the 90s, a team of Engineers from GM tried to beat it with a GMC Symone, the S15 with a factory blower. Of course they hopped that up a great deal and applied all their engineering skills to make their much newer and sleeker racer faster. But according to Hot Rod Magazine, the story I heard from Tom was the real deal and the GM guys failed by 5 or 10mph. So Tom's 40 Ford Sedan Delivery was the inspiration for AMTs model kit. Imagine how fast Tom's 40 would have gone without all the weight, and without trying to push start the other huge cranking over that massive engine trying to start it.

Very nice to see your models, looking forward to seeing more of them. You do good work and it is nice to see the progression from model to model. That stock 442 is super nice, my fav so far, but they are all cool!!!

The wheelie car is rad!!!

I love MPC Cars , an I also loved Tester's Cars

Very nice atmosphere and great builds . Some great details and I love your shelves. Some great stash aways. Some great inspiration as well. Keep them coming

Nice recap of ya older builds Matthew, awesomeness plus 😊 Cheers KC 🇦🇺 🤝 🇺🇲 😊 👍 🍻🍻🇦🇺

This is gonna be an interesting series!! A couple months ago, I actually thought of organizing my builds in chronological build order, just to 'document' my skill progression. I went into my hobby room....looked @ the builds and quickly said...nope!!

I like seeing your progress.

You started to do this awhile back. Glad to see you've restarted the retrospective of past builds. It's hard to see them in the background on your regular videos, this gives us a closer view. Much appreciated.

5:50 the old Foxbody 5.0 Mustang has the old school MAC Pro Chamber crossover exhaust rather than an H-pipe or X-pipe. Too cool!!!! Hahahaha

It's nice seeing your older builds Matthew! Enjoy the insights and reflections with each! RIGHT ON!! Keep em coming??

👍nice car lot. Great looking builds and interesting variety. 👏👏

First time I've ever seen that idea for a wheelie, clever. 🙂👍

Great builds and Memories 😊 👍

Cool as always. Have a great day.

Very nice builds. It is always interesting to see how your builds progress over time. Thanks for sharing.

Those are awesome builds! My favorite one is that ole green patina ford pickup truck. That thing is just too cool.

GREAT Show and tell ! I’ve been watching for your channel for some time and often wondered about all those beautiful cars up on the shelf. Thank you for sharing, super awesome! JC : )

Great to see the history lesson, and to remember details on the builds. Looking good waiting on the next row

I really enjoyed this video, looking forward to some more.

Nice display of all of your previous builds. I enjoyed watching your video Matt on how you showed your skills with each build. Excellent detail on all of your 3D parts.

I like the way you built all the models

Thanks for the tour Matthew. I enjoyed the video and the short descriptions of each of your builds. We all look at our previous builds and see ways we could have done things differently. Looking forward to the next round! 👍👍

Very nice builds you have sir. Great vid, enjoyed watching this. Cheers 🍺

Awesome builds Mat! I think the 69 Olds is my favorite.

Great builds.

Nice builds, really like your wheelie car. I once had a shelf of done models, darn kitty of mine decided to take a closer look one day. You guessed it....CRASH !!!! ....looked like a junkyard, managed to save a few, but most went into my parts box. Anyways, I enjoy your vids, keep 'em coming !

Ooooo, i hope i win! You have some great collections, bud.

I love the Black Cherry Oldsmobile even though you put a Ford Engine in her

Cool build Matt

Nice stuff. I have that Revell Mustang incoming today. Wheelie car was mighty cool.

Very cool examples bud.

Nice builds 😁😅

Nice models

Love the builds. The model car club that I'm a member of has asked me to see if you would like to come out to our next show. I have a video from last years show on my channel, if you would like to watch it. It's the Space City Shootout. This year, it will be on Saturday July 27. It's held here in Houston, about 1 mile east of the NASA Johnson Space Center. We have space for vendors, as well as contest entries. I have an information sheet on the show that I can scan and email to you if you would like to know more about the show. The sheet also has the proper contact info for the organizers.

The impala is so cool...what did u use for weights in the rear...that's a neat idea

Hello Matt. Always enjoy your videos.. Will you be at Roanoke show this year?

Have you tried the macro setting for your camera

due you have any corvairs or Vega models built.or in your stash ove model kits.

Do the cabinets with the doors help keep dust from collecting on the models? I'm looking at different ways to show/store my builds and don't want to dust all the time.

What kind of wax do you us too shine the cars?