João Canas

Tommy, thanks a lot for your reply! Best regards

Superb build! Love the wheels. Are those deep dish wheels from the Revell/Monogram kit?

Super work and great pictures!

Magnificent build and a great story too! Thanks for sharing!

Just gorgeous!

Superb build of the last proper Mustang! Love the wheels and white wal tires. It gives a very realistic period feel to the model.

Thank you guys! Tommy, the engine cover is fixed. I went through the trouble of building the engine from spare parts and scratched items because the real car has the internal engine lid removed. Without this lid, the air cleaner, the engine head covers and a lot of tubing and wiring can be seen behind the bulkhead behind the seats, so i tried to replicate this, as well as the roll cage and fire-extinguisher at the passenger footwell. Emmanuel, if the clear parts in your kit are as thick as I show on the WIP photos, then it must be the same mould...

Such a nice Ford! and beautifuly done!

Hi Bill, thank you for your kind words! The wheels were modified by myself. The first WIP link provided above shows the process in detail.

Last pictures with yet another red outsider.

Some more pictures from the family album with other Fords, and an outsider.

Hello Everyone, This is my last car build, finished a year ago. It's the 1/24 Fujimi DeTomaso Pantera GTS kit, backdated to represent a early Gr.3 historic race car (pushbutton doors). http://theamazoeffect.blogspot.pt/2012/01/1972-de-tomaso-pantera-gr3-prototype-on.html It's a car I found some photos on the internet and decided to buil a model based on it. Could not however do the decals of licence plates and detailed inscriptions. All modifications to the kit were scratchbuilt, including dishing the rear wheels, as the kit only provided 4 undished wheels typical or Pantera, Pantera L and early GTS cars. Regarding the Fujimi kit, it is an overpriced reboxing of and early rather poor curbside model (Heller perhaps?). Apart from the wheels the kit bigger letdown are the clear parts which are overly thick. I thined them down with a dremel, and polished it to restore the transparency. It reduced the optical distortions but didn't cure the problem. The model was painted with Zero paints and urethane clear coat. Hope you like this one. WIP here: http://www.forum.modelismo-na.net/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=19726 http://forum.modelismo-na.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=20817

Obrigado Túlio!! Também gosto dos Ferraris, aliás, carros Italianos em geral, por razões difrentes. São amores diferentes, sendo a atracção americana mais visceral! Thanks Túlio for your kind words! If anyone cares to take a look, here is a link for the BMW M Coupe Build. It was a very quick job with little improvement over the rather poor kit, as I wanted to add this car to the other models. It is my favorite BMW ever, for it outrageous design coupled to the perfect mechanical layout for a sports car, ie, two seater fixed head coupe (shootingbreak in this case), mid front engine, rear wheel drive with limited slip differential. Something most car manufacturers had forgoten, to the sake of sanitized please-all underwelming cars. https://www.google.pt/?gws_rd=cr&ei=-oyPUr2lL-_I0AXWr4DgDQ#q=shooting+breaks+uk

Thanks everyone for your kind feedback! I'm very happy this build was appreciated. It was indeed my second car ever, but I already had a lot of 1/72 and some 1/48 aircraft kits under the belt. The biggest challenge was to produce a high gloss finish, something that is not usually required in aircraft modeling. The photo location is indeed the rooftop of the building where I live. Never made a base to display my models, as when I finish one I’m already too eager to start the next one, so I use what’s nearby. Regards!