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Looks like a cool project Bill. I found these pictures online. The car is stored in an old warehouse in Detroit.

Very nice collection of GT’s and a nice tribute. The Mercury version is nice to see and I forgot he and AJ drove it at Daytona and went on the win Lemans in the Mark IV.

I found your finished build in the under glass section. I guess I should look closer. 😙 Very nice. Every time I think about buying the Fujumi version I see the “glass” and decide I should build all the other older Pantera kits I have bought since the 1990s. I did see this beautiful GTS at a show recently.

Thanks. The wheels need minimal touch up but for a decades old Japanese ARII motorized kit the finish was very good.

I grabbed this kit out of storage about a week ago and may have set a record for the fastest build I have done in years. It is a very basic curbside kit painted with Rustoleum color shift spray paint sold at Hobby Lobby. The recommended base coat of black was sprayed on and wet sanded and the enough coats of the Color Shift paint was sprayed on until it looked just right. It’s a curbside kit so no engine and the interior is very basic but I did detail the dash and added decals for the gauges. The only other colors I used were brown, flat black, silver, metallic red and orange, and blue and white for the DeTomaso wheels center caps. The purple and blue paint came out nice without having to add any clear. Total build time was about six hours over four days.

Amazing build and detail and realism. Have you ever taken it and displayed it at a show, library, museum, etc? The last time I visited the Smithsonian museum in DC there were several large scale ship models on display.

Anyone heard from Bill lately? It looks like his last post was about a year ago. I hope he is okay.

So sorry to hear this. RIP snake.

Any chance these are also posted on social media? My Ipad freezes up after only a few pictures load.

Thanks for posting the pictures. If I was there I would have asked about the Eleanor Mustang based on the Boss 351/Mach1 kit.

This Mach1 is going to be restored by the Mustang Brothers. I am still not convinced it was the one used as the “hero” Mach1 that Sean Connery drove and was used for closeups. Could it have been used for other scenes perhaps but there are just too many things that are inconsistent with the 429 non ram-air Mach1 as seen in Diamonds are Forever. The current owner claims many parts were changed in the car over the years by previous owners. Pictures from Facebook.

I’ll post any issues that have not already been covered by other step by step builds. Yes the underside is primer and will be painted the dark blue as seen in the restoration of P/1046.

I am one of many that has been following Ken Morton’s build of the Trumpeter/Magnifer kit build which has exposed many known or perhaps newly discovered inaccuracies with the kit. As I coincidently started the kit at about the same time as Ken the information provided by others has been extremely helpful for this group build. The original Trumpeter kit came out in 2008 and under the Magnifer brand in 2020. Given the access to information at the time and the comparatively low price for a kit of this size, it's not too surprising there are some egregious errors and omissions in the engine compartment. I will not repeat the discussion of those inaccuracies on this post. This post will show pictures of the work in process of a group build that will display the talents of several members of the Model Car creations club that is based in Broward county Florida. Now on to this build. A distributor was added to the engine as were plug wires. I forgot to take a picture after I had installed several of the oil lines so those will show up in an updated post. The engine has been set aside and the body was given to another club member for painting. The next steps will be assembling the chassis and interior by another club member. I will post updates every 2-3 weeks due to the kit being passed from builder to builder as more is completed. I had hoped this kit would be more accurate and will leave it up to the builder(s) to modify or add parts on their own as we realize there is no such thing as a perfect kit and completing the kit with a lot of modifications could add even more hours to a build that may exceed a few hundred hours. Before the final assembly there may be a chance to make some changes if new information or tips are provided that are compelling enough to go ahead with them. Thanks for following along and any comments or suggestions are welcome.

My corral of 1/43 Mustangs.

Yes it is that kit. Guess what I saw today at a show in Delray Beach.