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I sold mine. Have regrets still, but I would never do it justice. Half and half is the way to go. Maybe do a cutaway engine?

Wow , 10 pounds of McLaren in a 9 pound box. Nice packing Mark!

Nice job on a hard-to-finish kit. The details really make it pop!

A little progress... I've shaped a single fuselage out of modeling clay and shot it next to a mirror to simulate its counterpart.

Issues:

1) What to do next. Possibility #1 is to make a mould out of plaster of each fuselage half, then cast a copy to use as a shape for vacuum forming. Possibility #2 is to take that same plaster mould and lay fiberglass cloth and resin on the inside of it. At any rate, I figure great female moulds will be key to making this thing symmetrical.

2) I think I'll graft the headlight (including long horizontal strake) and tail light areas from the 2 kits I bought instead of trying to shape them out of clay.

3) I have to find out a way of working the rear fender arrow motifs into the car too. Also the rise just aft of the B-pillar. No solution yet, but for the long horizontal chrome trim on the rear fenders, I'm thinking of making that just a groove, maybe to intake air. I dunno.

4) It looks too "race-car" still. Maybe changing the shape of the cockpit surround. Again, I dunno.

Lost and searching, as usual...

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I'm new to this post. wOw... that was brilliant Ira, to graft on those those side pieces! The result just looks "right." (saved a lot of work too, way to go.)