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Hello, Need to check if any minor touch up is needed but these are pretty much done. In case you are wondering the number: 4 rolling and 2 sparing.... Quite some time painting these molded plastic tires. These are two halves: front/back. Another reason why I love these old Pyro kits. These tires (and basically everything in these kits) fit perfectly with no fuzz and the details are crisp enough to help hand paint it. And these are 1/32! Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Do these look comfortable enough to sit in? Can you smell the leather? Thanks, Ismael

Hello, I think color coats are done. Next step: clearcoat. Oh! and the rest of the car 🤣 Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Tried multiple mirrors. Here are some of them. Honestly, been a big car, a small mirror doesn't work. At the end, the kit's mirror looks the best to me. Now I need to decide a final location. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, My Eyeballing Engineering degree is saying this is going in the right direction. Thin aluminum sheet. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, That is just a scrap strip of clear styrene with a small piece of transparent tape because my fat fingers were not allowing to take a proper picture. 🤣 Thanks, Ismael

Hello, It certainly does! I originally thought of mounting the mirrors up high like a Testarossa... But I don't think they look right. Having them been a small manual mirror, maybe. But I want the convenience of a modern power/heated mirror. I think a more conventional location looks better on this car, somewhere around this area, or maybe even slightly lower. What do you think? Thanks, Ismael

Hello, GASP!!!! 😲 John, are you suggesting to remove the mirror mountings for a cleaner window line???? Well, Great minds think alike!!!! Stay tuned for my idea on the mirrors. Testarossa anyone? Thanks, Ismael

It is curbside, so it will have whatever I say. How about V12 TT LS? 🤣

Hello, So, I've never claimed to be normal. So we complaint about the green plastic. So we work it. So we can put primer on it. So we can paint it..... GREEN!!! 🤣 First color coat Second color coat and looking good so far. First color coat on the body: This needs more work and more coats but you see where it is going. While not the same car, this is my inspiration for this project. Thanks, Ismael

Truer words never been spoken!

Hello, Million dollars car requires million dollars panel gaps. 😉 Thanks, Ismael

Hello, First primer coat just to check on overall progress. Hood and trunk panel lines were re-scribed as they were too shallow. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Making sure everything fits before continuing. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Thank you all for the interest! After a few weeks of work, we are now caught up in this thread. This where we are now. Primer, sanding, filler, sanding, rinse and repeat. This is the Nth time. Slowly getting there. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Currently suffering from a severe attack of PHS (Project Hopping Syndrome). I love all eras of automobiles. I've been recently looking at Art Deco Luxury cars of the 30's. Bugatti, Delage, Talbots, etc. Notice the strong French influence in this genre. Then I re-discovered this concept car from the 90's: The Chrysler Atlantic. This was an interesting concept car. I think it was inspired by the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic (pronounced "Atlantique"). The fully running and operational car is powered by an inline 8 cylinder engine, made by joining 2 Neon 4 cyl engines. I like the lines of the car but I don't like the color scheme. Lindberg produced a model of this car in the late 90's. The model is a promo style snap type. It was re-issued and also offered as an assembled promo. Since I don't like the color, I will NOT build a replica of the real car. Because of that, I'll be free to do minor modifications and create my own "coachwork" car. Let's see where this goes. First order of business was to glue the front and back bumpers in place. I cut the snap tabs to have a bit of adjustment. As you can see, the fit is far from perfect, especially up front. My goal is to blend them in as a one-piece "coachwork". I will also eliminate the ugly front marker lights. Also filled the emblem mounting holes. May not look like much, but there are long hours of work here already. Also glued both doors for structural rigidity as the body is quite flimsy without the doors. Some work fitting the doors to align but still more required. This is where I am now after about a week of work in "secret". Next, continue bodywork for eventual primer stage. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Scribed a missing panel line plus cleaned the others. Getting close to first coat of color. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Slowly moving along. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, It may not look like much but I've spent considerable time on minute bodywork repairs, rescribes and details. Here we have the first two of about half a million pins needed on this build. The idea is to represent bolt heads Four down, half a million more to go. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, The Mazda R-100 was a car from the late 60's early 70's. It was the first rotary engine car to be imported into the US. In Puerto Rico, our car culture is as strong as anywhere else on the planet. Drag racing is and has always been king of motorsports here. The rotary engine has a religious cult following both on the street and on the dragstrip. These late 60's early 70's Japanese cars are coveted. Many are modified for drag racing. From show cars to daily driver/weekend warrior, to full blown professional racers. While I am firmly planted on the Chevrolet V8 camp, I grew up with the sound of rotary engines revving havoc. A good friend who is running a 3D printing small business (Grumpy's 3D Garage) offers many of these cars in 3D resin at various scales. While visiting him, he was doing some test samples of this in 1/64. That is your typical Hot Wheels/Matchbox scale. He looked at me and said "Here! See what you can do with this". I'm not exactly into these cars but, why not? A 3D resin model requires extensive work. This is not exactly for the beginner or the faint of heart. You have to make your own glass and many other parts. And, the smaller the scale, the bigger the challenge. This is the end result. This would be a street/strip car. "Barely" street legal. Automotive lacquer primer, paint and clear. Enamels and acrylics for everything else. License plate reads R100 PR As a bonus, here is a quick video with sound dubbed in. No, the model doesn't sound like that. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Panel lines rescribed, work on main body and first coat of primer. Thanks, Ismael

Hello, Pyromania: A type of impulse control disorder that is characterized by being unable to resist starting fires / Impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires. MY DEFINITION: A modeler who likes Pyro Models I fall in this second category. You may have seen elsewhere I built a Pyro 1/32 scale 1915 Ford Model T (with working features) and a 1937 Chevy convertible. https://race-car-models.proboards.com/thread/3111/finished-1915-ford-model-pyro https://race-car-models.proboards.com/thread/3350/finished-chevy-convertible-box-stock I love these Pyro models from the 1960s. Great subjects, simple enough to be fun, challenging enough to be serious, good enough to be great projects. I have several of these in the stash. Suddenly, the 1931 Cadillac Sport Phaeton jumped out of the stash and somehow landed on the workbench amid several other projects. This will be a fun side project focusing on the basics. The model itself is 60 years old! 1965! Look at that perfect chrome! Funny, this model is 60 years old and it was of a then 34 years old car when released. The color of the plastic is quite something. The multipiece body will be a challenge. First order of business: the multi piece body. Test fitting showed some body gaps so I added material to tighten them. Multiple passes later of putty, sanding and primer, we are here: Thanks, Ismael

Hi Doug, Agree those look far better than the kit's parts. I've done some research and I think all 6 kits of this series (maybe the '53 could possibly be an exception) have the same problem: The car is roughly 1/30 scale but the wheels/tires are around 1/22 scale. I am trying to get some time to write a full article on these fascinating kits. I am working with my local 3D printing guy trying to come up with something. I convinced him that if this works I'll help him sell a ton of them.... (even if I may have to buy them all 😉 ) First goal is something for this 1920 and Murphy's 1922. By 1931 the tires were getting bigger while the wheels were getting smaller but we will get there when we get there. Thanks, Ismael

Correct. No Pace Car decals. The second half of the challenge is to hunt down a Fred Cady set. Or have them printed as the scheme is fairly simple. I am pretty sure the MPC Fiero (or at least one of them) has the 4 cyl engine.

I am looking at that Fiero to do the '84 Pace car. The boxart is even the Pace Car color scheme including the roof scoop. Maybe as a curbside...