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Thanks everyone for the comments. I thought large scale would be easier to build and mod but I was wrong. You can do sooooo much and its hard to know when to stop. There aren't a lot of after market parts for the 1/12 so I had scratch build them as I went.

Absolutely fabulous!

Another one of my favorite cars, beautiful color and great build. Do you have a link or supplier for the Zimmermanz wheels?

Nice, one of my favorite colors and my favorite bird.

The Aerowagon was painted with paint left over from the Rubicon, Tamiya Light Sand, with several coats of pearl clear and clear. The PG Vette is Tamiya metallic blue over Model Masters diamond dust with several coats of pearl clear and clear. I've picked up Tamiya's light red, green and blue pearls to experiment with. I love the depth and extra metal flake the pearl adds to metallics.

Thanks for all the comments. Alexis the trailer was scratch built using the Jeep snap kit. The trailer frame was scratch built. I used three kits in total for parts and the scratch building. The fourth kit, Monogram's CJ7 remaining parts where used to build the Jeep gasser.

As I said in under glass I haven't been around much the last few years due to family health issues, building a new house and life in general. One of the projects that took me 3 1/2 years to complete was a custom version of the 1/12 scale Foose Camaro. A friend gave the kit shortly after they hit the stores. From the beginning I had to do something special with it. I modded the body, engine, exhaust, interior and suspension. The trim, badges, front and rear bumpers were removed. I added a 3-D printed RS grille and custom taillights. The interior has a custom gauge cluster, 3-D printed Recaro seats and steering wheel, custom center console, flocked carpet and custom made seat belts, buckles and retractors. The engine had a scratch built plenum, throttle body, fuel rails and injectors with custom valve covers, coil, electric fan and engine pulleys. The kit battery was removed from the firewall and the firewall smoothed. I added after market resin wheels and tire with valve stems. I used custom brass made coil springs to replace the kit plastic rods for the front suspension. Custom sub-frame connectors and a side exhaust was added. It was first large scale build and had a lot of fun with it.

Haven't been around much the last few years due to family health issues, building a new house and life in general. I still managed to get a few builds done so I thought I would post up a few from the last 4 years. First off a couple of Corvettes. My take on the Aerowagon and what I thought would be a Petty Garage vette. A club HotWheels challenge build And a few others

If you can get the kit with the sunroof, it has the clear glass. I built one a couple of years back. Here is the link to one on ebayl http://www.ebay.com/itm/REVELL-TOM-DANIEL-STREET-FIGHTER-60-CHEVY-SEDAN-DELIVERY-MODEL-KIT-SEALED-/252769845298?hash=item3ada41c032:g:aZ4AAOSwcUBYK5OF

Erik pm me your private email and will get it off tomorrow.

I haven't been on much due health issues and life in general, but I still have the zip file if you're interested. Let me know if you still want it.

The pictures don't do it justice, it looks soooooo awesome in person. Great job Erik.

Paint looks great, the front and rear looks great.

Absolutely beautiful, fantastic build John.

Very nice, are those snow tires on the back?

Thanks for all the great comments. The color schemes where chosen to match the colors in the race team name on each car to give them each their on personality.

The straight liner theme build was based of pictures of 1:1s and Revells Sox & Martin kit. We have a commercial build coming up in the new year and my wife and I were going to build commercial wreckers, her the Revell GMC wrecker and I the Kenworth. Our idea was to build them as a family run tow company. So we decided carry the tow company theme to our drag cars as the team owners. She built hers basically box stock and I modified mine for "more power". Our race team: Hers: Mine: Thanks for looking...

I haven't posted here in a while due to medical issues, so here are my last two builds of the year. Both were completed for our clubs last two quarterly theme builds, 63-67 road racers and straight liners. The road racer was based of pictures of SCCA and Trans Am 69/70 Mustangs, Phildaupho's wip (http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=42593&hl=%2Btrans+%2Bam+%2Bmustang) and Revells 70 Boss 302 kit. I used the kit engine and scratch built the oil breather pipe, air cleaner, remote oil filter, radiator and modified the intake manifold and coolant lines. The firewall detail was removed and engine compartment washed for the just raced look. The interior was gutted, console removed and the trans tunnel rebuilt with sheet styrene. The lower portion of the dash removed (based on 1:1 pics), scratch built the instrument panel using pe gauges. An aftermarket roll bar was tweaked to fit with a parts box seat and safety harness. The body was cleaned up, wipers removed and the fuel filler moved up to the edge of the trunk lid. The undercarriage was also reworked, washed, scratched built exhaust and ebay supplied resin wheels.

No, the boat got shelved for medical reasons. I've just started building again and hope to get the boat going again soon. Also, keep up the good work, your products are fantastic. I just finished up a 67 GTX using your dual plug valve covers and a SMBC dual distributor. I'll be posting soon in under glass.

Tom, where was it located in Spokane? If I get a chance tomorrow I want to go by and check it out.

Dryer sheets will leave a residue which will mess up your paint. I learned along time ago never use towels or rags dried with dryer sheets or softeners on a 1:1 from a paint and body man. Because they pick up the residue from the softeners and dryer sheets and transfer them to the surface you're going to paint.

Thanks guys. Hi, Erik, we missed you and your builds at Goodguys.

Thanks for all the great comments. Tried to keep it simple and quick, but I can never leave them stock, so the snow ball started rolling. She ended up being my best build yet.

This build was entered in our club's tri-five chevy build. It started as a Revell Del Ray kit with minor modifications as I attempted to maintain the classic styling ques of the tri-fives. The exterior was dechromed, debadged and the side molding from under the side windows to the horizontal trim was removed. Flipped, gently recessed and painted '55 AMT Nomad bumpers replaced the kit oversized chrome bumpers. Body was finished in Testors Inca Gold and Tamiya Yellow. '09 Charger seats with the headrests removed replaced the front bench seat. The rear seat was reupholstered to match the buckets using strip styrene and putty. The door panel centers were cut away and filled with sheet styrene and p/e parts used for the details. The shifter and console were from the parts box and the interior was finished in Inca Gold and Testors flat light aircraft gray. The engine compartment was shaved and a detailed Chevy 5.7 from the 99 Silverado kit stuffed in. The custom radiator was taken from the C5-R LeMans kit and the engine cover from a parts box hood scoop. The chassis and suspension components were cleaned up and the front was lowered and additional 2" scale inches. The kit exhaust was shortened and fitted to the new engine with the addition of aluminum exhaust tips. The tires and wheels are from a Revell Tuner kit. Thanks for looking...

Another great mopar, nice build