Brudda

Won this in a raffle at the Fremont Hornets contest

Car finished and ran at laguna seca

Claude you are amazing. The creative touches to car modeling is outstanding. I like this build. A glue bomb to this! Great job sir. The studio is still producing beautiful builds.

A McLaren m8a tamiya kit. The orange parts are out of bags but the rest is bagged. All parts are there. Looking for Fujimi Ferrari street cars. Fujimi cobras. Same value or close. I have all Ferrari f1 kits, so no f1.

Beautiful car. It’s cool a car company has the grit to come out with something cool, not a suv. On the subject on horse power, 550? WOW. I agree with Ace , not many can handle the power. Muscle cars are the prime example. It’s not the horse power that ruins muscle cars , it’s stupid people. Back in the day, 400 hp was big, so people bought muscle cars but could not control the power and crashed. Hence the big insurance premiums. If people did not crash their cars , the insurance company would provide reasonable rates, but nooooo idiots who cannot control their mega horsepower cars are the ones to blame. For example: I drove a 1993 svt cobra on the ford test track in phoenix. It was way more car than I could handle. Great car , average driver. It was 285 hp. I even had a little race experience in sprint cars and midgets back then. 800 hp in a sprint car and about 400 in a midget back then. So I was not green by any means. But that 285 hp svt cobra was very quick and even I could not get its true potential out of it. Bob Bondurant gave us a quick lesson in being a road corse driver. I humbly learned that the car was more than me. Fast forward to today…. More idiots , a lot more and these guys crash. Same old story. I also agree with Micheal on complaining. If there’s something new , there’s some guy or girl complaining about it. My dad said ( about cars) if someone is complaining , they cannot afford it or are jealous of it.

Thank you Mark

Thank you sir

This is all I know , straightening metal. I have been doing this since 1969. It’s not a hard job , but some say it is. Started by taking Porsches , Ferraris and jaguars apart. To this today. Working on 296 Ferrari challenge cars. Love every minute. Plus the pays not bad either. And the benefits? Ferrari paying for everything like laguna seca a few weeks back. Yes it’s fun. ( the last three pics is a 296 that hit the wall at Daytona, and us fixing that car. Made it to Laguna Seca)

A few more

917/30… 12 cylinder monster.

Nitro Marty is a good trader

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Ferraris everywhere

Very nice clean build

I’m in. Have to get motivated on a build. 917/30 , 935/78, cobra Daytona coupe , Mercedes 300, Ferrari 250. I think I’ll get the 917/30 going. Ok 917/30 it is.

A lot of sanding to get things to fit. When I primed her , all of the imperfections came out. The worst one was the nose area. Had to sand to fit the prop and nose pieces. Not many parts but a little work to get things to look good. Reprime and hope to paint white soon.

Here is the greenwood car repaired. Made it to Laguna Seca

1930 fordpickup, I do have a bunch of parts. Doors, a hood and several fenders. Most of the parts are fixed but were badly damaged. Boy I would love to build a full car but it is way out of my budget. The badly damaged car from Daytona, was totaled but was repaired. These cars are so expensive it is hard to total one ,and even that, I could not afford to buy the salvaged car.

Well more cars. Like a 1:1 model kit. Ferrari race in Italy rained out. A lot of crashes. I’ll be busy for awhile. Another one being dropped off.

Hello NitroMarty. Would this work for you for the motorcycle?

Claude you have done another masterpiece. I see the Studio is not resting. Totally cool and of course striking. Great job

I see no problem with making a profit from your hobby, although it turns into work if a deadline is set. Work that you may like but with a schedule, its still work. I said I would not turn my hobby into work. But I have to admit , I did. I was very lucky to be able to build 1/8 scale models for free. I get them and build them , put the info into a forum and the kit is free. The people giving me the models asked if I would custom paint some for special customers. Because I did not want to do it, I said $1000 per car. And guess what I had several people in Europe that wanted their cars custom painted. Really weird, but I did them and they loved them. Still getting requests to do more. No time right now because I’m working for Ferrari Racing, but maybe later. Here is a pic of one that went to England. It does take a little out of the enjoyment of building I think. It sells a little of your modeling soul. This is just my very humble opinion. Everyone has their opinions on the subject this is just my experience.

Cool jag!

I really love these cars! Coolest build

Paint finished.