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Been on a binge lately sorting parts inot paint bags. Came across this kit and discovered the body hadn't been painted. It was molded in yellow. A couple applications of Tamiya LP-7 pure red later and I decided to finish this one as the paint turned out nice. It was all downhill from there. This is no walk in the part, lots of fit problems, especially in the engine. In tghe end it turned out nice enough to go in the case. See captions below the photos for more details. Completed engine on the stand provided in the kit. Exhaust and turbo chargers were all guess work at this point. Photo etch on the intercooler was out of the part bin. Interior went without a hitch. Gotta fix that steering wheel decal. Black accents in the seats thanks to Tamiya black panel liner. Good stuff. Body and chassis ready to be mated. We call this..."the moment of truth" and hope all that fitting paid off. Engine nestled in the chassis. Intercoolers provided the most headache. I knew they were too high as soon as the body went on. Lowering them proved to be a challenge. Finished car. This was actually done about 10days ago and it spent some time at my local hobby shop. Pictures wern't good enough then. Rear view. Luv the body lines of this car. It looks like a 308 on steroids and it sorta is. I added the script on the rear engine cover. Getting the head lights to function was a real treat. I don't usually do this but it looked like fun...it wasn't. Hope you like this...comments welcome.

Second completion of this year is this Ferrari F430 Challenge in 1/24. Color is MrColor #3 Red with MrColor clear. Kit is almost a curbside with just the top half of the engine showing through the glass. I had painted this kit some time ago and was waiting for space to clear out in the Ferrari case. Relatively simple kit but lots of nice exterior detail. This model represents a specialy built racing version of the F430 to compete in the all Ferrari Challenge series. It may be interesting to note that Ferrari built over 130 of these but fewer than 5o of these cars survive as most were written off. Apparently they race these pretty hard. More details in the captions. Thanks for looking and all comments appreciated. Finished car on its wheels. The rear wing is actually not used on the racing version. It is on the street version. I liked the looks of it so I put it on there anyway. Looks more like a race car. Rear veiw and plenty of detail here. The body wanted to spring up off its mounting posts in the back even though I was careful to make sure all the interior was seated in place. I drilled the posts out and tapped the holes then screwed it in place. You can just see them in the photo in the undertray. Side veiw. Those decals were a little tricky to get right. Anytime you have decals that come to a sharp point its a challenge. A pun on the name of the car. Top view shows the engine detail through the glass. I went out of my way to use a slightly different color red on the valve covers.

This is a Fujimi Porsche 911GT3R. This is the car Sebastion Loeb (the rally driver) drove in the Porsche Carrera Cup in 2013. Decals are from Studio 27 . The red had to be carefully matched to the decals and the sides are all painted on. The wing was matched to the darker blue. Overall this was a nice kit to do despite some of the fussy details. And it goes in quite nicely with my extensive Martini collection. One of the fussiest details was painting the clear red and blue on the center caps of the wheels. Those decals are 5 seperate pieces per side and didn't go on without a fight. Some Future varnish help hide a lot of the tiny wrinkles. The wheels steer in the kit but they fit in the wheel wells so tight, that they barely steer. Tires and brakes were nice.