Jim N

In the October 2015 race at Kansas, Microsoft and 343 Industries announced that they would be sponsoring two cars in the race. The Number 1 of Jamie McMurray would be decorated at Spartan Locke and Dale Earnhardt, Jr's car would be decorated as Master Chief. This is the Master Chief car. It is a Revell Chevy using Patto's Place decals. The decal sheet is a full wrap. I painted the car Krylon Camo Green and Krylon Sun Yello in the event that there were gaps in the decals. The issues with the Spartan Locke decals apply here as well. The model is built box stock. I lowered the stance of the car and added a few details to the dashboard. These are unique cars and thanks for looking at the pictures.

In the October 2015 race at Kansas, Microsoft and 343 Industries announced that they would be sponsoring two cars in the race. The Number 1 of Jamie McMurray would be decorated at Spartan Locke and Dale Earnhardt, Jr's car would be decorated as Master Chief. This is the Spartan Locke car. It is a Revell Chevy using Patto's Place decals. The decal sheet is a full wrap. I painted the car neon blue and black in the event that there were gaps in the decals. The decals are not sized for this model as they are sized for the slot car bodies sold at Patto's. Having written that, this was the only source for these decals. The model is built box stock. I lowered the stance of the car and added a few details to the dashboard. Being a full wrap the decals wrinkled in a few places, and lately, Patto's decals are reacting rather badly to the Micro Sol and Micro Set decal setting solutions in which the decal setting solutions exacerbates the wrinkling. These are unique cars and thanks for looking at the pictures.

Thanks for sharing the information Joe. Having an all volunteer military, we are very fortunate to have men and women who are willing to make the supreme sacrifice to defend the rest of us.

Jeff, thanks for sharing. I had a former co-worker who would say that family members will screw each other over and never show the least bit of remorse. He was applying the brush a little too broadly, but it seems to certainly apply in a number of cases.

Chris, you are absolutely right. This happens in our city all too often. The utility comes through jackhammers the hole, they fill it, and within a year the area that they tore up starts to sink.

Very nice looking model! My wife owned one of these when we were dating. It was so slow, but they all were under powered back then for fuel economy.

It looks really nice!

Beautifully done! Great job.

Looks very nice!

Looks very nice!

Very nice! One of my favorite race cars.

I never really cared for Bourdain. To me, he came across as pompous and too cranky. Having written this, I was sad hearing of his passing. It seems to be part of the human condition that we have our demons and our minds can wander off to some really dark places, but when it leads to someone taking his or her own life, it is really heartbreaking.

Looks really nice. The black hood pops really well with the orange body.

Wow, that looks nice. The interior and wheel detail is exquisite!

My apologies, I misunderstood your comment. Mike's Decals has a decal sheet of NACA ducts. They look pretty convincing as well and most every NASCAR kit that I have seen built uses the decals instead of the modeler trying to make one.

Some guys use a spring from a ball point pen or something of a similar size and shape it. Then they wrap the spring in electrical tape. It looks pretty convincing.

Very nice job!

Mark, I followed this in the wip section and your work is truly outstanding!

What you have is a good start. NASCAR over the past 7 - 10 years has made it so that the cars are fairly uniform across all of the tracks. Unlike the 90's and early 2000's when it seemed the high end teams had a car for almost every track. The one thing you may want to research is the NACA duct work. The teams usually run one or two more in the back quarter window. I think I may have seen a picture where Harvick's team ran duct work in the passenger side front window.

You're welcome Jonathon. I'm glad I could help.

I suggest going with the lightest gray you can find. I have seen a few of these cars in person, and the color is gray, but it can be mistaken for white.

Well done! I like it.

Looks really nice. The application of the decals is superb!

Great job! The weathering is great and I can't get over how realistic the tools look.

Great save on each. They both look real nice!