Jim N

I use gallon size Zip Lock bags. No calories.

I use acrylic paint and dilute with water. I think it cleans up more easily if I screw up. With the acrylic paint, you may have to apply the wash twice to get the coverage you want.

Nicely done! I built this one several years ago and it remains one of my favorite builds.

My first car was a 1975 Matador. It was not a very good car, but I kind of miss it.

The kits will be fine. Anything else should go in a checked suit case. I have travelled this way a number of times.

I store mine in gallon size zip lock bags and put them on a shelf.

I like the number 2. It has a bit more heft.

I saw the videos on the Senna F1 kit and they send you a parts pack every month through out the subscription. These kits are more of an assembly of pre - finished parts. There do not seem to be many parts that require painting or the application of decals. That being stated, I would be extremely concerned about making a catastrophic mistake and sending $2500.00 down the drain.

Looks very nice!

Very well done. You did a great job on the body molding.

That is really outstanding work! I love the color.

Very well done.

If you have an Ace Hardware close to you, they have a color that I believe is called School Bus Yellow, which is virtually the same as the GM color. I have painted a couple of Kodak cars using the MCW paint, which is supposed to be the GM color. The School Bus Yellow is virtually the same.

Very, very nice.

I have read most of this thread and will say this. This technology is coming and it will do amazing things. Whether a model kit is one of them, time will tell. The only problem I see with this idea is that it transfers all of the risk to the buyer. Right now if two of us buy a kit, we both get the same thing and the quality is the same. With 3D printing, the quality of the model may come down to who has the best printer and possibly the supplies. Given the printers out there for printing of text and graphics, a person can spend $30 up to thousands. The print quality is different as is the capabilities. If one is printing a school report, it largely does not matter what kind of printer the person uses. If the person is doing high end work, the printer matters. If this is where we go with 3D printed models, the concept may be in trouble. If I can only afford a low end printer and the printed model is low end, there is no point. I may be able to turn it into something nice, but if I am in a contest with a person of the same skill set who has the high end equipment the result will likely be very different. It would be like taking a person who built a kit box stock and put him in the same class as one who machines his own kit. As I stated at the beginning of this post, the technology is coming and it will do amazing things. We will have to see how or if it applies to model kits.

If I may offer a suggestion, the only thing you can do is make the builders prove they built the model. Make them bring the box, the instructions, etc. The judges are a different matter. You can have bad judges no matter how hard you screen them.

Very cool!

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I will look at this some more.

Having seen the car at the track, it is a neon green. http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki A couple after she came out on the losing end of tangling with one of the Burger King cars http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki http://www.fotki.com'>Hosted on Fotki

I posted this kit a few months ago and it received a tepid response and several members made suggestions for improvements. The suggestions fell into two categories. The first was with the wheels. I tried something different with them by painting them all black and some thought this was too much. The others were a bit scattered but I came away with the impression that there was too much green. I am going through a bit of a lull in building now and pulled this one off of the shelf and give it a critical look to see if to see if I wanted to change it up a bit or leave it alone and chalk it up to differences in taste. I decided to change it up slowly, so that if I didnt like something or I went too far, I could go back. I started with the wheels first and painted the spokes aluminum to give them some separation from the tire, so that it didnt look like one black blob in the wheel well. When I finished this, I looked at the rest of the car. I didnt have decals to add as some suggested, so I tried painting the hood semi gloss black, like Chrysler did with some of their muscle cars back in the day. I think the result is much better. Below are a couple of pictures from the first attempt and then below those are the revisions. Thanks for looking and the comments on the first build. Couple of pictures of first build. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Revised build Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Thanks for looking.

Nicely done!

Looks good. I built that one several years ago and it turns into a nice looking model. The number of decals presents a challenge!

Thanks for the comments. This may be a difficult kit to find because I think Starter is no longer in business. They were or are a French company that specialized in 1/43 scale resin kits. They made a number of NASCAR kits as well. I did an internet search prior to typing this and had a very difficult time finding any information about them. I had this one for well over 10 years before I finally built it.

Looks very nice!

Looks nice.