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Excellent execution and a very nice tribute to your father, Jeff !

Once again you created a marvellous model of a legendary racecar, Dave ! Thanks for showing us all these gems !

Very nice !

Donald, this is an outstanding build - period-correct colors, excellent overall execution (not to mention the lighting!)

Very cool rod !

Excellent truck - this one could easily be mistaken for the real thing !

He almost always posted ultraclean cars with high-gloss finishes in the Model cars/Under glass section. His last visit to the forum was on December 7, 2024.

Wow, Rich - excellent model with so many additional pthotoetch detail parts ! This was the ultimate Group B car - Lancia took it to the extreme with 4WD, supercharger AND turbocharger.

Chris, these wheels are not sized specifically - you may order them with the dimensions that suit your needs: you must determine the diameter of the wheels, the width and the offset (if you want to have wider, deep-dish rear wheels). Jason will print them exactly to your wishes. By the way, you are right concerning the Gunze Abarth 1000 TCR: I have only one of these (paid too much for it, and was very disappointed when I got it finally: seats and steering wheel bone stock, no roll cage, front fender flares wrong, wheels toylike)

Very nice looking Alfa, Larry ! I remember this one building as a 11 year old around 1970 - a brush-painted glue-bomb (was in clear plastic bag back then - no box). You show what can be done with a bit of TLC with these old kits.

Received today some Campagnolo Abarth wheels I ordered from Jack modeling. Jason custom-made them for me and they look perfect ! Just the right rims for my B.R.M. and Gunze Sangyo Abarth 1000 TCRs and the Nakamura 1969 Abarth 2000 Pininfarina prototipo: . First a pic of the original wheels: Here are Jason's 3D printed wheels: Very crisp and highly detailed (as always) - I recommend them to all fans of Italian sports cars ! If interested, please contact Jason via e-mail: contact.jackmodelling@gmail.com I'm sure he will include them in his range as he did with the Alfa Romeo 1900 and the Ferrari 275 GTB/4 (412 P) wheels I ordered from him. if there is enough interest.

This will be interesting to watch, Matt. I never knew that Nuvolari also drove an MG.

Another excellent racing car from your bench is approaching the chequered flag, Dave. Can't wait to see it finished !

You are finishing 2 great Alfa Romeos at the same time, Dave !

Very nice - will you build the 1957 Mille Miglia GT class winning car of Olivier Gendebien or Peter Thorndyke's adversary of Jim Douglas' VW Beetle from "The love bug" ?

Very nice build - captures the period look exactly !

They look good - you get 3 carbs with 7 intake trumpets (2 versions): With 2 sets I can equip three 4-cylinder engines:

Got some 3 D printed parts for my Alfa Romeo GTA kits :

Mark, I'm not 100 % sure if the last photo shows the 2 C - it might also be the 2 A (the front wheels look narrower to me).

I think it should be moved forward a little bit - further away from the driver (I drew a line with a pencil on my 2 C body - see picture above) - this is what I found on the internet: and finally (after the crash in Nassau): On the other pictures that I saved you can't see not much of the dashboard.

Excellent build, Ken !

Mark,the only right side photo I could find was in Jim Hall's biography "Texas Legend" (the books of Richard Falconer/Doug Nye and Dave Friedman show only the other side). It shows the car at its first outing, when it won at Kent/Washington (or maybe at Riverside, the attached text does not tell it) No scoop behind the front wheel. In your post of April 14 you show the left side view at Riverside, where it was a non-starter after 2 suspension failures in practice and in the warm-up. Here is a right side view from Riverside practice: also NO additional scoop here: The kit is supposed to represent the car at its last race at the Nassau speedweek, where Jim Hall DNFed due to an accident. It has the additional scoop, the horizontal exhaust through the mesh in the rear panel and the high-mounted carburettors. It also has the steeper and higher fins now. I found a few pictures on the web: And finally, a photo of the Nassau version with body panels removed: Mark, I hope this info is useful for you - the fins in the kit are ok for the earlier version - no need to modify them.

Sorry, no - it is lying on my bench for more than a year now (finished other models in the meantime), still not really started: I'm not sure if I should try to correct the kits flaws : the instrument panel, the rear fins should be a bit steeper and higher (which also needs relocating of the rear wing's pivoting point), the rear body panel should be a little bit more vertical, the side scoops are wrong /missing, the rear mesh is not correct (when compared with a picture of the original at Nassau), an interior has to be created and the wheels are still a problem (HRM's wheels + shipping + customs and import taxes would come up to about $ 50.00, and I'm not gonna pay that for a kit that cost me $ 20.00) My solution for the mesh is as follows: I cut the mesh parts out of a steel mesh and will glue it directly into the recesses of the kit body. This should almost be perfectly flush (It is not glued yet). 1/24 scale white metal spring hood pins are from Scale Production, see pics: As I am not sure if I should put all that effort into this oversimplified model, it will be lying around much longer, I suppose.

Coming back from a trip to Belgium, I found this on my doorstep on Friday: 3 D printed Maserati tipo 60/61 (Birdcage) from jpgmodels of Slovenia.

Missed this one somehow, Rich - awesome model of a street-legal racecar. I've never built an Aoshima kit up to now - looks almost like Tamiya quality. Did you make your trademark "steering front wheels" here or was it provided in the kit ?