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Awesome White Western Star with chromed Mercury sleeper - did you lengthen the frame on this one ?

That was THOMAS (from Germany) - not me !!!

Nice looking conversion !

Or from Europe - this is quite common here.

Very nice and super clean built...

Exactly, this has to be the best build of this kit that I have seen yet (even with the correction of the front underpanel!)

Coke-bottle Vette at its best !!!

I also bought from Fisher Model and Pattern and Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland several years ago - both offer TOP service, after a few weeks I got my kits/parts in EXCELLENT quality!

The license plates come from Hannu Mikkola's 1979 Ford Escort Mk II RAC rally winner (Revell, former ESCI kit). The conversion from a Cooper to an Austin Seven is great !

Exactly my thoughts!

awesome - you raised the bar very high - especially the engine compartment is very nice!!! Do the wide non-stock wheels come from amt?

Fabulous, fantastic! (Only the glass-smooth point job is much too nice for a period race car)

Beautiful build of a legendary F1-racer which unfortunately killed our first world champion on his way to his championship.

To all of you country truckers, I strongly recommend 2 LP's I have in my collection with a few great truck songs: The very first longplayer from Little Feat with "Willin'" and "Truck stop girl" (from around 1970) and "Hot licks, cold steel and trucker's favourites" from Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (from 1972)

In my eyes, the most beautiful sports racer of all time !

My personal wish lists: European 1/24: Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Lancia Aurelia B20 Coupé GT Lamborghini Espada (first series) Ford Lotus Cortina Mk I (1965/66) Triumph TR4 Jaguar E 4,2 (first series) Coupé Volvo 122 S (or 123 GT) Citroen SM Renault 16 TS Peugeot 404 Mercedes 230 SL Opel Commodore GS/E (first series) BMW 3,0 CSL American 1/25: 1962 Jeep Gladiator P/U any 1955 to 1968 cars that we have not seen for a very long time, even reissues (Pontiacs, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, De Sotos etc.) Well, back to reality again!

Yes and no, Gerry: the presently available Revell 250 GTO is the reboxed ex-Protar kit (with 4 openings and totally wrong proportions), but in 1988 Revell AG reissued the Italeri/Testors 250 GTO with new decals under # 7293 (I built one back then, but don't have the box any more) - here is a link to one which was on ebay not long ago (7 pics showing the box contents!): http://www.ebay.ie/itm/301935602144

Very nice models, Steve! Perfect execution, as always! Where are the spoke wheels on the '64 from (I guess Monogram/Aurora Jaguar XKE/Maserati 3500 or Aston Martin DB4)?

x 2: Great looking late 60's/early 70's paint scheme!!! Also that you painted the rear wheels and frame the same color as the lower cab ! Excellent execution !

I just got my timo Mäkinen kit from Hobby Link Japan: Awesome!!! Though curbside, the kit is loaded with details: metal transfer emblems, fabric strips in blue and black for the seat belts, delicate photo-etch parts for the belt buckles, grill, brake discs and more, fantastic decal sheet by Cartograf, a perfectly proportioned body (Tamiya quality!) 2 different sets of tires (gravel/asphalt) round and square headlights, windshield wipers for right hand (Roger Clark, 1972) and left hand drive version (Timo Mäkinen, 1973), 2 different grilles with either round (rally!) or square headlights (racing!) - maybe I have forgotten some details, but this kit cries for being built in several versions: with the slicks and minilite mags swapped from Revell/ESCI's Escort MkII it is possible to make a Broadspeed or Alan Mann Touring Car racer (RHD).... I'm gonna get me at least one more - the Roger Clark's version looks good, too.....

Unfortunately he doesn't ship to Europe...

Indeed! Moreover, it seems to become more and more common to buy a new kit for 25,00 $, cannibalize it and try to sell the parts/trees for all together 150,00 upwards... for example: grill 9,99, headlights 7,99, cab 14,99, hood 12,99, engine 16,99, sleeper14,99, exhaust pipes 12,99, mudflaps 8,99 and so on... I saw things like that more and more frequently on ebay USA. Crazy, isn't it?

Looks great - PEACE, brother!!! Is this a resin copy of ARII's Japanese bus body (1/32) mated to the front of amt's '50 Chevy PU ? I had the idea to combine this one with an amt PU cab to create a school bus but stepped back because of the bus interior (rather boring...)

Perfect execution, Michael - I don't think someone could come any closer to the original ! Very nice!!!

x 2: GREAT job, Charles - very convincing !