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There is quite a bit of work (dealing with that metal body) up ahead for you, Pierre. But I can assure you, the styrene body kit shows the very same heavy parting lines... Anyway, the outcome will be great - of course, I will follow your WIP.

Great build of this famous Le Mans winner, Rich ! I'm very sorry for Paul Fisher but at least I have some of his models still unbuilt in my stash.

You might have confused this with the Revell AG version which has too much ground clearance (Jägermeister and/or Vaillant version) ...

Very good looking Porsches, Pierre - good idea to build some simpler kits after these exhausting SWB/SLR work ! I'm looking forward to your XK-120 (I have it in my stash too, but the full plastic version - no die-cast body)

Message sent !

Very nice collection, Phil - Dan Gurney was one of the all-time greats in motor racing history. The Gurney display in your cabinet shows some awsome models!

Very clean looking build - one of the most astethically pleasing F1 car of the 90's.

Absolutely great build !

Good looking F100 - or should I say poor? Anyway, perfect weathering of this trusty old PU - and now off to the body shop for a restoration!

Looks great with its aggressive nose-down rake.

Here is a road version from 1976 driven by Franz Wittmann, multiple Austrian rally champion, in a road test for the Austrian autorevue magazine:

You've come to the right place, Bill - all of us are plasticoholics !

3 models from Modelissimo (Germany) arrived this week: as they were on sale, I paid about € 12 each for the Opel and the VW and € 16 for the Porsche (+ shipping): Here they are: the 1972 Opel Commodore B is from the German Opel series (opening doors): the VW is the 1974 VW Brasilia from the Mexican series (no openings) - I bought this one mainly for its wheels because I want to build a Porsche Salzburg VW Beetle 1303 S rally car (Winner of the Rally d'Elba 1973) which has exactly the same. And finally the Porsche 356 from Whitebox: it is an early 356 A from 1955 - excellent proportions and fine details: All of these are made by IXO.

Perfect decaling on this good-looking curbside Jaguar, Steve (I built the Silk Cut version way back then)

Excellent, Shawn - the decals and wheels are fantastic, also the paint. The car looks almost like a 1972 Opel Commodore with 1972 Chevelle front and rear ends crafted on.

Mark, you did a wonderful job here - excellent, highly detailed model ! I tried 1/43 in my younger days (more than 30 years ago), but gave up on it: too small, too fiddly for me - you really deserve the name Scale-Master !

Mario, I still don't know how you manage to crank out so many nice models in such a short time...

Pierre, Gary's BMW 3,0 CSL (Tokyo Maruii) looks great, but the 3,5 CSL from ARII/Micro Ace only looks good on the box lid, but is really awful - body distorted (grill and headlights too small, front spoiler huge!, wheels too tiny, tires too fat ==> it looked like the box of the US Airfix version in your post(could have been the same kit), the decals are junk, the whole kit is a mess - so I sold it a few years ago. The Gunze 365 GTB however, is a toy and not a model kit in my eyes with a very shallow stock ( !) interior and a sheet with racing decals - the body shows similarities with the real car, the rest is totally useless (eventually for slot racing). I wanted to take some pics, but could not find it anywhere.

This looks like a well-used racer from back then - very nice details and weathering (and of course, the base-plate, too)!

Excellent manufacturing of the grille, Dave !

Similar with me: I started ca. 1969 with sailing ships and 1/72 airplanes from Airfix, moved on to their 1/32 car kits (in plastic bags!), in the mid 70's a few Matchbox 1/32 cars. I really started in 1982 with 1/25 American trucks and cars and have now moved to 1/24 (mainly) sports and race cars.

Very nice model, Rich - I was thinking the same as Gary (NO race car this time?) but I now remember other non-racers from you, f. e. the Jaguar E's and some more...

Looks good, Rex - I guess this is the tilt/Maruii kit ?

Super-clean build of anAmerican icon, Anders - excellent paint and detailing/foiling!

With your fine detailing and excellent weathering you really brought this kit to life and turned it into a remarkable model, Pierre ! Juan would be pleased to see it - very realistic !