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Very nice build, Greg - I can't see any issues here. Great idea with the Rudge enter-lock wheels !

Sorry for flooding your thread,Pierre - I will hold back from now on.

Pierre, the Italeri wheels are from their late 80's model kits: all classic Ferraris had those wires with same tire size front and rear, and the 300 SL (roadster and gullwing) had these tires also. The 1987 Revell GTO (Italeri reissue has them, too: The 2007 Revell GTO (= Protar reissue) sports the aforementioned Protar wheels: These are the kits from my stash which I took the tires from.

Fantastic model, Marcus !

A few thoughts concerning the wheels: Looking through my stash of kits, I recently discovered that the old Protar 250 GTO (which has been reissued by Revell AG in 2007) has an misshapened body (will be used as a donor for resin kit), but very delicately molded 3-piece wire wheels. Best thing is: it has even 4 parts for outlaced spokes that are not to be used in this kit ! They certainly can be combined with the Italeri back halfs for the Italeri kit tires as well (but these are of the same size front and rear). Here are some pictures (at 10 p.m. unfortunately no daylight pics are possible): on the left the Protar wheels - besides the Monogram chrome tree. The tires are rather crude with Dunlop Racing on the outside and Continental on the other side (fronts) but totally blank (rears): left: Protar front - right Monogram: Here are the rear wheels: from left to right: Monogram - Protar - Italeri I'm not sure if it is possible to tone down convincingly the glossy sticky surface of the Protar vinyl tires, you still have the crude side profile... Maybe I will use the smaller Protar wheels with outside spokes front and Italeris rear. Italeri: Diameter ca. 27 mm, Protar front ca. 26,5 and Protar rear 27 mm (ca. 27,5 mm with Italeri's rims inserted - fits, but stretches the tire a little bit)

Fantastic model, Matt - one of F1's alltime greats in probably the worldwide best known livery (as is Gulf in sports car racing)!

Do you mean these two: https://www.carmodel.com/de/mondomotors/mm51049/1-24/lamborghini/miura-p400s/27532 https://www.carmodel.com/de/mondomotors/mm51055/1-24/maserati/mc12-2006/29851 I don't have any of them so I can't comment on them.

Very fine model, David - a lot of work must have gone into this !

Nice photo collection, Pierre - but one mistake has occurred: # 19 is John Surtees in the 330 P 2 (1965 Le Mans) - see here:

From ebay Italy 2 Lancias from the 70's: 1/25 Mebetoys Lancia Beta Coupé (silver, first series 1973 - 75) and 1/25 Polistil Lancia (Beta) Montecarlo (green, first series 1975 - 78) - mostly complete, the Beta is missing its Giro d'Italia bicycle race equipment, but will be turned into a rally version, the Montecarlo is missing its wipers:

Absolutely fantastic model, Gary ! - my very first (and favorite) JoHan model kit.

Pierre, I was thinking in a similar way (I have this in my stash) and will possibly use the wheels from Academy/Minicraft's 250 LM (outlaced spokes at the front, correct wheel and tire size). The 1964 version had an elongated body (especially at the rear) and the windshield has a not-so-steep rake, IIRC. But Ferrari used this '63 body version also in 1964 - I can't await what you are doing with it - we certainly will see a marvellous model again.

The wheels are definitely too flat, but look at the other extreme : Monogram (ex-Aurora) DB 4 gluebomb (will be restored)

DMC decals of Denmark have a huge selection of Motorsport and sponsor decals - highly recommended ! Here is a link: https://www.dmc-decals.dk/41677918.html

Very nice, Janos - these Royales must be very impressive in reality - I happened to see one 15 years ago in Vienna at the "Chrome jewels" exhibition in the technical museum. I think it was on loan from the Mulhouse collection in France:

Exactly my thoughts, Pierre - I can fully dive into an object that ignites my passion (mainly sports and race cars from the 50's to the 70's) whereas finishing a model that does not really interest me can be a real pain (this is why it took me more than 20 years to finish that commission-built '48 Chevy). Running your imagination wild and then researching different variations of a car using various sources is also important and adds a lot to the fun of modeling.

Very nice !

Great save/resurrection of this splendid Group C racer, Justin - looks excellent !

I have sold off 26 of my 1/25 and 6 of my 1/24 kits in the last 2 weeks.

After carefully watching the pictures, a certain detail tops it off: those beautiful mesh screens on top of the intake trumpets - for me the icing on the cake!

Then there is hope for a reissue :-)

Very nice Rich - these are some of the best-looking F1 cars ever and you did them justice ! I would like to see your whole race car collection... I have the original Clark 49 (and Rindt's 49 C/ Monaco 1970 winner) in my stash, so at least I do not have to backdate a later version - I wonder when I will find time to get to them. Moreover, the original 49 should urgently be reissued by Ebbro!

Makes a huge difference, Tim - I was tempted to buy this model some years ago, but it was offered as Franklin Mint (?)

Much better than the original spoke wheels, Tim !

Congratulations for building this one - I had the kit and sold it off again.