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The wrapped steering wheel is the icing on the cake !

Very fine detailing on this awesome model, Michael - bravo !

I'm glad that I ordered the things I was interested in from them last year.

Your WIPs are real tutorials, Pierre - always to learn new techniques from you !

Very well done, Thomas !

Very impressive dashboard, Pierre !

You deliver always, Mario - nice model, looks very realistic!

Good-looking Chevelle, Ray ! Nice to have you back.

Thank you, Alex, Bruce and John - even if not perfect, it is one of my favourites in the collection !

Rob, sorry for answering that late: there is a dimensional problem with the whole body: it is simply too small in length and width (= ca. 1/27 scale), whereas height is about 1/25 and wheelbase is almost exactly 1/24 ! Heller obviously modeled the very first 907 longtail (Le Mans 1967), which is defined by its high windshield - see photos from Le Mans 1967 below (here are the doors and side windows correct, but the nose is wrong!) - without upper lip (which I simulated with paint) and added the rear wing and called it a 908. It has the markings for the 1969 1000 km of Paris (Monthlery) and NOT Monza, as I wrote which is wrong. Union and/or Wave call their reissues 907/908, IIRC. The 908 LH was mainly a worked over 907 with a 3-ltr instead of the 2,2 ltr.engine. But the dimensions grew a little bit which makes the model even look smaller: In true 1/24 scale the model should have (L x W x H): Porsche 907 LH 194 x 72 x 39 mm Wheelbase 96 mm Porsche 908 LH 202 x 76 x 39 mm WB 96 mm (all dimensions from wikipedia) the Heller model has: 180 x 65 x 37 mm WB 95 mm So the dimensions vary between 1/27 and 1/28 for a 908 and around 1/26 for a 907 , the height for both is about 1/25 scale and wheelbase is almost correct in 1/24 ! Aside from the windshield, the side windows/doors are wrong for later 907s and 908s - they should reach up more into the roof - here is the 908 from Le Mans 1969: Generally, the kit is very simplified and not at all complicated to build like some other Heller racecars. But it is a fake 908, at best it is a (underdimensioned) first-version 907 longtail with a 908 nose. I hope, I could answer your question.

Thanks, Chris, Larry and Ed !

This is supposed to be the winner of the 1975 Tour de France Automobile (European rally champion Bernard Darniche in a works-supported Stratos campaigned by Chardonnet, back then the Lancia importer for France). Here is a link to a spark model https://www.ebay.at/itm/284161955491 and below a photo of the actual car during the race:

Cool looking truck, Mario - this looks more than a few years (ab)used!

Excellent build of the most famous Ferrari !

There has been another Ferrari 250 GTO released by Revell Germany in the late 1980's: it is a reboxed Italeri kit (just like Testors did in the U.S.): Here is a built one with its original box (some modifications and aftermarket wheels from Jack modeling): Gunze Sangyo had also a curbside GTO in 2 versions: multimedia with white metal, rubber and photoetched parts and basic (plastic), the multimedia has also been reboxed by Airfix in England.

Mark, I can hear your sigh of relief all the way to Europe if you finally bring this to an end. Wheels look great, by the way.

Pierre, your controls are far superior to the original parts - be it handbrake, shifter or pedals ! Your speciality is turning a crude kit into a faithful replica, bravo ! Can't wait to see the next steps you are taking....

I have got a 1974 Ducati 750 Sport (Protar 1/9) from my brother as a present for my 60th birthday - for me, one of the most beautiful bikes ever ! Before starting to build it, I have to train my skills ...

missed this awesome car - a shame that it did not go into (limited) production.

Very interesting reading - thanks for the link to the article.

Tazio looks very good, Matt. In a book I bought in 1974 I learned that he was very often driving with a yellow pullover/shirt.

Excellent, Pierre - most excellent ! the modified exhaust system looks fantastic and lifts the whole model up to another level.

Thanks,Rich - biggest improvement is without doubt - for me - the tinted rear window with the black seal. Thanks, Robert - I think Gunze does not make kits any longer, under the name GSI creos they are making paints and other modeling material, but no more car kits, IIRC. Thanks, Bruce. Thank you, Pierre. I will do because it is such an iconic car and back then, by far my most expensive kit: I remember paying 590,00 ATS in 1989 (= equal to ca. € 45,00, this was before the Euro was introduced), when the Italeri Ferrari 250 SWB was sold for 120,00 in hobby stores. Thanks Jim. Cheers, Rex. I was angry when most of the P/E came loose and several got lost. At least the deflector on the hood had to be replaced (the side mounted ones were not installed at Sebring). The missing engine is no problem for me, as I don't like to detail engines. Thanks, Larry. Thank you, Dave, I really like this car. Thanks, Donato !

Here is a link - just click on the name of the company, and a page with thumbnail pics will open: http://www.auto-und-modell.de/pages/aktuell/3253/Spielwarenmesse-2025-Unser-Messerundgang/

The finer mesh looks better to me.