1959scudetto

Beautiful Build, Lin - super smooth glossy paint !

Thank you, Gareth ! Thanks, Tom ! Thanks, Bob !

Outstnding craftsmanship and excellent pictures, Michal !

Outstanding build, Lin - very impressive !

Excellent build, Pavel - looks very realistic!

Thanks, David. Thank you, Anders !

Very good looking Mack, Graham!

KJ, you continue to amaze me - perfect to the very last detail (even my wife found it awesome)!

Thanks, Carl !

x 2l - how could I miss this one?

Great looking Autocar, Dan - this is the real thing for construction sites.

Looks even better with these tires, Dan!

This is definitely no Tamiya marketing gag: Believe it or not, John Coombs Racing prepared Jaguars for the British Touring Car Championship in the early 60's which they dominated from 1960 to 1962 - drivers were Graham Hill, Roy Salvadori and others, and one of these cars had that very license plate BUY 12 (another team car had BUY 1)- see pictures:

Very impressive model, Ken - it was the FIRST japanese car that won Le Mans and the ONLY one with a Wankel (rotary) engine. In recent past, Toyota has won the last 4 races there: 2018-2019-2021 and 2021

Thanks, Bob.

Awesome, Urs -looks like the real thing !

Thank you, Bill - you have a nice collection here - are there also some Cudas in between?

Thank you, Frank! Thanks, David - everything shows some signs of decay after some decades... Merci, Philippe ! Thanks, Craig ! Thank you. Larry!

Here is my contribution to the Challenger theme - one of the best looking muscle/ponycar in my opinion: Both are quick out-of-the-box builds without further detailing: amt's 1970 Challenger R/T Convertible was built from the '79 Matchbox/amt release - molded in yellow, it got only a clearcoat. mpc's 1974 Challenger Coupé was an annual kit I got from a pen-pal from Indiana in 1986. Impressed by the movie "Vanishing point", I sprayed it in white with a clearcoat and added the custom front spoiler - otherwise it is box-stock. Built in 1988, the following 2 photos are from 2008: Last winter, I sold both of them - whereas the Convertible was in a rather good condition, time has not been very kind to the mpc '74 annual: the clear coat showed very visible signs of yellowing - much more than in 2008, and the vinyl tires were eating up the wheels which were melting and showed kind of bubbles around the circumference - I cut these off as good as I could, but obviously those tire/wheel combos were not meant to survive more than 45 years... Here are some more pics (this time from Dec. 2020):

Spectacular model, John - I won't have the patience for all these decals !

Exceptionally well built model, Ken - for me, this is the best looking front engine rail dragster ever.

While there is no doubt about Anders masterful build of this car, Revell made a mistake with the wheels: my impression is that the outer diameter maybe right, but the inner (spoke wheel) diameter is too large and therefore the black sidewalls of the tires are a bit too low for the period (a few years ago I saw in a magazine pictures of the restored E-Type coupe of Jochen Rindt which sported the same non-period-correct low-profile tires).

Especially the Lotus Cortina (Jim Clark or Alan Mann/John Whitmore) would be great, or an Aston Martin DB5/DB6/DBS - what about an Abarth 1000 TCR (it was available from Tamiya as an R/C car) - the Gunze version leaves a lot to be desired!

Superb KW Coe, KJ - your builds are perfect !

I can't await the final result, KJ - the Thermo King unit is a model in itself !!!