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Jurgen, I copied your post and brought it over to this thread.

Replicating louvers is always a problem. Louvers have a cross section like this: Unfortunately no manufacturer of styrene strips as Plastruct or Evergreen supplies something similar. Two apparently obvious solutions fail in most cases regarding scales 1/25 and larger: 3D transfer louvers are made for modelrailroads, thus they are usually too small. Transplanting kit louvers mostly fails because it is not very likely to find exactly the size and the number of louvers you need; moreover cannibalizing a kit is costly. I am going to describe two slightly different techniques of making louvers. Making louvers I. What do you need? For the samples shown here I used Plastruct quarter round rod 1.5mm/0.060". Your projects may require smaller or larger sizes. Indispensable is a drill stand with accurate height adjustment. As shown here I use an inexpensive Proxxon Minimot equipment. I simply added a modified clamp from Proxxon's Universal Holder and fixed it with the horizontal grey wing screw to the column. By turning the vertical chromed wing screw I can adjust the height of the rotary tool by fractions of a millimeter. Probably you remember this device from my wire wheel tutorial. As shown you need a large-diameter, non-flexible, thin saw blade. Mine is Micro Mark's #14137 with 2" dia. It works perfect. II. Making medium and large louvers From the quarter round rod cut equal sections of exactly the length of the desired louvers. Assemble four of these sections to form a four-piece round rod and hold them together with a piece of tube. Fix them additionally with a small strip of tape in order to prevent any slipping. Insert this asembly into your rotary tool and sand the protruding end to make a nice hemisphere. Do the same at the other end. Remove the four parts from the tube. Now they look like this. Superglue them onto a piece of styrene sheet. Adjust the height of the saw blade and "decapitate" them as shown here. Dispose the red part on the drawing. The green part is the louver. Deburr the louvers if necessary. The final result looks like this. ________________________ To be continued - any questions and comments welcome Greetings from Germany Jürgen

Impressive.

Happy to see the Transit coming back as well.

Great project. I'll be following.

Excellent build.

Final accumulation after 34 hours of snow. BWI Airport recorded 29.2" . This was the first morning.

As happens with far too many threads on this forum it gets hijack by a (usually contentious) discussion unrelated to the OP.

Fujimi also did a 1/24 scale 288 GTO.

Fabricated expansion tank.

Thanks Gene. Yea the output with 2x4 intake was rated at 300HP and Webers bumped it to 325HP

Here is what it looks like this morning and we are only about halfway through the storm.

Some progress.

We're in the eye of the storm. They are predicting 2 feet(!)

Is there anything available for European registrations?

I'll be watching Dale.

I like it better without the LeMan stripes too. Excellent work Rasto.

Paint does look good Gene. I vote for "Pony Express".

Very nice. I love this era of F1.

Pick up any version of the AMT Cobra kit Nie, they are all the same, and build along.

FYI that car was painted with a Tamiya rattle can with no clear applied.

Thanks Ernesto. I get lucky with the paint sometimes. I'm not a great painter.

Thanks Randy and your welcome, glad I could help.

Didn't know he was ill, big shock. From Hell Freezes Over which is a great live album.

I converted a utility closet in the basement into my modeling work shop.