Peter Lombardo

Very well executed. The silver paint is perfect for the era, very clean and precise.

Very well done, just beautiful. The paint is fantastic. Great detail!

Great job! My wife owned a GT (1973) when we dated. Hers was blue and a lot of fun to drive. It became too unreliable in the winter and on rainy days so it was traded in on a VW Rabbit. Less fun, but started every time. Today we own a roadster MGB and a MGA only driven on warm sunny days. I love the paint job you did, very nice build.

I really like that you went with a blue interior, most all other white 58s have the red gut, I prefer the blue. Nice build. I have the kit on the shelf and one of these days it will get built just not sure what style though.

You are right, it is something different. Beautiful build, super sharp! Nothing beats a clean smooth black paint job. Very well done.

Really nice, very smooth and clean. Sharp!

Very well done and extremely clean with very smooth paint. Love the interior too.

Crazy looking build, very well done, and very mean! Wicked!

This build started life as the Indy Pace Car, but then it went off the rails. Wheel well openings were enlarged with the front openings molded into the front air dam. Road lights were added to the front grill. Lower side flairs were installed and connected to the wheel arch openings. The rear spoiler was molded into the body. An air intake opening was added to the hood. Integrated rearview mirrors were installed to replace the stock units. Roof panels and rear window were tinted dark. The doors were opened and hinged as the rear window hatch was also hinged. The car was lowered and parts box wheels which I have had for about 20 years were installed with stenciled Goodyear logo’s sprayed on. The kit is very simplified under the hood so I added some detail. I did not go crazy with it. I added the A/C compressor and radiator and then the power steering pump and the associated hoses. I added a few vacuum hoses, wiper fluid bottle and terminal boxes just to add to the previously vacant space. The car was painted Tamiya Silver Leaf, then a custom mix of Tamiya Gunmetal and Silver was masked off and a stripe was painted down the center of the car spreading out on the front to mimic the stripe on one of the Corvette Grand Sport race cars from the early sixties. Then I sprayed on a mix of 70% Tamiya Clear Orange and 30% Tamiya Clear Red with a small amount of Micro Gold Powder to add a little highlight to the paint in the sun. Then it was rubbed out with wax. My only complaint is that the hood would not fit properly in the final build because of the windshields placement interferes with the rear end of the hood. In the mock-ups I did, I did not have the windshield in place so I was unaware of the fitment issue until it was too late to correct it in the final build-up. My bad for trusting Revell and not testing the fit of the hood with the windshield taped in place. I had planned to add wipers, since the kit does not have them, but there is no space for them. That’s it, this was a fairly quick and enjoyable build and overall, I like the look and color choice although I had originally planned on a Blue car, not Red.

Great detail workmanship. Workmanship we should all aspire to achieve . Well done. Very nice.

Very well done, so very clean and smooth and the photography is outstanding. I am curious, did you open both doors and is the driver door hinged?

Pretty sharp, well done! Smooth!

great looking builds of vehicles that we don't see every day, rare and beautiful.

Beautiful! The colors work perfectly. I have done flames like this a number of times and realize how much work you did to get such great results. Impressive to say the least. Well done! You should be very proud of this one!

Great looking "traditional BRG" Jaguar. This and it's coupe brother, really are fabulous looking vehicles. so very "sexy" and purposeful at the same time. Nicely done.

Yes, in fact I had some issues. When just fitting the two body sections together before the build they fit very nicely together. But because I opened the doors, the hinges got in the way of the inner sections of the interior next to the dashboard area, which if not properly dealt with will cause the body bottom to be wider than the hood sides. . It required a fair amount of test fitting and eventual trimming of the inner sections in order to get the fit "reasonable". The lower section that is under the hood when completed had a tendency to spread outward which made the lower section which is attached to the back half of the body wider than the hood section, and therefore a poor fit resulted. Be mindful of the inner cowl which mates to the body and maybe sand it down so it does not, in any way, cause the body to be wider than it needs to be. Just the act of fitting the body over the interior/frame section can cause the body to be wider than the hood. Prior to building these two XKE's, I did a dark red one, that is not quite finished. I did not pay close attention to the front of the lower body section as I should have and that caused the fit to be unacceptable. So even though I like the color of the couple, it may never get the chance to see the light of day, all because of the very poor fitting of the hood to the body. This is one of the pitfalls of opening the doors and not allowing sufficient room inside for the hinges. Do a lot of test fitting and do not allow anything to cause the lower body to be wider than it should be.

Superb clean build. The side trim improvement looks great with no residue of the surgery. Very nice.

Very nice, I'm a sucker for anything gullwing. Well done modifications. Sharp.

Three Jaguars 1. Revell Jaguar XK-120 Roadster This kit was purchased many years ago and just sat idly on the shelf until Revell released their current XKE Series One Coupe and Roadster which gave me the inspiration to pull it out and build it. Relatively stock except I opened and hinged the doors (that was tricky because it cut the body into 4 pieces, front, back and 2 doors) and trunk. In the trunk I added a spare tire and attached a luggage rack, of unknown origin, from one of my many parts boxes. I was not content with the ride height out of the box, so, just as I did with all three cars, I lowered the front wheels about a scale 2 inches which, I think, gave the cars a better looking stance. I added, as the kit omitted them, custom designed photo-etch windshield wipers. The exterior paint is a custom mix I made of Tamiya White and Black (mostly all white) making a rather light Dove Gray. The wheels and Interior are Tamiya Deep Red raddle can, with the wheels getting a top coat of gloss. 2. Revell Jaguar XKE Series One Roadster. Again, basically box stock. I opened and hinged the doors and lowered the front wheels a bit. The kit tires were painted to represent wide white-wall tires as I like the way it looks with period correct wide whites. I detail washed the wire wheels to give them more depth. I hinged the front hood so it opens to reveal the engine. The interior, convertible top, and boot are painted in a variety of saddle browns and tans all custom mixed Tamiya paints, some brushed and some airbrushed. The Exterior has a base coat of Tamiya AS-29 Gray Green (IJN) paint intended for military application. This is a flat paint, so it was top coated with Tamiya Gloss Clear with Jacquard #674 Interference Gold Pigment to give it a gold pearl overtone, then covered again with just Tamiya Gloss Clear from the airbrush. 3. Revell Jaguar XKE Series One Coupe. (one of, if not the most, beautiful car ever designed) Again, basically box stock. I opened and hinged the doors and the rear hatch, which, I think is extra cool as it hinges from the left side, and not the top as most all other sports coupes do and lowered the front wheels a bit. The kit tires were also painted to represent wide white-wall tires as I like the way it looks with period correct wide whites. I detail washed the wire wheels to give them more depth. The Interior is basically identical to the roadster in color and paints used with the addition of metal trim strips on the hatch carpeting. The Exterior is a custom mix of Tamiya Silver, Medium Blue, and a touch of Tamiya clear Red. Then it was topped with a mix of Tamiya Gloss Clear with a few drops of Tamiya Clear Blue added and House of Kolor Ice Pear Blue Micro flakes to give it a pearl blue overtone. As with the Roadster, I hinged the front hood too.

Razer sharp perfect. Beautiful in every detail.

Just beautiful, a real stunner. As close to the real thing as you can get.

Nice work. I also built this kit and was also disappointed with it. I sent a rather nasty e mail to Revell after I opened the box. They produce the 427 kit in 1/24th but chose to do this one in 1/25th. Why? The engine detail is mediocre and the suspension left a lot to be desired. You did a very nice job on a rather poor kit for this day and age. It is only marginally better than the old 1963 AMT molding.

Like everyone is saying, great build. Some times, it just takes persistence and determination to cross the finish line. Well, you got there. Nice work. Growing up, early on my dad had a black '56 Fairlane so I always prefer the slight differences in the details of the '56 over the '55, but the "55 is far more rare in the model world. Well done. And glad you finished it.

Very nice, so very clean. Really well done.

Nice, the colors work perfectly. Very well done.