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Very nice, Bruce! Such a great livery. I built this one years ago and it is still one of my favorites.

I love these cigar cars! The Lotus is iconic! What a beautiful model of a beautiful car. Very well done!

What a great looking Charger!

I just read through this thread for the first time. You are doing a fantastic job on this! I have really enjoyed reading through this thread. Glad I found it!

Thanks for checking in, guys. Yeah, so I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree and I'm probably a bit passive-agressive...lol. I did not reach out to Hiroboy. I was dumbfounded that they would send the HD detail up set, which is packaged in an envelope, in a bubble mailer. The best I could have hoped for was maybe an apology and a discount on my next order. At any rate, I have posted the evidence of their quality shipping methods in several places and they will probably not get any more of my business. I believe that I can straighten out most of the damage, but there are some items that I can't get the kink completely out of.

I don't get to spend as much time on MCM as I would like to, so I am always a little behind on being able to go through all of the posts. I just now got to look through this thread. If there is a Pierre Rivard fan club, I want to be the president of it! I love the concept and I am really loving the finish on the body of the Nova! I appreciate all of the updates and the captions / explanations of what you have done. Keep it up and I'm looking forward to your next updates.

Thanks, Bruce! I had one heckuva time getting this to post. I cleared everything, restarted the laptop and started over and it took. I added a few pics to the original post.

Here is what is next up on the bench. The Fujimi Fina liveried McLaren F1 GTR Long Tail. I know the Aoshima kit is a better kit but Fujimi has the Fina livery. Here is the kit and the kit contents. You may have noticed the Hobby Design detail up set and an aftermarket masking set in with the kit contents. These items were purchased through Hiroboy. Someone at Hiroboy thought it would be a good idea to send this fragile PE set from England to the USA in a bubble mailer. I was not impressed. The PE sheets were badly bent up. It makes me question buying anything from Hiroboy in the future. The Hobby Design set is very nice. Lastly, two pictures of the real thing. I think she is beautiful!!

Very, very nice, Mario!

Very nice, Marc! Such a cool car. Thanks for sharing it. I have this one in the stash and have some aftermarket items for it. I want to do the same livery that you did. Whose paint did you use? Looks like a nice match.

This one put a smile on my face! Cool looking pavement pounder!

You gotta love the Tide Ride! Great job on it, Kevin!

A very heartfelt and sincere thank you to everyone who liked and commented on my post!! I truly appreciate it!

Love it! I love that airplane. I have always read and heard that Eduard kits are very nice. You did a stunning job on the shading and weathering on this! I'm so glad that I decided to take a look at it. Great job!

Todd, Gravity Colors, Zero Paints and Splash Paints are lacquers. I have used all three brands. Zero has a reputation for being "hot". That has been my experience. However, I have used their Pure Brilliant White on several models with no issues whatsoever. I cannot speak to Fire Scale, MCW or Scale Finishes. I have not used these. Fire Scale does have lacquers.

I have had absolutely nothing but wonderful service from Gravity Colors! Their primer is all I use these days. They are the first place I look when looking for a specific color. I’m glad that you had a positive experience with them.

I thought that I would share my latest completed model with you. This the Revell 2005 C6 Corvette. Here is the link to the WIP thread in case you are interested. My overall impression of the kit is a good one. I would recommend it. Fit was good, no flash to speak of, and it looks the part. I wanted a dark blue Vette with red accents throughout. There are pictures of the inspiration for this build in the WIP. It is painted in Gravity Colors (Spain) Lexus LFA Liquid Blue. The hood and roof are done in Scale Motorsports carbon fiber. The kit's chrome wheels were stripped and painted in AK Interactive Xtreme Metals Metallic Smoke. I felt this tied in with the CF decals quite well. On to the pictures. Let me know what you think! Forgive me for a gratuitous picture. I finished this model the night before the show. I will admit that it was a smaller show, but I was very pleased with the results of its debut outing. Thank you for looking!

Fandamntastic!!!

Time to look at the body. I primed the body in Gravity Colors (Spain) Dark Gray Primer and then shot it in their Lexus LFA Liquid Blue (see my first post for a picture of the paint). I shoot thin coats and set a timer for 10 minutes between coats. Even with this, I ended up with crazing on the hood, roof, and a couple of small parts on the body. I was able to fix the body, but I had no luck fixing the hood and roof. More on that later. Here is the body in color after repairing the areas that were crazed. Here she is after clear. The clear is still wet in these pictures. Masked up to paint the black areas and the marker lights. So, what did I do about the hood and roof? Carbon fibered them of course! Note that this picture was brightened up a good bit so that you could see the CF. The blue is nowhere near this bright. This is the last update. I will post some "glamour shots" in the Under Glass section. Thank to everyone who checked in, commented and liked this thread!

Another beauty, Rich! Those McLarens....WOW! Great job on yours, my friend, thanks for sharing!

Oh man, Anton, I completely missed that detail. Thanks for the heads up! Unfortunately, the model is done so I won't be able to correct that, but I will definitely keep that I my to do list for the next model.

On to the interior. Keeping with my main theme - dark blue body with red accents throughout, I wanted the interior to be black with some red panels. I painted the red areas first with Tamiya LP flat red and once cured, I masked it and painted the other areas Tamiya LP flat black. After the flat black was cured I masked the center stack and shot it in Tamiya LP metallic black. The finished interior. Next up will be painting the body. I definitely had some issues with the paint crazing the body.

Welcome back, Brian!! I would imagine you have noticed a lot of changes in the hobby since you were last involved. If you have any questions, don't be shy. This is a great forum and community with a ton of knowledge.

Alex, I do have the instructions. I keep mine because I mark them up quite a bit. Most importantly, I write down all of the paint colors / codes that I use on almost every part. If you are in need of a set of instructions, you can download them from Scale Mates.

Time for the second update on this one. I thought I would post a few random shots of things that I worked on in between major assemblies. The kit calls for these to be painted black and to use the provided red Corvette decals. I painted mine red to go with the red accent theme. The black Corvette was achieved by flowing Tamiya panel liner into the recesses and cleaning them up. I used three different metalizers on this part. Hard to see in the pictures, but it adds visual interest. Likewise with this, there are two different metalizers used. I did very subtle heat staining. One thing to note, I glued that tunnel cover on backwards. It has been fixed. Keeping with the red accents, the calipers were painted red. Once all of these items were complete, I was able to assemble everything. Somehow, I forgot to take pictures of the engine during its assembly. Next up is the interior. I'll post another update in a day or two.