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Light Drift Sand Metallic (CBGM0482) is very close to champagne, but they do have some champagne pearls The only other yellow they show is...Yellow (BTY1517) Here have this.... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EsIQ5YN87r7TrJv89FpNq8lAiqihIfcapOUJ2IP1gQ8/edit#gid=0

Really like where your'e going with it Brian...diggin' the wheel choice. Is it too late or can the body move back about an 1/8"...?

Yep, I rarely, if ever scrape glue joints...I use mostly BSI C/A medium which doesn't melt the joints per se as Tamiya thin does. I do use Tamiya thin for sub-assemblies before paint, engine halves, and the like I don't paint ANY parts on the tree,..they all need to be cleaned of their parting lines and tree trunks first...

Welcome back Nick..look forward to your progress

...great,...grand.... Ya there's no stripping that stuff

There are badly molded leafsprings in the kit, but no reference to them in the instructions...and I know they weren't used in '78... I would appreciate any detail reference pics anyone has, or knows of for this car. Like engine colour, engine compartment crash tubing runs, I'm guessing the interior is all black..? I've got the bumpers soaking in Easy-Off right now,..let you know how that goes...seems to be an undercoating of copper !?!? They are rock hard...dulled my saw blade cutting off the grill. This won't be a quick build..lol

Wow! that looks great...did you paint the camo or decals ?

Beauty Vette John Congrats on the new Hardware too!!

Great work going on here Jim, can't wait to see it in primer and paint !

I think most people did.. Researching it is difficult too.. not many pics of the round light Montes out there..

Cool dio..great lineup of classics !

So, I picked one of these up last week .. ....but it's a '74.. I've always loved the livery on this.. Daytona ...Hawaiian Tropic... still smell it now..mmm When I opened the box, I was a little shocked to see the clownish front end ..big square, boxy frog like headlight arrangement and the wrong covered turn signals in the bumper... And ..gotta say, the front end and wheel wells were WAY out...front end looked more like a Granada or a Lincoln also the chrome bumper is made out of titanium.. so, cut about 1/16th" out of the bottom of the headlight valance, and cut off the oversized (in my opinion) screen grille off the bumper assembly The front quarter got some more surgery,..a good 1/8" cut out of the lower edge And then the roof top.. sanded the edge of the window opening onto the top transition, it was too square ..to my eye Squared up the opera window with the side mains Can't quite figure out these destructions yet... which hole does this show...there are 4 ..? Hogged out the front wells... this is the stance I'm going for More as time permits

Got the finishing touches onto the H2R last night...a fun build using left over decals from a F1 Ferrari kit and various sponsor decals from my stash... Painted with Duplicolor red and white, and mostly Tamiya acrylics. Enjoy ! Cheers

That is cool ! Love the blue. Where did you say you got the figure ?

Nice, did you have it custom mixed..?

Welcome from Ontarrible !

Nice job on that Scott ..is that light blue metallic paint..?

.....snowed today....-2C....30F...whatever Spring....more bench time !

I've had good results using 1000 grit and then Novus polish compounds 1 followed by 2 ....took the scratches right out and made it shine

Looks great Mark...decal away Glass and hood pins are spot on (2thmsup)

Looking real good John!

Tim, nice work ..those stands are perfect ! That's a model in and of itself! Incredibly fine detail on all of it..outstanding

Hey thanks for stopping by Tim...yeah when you have extra decals you gotta use 'em up..lol The masking and painting took the most time..the Tamiya kit went together flawlessly, but I can't build anything out of box I guess

Nice ! Are those 2 piece minilite wheels..? Looking good (2thumsup)

Hasegawa has something similar, in a 6 spoke, in their Porsche 962 Blaupunkt kit Or Aoshima has these, although they are not deep and deeper