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man, virgil, you got some great paint schemes goin on there! all those mercs certainly are inspiring!

unreal, just unreal. i am really looking forward to seeing these in person at the NNL.

thanks for all the comments! heres a few more shots by public demand! a pair of rods on the shelf: and a few closeups of the finished engine. this was a tamiya lotus europa twin cam, which of course was a transverse midships mounted motor (edit: i am not at all sure the motor was mounted transversely in an Europa, now that i think of it!), with a transaxle. stuff had to be moved around and a straight line transmission adapted. turned out looking pretty nice in this context: thanks again for looking and comments welcome!

beautiful and have to agree on the foil, super job.

lookin great and i like how that skeleton pilot's finger is smashed where it is touching the glass. that car is just about the perfect mix of real life and cartoon.

that javelin is a nice looking car and looks like yours is among the best. those wheels look sharp too.

those turbos and the engine compartment in general are excellent! super build and sweet paint!

i am looking forward to seeing it in person! i built that V12 and its totally kool.

hi folks maybe some of you have followed this build on the workbench forum, well its done and here some final photos! be sure to come see it and its companion at the NNL West coming up in early February, and be sure to tap me on the shoulder and introduce yourself if you get a chance! for those who dont know this kit, heres what it started from: but it didnt stay looking that way for long! comments questions criticisms always carefully considered and cheerfully replied to!

hey i am calling it done, and posting more pics in the under glass forum if you are interested. many thanks for your comments and interest!

dave i assume you are referring to a fairly unmolested miata...yep some konis set on low setting and bigger anti sway bars and they go around corners like they are on rails. could still use 100hp more or so but i was recently told that a turbocharger from a 323 (i think it was) bolts right onto the series one motor (and probably any miata motor...they havent progressed much in the years since introduction in 1990)...the bosses for the turbo brackets are even on the miata motor and all. i am currently looking for a wrecked turbo 323 to scavenge one from. oh and as for them being "chick cars"...well ok, i kinda like chicks digging my car. on the other hand some like having a bunch of dudes hanging around admiring their car/truck/whatever. i am not going to go into the conclusion i could draw from that!

heres another one from a previous thread about m&h slicks, i cant see steves external link so i dont know if its the same... http://www.munsterko...m/dragula1l.htm

and i think if you really checked out the low line ones, they might not make parts up to your standard for quality. especially on things like tight, parallel fins on an engine sideplate. the resolution wont be near what the more expensive ones (like probably half a million $, just a guess) can do. but just give it time because i think in 5 years or less these printers, if they really catch on, might be high resolution and on the desktop for a reasonable price.

tell me about it. my 28 year old girlfriend (i am 2X+ her age just so you know) just moved to europe for a year. talk about a bummer. oh well i was obviously getting too attached to her anyhow. sorry to hear bout your dog. thats a real drag i know.

the confusion probably is due to the fact most people think of "printer" as something that prints in only two dimensions. this new technology prints in three dimensions...not on paper but in essence in the air, because printing on paper is only two dimensional. go to the big boyz forum and search for TDR Innovations. thats what they use, only on an industrial scale. this vid you posted is for a consumer level three D printer. a magnum leap much like the leap from mainframes to processing power on the desktop

thing to remember about super glue is it has lots of lateral strength, but will often pop right apart if twisted even slightly under load. also dipping the car in water and sticking it in the freezer for a day can work miracles. personally though...i think i would have kept it and bought a new fresh kit to build, then you could display them side by side. great display of your increasing modelling skills.

man that is looking really nice. cant hardly even recognize any Willys there but that will probably change with paint. kool idea!

you do know that a so-called "monster miata" totally ruins the car dont you? "guy car" or other bs aside, you put a cobra motor in that thing and i will run circles around you with my mildly hopped up lowered koni shocked and bigger sway barred miata, on anything but a mostly straight away. just thought i would clarify that because a bone stock miata NA is one of the most balance cars ever manufactured for the mass market. but i do like those shark gills on the side of the one you pictured there and heck its just a model so do what you want; its just that in real life those transplants just ruin the car.

wow that is one ugly nose on that thing!

does the finished model sit as close to the ground (scale wise) as that photo on the box? or would one have to modify it to get it to sit that low? i have a flintstone cadillac XLR that i am thinking about trying to put over something like this and i would like to have to mess with the chassis as little as possible beyond just fitting the body, and i would want it to hug the ground.

funny you should mention that, psychographic, as i have been getting other ideas for this chassis! this thing has some potential! some flotation tires and a whip antennae and it would be a cool sand buggy! maybe next time...heres rolling chassis and a body test fit. body still has some filling and smoothing to do...that horizontal seam is a pain. but all four wheels touch the ground! this kit is actually very well engineered and everything pretty much fits like its supposed to, delicate as it may be.

i kinda like those slicks from the Gremlin...can someone tell me the appropriateness of either them and/or the M&H with the "pie crust" tread on the sidewall? as i remember the pie crust looking ones were on real cars (but i could just be remembering that from AMT kits in the early sixties) but maybe not those in the Gremlin? or are the gremlin ones more appropriate for later cars (like early 70 vs the pie crust being more like early 60s)? i am interested in this for reasons having to do with an upcoming project by the way, so thanks for all the help i may get!

i like it and would like it much more if it had a 300+ HP V6, got 45 mpg and weighed 2500 lbs. then put "Chevette" on the tail because thats all you would be seeing!

heres the thing: presumably you are more or less building a kit. and cutting parts off of sprues. probably plenty of sprue pieces to make wiring to your hearts content. so there is hardly any use in keeping them around afterward unless maybe you come across some unusual colors or transparency. and you always got a whole shelf of donor kits if you are scratchbuilding.

seriously, you guys are excited over a *gremlin*? those were complete grandma cars back in the day where i lived (california...maybe thats the reason). we used to totally laugh our azzes off over them. yeah some of em had a big motor but heck you could get a big motor in a good looking car too. im just surprised because this kit reissue would be my #1 guess to totally flop. guess i am out of the loop. i realize there is a nostalgia market for those cars and depictions of them but i cant really picture selling 10,000 of them (guessing at the figure...i think they would probably hope to sell more...to whom exactly i cannot imagine) pintos...now they were a laughing stock too but a friend of mine had one with a V8 and it got with the program. still looked dorky as all get out though. as his evolved it got kooler looking; as i recall he had a moon tank mounted out in front of the grille toward the end (as in getting drafted and off to 'nam) but i dont think it was ever really hooked up and he was running some pretty good size cheater slicks on the back and halibrand aluminum wheels in the front. that was basically what we equated with pintos and gremlins: dorks and grandmas. but i ran with a strange crowd: i had an MGTF and an Anglia panel wagon with a Cortina GT motor, trans and running gear, my best friend had a 1275 morris mini all lowered and hopped up plus a triumph TR10 station wagon with a TR4 motor and trans in it and most of my other friends were running mustangs, corvettes, 396 nova or chevelles, that kinda stuff. and richs pinto was right in there with those cars (eg: good in a straight line but terrible when you come to the first corner). so maybe it was me who was the dork. and let me qualify that "dork" part a little: sometimes the "dorks" grew up to be pretty well off. like bill gates. he bought a country estate in germany just so he could have a place to drive and keep his porsches the US govt would not let him bring into this country. yeah, dork, right...dork with million dollar porsches and we all know how dorky those porsche 938s are. alright... ... i will duck the flack now! the problem is, that dumb gremlin is starting to grow on me!