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I guess by not even knowing who Chrissy Teigen is I'm ahead of the game here. No need to elaborate - I'm ok not knowing (I'm not stupid - I suspect she was a host of the program). But it's ok.

I have feeling that Snake's token reply will be that the primer you are using is not opaque enough to fully hide the color of the red plastic (but opaque enough to cover blue plastic).

Fine, but like Bill said, it will all work semi-ok until some fun-loving hacker (or even some foreign government) hacks the self-driving car infrastructure and creates a pandemonium. If self-driving cars were self-sufficient and operating as single entities then this would not be a big problem. But in order to have everything work, all the cars will be dependent on an external wireless network. And we all what happens when there is an "impenetrable" network out there . . .

What exactly do you mean? Mr. Surfacer is not opaque enough to cover the red plastic, or some solvent in Mr. Surfacer is causing the red dye to leach out?

Bill, you made me laugh. As things are today, having a great handling car will not help in avoiding accidents when the driver is not paying attention to the road anyway, because he/she is staring at the smart phone they are holding against their steering wheel. These are sad times we live in. Besides, with the automatic braking and line change avoidance, the car is super-safe anyway. I also find it extremely amusing and silly (and sad) with all the Bluetooth-equipped cars people own (which is pretty much standard equipment in today's cars) I still see lots of drivers talking on their smart phone held to their ear. Use the hands-free capability dammit! I think there is a large part of the driving population out there which just can't wait for self-driving cars.

Looking at the photo Steamboat posted I would have thought differently. Besides, you made a blanket statement while there are many different formulations of polystyrene and red dyes being used for model kits. Some might leach out, while others don't.

For body color reference there is http://autocolorlibrary.com/

In the area I live in (Northeast Mass.), most cop cars (local and state) are SUVs (crossovers maybe). In New Hampshire state police still uses sedans (Dodge or Chrysler). Some towns also have few sedans left.

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And look at all the various car colors. Nowadays it will be mostly black, white, and all sorts of grays (mostly metallic, and silver).

Color guides? That sounds like you are coming from the military (armor or airplane) modeling world. In model car modeling world there aren't any painting guides. Well, some model instructions do offer some rudimentary color guidance, but those are often inaccurate. As others have said, the Internet is your color guide, and then you can still decide to chose your own colors (within reason).

I wouldn't go quite that far - there are no poly-caps to hold the wheels, or metal transfer emblems on the Revell model. All kidding aside, it looks like a really well-done kit! Too bad that the car itself does nothing for me, but there will be lots of happy modelers out there, I'm sure.

I wouldn't be so quick with that recommendation. Some water-based acrylics are very sensitive to solvents (even if those solvents are safe for decals). Whenever a new paint technique, or paint combination I always recommend a spoon test. Seeing unexpected paint reaction on a car body I spent hours preparing is not something I want to experience. And plastic spoons are cheap.

Excellent tip! Thanks.

Thanks Rico. If you offer these for sale (especially with the "glass"), I'll be in for at least 1 body. The wheel-well moldings still look too wide to me. Maybe @Paul Hettick could measure how wide they are and let you know. Yours still look about 1/3 too wide to me. They probably also do not stand off more than 0.25" from the surface of the body. That would be only around 0.010" or about 0.25mm! Again, I hope Paul can chime in here since he owns the real car. Door handle looks nice, but it seems too rounded and a bit too thick. Again, knowing the dimensions of the 1:1 handle woudl be handy.

Funny, the same model was being discussed here earlier, but the thread was moved to the Truck Stop section. That thing is incredible!

I agree. It is so good to finally see kits released with branded tires. I'm so sick of all those plain blank sidewalls. Tire companies should be glad that they are getting free advertisement.

Excellent! Will you be selling those bodies? Also, will you create a vacu-formed glass for it? I have couple resin kits, but I would love to get a more accurate model of this unique car.

And here we have an example (on this forum) of a modeler designing and 3D printing his own model.

The engine looks great! Very realistic. And knowing that you designed it yourself on a computer in a CAD program, then printed it on a 3D printed makes it that much more amazing. it is interesting to see our hobby evolving. If you can't find something you want to model, you just design and print it yourself!

You are doing amazing job accurizing this body Rico, but the moldings you added to the wheel openings look too heavy (wide), and 1mm seems to thick too. At least to me. That will be especially visible after chrome foil is applied to them. They just don't look right to me. They should be narrower. I wonder if Paul could measure them on his car and give you those dimensions?

That is so rude and totally uncalled for!

Thanks! I have to look at the year imprinted on my stamps - I'm pretty sure some go back to 2009 (or even earlier). And those are "for use" stamps. I have Forever ones that I'm keeping (for my collection) which go back to 2007.

47 cents? Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that I still have some Forever stamps which cost me heck a lot less than that!