Dann Tier

looks interesting, Ray!

FANTASTIC build!!!

Wow!...that IS looking better!!...keep it up, bud!!!

Thanks, Kevin!....i'm glad you do!!

Thanks a lot, Andre!!

Thanks

Great mesh-work, bud!!!

Nice!!,,,cant wait to see more!!!

Hey, everyone, I forgot to post a couple of things that needed to go with my last posting. -Photo 1; This is something I do to almost every part that needs to be inlaid. I don't know how many times I've seen frustrated modelers who tried to jam parts into place, only to find that they wont seat all the way. When they try to remove it......paint chips usually follow along. Slightly tapering parts gives a better chance for things to fit the best they can, but if they still cant, at least it gives you more control on making them uniformly "off a bit". -Photo 2; Like I talked about in photo one, the fitment of the brake light assembly in this kit, has been poor, and quite a few modelers tried to force this piece in, and cracked the glass in the process. Others have left it half in...half out. So that those of you who brave this kit don't have to worry about it, i'm showing you all I had to do to mine to get an EASY....flush placement. I didn't have to sand the inside of the opening at all, since that was the end that went in fine, but I did have to trim-away the back corners as you can see...….it just drops in nicely now!

Thanks, Kevin!, you are very welcome......thank YOU, and everybody else for following along!!

Sorry, everyone, I shoulda used different words......I love Model Car Garage stuff!!!!, what I intended to say was, that the kit has been out a while now, so he's probably not going to make a PE set any time soon. I even talked to them a few years ago about this, so I apologise for my poor choice of words. MODEL CAR GARAGE STUFF IS OUTSTANDING!!!!

Got some more done just now... -Photo 1; The tape is holding the plug end of the rear harness I SB. I also made a clip out of very thin pie tin. I decided to use my handy canopy glue to attach the bracket, since quite often, other glues like to pop-off, and take paint with it when you try to move the wires around into their proper positions. The clip itself, was a narrow strip, that I curved the bottom up on, to hold the harness while I folded the top half down over it. The trick to using the canopy glue for this though, is to first put it on the frame, going slightly wider than the clip. Immediately after sticking the clip to it, add a tiny bead of glue over the clip, from glue end to glue end, and let dry.This creates a strong glue clip to hold the clip-clip...lol -Photo 2; This is the side marker assembly on a real Huayra. As much as I love this, and most Aoshima kits, I cant figure out why they were slacking on this part. As you will see in photo three....left part, the area that is suppose to say; PAGANI, doesn't. That's okay....they have decals for them, right?....NOPE. Okay, that means the PE set has to have them, since these types of sets are suppose to add the ultimate in realism......NOPE. So in order to keep my level of detail and realism up, I ordered a second PE set, just for two Pagani emblems......the ones used for the brakes fit perfectly! Before I forget, I was wrong about the PE set not including parts for the side markers, what they wanted you to use was pretty laughable!....they wanted you to totally replace the plastic parts, that have the LED lights in them, with a flat, one dimensional PE part that has NO light, but says PAGANI in larger letters all the way across! I very rarely build replica stock, so go figure this sorta thing would happen when I did want to...lol -Photo 3; Disappointing part on the left, sanded smooth better part on the right. -Photo 4; Here you can see how much better/realistic it looks now.....next step; paint! -Photo 5; Aoshima only included a clear red plastic piece for the third brake light. Out of all my research, not one of them had this!.....they all had clear LED's, so I had to SB my own from a spare clear part. After sanding the back side of the lens, I used an impressionistic technique to simulate the many LED bulbs. I started out with tiny little, almost perfect flat white dots...staggered, then added two thin coats of flat white, and flat clear...50/50. -Photos 6-8; Heres the finished lens.....its very hard to see in the photos, but the technique worked a treat!

Heres a couple of things I just got in....these new zip-ties actually have teeth, and function like the real deal!. They are from 1/24-1/12, and they also make them in white!.... and since Model Car Garage cant be bothered with making a PE set for Revells '70 Hemi 'cuda, I found this one from Hobby Design.....its absolutely awesome!!!

Its time for the dreaded clear parts... -Photo 1; I test fit all the glass in relation with each other, and sanded all the edges so that they would just drop right in place. All the glass fit surprisingly well, except for the frear window with the brake light. There is a VERY tiny ridge all the way around it, but I had to totally sand-off the side ones for it to fit properly. Before I applied the inside masks, I used a 3000 grit sanding stick to carefully run up, and down all the very corners of the edges....at a 45 degree angle. This gets rid of the sharp edges from the sanding process, and assures that there are no plastic "slivers" left behind. -Photo 2; I love using this masking sheet!! -Photo 3; After covering the front sides of the windows, I burnished down all the edges. The tool I have here was "acquired" from Tina's cake decorating stuff.....she's not getting it back...lol -Photo 4; Here I trimmed the tape as close to the edges of all the windows, and re-burnished the edges. -Photo 5; All the glass is ready to go!, and now I am in the process of painting them with Tamiya Flat black.

This is all that's left for me to do, then she's done!!

LOL!!!

Thanks, Ray!!, we all have our different techniques, and talents.....I happen to really like your builds!!

Thanks again, Philippe!!

Thanks!

I'm having an EXTREMELY hard time.....lol, Thanks, Trevor!!

LOL!!….thanks again, bud!!

LOL!!…..too funny, bud!!...Danke!!

Got these from HiroBoy….

Heres something I did the other day that I forgot to post; The tranny oil cooler wasn't etched good enough, and it had been bugging me for a while now. You cant even tell that there is one under that shroud, so I decided to add a PE radiator face to it, and now I like it! -Photo 1; this is how unrealistic it looked. -Photo 2; The new look... -Photo 3; The cooler was too klean for the look I wanted, so I did a subtle black wash.

LOL.....it looks like FANTASTIC CF!!!!