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Well I just got one, my mom was in Mrytle Beach on holidays (if you're near there, HL has them) and picked me up one. I'll have it in my hot little hands in a couple hours, but I'm ok with the look of it. I'm not nearly as critical as you "old guys" on older cars. I love Mustangs, but for me, as long as it looks decent I'll take it. I'm way more critical of race cars so I get the want to have things "exact" I just hope it builds up nice. I've seen a couple done now, here and on youtube and it looks good. I'll be happy with it as is for now and dont think I'll mod anything on it, except to fix the indents I see on the C pillars, I assume for some badging not on the 302. Now, to pick a colour. I'm leaning towards Acapulco Blue with a black interior.

The '95 Cobra R Mustang Tamiya did doesn't have a "full engine" really. It has the lower half of the engine molded into the chassis. There are a few other pieces to the top half but not a separate block/tranny/heads etc still built up it looks ok. About 10 parts or so is about right. The did a great job on the detail tho, like the interior as mentioned. It is a nice kit and if you search around you can get it for a decent price. Here in Canada it's listed for about $80 CDN, plus tax and shipping if you cant get it locally. I can get it for about $55 CDN shipped from Asia right now, if I'm ok with waiting 2 weeks for delivery, which I am. It's starting to show up on Asian websites now so look around, you can get it for a good price, and for how good the built kit looks, its worth it. I know a lot of people want a full engine, but with the way the car is designed, you just cant see it in there. Would I like to have on, sure, but for me it's not a breaking point. If it were a kit that had a more visible engine, then yes, I think it would be a must, ie a new Mustang for me, would have to have a full or near full engine, and highly detailed as it would be visible with an opening hood.

No PE set at this time for this kit yet. Decalcas is doing a resin parts set, rear diff /wheels & tires/ brakes/ fuel filler/steering wheel and some other bids due very soon (mid March). Racing 43 is doing a CF decals set along with the Daytona liveries due soon as well. Studio 27 has the Castrol livery coming soon and Indycals has both from Daytona already. Looking good Ismael, nice masking job, not easy, I know. Nice to see you got the rear inner wheel pods masked and painted correctly, I've seen a number built now and the builders got that wrong. Looking forward to more updates.

Tamiya only included the top half of the motor, Heads and intake and that's about it. The whole engine is like 4 parts not including the decals. Now once built you can only see what they put in the kit anyways, think of the Aston DBS or Nissan GTR, The Ford RC is the Mustang GT4 race car, which would be fine with me, but I can see people wanting a street car, I wouldnt say no to that either. For what you can see in the GT of the engine it looks right, but yes, not bothering to put a motor under there is a shame, they did it on the NSX and it looks amazing, but once assembled you cant see most of it anyways.

With the large peg on the hood it is definitely an RC car. They have the Mustang GT4 coming out in about a month. I'm hoping (and asked Tamiya) that they produce the Mustang in 1/24, pipedream I'm sure, but here's hoping. I'd like to see a modern Porsche from Tamiya too. With the loss of the Ferrari licencing maybe they're going back after the Porsche licencing now. If there are any more new plastic model kits from Tamiya this year, I doubt will see anything till the later quarters with the TS050 still to come at the start of Q2.

Splash Paints has ordered some in, but I'm pretty sure he sells out quick each time he's gotten them in. I've ordered 3 of them now from Hiroboy, definitely less than $50US including shipping. Not sure why they're not making it to the US from Revell, the UK distributors have had them since November and have restocked like 4xs already. Again....Hiroboy, they send shipments to NA on a daily basis and if you get your order in early (I always place my order late at night NA time) and it ships same day. I agree the Daytona liveries this year were very good. Unfortunately they're not using them all year, which I think is a mistake. I'm working on the Castrol livery myself, Indycals decals as well. Looking good Jay, sorry to hi jack your build thread a bit. Looking forward to more.

Nice progress Tim. The CF work is looking great. The interior looks good as well, nice little details but not over the top. Only thing I see is that the blue on the interior looks too shiny, maybe a matte varnish over the top to knock the reflectivity down some as the glare gives it a plastic look, otherwise spot on.

Here's a '67 GT500 restored by Legendary Motor Car here in Canada. These guys do nice work and work on a lot of 60's and older cars. Use the arrows to scroll through the pics, if you go backwards (left, you can get to the finished engine bay quickly.) It has an Autolite battery with red caps. Rear shocks on this one are black (pic 66 of 104) https://www.legendarymotorcar.com/inventory/1967-ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-1300.aspx

Stripes going down. Slowly, fighting a cold today, so I've been picking away at them in between Dristan induced naps.

Thanks Jonathan. Ok, Gravity Colors Magnetic Grey is on, time for some decals.

My second Ford GT from Tamiya arrived today and since I'm off till Tuesday I plan on working on this for the next few days. Colour on this one will be Gravity Colors Ford Magnetic Grey .The Grey isn't a GT colour but rather a Mustang colour but I'm going to go with it none the less ( I've got too many paints, I need to start using up some of the partial bottles I have). Following pics are of the kit sprues but I'm too lazing to take my own so I'm "borrowing" Jonathan Stephens pics from his "What's in the Box" thread ( hope you don't mind Jonathan) Body Brakes and interior bits Suspension and engine (top half only, no lower block or exhausts) Chassis pan Interior and ground effects and other exterior parts Wheels Round rubbery things (too bad they don't have the Michelin Sport logos on them, one of the very few details not in the kit) Beautiful crystal clear glass. Very nice stripes ( the white ones I used on my 24hr build covered the Liquid Red with no problems at all) and window masks. Some more detail decals, lights, grills, interior and marker lights. Some proper wip photos to come later tonight, first time for some poutine.

Hopped the border this afternoon to pick up my second Ford GT that arrived to my US PO Box. I also hit up Section 8 Hobbies in Buffalo for a new bottle of Mark Fit and also found another Mustang for the herd.

I agree with the statements above how much HL's can vary from store to store. I live in Canada but hop the border now and then to do some shopping and the HL in Niagara Falls NYis petty good. Staff seems well informed, there's an older gentleman that works in the model area that knows what he's doing, and the store is clean and organized. Even the SALE section is need and tidy. However the store in Buffalo, like 20 mins away from NF, is the polar opposite. Staff that I've talked to have little to no clue, store is usually a mess, and the attitude of the employees is pretty sketchy as well. I rarely go to Buffalo for that reason, but always hit up the NF store when I'm over. No idea what stocks like on anything new as I havent been over since before Christmas but I should be going over tomorrow to so some shopping so I'll check out HL. I just wish they'd start opening on Sunday's as I cant always make it on Saturdays, one of the few stores that I know of that still close on Sundays.

Nice work so far Tim. Love the CF work. I'll be doing the same on my second one, which is on its way, and I think I'll have to get some of that Tamiya CF, looks great. Watching for further progress.

Race is live now on NISMO TV on Youtube

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My workbench Saturday was my 24 hr of Daytona FB group build. Tamiya's new Ford GT done in Gravity Colors Liquid Red.

Here are some shots of my completed 2019 Daytona build (13th annual build, my fourth in a row). Total time was around 19hrs. I finished with about 2hrs to go and had a 3hr nap in the wee hours of the morning when the rain brought out the extended yellow followed by the first red flag. Tamiya Ford GT ( wonderful curbside kit, I'd call it a curbside plus kit as the engine is just the top of the block and some other parts you can see through the back window but has wonderful suspension parts.) Paint is from Gravity Colors, I got the 2018 Ford Liquid Blue/Red and Frozen white for one of my Revell GTLM builds but they're the same colours used on the production cars from last year. For this build I went with Liquid Red. It's a tri coat colour. The body was shot with Gravity's 2K white primer, the Liquid Red gold base, then the Red toppped off with ProForm's 2K automotive clear. And I darkened the panel lines with a bit of Tamiya's black panel line accent. I have a few imperfections to clean up. The kit went together well, no real issues other than I was rushing to get it done it time so I have some imperfections. I did not rub out the clear or wax it as it was not 100% hardened. Another guy melted his body trying to speed up the drying process so I got scared off of using my dehydrator....probably would have been fine but I got the paint done early so letting it dry over night was ok. Again, sorry for the crappy pics, I really need to teach myself how to use my digital camera one of these days. Thanks for looking in on my first finished build for 2019.

Tom's right, I find the 24hr builds can be completely acceptable, are they gonna win shows, not likely but most people wouldn't be able to tell if you finished it in 24hrs or 24days unless you told them. Anyways, on to the update....apologies for not updating through the night like I said I would, I forgot.....anyways, I made it. WiP pics to follow with some finished shots in the Under Glass section shortly. Body was assembled and sprayed as one unit. Because of the buttress' on the Ford I normally would have sprayed those separately then added after paint but I was worried about marring the paint so I took my chances I'd get decent coverage under the buttress', and I did, mostly. TBH the Revell Ford GT 2 piece body is a much better way to go for painting than Tamiya's. Anyways primer'd with Gravity's 2K white primer then shot with Ford Liquid Red gold base coat ( all the other parts were done too, but I didn't photograph them) then the Liquid Red on top, this is a very thin colour and required a lot of paint to build up to the red, which I liked cause you can pic how deep you want the colour to look. Sorry the pics are not the best, I was using my cell phone and pretty much taking one pic or two then moving on with the build. After the Liquid Red I jumped to the decals, very simple on the Ford so it took no time at all. Three white stripe decals a Ford badge on the front and a GT badge on the rear then back into the booth for some ProForm Automotive 2K clear. While the body was drying I started in on the chassis. Very simple yet lots of suspension detail on the corners and that's about all. You get a suspension block for the front, rear and then the interior tub. The small engine top and pieces connect the back of the interior to the rear suspension block ( sorry no real pic of that) but it doesn't matter as none of it is visible once built. I had some issues with my blacks on the interior but once built you cant see in anyways so I didn't stress over it too much. I added some red to the dash to break up the black. This is extremely easy to do because the dash is made up of 5 pieces. Two top sections, a bottom and the two cosmetic inserts (red in mine). You can do the seat inserts too, but I didn't cause I was going to add some 4 point harness' but was running low on time so I left them out. You can also see the top of the engine spanning the gap between the interior and the rear suspension. The brake discs look amazing. The replicate Brembo's Carbon Ceramic set beautifully. I did my calipers body colour then did the discs in Vallejo liquid chrome then used Tamiya's panel line accent to darken them up. Not perfect but they work for this build. I forgot the center cap decals on the rims ( they were added before the end tho). One of the few lacking things on the Tamiya kit is the tire wall detail, or lack there of, no one wants to pay the royalty fees.... Even though there is a lack of engine detail Tamiya made up for it with the head light buckets. Each head light consists of 12 parts, 3 black housing pieces, three grey center pieces, three clear parts including the outer lenses and three decals. Fiddley little buggers but look amazing once done. And that's it for the WiP pics. Over all a relatively simple but nicely detailed kit. This kit is all about the body. The Ford has great lines and looks ultra fast sitting still. Tamiya did a wonderful job on this kit. I'll definitely be building a couple more, just to use some of the different colours available for this car. Thanks for looking in on my first competed build for 2019. Comments and criticisms welcome and appreciated as always.

I'm doing mine for the Daytona 24 hr build starting tomorrow. I too went to Ford.ca and played with the configure tool. I'll be keeping mine simple since I'm under a strict time constraint. Liquid Red with Frozen White stripes. Gloss black ground effects ( I may do some CF if I think I have time ) and red calipers. I'm doing black on black interior with red Sparco 4 point harness' for some added detail.

Orange calipers...but otherwise, yes.

Yep, you can. Pending on the paints used you can do all that faster. Airbrush paints dry really quick. Prime, paint, decal, clear all in a couple hours. Mine should go quick as there are only a few external body decals. Gravity paints dry fast. I also have an food dehydrator to use to speed it all up. Many people build for a few hours then rest. A lot of people go to bed at say midnight and get back up at 6am to finish off before noon. Some people know they wont finish but participate anyways and finish their builds off in the days that follow. It's not a contest, more of a challenge to yourself to see if you can finish off a kit in the 24hr window. Rex, you can find details HERE and if you're interested join up. I think we're almost at 100 builders now, with other's that cant build this year for whatever reason tuning in to watch and motivate the builders.

I agree, the instant feedback overnight helps keep you motivated.

This will be my entry for the upcoming 24hr of Daytona group build on Facebook. This is the 13th year of this group build and my fourth. Details of the builds can be followed HERE for anyone wanting to see who's doing what and see the progress of the builds over the race weekend. Tamiya's new Ford GT. Paint will be Gravity Colors.....probably Liquid Red, but still undecided at this stage. Updates will start Saturday afternoon. Build begins at 12 noon EST even though the race doesn't start till later in the afternoon.

Tamiya Ford GT along with some Gravity Colors paint. Ford Liquid Blue, Liquid Red, Frozen White and some 2K white primer. This will be my entry for the 13th Annual 24hr of Daytona build happening this weekend.