62 Parts
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Thank you Nie! I too am fascinated by the Le Mans cars...I'm a brand new forum member - I plan to post more of my builds here.
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I'm overwhelmed by all the comments and welcomes from everyone! Now I know I've joined the right forum - finally! This is where I should have started...
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Thank you everyone for the comments! And Grego - I intend to take your advice and remove the seatbelt decal...you're absolutely right. I will make a new harness by cutting some masking tape, spray-painting the color, and adding P/E buckles and fasteners to "bump up" the realism as you say. I have some harness decals from Studio 27 -- I can cut those out on their backing with sharp curved scissors, brush-touch the paper edges, and apply to the finished harness with clear glue. That's what I'm gonna do. thank you for seeing that! I'll post before & after pictures here to show the difference. By chance Grego, are you active in the Wounded Warriors Project?
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Thank you Ray! just landed here and still learning my way around..
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Hey thank you Gergo - just landed here and learning my way around
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Hey JC -- still learnin how to use this site... I've been a member goin on 2 hours now (and one hour was at work - heh heh)
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Hey fellas - Bob here. I'm a Gulf War veteran and an avid modeler for about 25 years now. My main interest is motorsports...drag racing, endurance racing, F1, oval track and sprint -- if it's competition, I love it. I do stray to other subjects, but not often. I stay pretty focused.
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This is the Tamiya 1/24 scale kit of the Nissan R390 GT1 Le Mans car, and the body shell was spray-painted with Tamiya Metallic Blue over a base of Silver Leaf. Paint was polished up with MicroMesh 3200 grit thru 12000 grit, then rubbed up with Meguiar's Scratch-X. Mesh was added for vents and grills, and kit decals were used, as well as a few sponsor decals from Scale Motorsport. A lot of stuff added to the engine bay - thermostats were added to the radiators and exhaust system, hand-made shielded cable, fuel line, transmission fluid box, and tail light wiring from Model Factory Hiro, & spark plug wires from Detail Master. Exhausts were given a bit of Tamiya burnt metal powder pigments for added realism. Driver electronics are fully wired from comm. boxes, to temp gauges, to front lights. Front brake air ducts were scratch-built with parts-box leftovers. The P/E rivets and fast-release hood pins are from Scale Motorsport.
