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I'm betting the bases on the '39 Chevy and the car in the background (black/white swirly base) were hydrodipped. The paint on the models is definitely conventionally applied.

Absolute magic.

It's tough to narrow down to one. Best small venue would probably be the Flaming Lips at Jannus Landing in St. Pete several years ago. They put on something less like a concert and more like an out-of-body experience. Best medium venue would be Vampire Weekend in 2019 at St. Augustine. Great show, great crowd. I don't go in for arena concerts much anymore but my #1 would probably have to be Paul McCartney in Tampa back in 1990. Sir Paul somehow managed to make a stadium full of fans feel like an intimate concert.

Looking at the parts breakdown, it looks like a simple transkit for the rear louvers and some interior bits would be all that's required for a stock DeLorean. I can't believe that Aoshima would miss the boat on a stock version.

Oooh, the Modulo. Those crazy Italian concept cars from the late 60s-early 70s are great examples of the car as modern art. Amazing work!

Fantastic build of a great subject. The 355 is one of my favorite Ferraris... it's a shame Fujimi didn't do right by it.

John (Nacho Z) is 100% correct here. Black trim is tough to pull off properly, but masking and airbrushing is your absolute best bet for getting a good finish on it. I've been lazy and sprayed Tamiya TS29 as well, but it will creep under tape if there's the slightest gap or lifted area. I honestly haven't brush-painted black trim (other than tiny details like lock cylinders,etc.) in years.

I wanted to experiment on the new Tamiya Nissan Z, so I tried using the pearl clear over one of their military colors, in this case IJN Green. I found that 2 coats of the pearl is the maximum you can get away with before it starts interfering with the base color. Additionally the pearl clear is more of an intermediate coat that still needs a top coat to come up properly glossy. Overall it wound up looking really good...

Love 'em. The green on this Caterham 7 was done in their Bentley Racing Green. I haven't tried their 2k clear though, this was Tamiya lacquer clear with Mr. Leveling Thinner. Primer was Tamiya grey straight from the rattle can. You can see how fine the flakes are, especially in the second pic.

Well, curbside is disappointing as well as the non-optional Bondian gadgetry. I'm sure the aftermarket will come to the rescue with a 3d/resin engine. Filling the armour plate and ejector hatch lines is doable but not fun. I wish that Revell had gone the full-detail, pull out all the stops route they did with the excellent Jag E-Type and Porsche 911 kits, but this seems like a good starting point for a detailed build.

Tomasz, coming from you that "Wow" means a lot. Your work was a lot of the inspiration behind this build!

I've lived in my house for 22 years now and it's come through direct hits from three major hurricanes (Wilma, Irma and Ian) with flying colors. It's built tough and I'm on "high ground" about 8 miles inland. When Ian hit Naples last year with 130+ mph winds I lost power for less than 24 hours with zero damage. I have native trees (live oak and cabbage palms) for landscaping and they handle heavy winds really well. The plan if I ever do have to evacuate would be to pack up the top 20 or so builds as if I were going to a contest and load them up in the car in big flat storage boxes. As for sharknadoes, not a lot you can do about those so sometimes you just have to roll the dice!

Excellent. The build quality, the stance... it really has that outlaw look!

Thanks Jeremy! The Hase Testa Rossa came out in the early 2000's if I remember correctly. It's an absolutely beautiful kit. They're on eBay pretty frequently but they tend to go for silly money now. This one has KA Models photoetched parts and Hasegawa's own PE/plastic wheels.

Meh, I'm bored at work and stuck in limbo between the Teams call that just ended and the goodbye party for one of the housekeepers that means cake and cafecito. I'm down for a couple of silly top-5 lists.

I'll play. 5: 1/24 Hasegawa Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. 4: Revell Datsun 510 BRE. 3: Trumpeter 1/12 Ford GT40. 2: 1/12 Italeri Fiat "Mefistofele". 1: 1/12 Italeri Bugatti 35b.

Top 5... Top 5.... 5: Parks and Recreation. One of the all-time great ensembles. 4: Friends. It's not a rational thing, more about the time of my life when it came out. 3: Venture Bros. The best animated series ever. One of the best-written shows of all time. 2: Star Trek:Deep Space 9. I love TNG and TOS, but DS9 is peak Trek for me. Well-acted, well-written, with great characters and story arcs. 1: The Wire. It's criminal that more people haven't seen this show. The cast is phenomenal. The writing is tight and gripping, and savagely funny. Every character is So. Dang. Good. For me, it's the perfect show. Honorable mentions go to: Frasier, Game of Thrones, Justified, Deadwood, every Trek series other than Discovery, Seinfeld, The Office (US), Top Gear, Still Game, and many others that have cheered me when I'm down or entertained me when I'm bored.

If you Google Tamiya TS color charts, you'll get a chart of the full range of colors with the corresponding paint code. If you're getting them at your local hobby shop, the colors on the caps are very accurate.

Bought a new platform bed and mattress. I put the frame together (amazing how nice flat-pack furniture can be these days) and just as I finished the delivery guys from the mattress store showed up with the mattress. I made the bed, left the room for a drink, and when I came back... Yup. Didn't even get to be the first to try it out.

Absolute beauty.

Agreed. My fantastic local shop doesn't carry the LP line yet, I have to go 60 or so miles to a shop in Port Charlotte (FL) to get them. I'd love the clear gloss in a larger bottle, cut with Mr. Levelling Thinner it's amazing.

I've recently become a convert to Vallejo paints, especially the Metal Colors line. They have excellent opacity and brush beautifully for detail painting. The Metal Colors paints especially drybrush really well and have metalizer-fine pigments that are vastly superior to any other acrylic metallics I've seen. The engine bay of the 1/12 Bugatti 35B below was done entirely in Vallejo Metal Colors and washes.

TS-65 is more of an intermediate coat than a top coat. It won't dry as glossy as TS-13 and really needs a top coat to shine. Below is my Nissan Z which used a base coat of IJN Green followed by two coats of TS-65 and three top coats of TS-13 polished out.

The Miata went by many names... this kit represents a JDM Eunos Roadster. In Japan the first generation Miata wasn't even branded as a Mazda. Eunos was a sub-brand that Mazda used briefly in Japan for "specialty" cars like the Miata and the Cosmo. They were going to build a sports/luxury brand around the Eunos name, much like Toyota did with Lexus, but the bursting of the Japanese economy bubble in the early 90s put a stop to those plans. "Eunos" and "Roadster" badges are popular mods for Miata owners, especially on first-generation cars. Actually, the Miata is really only the Miata in the US. The rest of the world got the Mazda MX-5. Tamiya released this model as a US-spec Miata as well as the Eunos. The Miata kit includes a LHD dash as well as correct decals for the US cars. The Miata kit includes (I believe) a convertible up-top but no hardtop. Very clean work on this build so far, looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

Amazing. Some of the nicest weathering I've ever seen on a model car. It really looks like most of these looked by 1980 or so!