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I'd go with the 185/60. Lower profile than stock, but better looking in scale. 165mm would be much narrower than stock.

Looks like the design and parts breakdown will be pretty similar to the Senna. I'm fine without opening doors... even with Tamiya's engineering know-how they're often fiddly and annoying. Including PE grilles is a nice touch.

Creativity, taste and workmanship all rolled into one package. Sublime!

So after posting in the wrong thread I'm just gonna post again here... I laid down Tamiya TS60 Pearl Green and TS13 clear on my Ebbro Citroen DS21. No cat hair or dust, which is a bonus. I switched from automotive tack cloths to an anti-static brush a few years back which really seems to help. I caught a couple of pics of the body shell in the sun, which really lets the color pop. I think my phone's camera is probably exaggerating the brightness of the color. The color is pretty close to Citroen's Silver Green paint color. Roof will be black, interior will be red-brown with dark green carpet. Since the Ebbro kit doesn't represent a high-end Pallas model, there's a fair amount of the body color in the interior as well. Going to let the paint dry for a few days before polishing with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound and Polish. WIP thread coming soon...

Yeah, just realized I wanted to post this under "what did you accomplish today"... Oops. So I guess I got a painted body today?

Got paint (Tamiya Pearl Green and TS13 clear) on my Ebbro Citroen DS21. The other panels are painted too except for the roof, which will be black. After a few days drying time I'll polish with Meguiar's Ultimate compound and polish. No dust, boogers or cat hair in this one!

Barrett Jackson- Tommy Bahama, Oakleys, light beer. Gooding & Co- Brooks Brothers, Ray-Bans, Simi chardonnay. Artcurial (Retromobile)- Armani, Persols, Veuve Cliquot. At least everybody's still day-drunk. Several years ago it was '70 Chevelle SS454s. It seemed like every other car on the block was yet another '70 SS454. That was what cured me from watching B-J. It's just an endless parade of high-dollar me-too mobiles punctuated by dimwitted commentary and the occasional insanely overpriced tax-deduction charity car. The "cheap cars" on the early days are definitely more interesting... as the price goes up the interest level goes down.

Very nice build. It shows what a skilled builder can still do with those old Italeri Ferraris!

Tamiya putty, applied thin with a pallette knife. Allow it to dry for a day or two then sand using sanding sticks like Greg posted above. (top tip... you can get the same basic thing at Sally Beauty supply!). Prime, sand, and you should be good.

Make sure to take the pot off the burner first...?

Lovely. I'm just at the "admiring the parts while waiting for bits to show up" stage now. It actually only arrived a few days ago from a German eBay seller. First impression is that the molding is really nice, even better than the Alfa 8c from 2020. The decal sheet is excellent (printed by Cartograf) and includes incredibly convincing turned aluminum decals for the dash and firewall. I'm going to replace the fake leather/canvas material for the hood straps with real leather like I did on my Fiat Mefistofele. I have a set of 3d-printed wire locks for it coming from Unobtanium in the UK as well.

Just saw in News/Reviews that Italeri's next 1/12 release will be a Lancia Stratos. I'm chuffed that one of my favorite cars is going to be released in my favorite scale by a manufacturer that's been on a hot streak lately. It's great that Italeri has stepped into the large-scale arena and is obviously doing well enough there to continue developing 1/12 scale kits. If they keep releasing them I'll keep buying them!

Italeri is getting waaaay too much of my money (and my display space) lately. In the last 3 years I have purchased their Alfa 8c, Fiat Mefistofele, Lancia Delta Integrale and I just got my Bugatti 35b, which I can't wait to get started on. After the Delta Integrale this was a pretty logical next rally car release, and I couldn't be happier. The old Doyusha kit was the only game in town before and costs a fortune these days. Hopefully we get a Lancia 037 in 2024!

Tamiya maroon will be very different over different primers. This is over Tamiya Red Oxide primer... And over Tamiya grey primer. Tamiya requires 3-4 mist coats applied about 5 minutes apart to build up a base and 3-4 wet coats after. Most of my builds are finished with Tamiya and I never have coverage issues.

Very cool. Great execution of an interesting idea.

This turned out really well. The detail work is fantastic!

Very nice, clean build of the prettiest of the VAG-era Lamborghinis. Well done!

Toyota finally laid off the "more is more" styling approach for this generation. Better engines, nicer interiors, clean and crisp styling (although I do agree the roofline is a little wonky). It's a very good option for those of us who aren't quite ready to go fully electric.

It represents a 1994. Nice kit with a lot of detail but quite a few challenges involved. It tends to sit very nose-high out of the box and the rear fascia and side skirts take some fettling to get them to fit right. I built this example about 6 years or so ago.

When you build a lot of Japanese and European stuff you get stuck ordering a lot from Japan and Europe. Most US sellers won't stock a lot of the trans kits and detail stuff I need for my builds. Hiroboy is usually fantastic for shipping, I can't get too bent out of shape at them for the Royal Mail's issues.

Great use of weathering and excellent detail!

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING! I ordered the new 1/12 scale Italeri Bugatti 35b from a German eBay seller on 12/25 and it just now has hit US shores. The seller sat on it for more than a week before processing the order and then it sat for another 11 days before moving from Frankfurt. Simultaneously, a large order I placed from Hiroboy in the UK is currently just sitting there due to a cyber attack on the Royal Mail that led them to shut down international deliveries. It's pretty frustrating.

As Francis Bacon said, "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion". Jaguar could have used that quote in the promotional materials for the XJ220. It does accomplish its mission of looking like it's doing 220mph while just sitting still, though.

As far as first posts go, this one is pretty random.

Thanks! Italeri and AMT both kitted this car up as well. The Tamiya kit was state-of-the-art at the time and is still a nice, if occasionally challenging, kit. The XJ220 is definitely an interesting car... I won't go into a history lesson but its development was troubled, to say the least! Matt Bacon on this forum a few years back did a really nice build of this kit with fantastic engine bay detail. It shows what's possible with a little extra work. I always like to play with color a bit, and the metallic/pearl red seemed a perfect choice for a car that can seem a bit "flat" in the most common colors. Thanks!