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I've been fighting a (mostly) successful battle with a Tamiya 1/12 scale Porsche 934 for about 3 months now and I'm in the home stretch. Perversely, I'm thinking about taking this kit on as my next challenge. Oy.

I'll have to try the Vallejo. My go-to was a Model Master acrylic wash that I've just used the last of. I like the Tamiya panel line wash a lot as well, but it's at its best highlighting really crisply-molded details.

I'm guessing your door fitment is probably better than most of the 1:1 that actually got built. Great clean build of an unusual subject.

Beautiful work. It's great to see the DS in those '50s colors!

Amazing work. If you hadn't listed the challenges you had building this I would have thought it just "fell together"!

LOL, me too. Tamiya got me on that one.

Definitely going to pick up that Supra. Always loved the 2nd generation.

By the time it makes it to production it'll be a compact SUV.

If you mean the recent Revell kit, it's a straight rebox of the AM kit from unsold stock with new decals for the #3 car in the Revs Institute. I've got it in the stash as well as the HRM A-arms and headers. Pierre, this thread is awesome and the work you're doing to correct this kit's shortcomings is fantastic!

This is a bit before my time, but I'm surprised that the most high-tech weapon the robot can come up with is a piece of rusty pipe. Beautiful work on the build and finishes!

Welcome aboard Curt. I'm in Naples myself. Looking forward to that Matra build!

I like the "race car gloss" finish on the paint. Smooth but not too shiny. Immaculate build of a rare kit of the prettiest F1 car of all time!

I bailed on this one... I'm in the middle of a detailed big-scale build that I didn't want to rush for the show. I'll definitely be there for November!

Top Gear at its best was never above loosening a bolt here and there to get the laugh. The first couple of seasons were all about the facts and they're almost painful to watch now.

Love 'em. If you look at those colors as base coats it greatly expands your color palette. They take TS13 clear beautifully.

I'm surprised that Mercedes would part with something as rare and important to their history as a Uhlenhaut Coupe. I wonder what the reasoning was behind that decision. Granted they still have one (they had both cars in their collection) but it's a strange move from a company that reveres its history as much as Mercedes does.

I wouldn't want to use anything bigger than the brush that comes with the cement. That stuff is potent. It's become my go-to over the last few years. I decided to give it a shot when my LHS ran out of Bondene and I never went back!

Everything comes off the trees before painting. I clean up sink marks and mold lines, test fit and mount parts to toothpicks or craft sticks with Micro Krystal Klear before painting. Subassemblies like engine halves, radiators, etc. are preassembled and any seams cleaned up before paint as well. Agreed that paint callouts on instructions only go so far and some companies are better than others. I put hours of research into a build and bookmark useful sites that will help me with getting the colors and finishes absolutely correct. I tend to start off with painting the body before everything else (after lots of test fitting to check for necessary modifications, clearance issues, etc.). I find that a nice shiny painted body gives me incentive to paint and build the rest of the model to the same standard.

My buddy's dog used to love coming over to my house. If she was unsupervised for more than a minute she'd be in my cat's litter box "bobbing for apples".

When I have a project on my bench for three months I start getting antsy to wrap it up and move on. This is going on three years and the work on display here is still wonderful. Thanks for keeping us updated on this project... it's inspirational to see what talent and patience can produce!

Duran Duran's "Rio" album is my go-to musical guilty pleasure. Honestly, it's a great album from start to finish but as an 80's kid there's a certain stigma attached to being too into Duran Duran.

Meh, Testors was dead to me when they dropped MM acrylics and metalizers. The MM spray lacquers were okay and had some great colors but between the terrible nozzles and high failure rate of the cans I stopped using them many years ago.

Give this track a listen... "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by The Decemberists.

Interesting. Never heard of this technique, but I'm gonna have to try it. Does the cotton flock allow the epoxy to be sanded like filler?

Got it Wednesday. Great issue!