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Love the carpet treatment. I haven't had much luck sourcing embossing powders. Where did you get yours?

Terry, thanks! You made me feel much better about my unfinished projects. 😀

Very Nice!!

Helmut, I really wish you hadn't said that.......because I was thinking the same things while comparing the photos as I posted them. 😄 The replacement wheels and tires are actually smaller than the originals from CMC. I experimented with some that were smaller still, but they didn't look quite right in the wheel openings. Anyway, I agree, the proportions are slightly off. There's a 1/18 scale version of this car that looks better. The biggest difference between the two seems to be the length of the cockpit, which is proportionally longer on the 1/18 version. Now, the 1/24 car looks great on the display shelf, don't get me wrong. Parked next to a Franklin Mint SSK the wheels and tires seem about right. The wheelbases of these two 1/24 cars are different though, and they should match, as SSK's. The CMC car is shorter. Proportionally, the body length vs. height is a bit off. I think if it were stretched in a couple areas it would look better. Not gonna do that though! 😄

Great commentary, thanks! I guess Tom was interviewed at his apartment in San Francisco just a month before he passed away back in June, 2013. From that article: Our lunch is at Perkin's' newly acquired apartment in downtown San Francisco. As we take a scenic route through the pretty architecture of Pacific Heights and Nob Hill, he discusses his lifelong attraction to owning classic and performance cars. "At the height of my collection I had about 45 classic cars, each a gem," he reports. The most memorable? "My Bugatti Atlantic, built for a Mr Pope in 1935; then there was the 'Maharajah' Duesenberg Type SJ, and the streamlined Mercedes-Benz Count Trossi SSK dating from 1930, all cars of world renown." "You know," he continues, "while I owned them I really loved them, but when I sensed the bottom was about to fall out of the market, I sold them all for vast sums of money. It was a good decision, as my prediction came true. Today, I own just one classic, a 1955 'gull wing' Mercedes 300SL in perfect concours condition. I now have this Lambo and a Ferrari 599 GTO, both new cars. I just love to drive them."

Thank you, Man! 😃 You're welcome, and thank you Dave! 🤩 Thank you, kind Sir! 😄

I agree completely! It is very similar to the Karmann Ghia; the greenhouse, the fenders, emphasized horizontal line at the rockers, the triangular hood. It makes you wonder how nice a Ghia might look with some Borrani chrome wires. Not really possible with wide five Volkswagen drums, but if things were different......

Hello Helmut. Thank you so much! I thought you might like this one, and I'm not at all surprised that you have several of them. This was a great design from Alfa Romeo. 😍

Ralph Lauren has owned this particular car for about 40 years now. CMC created a very nice 1/24 scale model of the car, depicting what it looks like today. Over the course of it's history dating back to 1930, the car has appeared differently during different era's. As an example, the wheels have been painted red at one time, covered with polished aluminum full wheel discs at another, and featured chrome wires for a long time before the current look of black painted wheels. Personally, with rare exceptions, I pretty much hate black painted wheels. So, naturally, I gravitate towards chrome wires much more readily. My goal for this model was to bring the looks more in line with how the car was featured in Road and Track, September 1992. To do that, I replaced the wheels and tires, lowered the front end, and painted the brake drums to represent polished copper. From the CMC factory the model featured red painted drums, almost pink. No bueno! The wheels I came up with are from an unlikely source. They're actually SpecCast Model A Ford wheels, or at least that's what they intended. I modified them to shorten the center hub cap as much as possible, then add the Mercedes knockoffs in the center. The tires are from a Danbury Mint Hispano Suiza. I made a front license plate to match the one on the car when in Road and Track. That's about it. Enjoy!

Helmut, that's quite an incredible model! Super nice. Thanks for sharing.

Phillipe, you really did an outstanding job with the Renault! Beautiful work. Great color choices, very good paint, super clean build. This year Renault reminds me a lot of the '32 Chrysler CH series Imperial. The coach line at the cowl is similar to a Model A Ford, but the fenders, hood sides and grille are very much like the Chrysler. Good looking car.

Ray, Bruce, Lee- Thank you guys. This is was made by Leo Models, distributed by Whitebox in England and Europe. I picked mine up from a vendor in Italy. It comes fully assembled. I took it all apart, sanded and polished the paint on the body, and repainted everything else. I lowered it 1.5mm and replaced the wheels and tires. I adapted better ones from a Danbury Mint Ferrari Testa Rossa. The brake drums are flat washers from Home Depot. The floor is carpeted with Kens Fuzzy Fur. Trimed it with a Molotow chrome pen. Engine detail painted, distributor modified to add Detail Master plug wires. Photographed outdoors in evening light, here in California.

Bill, Gary, thank you guys!! I always appreciate seeing what you're up to with your latest builds, your thoughtful posts, and kind words. Have a great weekend! -TIM-

Thanks, Zen! I'm tempted to do just a few more mods. I think I'll make up some 1934 license plates for it, add cowl lights, add horns, and a rear view mirror. Changes I've made so far: I've gone over the grille and panel lines with black Tamiya 'Panel-Line-Accent-Color' Painted the bumper brackets gloss black. Painted the interior flat black in areas that were red; the A-pillars, door frames, headliner. Painted the rubber portions of the running boards flat black. Took apart the wheels and tires so I could paint the glossy sides walls flat black. Went over the wheels with black panel liner to give the spokes some depth, then re-touched them with yellow, then clear gloss. Put her back together and shot some pictures. The 'before' pictures at the bottom were on ebay.

Next batch of photos are out of the box. It looked pretty good. I just gave it a little more detail. Something fun to do on a Sunday afternoon.

Dave, your best bet to replicate a stock '29 A closed cab pick will require two kits: 1) Revell '29 A pickup 2) AMT '29 A roadster

Very, very nice, Andrew! Great job. 🙂

Excellent! Thanks, Robert. 😃

Robert, beautiful work! Could you describe for us your technique for the black wash on the engine and chassis components? It's really well done, adds a lot to the depth and realism of things.

That works really well! Great idea....