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Built this (first of two) for a member in the local model club, a Vietnam veteran, who is building a diorama of the barracks he was stationed at in SoCal. It's a Russian made ACE 1/72 scale kit. He did not want to build it, and I can (barely) see why. It is extremely detailed, with teeny tiny parts. But it didn't take too long. It looks incomplete with no stars, and not weathered, he said they had to keep them clean, and no machine guns since they were stationed in the city. Sounds like I'm complaining about tiny parts, I just got the Italeri 1/35 scale kit of the Sahariana, with additional photo-etched and resin details.

That's pretty crazy, so rounded, must have been a pain to manufacture. Came out nice!

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I was lucky to get what I needed from a guy in Washington, who went out of business. (icon picture) Staying tuned here.....

That ....... is ...... KILLER! I have the regular ol' FXX kit, extremely detailed, and daunting, and I'm getting the photo-etch just because. Can appreciate the work you did. BEST OF LUCK AT THE CONTEST!

Oh man, I saw that before you mentioned it, was wondering. That would have driven me nuts soon as it happened. If I may suggest, yes trim just enough out, then superglue back together with a strip of metal behind it, at least 4 mm long. When I cut the windshield down on my Miata, that worked, I used aluminum. Many of us know about putting aside projects. I have a VW Bus that I started last century, and was not happy with the raked windshield a-pillars (and some other things), it's been haunting me lately, but I have a hundred other projects that I want to start. BTW: I had a '77 Civic CVCC, recently got the Hasagawa kit. That was traded in for an '87 Civic Si; started the Tamiya kit last century, completed last year. Current driver is a 2016 Civic Coupe EX-T, Honda sent a tiny model but it's not the same color, and that sort of bugs me.

Looking really good!

Looks great from here! Are one of the enhancements the venturi wheels? I did a Nitto Countach, it was a horrible kit, made into a Swedish S-tank. So they could produce decent kits.

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I did that kit too! Yes Russell, shoulda coulda woulda. Tamiya's Honda Civic (second generation) had both L&R. I just did Fujimi's MINI Cooper, had to create LHD dash, which wasn't hard. Don't know if that's considered popular enough to offer.

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But of course! You guys were so generous last year to me. I took the same models to GSL, and got zip zero nadda, but the competition was exceptional.

Ditto above comments! My only Heller experience was with the Mercedes 170V. Crude by today's standards, had to add screw blocks to mount the body pan to the frame, and grill to the frame which had no location tabs at all.

I like the subject! My only critique, and it might be the pictures, the paint metallic seems grainy?

Cool, appreciate the extra work you did.

Very nice job. To complete this kit deserves big praise. I have the kit, along with all the Scale Motorsport details, and prototype c-f decals. Scared to start.

Very cool subject, I know something about rallies, and old cars, but not this combination. My only critique, way too clean!

Your photography with the boxes, and the quality of builds, looks professional. Worthy of being on display at a museum.

Love the 275 GTB! One of my someday projects. The Bora is cool.

Love your taste in cars. I have that Impreza kit. The Porsche 911, is that done like what Singer custom shop is doing?

Very creative, and I love the color!

Good job making a sick purse out of a Seoul's year. Whoops sorry, watching the Olympics. Some kits deserve getting this treatment, I like this!

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Nice job! I love the pearl white, maybe because my full scale Honda Civic is. I never heard of that paint brand. I have the Tamiya kit of this, looks comparable but has the engine.