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  1. absmiami
    Like this …
  2. absmiami
    Trunk was scribed and then parted. Will use some drum sanders to thin the casting and some disc sanders to smooth the trunk surface. I’ll leave the doors on the body
  3. absmiami
    Time to start yours , Gramps …. Build the Le Mans winner while I make the Spa winner …. Peart build model cars ?? That’s something I definitely did not know …. ..
  4. absmiami
    I third that. The door and trunk lines on the body are very shallow - when the kit was sold you had to turn your xacto blade around to scribe resin or plastic - how’d that work ? the Tamiya scribers are my new gotos …
  5. absmiami
    Ok. Ok. Back again to googs. From moving pictures in 81 - nice. . Maybe brush up on my Rush …
  6. absmiami
    I did know that Peart was an author …. I need to get out more often …
  7. absmiami
    You’ve sent me straight to google …
  8. absmiami
    I would stretch to buy them because - it was generally known / understood that the masters could only produce a limited number of castings When MQ corresponded with Gramps last year he indicated that he sold about 40 of these kits... which is why you wont see many - if any - on Ebay .... How many have been built ?? I've seen a few.... how many are unbuilt ??? who knows - if you know anyone with an unbuilt kit - tell them to post here and snipe at me !! by the way - I think Fernando Pinto has produced a Barchetta - and I'm sure that it is quite good .... and also by the way - I think MFH did one - there's might be equally hard to find the FPP kit I'm certain is still obtainable ...
  9. absmiami
    well played
  10. absmiami
    The body was mastered by Paul Fisher - although the castings were - I think - Mostly done by R&D Unique. This would have been an early effort by Fisher. The body lines are spot on. The shut lines for the trunk and doors are shallow and will need scribing. And the castings had some flash and “stuff” which was removed before these shots. The bonnet fit was not perfect - when is it ever? I dunked mine in some hot water and taped it and massaged a curve on the trailing edge that gives an improved fit …
  11. absmiami
    those racing stripes are really sharp ... I'm looking at those wheels and I'm thinking that this is a 43rd scale ?? is it 43 or 24 ???
  12. absmiami
    nice Aston engine - you spent some time on that fan blade ... - fr the Aurora DB4 kit ?? treat your self to some 3D printed Webers - there are some very nice ones on Shapeways and floating elsewhere around the internet ...
  13. absmiami
    wait you're not gluing the strap to the cockpit floor, are you ?? "the torture never stops" Frank Zappa ...
  14. absmiami
    Very nice
  15. absmiami
    Car is in the Jon Shirley collection. Christie’s auction price in ‘96 was 1.6 mill. What’s its value today ???
  16. absmiami
    The kit includes a sheet of Michael’s excellent decals to model the Le Mans winner. That car is chass oo8. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon chassis 0010 at a Cavallino vintage event at the old Moroso track in West Palm beach 20 years ago. This car won the Spa 24 hour race - Chinetti/Lucas drivers - not bad …. I’ve got a good set of film photos of this car that I’m getting digitized - I’ll post some later this weekend - the Spa winner wore #20 and sports a cool standing number placard over the trunk. There are some interesting differences between the two cars that I’ll cover in the build.
  17. absmiami
    So why not start some more good trouble. This is a tribute build of the rare 24th scale resin UMI Ferrari Barchetta kit that was offered by the late Michael Quarterman in the early nineties. For more history and reference - see Gramps’ post on page 4 of this section, entitled 1949 Ferrari MM Le Mans Winner - featuring an expert build by a Netherlands modeler by the name of William DePooter. here we go …
  18. absmiami
    thoughts challenges this photo is of the Weber carbed version of said engine - the kit engine is fuel injected - which is also correct - choose your poison you'll have to scratch the distributor - you'll need some .06 alu or brass tube and lots of patience plug wire - no bigger than .013 - there is an Ebay store that sells .011 wire in different colors - Belly tanker has the site on his ... belly Tanker ... build in the land speed / sports car /racer section
  19. absmiami
    Well done - Great fix and a happy end to the THE GREAT EXHAUST MANIFOLD CONTROVERSY …
  20. absmiami
    Hey. Wait a minute. That’s my old van !
  21. absmiami
    welcome Mr T to Miami I'm laughing hysterically ... lived here since 1978 and I'm trying to figure out how to move back up North - maybe to Virginia ... but I'm stuck in Palmetto Bay for now !! You ARE going to the Amelia Island concourse in March, aren't you ??? absmiami nice shot of one of our famous floating COVID incubators !!
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    Appears to be 12th scale …. Did you get your hands on a CMA Ford GT kit - I didn’t think any of those actually existed …. It’s too detailed to be that 12th scale kit from five years ago - and that’s more than five years of dust collecting there - I do like riddles - I like beer too …
  23. absmiami
    Send it through a model car wash ???
  24. absmiami
    Electric wires. There are a bunch in the engine bay - the electronic ignition system was a new Ford development - and the components were attached to the roll bar and the braces - I think that the Clark car had some of the components in different locations - the wires that I’m adding are not spec - there are drawings for this system but I couldn’t figure out half of the wiring …
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    Thanks. Met Michael once years ago on a trip to Cali - he will be missed - plan to do a tribute build of one of his kits …. Left cyl head plugs are in. Which is good. Because I’m sick of staring at these things …
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