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  1. absmiami
    Caveat - we will of course be ruining the value of the kits we choose to build - oh well ...
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    Once you are done with the Bugatti LSR - would you be tempted to do a build thread on one of your Etzels kits - I’ve got a different collection of Etzel unbuilts - including the Duesenberg Indy car - we could do a combined thread as a tribute to Chris - that was my thought .. . I have strange thoughts ...
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    David. I’ve sent the castor an email - hope the link is current ... Maserati made less than 50 spyders - betting that strada24 Sold less than 50 kits. I’ll post the answer if I get one - either way - it was a fortunate purchase ...
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    Mr King occasionally posts on the GPMA.io forum - short for Grand Prix modelers assoc - I think he has posted pix of that Porsche in that forum - I do not know if he still builds - he hasn’t posted any recent builds ... he is the first large scale scratch builder that I know of in this country ... thanks for the compliments. The bluebird kit was a smaller scale - and unobtanium in the US - you are correct about the others - I’ve been working on the Alfa engine - with the aid of a 3D printed upgrade from Mr Indycals - selling on Shapeways - it’s buried in the “some old racing engines” thread in the model cars section on this forum - it’s sort of taking a nap - but it could be active again once I’ve gotten my workbench clean again - but that is always a big challenge.. a big, big challenge ....
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    Nailed them tires ...
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    Yup
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    And two manatees. ... designed by Fantuzzi ...
  8. absmiami
    Openings for the headlights ... drilling, grinding and sanding ... drilling, grinding and sanding ... keep wondering what I’m going to do when I grow up ...
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    Do you have any unbuilt Etzel kits ?? Got an idea .... ...
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    So the phone ads on the list are sometimes infuriating ... do I really need to be reminded what my ear wax looks like ? But today I’ve got a nice one ? The Ragnar relay runner’s events are returning to Florida - and that’s very welcome almost-post pandemic news ...
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    Yes. But there is more influence from Pinin Farina on the British sports cars in the early fifties. Compare the lines of the early Ferrari Barchettas . Enzo must have taken one look at the A6GCS and realized he might want to do business with Medardo Fantuzzi - and that turned out pretty well ... my favorite mid-engined Ferrari is the 206SP. did Fantuzzi nail that - or what? That garage resin kit is crawling to the top of my tobuild list ...
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    Remember - this was designed by Fantuzzi in 1953 ! How influential were the lines of this little race car? When Mazda drew the body design for their series I MX5, in 1987 - ish. ... bet they had a picture of this car displayed on their design studio wall .... curves have always been the car designers best friend - right, Mr Tesla ?
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    Reaching a point where this build is ready for a nap - evergreen strip was cut and sanded to make lower rocker panels that housed - I think - the lines to the two water pumps - and I’m shaping the ridges that covered the suspension pick-ups - these have a different shape than the Lotus 49 - hard to match - MFH’s 20th scale kit got it close to right - mine will be - okay ... the main thing is I’ll be able to fit all of the major components in the forward section - under the nose - somehow ...
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    So the plan is to add / make just about everything else and build one of the two factory team cars from the 1954 Sebring race. For the record - both cars DNF’d - but the factory would be back - with greater success - later in the decade ...
  15. absmiami
    The body casting was a thick, and one piece - but the lines were quite good - I carved out the trunk and bonnet and thinned out much of the resin structure - big mess ... adding tabs inside the openings to support the separated bonnet and trunk ...
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    I’ll send the caster an email and I’ll post his reply if I get one ... kits were curbside with some nice photo-etch. - enough to give you a start... produced in very low numbers and not available for years now - I assume the caster made his fortune and turned to other pursuits ...
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    Here’s a rare bird - or sports car kit ... Strada 24 produced some really cool sports car kits about 10 years ago - before disappearing intO the garage resin kit ether ... the caster was fr Argentina.
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    one year ago - just about the last time that my wife and I did "anything" this year's event is set for May - I think ... hoping ...
  19. absmiami
    with my BeCassa app on my I phone from Amelia Island Mar 20 - Alfa Romeo Don Lee Special just stirrin things up ...
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    these are some BeCassa modified pix of my completed Cooper ...
  21. absmiami
    So DustyMojave posted the following on this thread way back in Aug 2017 : "Another model builder I know, Dale King, grew up near Harry's store and as a young man built a very detailed larger scale model of Harry's Cooper, going to Harry's house to take measurements and pictures. Awesome model." Well I can now complete the circle - as I have Dale king's permission to post pix of his amazing 12th scale Cooper - and yes it is a true - old school - scratch-build ... - he sort of instigated my fool's errand in 24th scale ...
  22. absmiami
    The drawings I’ve got suggest that the Joker resin monocoque is a little short - and this is confirmed by studying the 20th scale MFH build ... so it’s back to the Renshape for the added scale 2.5 inches at the back - and this piece will also serve as the engine bulkhead ...and this should enable me to nail the wheelbase ...
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    HOT BENCH ... there’s plastic, Renshape, and resin flying everywhere ... studying the Lotus 43 build on the Brit Modeler site I realized that the car has curved panels at the base of the monocoque that house some of the fluid lines ... making these with Evergreen strip ...
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    Not Ethel. My I phone does not recognize “Etzel”. Drat ...
  25. absmiami
    Looked again - I think you are using the same density - and I too am a big fan of the late, great Chris Ethel ... got an idea ...
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