Jantrix

Ditto. But I'd love to know where you got it.

It is an impressive model and likely well deserving of a good price. But before any of you start seeing dollar signs in your stash shelves, remember he'd have to knock this build out in less than 40 hours to make a decent wage for his time.

These guys are obviously good fabricators and painters. But they are lousy designers. So much work to make something so unappealing.

I'd love to know more about this process if anyone is in the know.

Thanks Eric. I'm planning another quick & simple build very soon.

I'm of a different mind when this situation arises. When a person is selling something, nice goes out the window. I don't worry about feelings like I would a builder who is showing off his work on the forum or at a contest. He wants money for it now. It's up to me to make him see that it's worth $1. I'd have found the kit on ebay and shown him the same kit new for $15. I'd have pointed out the condition. He says it's rare. Call his bluff. He's hoping for a sucker.

Looks great so far, but I think that peice between the velocity stacks is supposed to be removed.

Wow. As nice as the Revell kit is, I have a real soft spot for this kit. I built lots of them as a kid. The first gens are my favorite. However, the only reason I would purchase this is if the injection intake is included. The clear hood would be a nice touch too.

Thanks Carl. More this weekend. I'm planning to complete the interior and get the body ready for paint.

Whoa. Looking great.

I'm diggin it.

The Merc is okay though. Very nice.

I've seen three or four builders take a shot at this movie car. Frankly, you're the only one who hit the mark. It's a great build that really captures the look and attitude of the Cobra Merc. Well done.

Okay, I see what this boils down to. It is obvious that those of you working in metal are demanding of yourself a higher level of detail than any molded part can achieve. Pete's unboxed frame for instance is something we've never seen in a kit and would be a pain to achieve with styrene. Even when these details are difficult or impossible to see in casual observation. That whole mindset is as alien to me as breathing underwater. For me, if you can't see it easily, it doesn't matter. Paint the kit part, glue it in place and carry on. Also my biggest issue about building with brass, is the regularity of seeing it unpainted. We build models of automobiles that for the most part have not been built using a great deal of brass for 90-odd years, and for the most part have little to no unfinished surfaces. Pete has machine turned the plate on that frame. it looks great. He obviously doesn't intend to paint it. At that point is sort of stops being a model of a car (to me) because it's not finished. Although it's masterfully done, it doesn't look any better (to me) than someone who builds a kit perfectly, but completely unpainted. Again this isn't intended as a rant or an attack, you told me your reasons, I've told mine. It comes down to two very different approaches to scale modeling, and there's plenty of room for all in this hobby.

1. This is not a rant. Rather an honest question. 2. It's meant for those guys that do a lot of building with soldered brass and turned aluminum. What is the draw of working with metal? We have a lot of guys here that show what magical things you can do with styrene stock, completely scratch building entire vehicles. Plastic is easy to work with. It glues well. It cuts, scribes, bends, very easily. Anything built from metal can be built in styrene in a fraction of the time, with a minimum of equipment. So. To all you masters of the soldering irons, lathes, and metal brakes, whats the draw? Why work in a medium so difficult to work with? Not to mention, it looks so good in most instances it seems a shame to paint it.

Looking good. I'll be following along.

Yeah, I don't know of any modeler that adds the wheel well trim screws. I think it's real.

One of my all time favorite car chases. That river jump was astounding. Oh yeah, the model. Bill that looks spot on perfect. If I'd have found that kit, I'd have built the same thing. Well done.

I'm sure there will be a few adjustments to be made but they are the same scale, and the same engine. Get some white glue, glue the major engine parts together temporarily and see how it fits.

Okay this one is back on the bench. It's gonna stay until it's done. Got the roll cage finished up. The bars aren't invisible but with the rear windows tinted they'll be darn hard to spot. First primer coat. Wheels and tires for the Cannonball sleeper version of this build. More soon.

Very nice! Well done. Those vehicles can be great slump busters. Much of what we do in this hobby needs to be as perfect as possible. So building something where the opposite is a requirement is very freeing sometimes.

That is what we referred to as "a beater". Nice work.

I think you did a very good job on a tough kit. Good color and stance. The mis-matched tires is my only gripe.

I just did one like that for my '57 and just used some McGuires compound on a soft rag.

The white decals are still on a portion of the decal sheet. I would have to cut them meticulously away and scan them and hope inverting got me a decent image. If no one had a set to help me out, that would have been my last resort.