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Same here. Great work there, Tom!

Wow, a great variety of top-built models! I love the '63 Vette the best...

Great models all of them, but I love the McLaren and the Charger!

My opinion exactly.

It LOOKS great too! This will become one fine Nova...

Hi Will, this is looking real good. I must admit I'm not a fan of the "modern" DTM era (years 2000 and on - featuring simplified suspension and aero technology compared to the expensive 90's "hi-tech monsters", yet having 4-liter V8 engines that practically had nothing to do with the road cars - which is but one of the basic ideas of the DTM!). But I have this kit too as the livery says "Danke Tom" (thanks Tom) in German, as a farewell gesture to Audi's long term driver Tom Kristensen (the world's most successful Le Mans driver so far). My son's name is Tom too, so I'd like to build this kit for him one day... Anyway, looking forward to see you finish this one! They (ROG) actually did quite a lot of these kits when they had the licence back then. They did Audis, BMW's, Mercs, and Opels in a lot of liveries. Check it out here: https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=All&q=revell+dtm*#

Another beautiful result, Ludwig!

Thanks Ismael. Fingers crossed on finding a Boomerang kit at a reasonable price! Thanks Gary. Well I guess, a "fair lady" never disappoints...

Thanks folks, for all your kind words. They are much appreciated and give me motivation to "MODEL ON"! Thanks Tom. My thinking exactly about the looking back on a year's achievements. I live more in the North, not too far away from Hannover. Pirmasens - US army forces? Thanks David. I fully agree, it's not just the looking back on your own results, but also on what other people have achieved. A lot of inspiration comes to me from what I see of other people, especially the gifted folks here! Thanks to you too David. The Corvette was a benchmark in my own modeling "career", as I look at it as my first good build of an American car. I built a '95 Camaro Convertible first thing when I got into modelling in 2016. But that did not turn out quite so nicely, and let's face it - it's not that iconic a car like an old Corvette! Anyway, this is also the first model that I successfully used larger amounts of BMF on. Thanks Kurt. The 928 is the Fujimi curbside kit. I think they first released the S4 and GT and released the regular "S" later on. This shows in very poor fitting, especially as regards fitting the front and rear body parts to the main body. This kit does not come with an engine, unlike the Revell kits (which are but "only" the regular, non-S Porsche 928). Thanks Peter. That's true. Both are great examples of cars being looked at as iconic nowadays, but widely ignored or under-estimated in their day.

Hi folks, I think it's a nice tradition in this forum for the modelers to make a little retrospective for the past year. So I'd like to show my finished builds aswell. I was a bit shocked when I found I actually finished only 4 kits, 1 of them being a relatively simple curbside kit restotation. I'm not a quick builder and I rarely spend more than 1 or 1 1/2 hours per day on building. But it's also that I have started building 3 other kits (Porsche 956 LM, Porsche 911 RS 3.8 and '69 Camaro) in the course of this year which have consumed quite some time, without being finished so far. So here are the 2018 "results"... Revell Corvette Roadster '62: Fujimi Fairlady 240Z: Fujimi Porsche 928S: Heller Maserati Boomerang (restoration):

Always good to see that there is an additional set of wheels in a kit. There may be a lot of 3D printing companies in the US doing real great wheels on demand, but it's awfully expensive to have them shipped to Germany, so the preferred way to gather some spare sets of US car wheels is by using those left from the kits in the first place.

I handle my "final-stage" or completed builds using those white cotton gloves. They come very cheap and allow for good control of handling the model. The Corvette looks great by the way, Bill!

Four great builds! Not too bad a result, even for a year.

Great looking GTO’s - love ‘em!

Just found this thread by coicidence... And ordered the book!

If I may add one (last) thing regarding the honeycomb grille parts... As the webshop now is online again, I'd like to provide the link. The shop is in German but as I said, images will speak for themselves. The link is: http://www.mbm-munich.com/Eigene-Produkte/eigene-produkte.html

John, your progress on this Vette looks beautiful! I will be following this. I believe the point about using the Microscale film is that you have to be aware of the decal's poor state beforehand. Once they disintegrate in the water, it's too late. So maybe one should use the film precautiously on all old decals...

Hi Zoltan, this is a good kit from ROG that can make a nice model even when built box-stock. Whereas I have seen some built and painted in quite exotic colors (such as pearlized purple... - and it looked good!), I like your color choice too. I'm just not quite sure about white wheels...? Do you plan on making the orange trim line on the bottom of the car? In that case, even orange wheels could look great along with that. Just saying... Either way, I will be following your build.

Nice build! I thought that block looks very much like Viper too!

I agree with you that it's up to personal preference at such a late, important stage of the build. Plus I have to add that the color I use for these paintings (Revell Aqua Color 302 - this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/36302-Revell-Aqua-Color-302-Schwarz-RAL-9005-Seidenmatt-16-39-EUR-100ml/323595360769?epid=1604197441&hash=item4b57c95a01:g:dXcAAOSwYj9cEQhu:rk:2:pf:0) doesn't seem to be easily available on the US market. Theses ROG Aqua Colors are not really great colors for airbrushing in general, but I like their consistency on the 2K and the possibilities of easily correcting (masking) faults, as I mentioned earlier on. However, I believe there are similar acrylics from Testors etc. Thanks by the way for your compliment on the Countach!

Thanks both... Very helpful and good to know where to get all this well-founded information in case I "happen" to do one of these kits. Quite a bit of "extra work" to do on all of these Camaro first gen kits, it seems. Looks like the Revell '69 is the less flawed of them, right? Wait - don't tell me! Got enough work to do on that already!

Sorry, but I have to disagree here. I have used semi-gloss acrylic black paint (applied by airbrush) on several models in order to paint black window trims, bumper parts etc. - ON the 2k. Of course, it's better the less you handle the painted model after that but the fixation on the 2k clear is good. See my Countach build below for reference.

Interesting approach! I will be watching closely, as I am also in the process of building a Revell 69 Camaro Z28... Btw, how is the AMT (68) Camaro rated in your opinion? I have that kit too and I'll be using it's custom wheels and tyres for the 69 build, as I am not too happy with the Revell kit's rallye wheels...

No problem, Dann. I did it for myself, too... Yes, Fredl does some good stuff at fair prices. The upside of low overhead costs and a one-man-show... For those of you who are interested in purchasing these or other PE parts from him, feel free to contact him by his email address: uaruem@gmx.de

They even came wi(l)der from Koenig Specials... @martinfan5: great model and superb, temporary choice of colors!