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Very nice Anton! The shot of the three of them lined up looks super realistic. 👍🏻

Thank you Edgar. Thanks Larry. Thanks Bill. Decals were ok. Very thin and a few split but I was able to get them together. The first one I put down was on the front hood. I used too much Micro Sol and it wrinkled bad. I use it much more sparingly on the rest of the decals and they laid down much better.

My 1/25 scale MPC Blue Max funny car. Built OOB with the kit decals. I was going to add ignition wires and fuel lines but there wasn’t enough clearance to close the body. I had to remove the valve cover breathers to get the clam shell to close. Instructions were vague and took some trial and error. Also cut off the hinge for the body and moved it forward. I narrowed the front axle and the front wheels are from my parts box. The wing style spoiler was too low when mounted to the bottom of the chassis as the directions showed it so I cut it in half and drilled holes on each side of the driver’s compartment and glued it in on each side. Also added side glass.

Came out real nice Scott. I agree it’s one of the best I’ve seen.

Nice build. Great job with the hood hinges and decals. Looks very convincing. Do the buckets swivel?😁 What did you use for the glass?

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Thank you. Yes the A pillar is just another aspect of this kit that’s off. I think the real car is closer to a stock Camaro A pillar. I was thinking about correcting that but I figured no one would notice. So much for that. 🤣

Thank you. Not at all surprised by the comments about this kit. I get they can’t make exact models of the actual cars but come on. At least try and come close. I guess I’d go bankrupt if I ran a model car company. Either that or I’d be rich. Lol.

Beautiful work. Very realistic detailing.

Thanks guys. I’m very happy with the way it came out.

Thank you.

Forgot to mention I also added the upper struts on the wheelie bars, made aluminum panels for the drivers cockpit out of styrene and Alclad polished aluminum, and printed a set of funny car zoomies. Fuel tank is also from the parts box.

Finished up my Jungle Jim funny car. My intention was to build this kit out of box just to add a funny car to my collection. I had read the comments and saw builds of others here and on the web but I didn’t realize how bad this kit is until I had it in my hands and compared it the the reference pictures I found online. As most of you probably know it’s not very accurate. I modified the body by moving the front wheel openings forward. Then I cut off the front bumper ends and tucked them in to the body. Looking at pictures it seemed to me the Camaro body didn’t have a cutout on the hood for the supercharger so I filled it in. I think that was on the Vega body which would make sense since that body is probably shorter. Hard to really be sure with the limited number of pictures out there which is kind of surprising since this is such a historic car. The chassis was really bad. Very toy like and inaccurate. I found a free funny car chassis .stl file online and after manipulating it in Meshmixer I think I was able to print a decent chassis. Not an exact match to the 1:1 but definitely better than what came with the kit. Front wheels are from the kit and were modified. I thinned down the spokes and reduced the diameter of the hub which looked like something from a 4x4 truck. Front tires are from my parts box. For the rears I went in the opposite direction. I used the kits slicks and wheels from the parts box. They were sprayed Alclad polished aluminum then Alclad exhaust manifold. Body was primed with Tamiya Gray laquer primer and shot with Dupli-Color BCC0422 which is a Chrysler color then cleared with their 1K clear. Thanks for looking.

Another beautiful build Marcos. Very clean.

Sweet interior. Paint and wheels look great too.