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  1. Justin Porter
    I've been more partial to using them as a replacement for belts in racing cars like Group C cars where there's not much window to look through. For the edges, a light touch of a close match flat color seems to do the trick. I wouldn't use them for, say, a WRC car build where the belt mount on the cage and the strung belts are very obvious.
  2. Justin Porter
    Looks great to me. Nice and tidy.
  3. Justin Porter
    Personally I'm pretty partial to Eduard's photoetch racing belts. Instead of fussy buckles and material or the unrealistic flatness of decals, they're a single piece of photoetch that's pad printed.
  4. Justin Porter
    At the moment no Ford GT on my bench. As a matter of fact on Tuesday night I started a 1/35th scale Soviet KV-2 tank by Trumpeter. lol Not 100% certain what my next auto build is going to be though tracking down a good deal on Tamiya's Morgan is calling to me...
  5. Justin Porter
    Ahh, the Hasegawa Miura. This is pretty high on my list along with somehow rescuing my SVJ build. Very interested to see the detailing you're adding to what is a very nice kit in the first place.
  6. Justin Porter
    I'm genuinely liking that so far it's a fairly stock GTR. Gives the big coupe a chance to shine on its own. The Bayside Blue works well as an R32 color too even though it's usually associated with R34's. Keep at it!
  7. Justin Porter
    Definitely a great build of a questionable kit of a fantastically obscure Ferrari. The added touches and the finish really make the silk purse.
  8. Justin Porter
    This one was a first run near as well as I can determine and I can confirm that the transfers have no stick to them. I have saved them for when I have a solution to that particular issue but I think the car looks quite handsome "de-badged" as it is.
  9. Justin Porter
    Quite a creative Hudson. Very cool to see.
  10. Justin Porter
    This has been an absolute joy of a build! The kit goes together beautifully and because of that I was able to concentrate on turning out a good finish on the parts. If you have one of these in your stash and haven't built it, what are you waiting for?
  11. Justin Porter
    Who knows, maybe this means the Aurora Maserati 3500GT will come back?
  12. Justin Porter
    Possibly a GT3 version of the GTR to go with the Mercedes?
  13. Justin Porter
    The ICM Packard is flat GORGEOUS. There's both the Stalin version and a regular road-going Packard Twelve version and despite being a little bit tricky with their multi-piece bodies they are full detail and evidence that ICM needs to keep upscaling their 1/35th scale kits to 1/24th.
  14. Justin Porter
    It's a really really clean looking build. The colors just cry out "Big Poncho".
  15. Justin Porter
    So we're down the home stretch with the Jag. Clearcoat was rubbed out with The Treatment and the window trim was done with Molotow. Glass is all in, interior and engine bay is done, and now there's just a few more chrome bits, the number plates, and the metal transfers to add. I can't say how enjoyable this kit is or how pleased I am with the results so far!
  16. Justin Porter
    Great... Complete with centre-lock Minilites... And here I thought I was going to wrap up my Aoshima MGB for a not nosebleed price search and cheat by getting mine on my shop's dime. lol
  17. Justin Porter
    Technically speaking the cars pictured are MGC-GTS's which are pretty substantially different from an MGB GT. It would take a fair bit of work to get from B to C even off of the fantastic resin B-GT. On the other hand, if Aoshima could be bothered to add a tree of some parts inside the box, we could get the Sebring Lightweight Trio entered by Kjell Qvale in 1962.
  18. Justin Porter
    Be still my beating heart, the Aoshima MGB's are coming back????
  19. Justin Porter
    Definitely a nice clean build of a cool touring car.
  20. Justin Porter
    That's really especially great to see. I'm sure the tame racing driver would be smiling if he were capable of such reactions.
  21. Justin Porter
    I particularly like some of the subtle staining and washes added that make look trailer fresh rather than restoration fresh.
  22. Justin Porter
    The interior, sans the steering wheel and steering column, is completely finished. It's painted in Tamiya Buff with a rubbed wash of Tamiya brown panel liner that helped give a bit of an "aged leather" look on the seats. The kit wood panel decals on the dash and the door panels actually turned out pretty well with just a bit of MicroSol. The body has three coats of Tamiya Gloss Aluminum and one coat of Testors One Coat Wet Look clear. It's looking great and once it fully gasses out and I can do a bit of polishing it's going to look fantastic. There's still a lot of brightwork left to do and the glass, but it's in the home stretch!
  23. Justin Porter
    Fantastic finished model and definitely making me look at my IMC Lola T70 and feel a little guilty.
  24. Justin Porter
    From the lead photo, as I'm looking at it, maybe the Revell Shelby Series 1 could be a wheel donor as well?
  25. Justin Porter
    I'm absolutely in awe to see this finished and looking so good. I doubt many of these ever get past the "Nothing fits right!" and throw it back in the box stage.
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