Justin Porter

As if I needed more temptation to build a Pantera... This looks great especially in an appropriately screaming color.

I seem to recall an old review of this kit (maybe in Strictly Stock?) that said that it had a gloriously complicated interior assembly with tons of separate pieces. I know it's a kit that I've long wanted and I'm excited to see it built with care.

Quite a piece of work on that hatch! And I feel your pain on the closed hood as my "Wangan Midnight" edition of this same kit had the same malady, coupled with JUST an engine to go under the hood but no master cylinder, battery, core support, etc. Excellent job!

D'oh! Somehow the Cutlass convertible slipped my mind and I've even sold one of the kits with Linda Vaughn within the last month.

My fellow builders, if I am not mistaken this will be the first modern 1/25th scale kit of a 1968-1972 GM A-body. I'm beyond excited to get these onto the shelf.

I wonder a little bit if the body is sitting a bit low on the chassis in the front. The Grand Sports, to me, in period pictures always had a kind of squat over the rear tires, nose in the air stance as opposed to sitting square on all fours. An extra 1/16th of an inch of front wheel well might just make the difference.

Admittedly, the biggest reason I'm glad for Revell's return as well as the dispersal of Revell's older tooling is a business one - my shelves. Simply put, the lack of availability of Revell to cater to the mainstream domestic auto builder has left a BIG dent in my shop's domestic auto shelf that (great companies that they are in their own right) Moebius and Round 2 simply cannot fully fill. My own personal building tastes might be primarily accurate factory stock builds of vintage sports cars, but that means bunk when it comes to filling the shelves of a hobby shop that caters to all builders and Revell remains the standard bearer for modern domestic auto kits. Without their availability I underserve replica stock, custom, drag, light commercial, and hot rod builders to a very measurable degree.

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.

Looks great to me. Nice and tidy.

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.

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...

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.

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!

Definitely a great build of a questionable kit of a fantastically obscure Ferrari. The added touches and the finish really make the silk purse.

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.

Quite a creative Hudson. Very cool to see.

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?

Who knows, maybe this means the Aurora Maserati 3500GT will come back?

Possibly a GT3 version of the GTR to go with the Mercedes?

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.

It's a really really clean looking build. The colors just cry out "Big Poncho".

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!

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

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.

Be still my beating heart, the Aoshima MGB's are coming back????