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How about an easy one.

hehehehe, Hey I am a Porsche guy, which means I am a rear engine guy, there just isn't that many rear engine cars out there.

Yeah, if you don't have an airbrush Tamiya sprays are a good substitute. The Cobra below was done with Tamiya rattle cans.

Hillman Imp

I wont give it away so quick, but Mclaren F1 help with it's development.

Yes, Porsche just designed it, but had nothing to do with production. Nobody but the military got any. After the war it was spoils for England who could never get it going because no one was interested to make a go of it and gave it back to Germany.

Like Dave wrote, light light coats of color just misting the body and slowly bring it up. Yeah, you may need to strip it and start over.

looks like it needs a silver basecoat and several mist coats of color slowly building up the color. Some of those metalics are real translucent.

Bugatti Veyron

Actually the PC Nazi's are a secondary reason Swastikas are not found in many kits. The do sell alot of kits in Germany, but the Swastika is illegal to buy, sell, trade, display, possess or own in Germany.

and they wonder why history repeats itself...

Childs play compared to the estmated 53+ million Joseph Stalin had killed. Funny we never hear about that though. Some places the symbol is still considered good luck. However, I can't exactly place good judgement on the model company to produce such a kit with these markings. I would seriously like to sit down with whoever's idea this was and ask them why? I can understand that military modelers who want to be historically accurate, but this, unless, there was a real car out there it was based off doesn't seem to have any purpose other than to associate the Bug with the Nazi party, and it was a political party. It was necessarily a German idea. Similar extremist ideas ran ramped throughout Europe, these ideas even existed in this country. The only real difference is the Nazi party perfected to a science and documented it very very well. Unlike the Russians who were secretive about everything, but were much more proficient at it under the direction of Stalin, who also was in power a lot longer.

There is a guy who sells a upgrade mod kit on ebay. It has a mold plate, which is likely missing, mine was, a new flapper valve, a oven plate, and so good tips to get it up to snuff. There is another guy who sells good plastic sheets too, I can get you all the info. The oven plate seemed to make a big difference heating the plastic up and preheating the machine. The other tricks is when you filp the frame over you really need to hold it down good and hard over the mold so has a good seal. Getting the plastic soft enough and getting enough vacuum are really the two big tricks. I didn't even install the new flapper yet, just cleaned everything up, resealed the piston tube with silicon grease, sealed the tube where it mounts to the the top of the machine with silicon sealant and it pulls plenty of vacuum. One maybe two times on the pump lever and it's done. It is definitly worth playing with, I burned through about 10 sheets before I got it right. Since the upgrade, I haven't tossed one away yet.

Me either, I thought that was a 351W. I know it's been awhile, 15 years, since I was building engines... oh well. And yes it is Ford-Edsel... although Mustang & Ford Magazine claims it to be "Ford Engine." It was first released in 1958 in three displacements. 332, 352, and 361. 390 1961-1972 406 1962-1963 427 1963-1969 428 1966-1970 and has some interchange with FT series blocks. Ford Engine doesn't follow the MEL pattern, and the 361 FE was the only engine option for a 58 Edsel Pacer. The following year, Nov 1959, Edsel was done. The last model year was 1960, and historically noted as Detroits Biggest Automotive Failure ever. Engine options were 332 and 361 FE 292 Y block and a I six. I think Ford Engine just came from Ford to distance themselves from anything to do with Edsel.

That's what I thought, and by the width it's probably a 351.

MEL stands for "Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln" FE's the exhaust runners stick out of the head and part of the valve cover goes over the intake. So I am not sure that is an FE. Also the exhaust bolts run vertical

That's all there is in the MEL family, FE is a different family. You know what FE stands for, Ferric Oxide, aka as RUST!. lol just kidding. I donno, but it dont look like any FE I have ever seen. An FE cylinder head is completely different, and what is pictured sure looks like an W to me. Unless it's some sort of weirdo combo thing.

then it's probably an MEL, 383/410/430/462 It's not an FE and not a 385 series.

it gets weirder... according to the themometer outside, which has been pretty accurate, says its 45 degrees, and it's snowing. Officially it says it's 43 degrees and the flakes are coming down.

correct on the PFM. I don't know on the ford. It sure looks like a Windsor block to me. IFAIK, they didn't do any big block Windors unless you went SVO. In which case you could do a 455 inch. Not to change subjects but I built a pretty stout 351W, it was stroked to 377 inches offset ground to chevy journel size, 13.5:1 Ross Racing Super Lite Pistons (533g), Z-Gap lite tension rings, Brooks Aluminum Rods 5.7 + .200 chevy rod, Crane 690/710 split ground Roller Cam & matching Crane roller lifters, Harland Sharp Roller Rockers, SVO J302 Aluminum Cylinder Port matched heads, 2.02, 1.60 Milodon Stainless Steel valves, Port matched EB Vic JR intake, Barry Grant 850CFM Holly, SVO large tube headers, Milodon gear drive. Dinoed: 710hp @ 7300rpm, and ran 9:30s in a 2500# Mustang III with a glide and a 5:13 Mark Williams 9 inch and 33X15 Goodyears.

well I am finally got this figured out. This is a neat little machine. I have successfully made several windows now. Note there is a protective film still on the glass. That is why it's foggy.

This stuff has to be 30 years old or better, never used, never opened. What I got here is a couple old cans of Pactra Model Enamel, 89 cents. I don't even remember Pactra doing model enamel. I do remember the second item, a double pack of K-Mart tube glue 97 cents. Let's see some of your modeling artifacts?

Yeah, coming from not that far away Madison Wisconsin, that was the old joke, don't like the weather wait ten minutes and it will change. You midwesterns have nothing on us as far as crazy weather. Not uncommon to get 40-50 degree swings in a few hours. We still manage to average well over 300 days of sunshine a year. The wind, and you call yourselves the Windy City, lol, the wind can be nasty though we already have several days of 50, 80 and 100mph wind gusts.

Another nice think about here, it can be 70 in Dec. And you don't need the ground to be frozen to get snow on it. it's too dry to freeze. Even in the dead of winter the snow doesn't stay around long. We had 38 inches on the ground that only lasted a week or so and it was gone, last year 24 inches on the ground that stuck around a little longer.

Okay, easy, Porsche but which one and what did it go in?