Rich Chernosky

Mark, you finally got this one across the finish line. And its a winner. The attention to detail really makes this model. Great job.

This is the last of my 3 1/16 Fujimi Ferrari Testarossa's. The chassis, interior,engine were all finished and the body painted. Just had to finish the body, add the glass and intall. So it went pretty quick. This kit was issued by Revell but the casting is all Fujimi. Color is Testors Laquer Revving Red #1837 and it was cleared with Tamiya LP9. Sure am glad this one is done as there were problem with final assembly. See comments below pictures. Leave your own comments if you like. Once done the car sat nice. Biggest problem was the glass. Front window had to be clamped and sat overnight as the body was slightly warped. Side glass on the working doors was the same. Frames were very thin and didn't fit into the body. Special care had to be taken to get the doors to fit and the glass in place. All took some time. Koenig removed the side strakes on the Testarossa body for better cooling. Rear had some nice detail but getting all the pieces to fit was something else. rear wing looks nice but had to be pinned and glued into place. Underneath that removab;e engine cover sits a plumbed and wired flat 12 engine with twin turbos that put out over 650 horses. It was very fast. The body did eventually fit over the chassis. There were four glue attachment points on the body and chassis. I drilled these out and threaded jeweler screws in their place and this made it much easier without the usual gluing and clamping. A very small pin (just barely visible) on either side of the front clip, holds the body in place as well. Interior was well appointed but the seat headrests had to be lowered to clear the roof. Just one more headache in many. Doors close nicely and are held in place with magnets which are clearly visible in the rocker panel. forgot to take this in the original post. Here is that flat 12 engine. The twin turbos are visible just in front of the rear bodywork. This is where the exhaust would normally have been so i bet this is loud. Here is a picture of all three of my Fujimi Ferrari Testarossa builds. Thank you Dan Clark for the suggestion.

Nice build on this Corvette. Like the color. How were the decals in your kit. I had to spray the silver on mine and use just the red and gray stripe.

This is the last of my series of Corvette builds. And the only one I hadn't previously painted. This is AMT's 1953 Corvette. Color is Tamiya TS26 white. Not a bad kit it for AMT. Everything went pretty well except for the chassis which had to be pinned and wired in to place to get the ride height right. And a lot of flash and ejection pin marks, par for the course for and early AMT. Other than that, I am fairly pleased with the result. I want to thank everyone who commented on my last 14 posts of Corvettes. Thanks for looking and feel free to comment on this one. Lot of nice exterior detail on this iconic Vette. Interior color is MR Color 108 character red. Kit hweels steered but the tie rod had to be hinged. Interesting feature of the back end is the glass covered licence plate. Exhaust pipes are chrome antenna tubing. The soft top was included in the kit and was sprayed with a combination of Nato black and gloss black from Tamiyas LP line. This car was powered by Chevrolets Blue Flame 6 of 236 cu. and rated at 150hp. It was mated to a powerglide 2 speed auto transmission. It was no speed demon but was unique with its handmade fiberglas body. Only 300 of these were made in the Flint MI plant. Production was eventually moved to St Louis. I replaced the clear lenses with real mesh, a feature found on Corvettes until 1955.

Matt, white metal kits can be a real challenge. Looks like you were up to the task though. This is a killer build. Those wheels really caught my eye and they were the right call. Very impressive.

Doug this is one tough kit to get right but you nailed it. Great job. Indycals are great and I have used them several times. Now that I know they have these decals I may re-do mine. Thanks for the heads up.

This is the next to last Corvette in my series of 14 completions. An AMt/Ertl 1/25 that was painted in March of 2000. Color is a Liqui Acrylic pearlescent ink called Volcano red. Latex clear was used and this has been heavily polished. As an AMT kit this was not half bad quality wise and it built quickly and easily without too much fitment issues. My only complaint is the box art labeled this as a street machine and AMT modified it as such. As a result it was naything but stock. Wrong wheels, wrong exhaust and the rear suspension was a 9" Ford rear end and not the usual independent set-up. I changed the wheels as they were the most obvious but left the rear end and exhaust as i wanted this one done and didn't have the proper parts anyway. All in all it turned out pretty decent and I am pleased enough to present it here. More comments below. Not really red and not really pink. GF says its Coral. Still difficult to photo with the amount of pearl in the finish. I attaqched the fronts with a jeweler screw as it was better. Was lucky to find the correct wheels in the spare parts. The oversize tires were part of the kit and I left them. Overall the body looked correct. Stance required no modification and the chassis fit nice. I messed up initially and installed the inner fenders in the body. Had to slice some off the radiator to get it to slide in place. The 350 fuel injected engine was well detailed and worth a photo. I aprayed most of the engine chrome flat clear and then added panel line to highlight the details. I remember a day when I just luved chrome parts and judged a kit by how much chrome it had. Now I cover it up or dull it down. Tastes change I guess. Thanks for looking and feel free to comment.

The 12th completion in my Corvette series. Getting towards the end here. This is MPC's 1967 Corvette Stingray hard top. This was sprayed in Jun e of 2001. Color is a nail polish called Wet N Wild Deja Blue over a silver base. Cleared with Tamiya TS13. This was one very badly engineered andf poorly made kit. Nothing fit and every part had to be massaged into place. Much flash and some bad castings required a lot of carving to get right. About the only good thing I can say was the body looked right although it was warped. But glad its done and reasonably pleased with the result. Commnet below the pictures. Feel free to add your own and thanks for looking. Kit wheels already steered. Had to dig into the spared for the correct wheels as they did not come with the kit. Like the stance of this one. Always seem to get a good rear veiw. Paint was heavily polished. For some unknown reason about 5 yrs after it was painted it mildewed in the box. Only paint job I have ever had do this. You would think a waterbase paint would as it cured in a humnid area but this was not the case with this one. Its laquer. The side pipes required the most work. They are pinned and wired in place. Pipes were re-worked and re-chromed then sprayed . with Tamiya LP5 Semi black and LP9 clear (a 50-50 mix) This lets sdome of the chrome show through and gives a nice effect. Hood fit nice and opened easily....about the only thing that did. Engine was OK but sadly lacking a lot of details so not worth showing here.

Another Corvette off the assembly line. Only 3 to go now. Don't know when this was painted but it is more than likely 12yrs or more. Color is Liqui "acrylic pearlescent ink called Volcano red. Krylon latex clear was used and a little red was added to darken the color slightly. Kit was fairly well detailed but there were some fit issues that were easily overcome. Build went quick. More details below. Hood fit on this was great until the chassis was installed. Hood hinged on two tabs of the chassis. Some grinding on the hinge and re-adjustmnet of the front body were required to get this look. Making the wheels steer was not too much of a problem. Liked the tires. I lked the detail of the back. The glass fit well. Overall stance of the model was good so no adjustment needed. Interior is semi-gloss back and I found a red for the seat insert that came close to the body color. There was a lot of engine detail. Most of the parts were chrome and had to be toned down with a mixture of clear flat and smoke. Instructions were very vague on the placement of some parts so some guess work had to be used. Luckily this is not my first Corvette model. Thanks for looking and comments welcome.