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Thanks for the link, Oleg. Lots of great reference shots there. Still couldn't find one of the wiper motor.

De nada. Had to look that up. Don't speak any Spanish at all but my wife's pretty good cause if you're a teacher down here in public schools, you better know a little at least and she's a retired kindergarten teacher. More useless info from me. By the way, "si" to what's going on with the engine. Thats "yup" in Spanish.

Great job on the wiper and wiper motor. I could never get a good reference shot of the motor on the ones I did. Both cars I did were road course cars, so they had the wipers on them.

Now you're talking. I'm seeing an engine emerge from the styrene and its looking fabulous.

Thanks, Mike, for also stopping by and giving the build some love. I was working on the exhaust and somehow pulled on the rear axle not meaning to and broke the little chains. Now I have that to fix which isn't going to be easy. Like I keep saying, 1 step forward and 2 steps back. I also broke the bracket holding the small oil radiator at the left front corner of the model. I'm like a bull in a China shop. Thats a saying my dad always used back in the day when he was building guitars and messed something up. He built beautiful flamenco guitars.

Thank you, Helmut. Your stopping by to give the encouraging words means a lot. I'm glad you like the tires and wheels. They usually make or break a race car model.

Another great reference shot for you.

Pierre, I'm running out of words to describe the excellent work you have going on here. Those headers are a thing of beauty and so realistic looking. Like Jay said, No one would think this was a Lindberg kit when you get through with it. A lump into a replica.

Thanks, Pierre. You are totally correct about that. Cannot wait to finish this one.

Decided on just three more wip pictures. Only thing really left to do after finishing the exhaust is plumbing the chassis, painting the body, installing the wheels/tires, adding the windshield and back glass, and decaling. I'm like the computer Hal from "2001 a Space Odyssey".. "I can feel it Dave, I can feel it." I'm almost through with this never-ending build.

Okay. I thought it looked a little bigger than what yours will end up being. Great to have that as a guide.

All I lack is the exhaust, Installing the tires and wheels, the plumbing and the very, very final touchup and the chassis will be finished. Probably no more wip pictures until the final photos of the build in the under-glass forum. Of course, I need to sand the body and do a complete repaint using an airbrush whenever conditions outdoors will allow it. Then decals and this thing will finally be in my rear-view mirror. It's been a year and 6 months since I started, and I will be so glad when this build is over.

That engine in the background. Is that what you are trying to duplicate, but in a size that will fit? Or is that just something close to get you in the ballpark? I can already tell this is going to be Yup worthy.

Pierre, Wow. That grille is spectacular. The whole front of the model is as well. Really looks like the real thing shrunk down to scale. I guess that's what we all want from our builds. Superior work going on here.

Beautiful job on the Foyt car. I take it, you air brushed it?

Coming together very nicely.

Even better.

Sounds good. Will be looking forward to it. If you put it in the under-glass forum, post a link here for easy access by me and others who wish to see the final photos. Thank you.

Either one looks better than the one in the kit. Awesome way to get the mesh to fit using the masking tape. I personally like the finer mesh but whatever an actual race version looked like would be the way to go. Do you have a ref picture close up of the race version grille?

Wait, you are going to scratch build your own engine in 1/24th scale using an engine in 1/20th scale as a guide? This will be seriously awesome to watch.

Very impressive, Oleg. Probably the most detailed next gen build I have ever seen. So, is chassis complete?

Re did the air cleaner and valve cover breathers. Will treat them like gold from here on out. Revell Chrome does not like to be handled by human hands. Found it out the hard way.

Very fine workmanship keeps going on with this build, Pierre. A feast for any modeler's eyes. Really like the brake drums a lot along with everything else.

Great job on the evergreen bulkhead brackets. What adhesive did you use for them?

MM. It's so impressive how you can keep the lines so crisp between colors at this scale. And to do weathering is really beyond what most of us would even try to do because of the realism factor that goes into good weathering. Keep up the awesome work. It's so enjoyable to watch your journey through this build. I will kind of be sad when you post the final photos in the Under-glass forum for this model.