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Andrew, it's mostly an extinct entity, but some people still have them. Usually a mom & pop store in a strip shopping center that might hold two dozen cars.

Got the Front shocks ready for primer and the removable window net is finished except for a tiny bit of touch up.

I'm sure you have better places then hobby Lobby to get your stuff. It's basically the only place I have here in southeast Texas. It is a barren waste land for purchasing modeling items where I live. There are no model shops anywhere close except maybe downtown Houston where I would not go by it any time soon or actually never.

Thanks Anton. You can get the crepe tape at Hobby Lobby If you have one close by.

Finally got it cut down to the size I wanted. It will be able to be removed and also with the body on it will be able to be posed with it laying down on the door for driver access. It snaps into place at the bottom and there are hooks at the top to attach it to the cage.

So glad you are doing a wip on this. If you had just posted the final photos nobody would know that you created this whole work of art from metal and metal working tools. Nothing came from a kit or other makers of parts. Its all you. That has to be very gratifying.

Started working on the window net. used some 1/16-inch black crepe tape placed on a pattern on a plain sheet of paper. It peels off and I will just paint the glue side of the tape to finish it. Quick and easy way to make a window net from the eighties. Earlier ones were made with a rope material which you have to use thread to make them. Not as easy.

Thanks Anton. I used the regular Vallejo black, but I thinned it 50%. I like that it dries very quickly and if you get some on the un sanded surface of the windshield you can remove it with a toothpick

Looks fabulous, Kenneth. I don't remember this car on the track but really like the livery. I watch the Happy Hour whenever they decide to show it. Pretty good show.

Turns out the windshield has a black border around it and the wipers sit on it at the bottom, so I just masked off where it goes and removed the wiper arms and blades and just painted it black. I finished the windshield supports and reinstalled the small radiator supports that keep getting broke off from handling the mothership for all these new additions to it. I'm sure I will break them off again before final assembly.

Thank you so much, Pierre. That sounds very feasible. I would have never thought of the masking to cut down on the area I would need to polish later. I also have the liquid polish that comes in 3 different strengths that I can try before the final future coating. Can't think of the name of it at the moment. This build has no wipers so at least I don't have to make one.

Started to add the windshield supports to the cage. Some genius at Revell thought it would be cool to mold the wiper blades right into the windshield. Does anyone have any idea how I can remove them without ruining the windshield? I have not attached the lower ends of the windshield supports because I'm really not ready to install the dash. The supports will bend out of the way so I can remove it to prime the mothership chassis before adding all the painted sub-assemblies to it. I will be able to pose this build with body on or off the chassis. At least I'm hoping I can.

Wow, Pierre. I just can't get over the transformation you achieved using multiple kits and of course the scratch-built items to end up with such an Awesome build. You can tell this had to be a holy grail build for you because of your attention to detail and wanting to get it just right not allowing any short cuts through the journey. I also love the underdog aspect of the real car with its battle with its nemesis Porsche that you also modeled to give us a 3d look at it as well. 160 horsepower difference seems like a way unfair advantage for the Porshe. Waiting with bated breath for your next endeavor.

Wow, Pierre. Another piece of fine automobile art that you can hold in your hand and really enjoy and share with others who wish they could create such a wonderful masterpiece. Hope you share a link to the under-glass forum so we can get the full effect of the experience.

Looking awesome, Andrew. Everything looks like it is fitting perfectly. Looks like you have some great ref drawings to work with.

Thats true. My doctor is the only person I know that has worse penmanship than I do. But I would not have had the work ethic to become a doctor or pass any of the courses to get to medical school.

Thanks, Anton. I'm getting closer and closer to a mass primering of many assemblies and parts followed by a mass painting of many assemblies and parts. Then I can put everything together and possibly have a finished model after more than a year of trials and tribulations.

Jim, I would have had no clue that you had problems with this kit. It looks like an excellent build to me. Glad you could find one of your bucket list models to build. I always enjoy when that can happen for me.

Pierre, great catch on the headlamps. That truly would have been noticeable if not addressed. I'm jealous of your checklist. It is readable. Sometimes I go back to mine and can't remember the item I wrote down because I can't read it. Finally figure it out by process of elimination. It's like oh that's what I wrote down and then I fix the garbled letters. My penmanship has always been horrendous.

Got the rear axle cooler done and the screen under the car where the heat leaves from the electric cooler.

Had to fix the floor on the model underneath so there would be a place to put the exhaust screen for the differential cooler. I also started on the cooler.

So, you made them based on the amt cobra kit tires and wheels? That is amazing. Thanks for the info.

Thank you so much, Brian. I really appreciate the kind words about the build. That's what's good about building something that is unusual. Nobody hardly can tell you that you messed up.

I made the spark plug wire too thick and had to redo them at .5 mm. I made a battery box and need to make a differential cooler but have no good ref photos. At least I will have one and nobody knows what it actually looks like but Ray Evernham. The seat is in the way of seeing the battery box so I will just have to guess.

Here is the correct ref photo.