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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.

I made the spark plug wire too thick, so I had to find one half as thick which luckily, I had. I'm working on a battery box and then a differential cooler. there are no good ref pictures of either one because the seat is in the way.

It's great that you get to see such wonderful things in person. I'm very jealous. Nothing like that around here to look at except livestock at the rodeo in the spring which I avoid like the plague. They built our NFL stadium with the rodeo in mind more than actual NFL football. The retractable roof is so small and high it's not really worth opening. You don't need a retractable roof for the rodeo. I too live in a nutty state.

Andrew, I don't know how I missed this for so long. Been waiting with bated breath to look at the finals. Very awesome build and a great tribute to the guy that made the kit so many years ago. You should definitely be proud of this one. Let me also say that I enjoy the history you provide about these cars. I love motor racing history no matter what the subject matter is.

Had to paint some jewelry twine for hoses on the engine and to plumb from the fuel filter in the trunk to the engine and some jewelry bead cord for spark plug wires. I used Revell chrome to paint the twine and roughed up the bead cord with some 3200 polishing pad and then primed and painted it with a mix of Vallejo acrylic paint. I need light blue wires. Also finished and installed the fan to the engine.

Looking good MM. I hope you're not going to try dealing with those vents in the hood. That would take a steady hand and no room for error. Might not be possible to deal with.

Had to make a cooling fan powered by the engine. I had made an electric fan to use but the ref picture I used was from Dodge Avenger that was used in IROC in 1994. The Camaro in 1989 still used the engine 4 blade fan like was used in the cup series that year. I recently found a ref picture showing that. The rest of the cars are basically the same except for the body and engine. It was the same banjo chassis for both makes.

Wow, Pierre. The exhaust looks like you made it from metal tubing. Great use of the paint mix you came up with.

Added two bars to the chassis from the truck arm support rail to the outside frame rails. No good ref photos so I had to guess again.

Thank you, Helmut, for sharing this beautiful rendition of a car that never was as successful as it looked. Your build is truly magnificent and a joy to look at, at any angle. You checked all the boxes on this one. Attention to detail, paint, decals, stance and overall cleanliness of build. Thanks again. It is an awesome piece of modeling for sure.

Make sure you post a link. I don't want to miss out on this fine wine served under glass instead of in it. Really looks fabulous right here, Andrew. But go ahead and put it in the final forum so folks who haven't been following along can enjoy it as well.

When I get semi close to the end of a build, I make check lists, so I don't forget anything. First one is for things that still need to be made. Second one is for priming and painting everything and the third is to assemble everything hopefully in the right order. Plus, with every check of the list you get some reassurance that your almost there. I started this build in September of 2023 and really looking forward to finally finishing it. Please pardon the poor penmanship.

Thanks, Anton and Pierre. This part of the build has been more fun than other parts of it.

Oh yeah. That flame thrower looks just perfect, and those ducts look very real.