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That'd be cool, drop in a Viper V10 perhaps, but keep it looking like something an elderly couple use to drive into town once a week?

Great to see it finished Steve, looks so sinister. Super-neat work on scribing the new door line, your aluminium mask trick has really worked there. By coincidence, and I've never seen it here before, but just 30' or so from where I'm sitting there's a 1:1 '07 300C. As soon as I saw it when I pulled-in this morning I started wondering about how it would look with the 2-door conversion! This particular one is straight black with black OE alloys, so already looking pretty mean. The shallow windows and high waistline are very dramatic.

Excellent work on giving it the 4-door look, very effective and a great colour choice for something that's meant to slip by unnoticed!

As said elsewhere Anton, you've done a great job here - I think it looks excellent and fits the brief perfectly. You're making me wish I hadn't made my entry more complicated by dropping a different body onto the chassis of mine....... Looks right at home with the Tsukuba background too!

Sterling work there Gareth. Some very careful drilling on the hatch for the hinge!

Thanks for running the vote Anthony! 1970 for me. I have plenty of Japanese cars of that age, but as I chose a Nissan for 2021 I feel that I should step out of my comfort zone. Perhaps an AMT Monte Carlo, or Monogram Chevelle or Boss Mustang, maybe with a NASCAR chassis. I'm a bit limited on British/European options, will have to have a rummage through the stash - maybe it's time to do something with that Imai London Taxi I have?!

Excellent work Anton, the Supra looks fantastic! Well done to all who've got theirs finished. Just two weeks to go for me, but as of tonight I should have my new work (play) area set-up so I can get back onto finishing mine.

This is a well-timed question for me, interesting to see different views on the matter. I recently moved house. At my old place, for more than a decade I had the kits out in my big, timber shed. Although unheated it never got super-cold in there, and everything seemed to survive OK. Although poorly built it always seemed dry in there (maybe because of the draughts?!). Occasionally I had issues with decals, but it's difficult to say whether that was my storage or it'd been inherited from a previous owner (most of my kits are bought used). I could find decals from kits that must have been in there for 10+ years that still worked OK. I'll be storing the majority of the kits in an unheated brick/block/concrete floor garage at the new place. It's not too old and it seems dry, but I wonder what it will be like in the depths of winter. I don't really want to heat it when I'm not in there. They'll be stored up off the floor, maybe I'll just lay some thick blankets over them, which should also keep the dust off.

That looks spot-on, very nice. It really suits this look. Excellent detail work on the interior too.

Wow, very impressive. Looks really sharp. I'm not too familiar with the 1:1 or the kit you started with, but as Tim suggests I imagine there's an awful lot more work here than first meets the eye.

Only just seen this one, great progress Steve! The 2-door conversion has worked out very well, excellent colour choice too. I never have very good experience of spraying Smoke straight from the can, but you've used it to fantastic effect. The roofline is quite unusual for a modern car in having a pronounced change of angle where the front and rear pillars meet the roof. Wonder what it would look like if they were given more of a rake? Perhaps just the back end, to give it more of a coupe look? I suppose that could be done in conjunction with a roof chop. Certainly not something I'd attempt, my imagination is way ahead of my skill level there....... Your arrangement reminds me of the side rear window and pillar design on this 2-door Ford Granada: http://carsot.com/images/ford-granada-i-1972-1977-coupe-interior-2.jpg

That's a super-clean build, nice work.

Vote placed!

Great to see that you're still moving on with this one David.

Good luck Gareth! I'm sure you'll work your magic on it.

I'm going to have to rethink how and where I display my stuff soon. At present it's still all sitting in plastic boxes in a cupboard in my work office, where I put them out of harm's way during the house move. That's been and gone, and the unbuilt kits have migrated to the new place (and slightly unexpectedly ended up in the house in the spare bedroom, although that's just temporary while I sort out the garage shelving). Now I have to think about the built ones. At present I have just one 1:20 kit sitting in an old hand-me-down display cabinet along with my 1970s Matchbox Superfast diecasts. I remember it at my grandparents' house from when I was young and I'm pleased it's still in use, but there's no room in there for any more built kits. I bought a couple more glass-fronted display cabinets at the local auctions, they're a bit dated and one has a rather funky 1960s look - I presume they were from local house clearances. I'm hoping to get one on the wall on my side of the study/hobby room, and another up in the garage. I was struggling for display space as it was, with lots of old diecasts also needing to go somewhere, but at the moment I can't easily see where to expand or add anything. I'd love to incorporate one of those glass-topped ex-shop display units into my garage storage and shelving scheme. Might have to leave a bit of space......

That's really nicely done, you've given it so much character. Some of my kits would benefit from being shown like that, but I simply don't have the skills to make it look convincing like you've done here. I went to East Berlin in 1988, just a year before the wall came down. I'd never seen these funny little cars before, certainly saw plenty of them that day!

So much brown! Looks great, always good to have fun and experiment and it's certainly worked here.

That's very nice! The colour choice, lowering, spats etc make it look so long and elegant.

Nice one. Is this the old Tamiya kit or recent Hasegawa version?

A couple of recent eBay purchases: Really pleased to get one of these, the level of detail is fantastic. Lots of separate and remarkably delicate mouldings and I can see how they could spin-off different versions in the future. They could use the Skyline GT-R's engine to create a Z432R, but in the meantime it's great to have a nicely rendered version of the classic L24 straight-six (there's a 1:1 version of that in the bonnet of the car it's sitting on here). The G-nose isn't my favourite style, I think fatter wheels would justify the arches and balance out the looks. Haven't yet compared it to the Hasegawa kits I have, which until now were probably the best Z kit available at 1:24, but it was amusing to hold it up against the old Monogram 280Z. That being said, I'm still fond of the latter and it's fine for a quick, fun Z build. This Tamiya kit will be a more thorough undertaking...... Also couldn't resist this one. Seems like an unusual subject for them to have done, but I presume it's well-regarded at home and it's always good to have something obscure on the stash (and hopefully on the display shelf, one day). Another candidate for a wheel swap however!

That was me! A slightly cartoonish version of a Maserati, but I like how it turned out.

Very nicely done, I like it in that colour as well. I have one in the stash, have thought about rodding it somehow.....

A really nice job you've done there, and great photos too!

Great to see a stock example, looks really good! I have the slightly later (c. 1990?) reissue which I built as a custom, took over 25 years from start to finish. For a kit that dates back to the '60s some elements of it were impressive and overall I thought it went together pretty well. I failed in getting the doors to fully open (my lack of patience/skill there I think) and I found the glass fit was marginal. Still got the engine looking for a new home.....