Pierre Rivard

I feel sad about your injury and hope you will recover 100% The black and red theme looks very promising. Patiently waiting for you to feel good enough to resume this extraordinary build.

Oh yes Niko, my kind of project! Stay focused and go for what you have imagined this would be. Caution, I don't want to derail you from your vision but...I'm just curious here, is the plan to keep the driver ahead or set it up more traditional with him in the back?

Bonus shot, the old lion and the challenger

Happy you appreciated the WIP. I am happy with the results as I tried a few new techniques on this one Thank you Noel. Any Bugatti kits out there I should try. I'd love to build the tank Thanks Niko. I use mainly Vallejo Aluminium and occasionally Chrome (more a bright all than chrome look) and oiled earth washes to bring up features Thank you Thomas. Yes it is 1/24 Thanks Chris It looks good built as designed but it is fun to add more details.

Thanks John. I did not plan to do so many changes to start with but not hitting road blocks encouraged me to add more along the way. The design of these pre-war cars provide enough room to do these detailing jobs. The kit is basic but cast with good quality and reasonable dimensions. A good foundation. Thank you sir Thanks Roger. All paint finishes are brush painted using Vallejo acrylics.

Thanks Jim, it is 1/24 scale Thank you my friend. I too tend to prefer post-war race cars but the pre-war cars are very interesting to work on, they are really growing on me. The kit is basic but the chassis, engine and body components are well cast and provide a good foundation to start with. For 1966 tooling this is a very good kit. Thank you Bruce, this project went in a surprisingly smooth way.

Amazing on how a set of lines can result in a pretty car (X/19) and placed a little differently ending up as the hard to look at Rainbow. So many beautiful cars never got kitted yet this atrocity was kitted twice.

Wow, beautiful fabrication, you even thought of plumbing connections for in tank TOC. Leaving no stone un-turned here. Can you share on the maker/supplier for the PE radiator mesh. It makes such a statement.

The way you have made these doors functional and with a perfect fit is superb. Dashboards are fun to make and a key visual element on a roadster. Very interesting build to follow.

Thank you all for the support and interest. Link to the finished build under glass

The last car engineered by Ferdinand Porsche before leaving Mercedes to start his own shop. The SSK was a shorter chassis evolved from the S line and only 33 were built. Some wore the Touring bodywork but most were outfitted or converted to the Sport body and intended for a racing life. Wit it's brutish 7.1 ohv supercharged engine producing up to 300 hp and 500 lb.ft of torque, the car could reach 193 km/hr but stopping was a challenging task with mechanically actuated drum brakes. A second brake pedal was added to the mechanic's side to help the driver slow down the beast. This formidable racing machine had a short but dominant racing career before leaving the stage to the lighter more advanced Alfa Rome 8C. This build started out with a Lindberg kit (tooling circa 1966) which depicted the car as a luxury coupe with whitewall tires. I took on the task of transforming it into the racer it was always meant to be. Pretty much everything was changed, modified or upgraded. This is not in criticism of this nice but simple vintage kit but more about the vision I had for this build. A WIP was produced explaining all the steps of the transformation.

Ken, I found a workaround for avoiding commercial use classification. Just start a print and give program. I volunteer to receive one...😁

This is it, the last of this build. I thinned as much as possible the windshield frame and replaced the kit glass with 0.5 mm clear Evergreen. Makes the glass look more in scale. Finally the hood strap made from masking tape and Tamiya weathering paste to replicate leather. This one is done. Full set of photos under glass later today.

Ken's advice made a big difference. Pictures may not show it well but it now looks like scaled down rope. Thank you Brian. Lot's of work went into that one. I'm happy I started with the engine. I doubt I would have had the patience to do it on the back end of the build. Thank you John. I've learned a lot by following builds from you and other masters. This is the highest possible compliment. If I could achieve 10% of what Gerald Wimgrove created I would be very very happy! Thank you so much Niko. This has been a really fun build. The following update will be the last. I just finished this one.

Blue dot tail lights, nice touch and well fabricated. Like many other elements you have incorporated you are sweating the details. Beautiful stuff!

Thanks Bruce. The whole interior has come together well and for a rare occasion without any hurdles. Pretty much the way I was hoping for. It is. I did not really plan for everything on this build, making some decisions as I went but the idea of wrapping the wheel I had right from the start. It just took a while to develop a way of doing it. Superb suggestion Ken. I applied the mix slowly with a small brush over the roped areas. Fuzzies gone. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction here.

That engine bay looks really really good. The tires on this baby look so convincing the way you painted and weathered them. Super build in the making.

Peter, you log in with your e-mail and password, but we still see you as peteski, just like you like it. I don't know what the fuss is all about... Thank you Mr Ambrose for your support ant patience.

Final bits of the engine compartment could be done after the body was finally glued to the chassis. The fuel gravity tank I made a while back has been installed and the last to plumbing lines to it. I also added the two support rods (0.75mm brass) between the radiator support and the main body (runs over the engine valve cover). The engine compartment is now 100%

Doing experiments with a few sewing threads, finally picking one for wrapping the wheel rim. I added the steering column, made from 0.75mm brass rod and 1.19 Brass tube Used a small drop of epoxy at the end of a 0.4mm wire to make the little ignition adjustment levers, then got them trimmed and glued to the steering

I enjoy it so much when others share what they do so I try to do the same. It is through these exchanges that I try new things on every build. Thank you Andreas, comments much appreciated

Wow, such an amazing build Michael. The bodywork is exceptional in finish and the amount of detailing around the engine reveals your exceptional talent. Bravo!

I really like the color scheme you are planning for this beauty. Do these kits have any sort of woodgrain decals or is this something you will have to achieve with paint effects?

If you're in a hurry, enamel will test your patience. 😉

One more for Andy.