Pierre Rivard

I've followed your WIP with immense pleasure Mark. The AM kit is a challenge to start with but transforming it as a Wintersteen roadster takes it to the next level. Beautiful craftsmanship, detailing and finishes. Bravo!

Amazing transformation!

Your 1950's Streamliner inspired me to explore Land Speed Racers. I'm starting with this simpler approach of a Classic Altered but a Streamliner is definitely on my wish list Thanks Jim. I started slow with this one but the inspiration is building up Thanks Bruce. It is a new foray for me. I like to try new things. I've never built the same kit twice and rarely build them without changing things. Keeps us fresh and motivated right. Merci Francis. Let's hear it from Mr T who loves his salt racers and could provide useful input. I'm kinda going blind here... but it's fun trying new stuff. I'm discovering that Bonneville Salt Flats racers are so diverse, wild and interesting. A gold mine of subjects for scale modelers

It is different, off the beaten path to a point I hesitated doing a WIP for lack of interest factor. I see your point about the air dam. I made it to drop from under the front bumper but I just added a horizontal plane under it which gives it more presence. Also making a rear spoiler about half the size of this one, to get this thing more balanced. I'll show these changes in the next update, perhaps with a few photos of Classic Altered cars to show what type of mods these usually have.

WHAT? You didn't drop it? Seriously friend, happy you survived all the hurdles and can finally move this one in the DONE category. You deserve a nice little OOB!

Before I could say I can't do stuff like that because I don't have machine tools. Going forward I will have to admit it's for lack of skills... Thank you Greg! 🤪

The Scale-Master has struck again. These two look very good. The pin striping decals on the white car must have been quite delicate to apply.

I sort of rushed through these steps as pre-requisite items to what I really wanted to do: the rat rod style paint. I forgot to document the steps but to summarize I started with a dark gray primer, then using sponges dabbed acrylic dark rust, light rust, red and orange paints randomly. I then did the same with medium to light blue but focusing on where I wanted residual color. I then gently wet sanded (1500 and 2400 grit) specific areas to blend in and smooth out the various colors.

A Nova salt flat racer? Perhaps it makes no sense but in the spirit of the Bonneville Speed Week, there is category for just about anything. So my crazy idea is to start with a Nova, put a blown Chevy 427 Rat engine, do a rat rod style paint to is and create a.... SALT RAT! Get the concept? I'm dating this to early 2000's, run it in the Altered Classic category (stock pre 1981 body, allowed non stock blown engine, front dam and rear spoilers etc) What I really want to do is the painting experiment, but first the basics of getting the blower location to set the hood opening dimensions, get the basics go chassis ride set up (with my chosen tires) and figure out the air dam and spoiler setup

The banged up patch panels look very real. Should be perfect when you add paint with scratches and all.

Took the jump on attempting a "rat rod style" paint process. Over a dark gray primer, I dabbed colors with a sponge starting from dark rust all the way to a very light blue. I avoided doing a complete coverage for each layer with the intent to create zones with more rust and zones with more residual color. I then gently wet sanded (1500, 2400 grit) again focusing on some areas more than others until I achieved this appearance. I need to touch up some areas and perhaps add some rust washes, but this first effort looks promising.

Lovely fabrication as always. Using materials in their natural state (no paint) is hard to beat. Nothing looks more like aluminium than aluminium right?

Looks like this one may end up being more work than initially planned. Well... if it was easy it would be boring right?

Catching up to this build and a lot of beautiful work to look at. Classic building techniques and modern tech (3D print) are blended together beautifully.

Thomas, welcome to the Accurate Miniature survivor's club. Not many of us have completed this kit. It's a finicky one but the car is a beautiful brute and worth the effort. A beautiful build for sure!

Beautiful build. What a gorgeous car!

When we look at the first picture of a build and think it's a reference picture of the real car, then no doubt we have something very special. This replica is most lifelike. Thanks John for sharing it wit us.

Many Corvettes out there with carbon fiber roofs and hoods so your solution really works for this car. Beautiful carbon fiber decals, very convincing.

Must be 1/43... ant that makes it even more fabulous!

Makes me want to be there... for the car of course! 😉 Can't comment on the Ben Hobby 936 as I have never seen that kit but this 935-78 is indeed very basic but the body had very good lines and proportions. If the 936 is also Tamiya based it should have similar attributes. Thanks Dave. A simple curbside build but it looks very good in the display cabinet, right next to the Batmobile BMW.

Oh boy Richard I am hooked. This is incredible in so many ways. the detailing and finishes are so realistic and the stacked flathead engines are outrageously beautiful. I see you have carefully thought through this to make all the components integrate in a coherent way. I'd love to see more pictures, especially around all the engine details.

Even better now with these beautiful engine photos. The amount of details built into the fuel pump & lines + throttle linkage blows my mind. So little space between the inlet tubes...

You really love your Alfas Helmut. I could not really feel it looking at this simple die cast but now I get it. #251 looks very cool, especially with the dust weathering you expertly applied, and taking the shine off the chrome. Taking good notes of your weathering method here for when I start on #20 in the same race. May I suggest adding a bit of panel line to the rear door cutout?

I love it. looks like a vintage salt flats racer.

Supper happy they opted to extend the C2 production run an extra year. It's the best looking Vette ever. Ok Mario, now that you have shown the real car can we see the model please? 😃