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Pierre Rivard

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  1. I love Corvettes but never end up building any and I don't know which kits are the better ones. Following your build with great interest.
  2. Bravo Jean-Philippe. Your build looks very very realistic. Dark Copper is an unusual color for an ambulance but it really works. Inspired choice!
  3. You're moving fast on this one. Come to think of it everybody builds fast compared to me... Regardless the quality shines through. Beautiful mix of colors and textures for the interior and the engine has a very realistic mix of metalizers and weathering. So much can be achieved with good paint effects with skills like your's.
  4. Well done Bruce. Even with crisp fresh decals this one looks challenging. What a championship year that was, and who can forget the last race.
  5. Impeccable build as always Rich. The way you painted the Marlboro livery really pops and the color demarcation is super crisp. It does look like a an equally detailed but shrunk down version of the big brother. Well done sir!
  6. This car looks superb with your mods and wearing black.
  7. We all have our own, not always logical to others, way of achieving paint finishes. I look at the polished spoon and all I can say is: trust your process !
  8. I love the effect achieved with the Plum Nutz and 427 decals. The ability to make your own decals and the skills to make them great allows you to achieve the exact look you had in mind. Well done sir.
  9. Very convincing, looks the way a real car structure would be fabricated. You might want to extend the engine compartment upper tubes through the dash & Ip and connect to the front roll cage posts
  10. That is a very delicate foiling and masking operation. Anxious moments for sure. I admire your skills there, not something I am capable of doing... not even close!
  11. You'l need HEAVY HEAVY DUTY torsion bars for this baby 😁
  12. Off to a fast start. Having such a nice built & painted 409 sitting in a box helps! 😁
  13. Back in the day, the idea of putting a fixed roof over a classic roadster was not well received. I'd love to have one of these now.
  14. Thank you Alan. I appreciate so much that you took time to follow and comment on the WIP. Thank you Rich. I don't know if it was good choices for mods or just luck but this one proceeded without issues despite all the modifications. Compared to the recent 300SLR and BMW 3.5csl builds this one just came together. I am very happy with the results.
  15. Nobody can build a beauty like this one as efficiently as you can Rich. A wonderful rendition of a historic race car. The Senna-Prost battle was as epic as it gets. Thank god for that as there was absolutely no opposition to this car. If I remember right they were so dominant they lapped the whole field.
  16. Looks very sharp Mario. Details are crisp, paint is excellent and your presentation diorama always complements your builds so well. Feels like the real car sitting in a Montreal alley. Cool!
  17. Just like that on primer it looks really really good. Can't wait to see it with color sprayed on. Almost there!
  18. Superb work Jim. Starting with a vintage kit and then adding styrene, brass, resin and printed component fabrication makes for beautiful scale modeling for us to follow. What you do is special. Have you considered Milliput for making the seat and other leather parts. Feels a bit like plasticine and pretty of tine to shape and texture surfaces before it starts hardening.
  19. Taking pictures along the way helps a lot as a snapshot picks up irregularities we can sometimes miss. A few more passes will be needed but no doubt your expert body shop will take care of business!
  20. Amazing, who needs a transkit right?
  21. Great application of weathering pigments. The pictures of the engine compartment, interior and rear bay/fuel cell all show the effect of racing in the desert. Very realistic. What a great project!
  22. Thank you my friend. Your praise humbles me. As you can see I work mostly from styrene and putty, but doing the research and breaking it down to small steps allows me to actually do more than I thought I could. Obi-Wan I am not but with persistence I find little ways to improve with each build. Thank you Dave. I am quite happy with it but it was a challenge and I need to recharge. For sure one more before I close shop for the start of golf season Merci! You are too kind Francis. The photos are the test. If the model comes out with a reasonable dose of realism mission accomplished. Sometimes they come out not quite as good as we wish, sometimes better. I did not bang my head too much on this one and I really like the way it came out. Thanks again for the advice about the steering wheel.
  23. I love alu duct tape. Put to good use here. The tail lamps are a little scale model by themselves. Eye candy!
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