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Well, here's my first post of a finished model on this forum. It's the Moebius Models 1956 Chrysler 300B. I was quite taken with Sean Svendsen's boxart on this one and wanted to build mine with a few of the touches I saw in his illustration. Lower stance, wider wire wheels and what I saw as a darker metallic red finish. The front was dropped with modified spindles and the rear with adjusted leaf springs. I mounted my own 3D printed wire wheels and 2 piece whitewall tires with the kit spinners. Body colour is Tamiya Mica Red lacquer over black Mr Color Surfacer 1500. I modified the front bumper to remove the licence plate indent and then all of the kit chrome was stripped and repainted with Alclad Chrome. Exhaust pipes were made from aluminum tube. The body was not modified but did require some tricky cleanup around the rear of the roof and some rescribing around the headlights. All the trim was done with Bare Metal Foil. I shaved the molded-in wipers off of the cowl but haven't sourced suitable replacements yet, would also like to find a decent side mirror. Might have to print them myself I guess. The lower half of the engine was built mostly stock with a custom designed and printed supercharger set-up. I modelled the intake after the stock piece but with a cold-air intake system that runs in front of the radiator. Belt drive, radiator, battery, air filters and distributor were all 3D printed as well. This was my first Moebius kit and I was pretty happy with it overall, some nice detail and pretty easy assembly. My only nitpicks were headlight lenses that were too cloudy, red painted taillights that I stripped and repainted to remove sprue marks and the Chrysler decal on the front that was a completely different size and shape to the molding on the body. Small stuff, really. Thanks for looking. Martin.

That's a lot of great builds. Love the variety of subject matter as well!

Ha! It is supposed to get up to eight degrees tomorrow though.

Thanks to all for the warm welcome!

Hello all, I've been lurking around the forum for a while and thought I'd set up a profile and introduce myself. I'm based in Victoria, BC and have recently met a few local builders who are also on here, @Phildaupho, @Misha and @Steve H - there's probably a few more but I haven't connected those dots yet. I built models as a kid and for a short spell in my 30's but I've recently (2019) returned to the hobby and have been enjoying building again. I started building again as a nice, quiet hobby and it quickly became another creative outlet. To that end, I've jumped into 3D printing and am really enjoying the level of customization that it allows. I'll build pretty much anything I find interesting but I do tend to lean to European and Japanese cars with some American cars in there as well. Here's a few builds that cover the international spectrum: German: British: Italian: Japanese: And American: Thanks for looking and I'm looking forward to being on the forum. Martin.

That was actually top of my guesses for their next kit.

Definitely getting one of these, just hoping it's the standard version and not the bewinged Lauda one. Agree with BVC500, really want them to do a full detail kit of the original F1.