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Thank you for the information Bill, it certainly helps, and supports the direction I was already leaning in regards to those questions. Also, I already had that 2nd image saved in my reference folder and was committed to it likely being aluminum, but then I saw some others with a different looking coating, which prompted me to ask that question. Finally, that post by Pierre is great, though I'm not sure I quite have the eye for some of the differences yet since I am just getting my modeling feet wet. Hopefully, with time, I'll be able to more easily spot the differences in kits and how they compare to the 1:1 versions. Thanks again for your help!

My apologies in advance if I offend any of you Ferrari historians with a few silly questions from a Jeep guy... I received a partially completed, somewhat cracked and busted, missing a few parts, AMT Ferrari 250 GT SWB as a throw-in with a few kits I bought last year. I've started working it over as part of a barn find style build and I had a few questions about the car before I went too far with it. This may be on the box or somewhere obvious that I've failed to see, but is the AMT version supposed to be a specific year model? 1959 maybe? I've searched off and on for a few hours and looked at quite a few crashed and trashed 250's online. Am I correct in thinking that this model was built in both steel and aluminum bodies? I assume, for the steel versions, the body rust tends to happen much the same way as any typical steel bodied vehicle I see rusting in my local junk yard today? Any reason the AMT version should be treated as one vs the other? Next, what is the carb tray made of? I assume aluminum, but since this will be an open hood, rained in, nested in, weathered and corroded style build, I want to try and make the corrosion realistic based on the material the parts would've made of. Finally, I've already cracked and weathered the dash before verifying what it was made of. Hopefully it's vinyl or something prone to cracking when left in the sun, because I've already treated it like it was. I'll continue to seek out answers with my own searches, but I'll certainly appreciate any answers from those of you that already know!

Thanks for all the kind words guys, I really appreciate it! I really enjoyed this build and hope to have many more under glass in the future.

I agree with Donald, great looking stance!

Ha! Thanks for that! I'll be honest, I didn't even think to check. The wipers on my truck and Jeep are black so my brain went into auto pilot thinking all wipers are black I guess.

Thanks for the info Keith, I'll give it a try on a future build!

Let me start by saying this is my 2nd build as an adult and it was largely possible thanks to many months spent lurking around this forum, learning from all of you. So thank you for all the info! I'm still learning my way around my airbrush and my tools. My goal was to have fun, learn some lessons for the future, and build something I'd be happy to look at on my shelf. I even tried carpet (with embossing powder) and applied my first ever decal! This car has no special meaning to me, it just looked fun. The colors were chosen arbitrarily, I just liked the look of the Createx Laguna Blue for some reason and the Gremlin seemed to be a good candidate. My wife donated some nail polish for me to use on the engine. I am colorblind, so I don't get too caught up in trying to match colors too closely. It looked pretty close to some of the AMC engine reference pics I looked at, so I went with it! Thanks again for all the helpful hints, you guys are great!

Looks just like the real thing! Great work!

Looks great! Do you recall what ratio you used for the Apple Barrel washer fluid mix? I have a bit of each on my bench to try out, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I have read through many posts where some of you have returned to the hobby a bit later in life, many of you much older than me, so I am very optimistic about my recent restart which began late in 2022. I had completed exactly one plastic model kit in my life until recently. It was a Monogram Lamborghini Countach LP500S, which I built 30+ years ago, and it was a typical preteen hack job. I can clearly recall a stringy mess of glue and fingerprints, an awful brushed paint job, and a bunch of leftover small parts that I didn’t feel like messing with in the bottom of the box when I called it complete. I am sure a few of you can relate. I plan to eventually buy it again and do it right the second time. Anyway, fast forward to 2022 where I found myself aimlessly wandering the aisles of Hobby Lobby while my wife looked for something she needed on the other side of the store. To my surprise I found myself standing in front of a 1:25 Revell Jeep Wrangler (TJ) which I also had sitting in my driveway as a 1:1. I decided then and there I was going to buy it. No glue, no paint, no prep supplies, nothing else, just the kit. I don’t even know at that point if I was even planning to build it; I just wanted it. So I bought it. It was all downhill from there. My stash started growing, I was suddenly watching modeling how to videos and browsing forums for tips and tricks instead of reading novels before bed, etc. My area of interest is mainly 1:25 scale auto, though I also enjoy 1:64 scale customs as well. I guess I have come to realize that my 40's has brought a much different mindset to model building than I had as a 12 year old kid, and I am very excited about my restart. I can't get back the 30 years I've missed, but I figure I can do my best to make up for it during the ones I have left. Thanks in advance for all of the tips, tricks, and info I will certainly pick up from this forum moving forward. Hopefully I'll eventually be able to give back in some meaningful way as well. Shawn