OldNYJim

Awesome, thank you! I did a casual search for a preorder link but just kept on finding this thread ?

Anyone see any more about the release of this one? Excited to build a couple of these!

Looks like you’ve got some work ahead getting that body finished up and ready for paint - but I love how it looks! Cool project!

The guy at Chick Fil A drive-thru called my Mustang a ‘Blue Sedan’ I guess if that’s my biggest irk this weekend, I’m doing pretty good ? (Rebecca is my wife, in case anyone’s wondering - not my weekend alter-ego)

Thanks everyone! Some more progress over the weekend (and a bonus day tomorrow - sweet!). Got the body in color: My favorite blue (and the color I’d paint my 1:1 if I could); Createx Pearl Blue. Looks ok in the pic above, but really comes into it’s own under a little light: Next up, the stripes. Masked ready for paint: Then I shot the stripes with Tamiya flat white which is really opaque, airbrushes nicely and doesn’t build too much. Some careful painting and de-masking later… Couple of little touch-ups required but nothing major - can smooth out the edges tomorrow and start laying down clear. Couldn’t resist a quick mock-up to see how the satin gunmetal wheels with polished rims will look with the body - was originally thinking of a tan interior for this but now I’m thinking classic black with chrome accents: Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

I draw stuff in scale all day long and read architects plans and blueprints and wiring diagrams and land surveys and then someone takes that little 11x17 print I drew and makes a huge version of it. Then, in the evening and weekends, I work in the opposite direction! Making little versions of something that was already life size but scaled down. The irony doesn’t escape me… Having built models since I was young has helped me IMMEASURABLY in my career - there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t use a skill, technique or understanding that I learnt from working in scale. Often that skill is simply ‘patience’ - but it’s surprising how much crossover there is between my real-life work and the ‘fun’ stuff

My wife left me unattended in Michael’s too long and this followed me home: They also had the Foose F100, but I’ve got a couple of those already. The not-very-good box-art kinda made me feel sorry for it I think…

Spotted at the local hardware store - right hand drive too!

Oh, no way! I assumed it would be $10 or $15 or something for shipping! That’s cool! Figures that they’d give themselves a discount, I guess ? The other stuff from their current catalogue, for anyone curious… I think there was more in the previous month’s catalogue too, but I can’t find it at the sec…

I've been wanting to get a set of these - they have some cool muscle car notepads and some other stuff that I'd like to get a hold of whilst they still carry them

I'm liking all these T buckets lately - nice start!

I had no idea MCG did custom orders - that's REALLY good to know about!

Just following up on this one Claude - GTR posted their latest newsletter to their Facebook page with some info about the winners (including that coupe!)

Assuming I can make it, which I’m planning to, I’ll take some ??

Looks great from where I'm sitting - how do you like these kits? I didn't build one yet...waiting for the Mustang variant to arrive...

Great color! I always liked these NSXs!

Thanks fellas! I’ve been focused on prepping the body mostly this week - I’d like to get at least the base color down this coming long weekend…but got a couple more little bits done in the meantime. First up, designed some inner hood structure in CAD: I printed it a little thicker than I needed so I can hand-shape it to match the inner curves of the kit hood: Still need to sand it down - it’ll lose probably half it’s thickness one it’s fitted but it’ll sit on the underside of the hood like this and add a little realism there: Tweaked the design of my ‘stamped’ license plate design and got a couple of good prints of those: And whilst I’ve had the printer busy, I drew a period correct Autolite Sta-ful battery to replace the molded in part - came out pretty good I think! Almost done with prepping the body - and my paint order came today, so I’m about ready to turn this thing a pretty color! Thanks for looking - more soon!

I rinse well with water, then dunk the airbrush in a bowl with water and Dawn. If I’m using it again soon, it sits in there until I’m ready - and if not, I’ll use a q-tip to clean the bowl and tip, rinse again and call it good. I don’t find that Createx paint needs much more clean-up than that, assuming it doesn’t get chance to dry…

Oh AWESOME! Need a couple of these for sure! Way cool!

He should try building real ones! He might be good at that too! ?

Tom Daniel’s most famous design maybe? Tied with the Red Baron possibly - but I’d bet this is probably better known…

Huh, I never saw this kit before - I like how they censored the word 'Porsche' out of the name and decals They certainly used some nice thick plug wires on the box-art build too... Popcorn ready!

Great kit-bashing! That's a really nice looking project, and a fine tribute to the 1:1 that inspired it. Way cool!

Thanks brother! Todays project-snowball was getting this thing up on it’s wheels, now that I finished messing with the wheels. The front end wasn’t too hard - sliced off the stubs, and relocated them upwards a little to bring the wheels up in the arches: I actually moved them up even a touch more after this pic was taken - there’s a BUNCH of room above the tire to play with and they already sit kinda high… The rear was a little more work, because I also wanted to replace the kit axle which is molded open on top and has fairly soft detail… A look through my parts stash later and I found the 9” (I think?) from the Foose pickup kit, and it was an easy swap-in once I made some lowering blocks and notched the floor and frame a little so that the axle would actually be able to move up and down if this were a real build: Took a bunch more work to get this thing sitting how I imagined…main problem was that I wanted a taller tire in the rear to fill the aches some AND I wanted it much lower, so…but after an afternoon of messing with it I’ve got it almost where I want it now: I need to remove some material from the front stubs so that the front wheels would actually clear, and be able to steer, plus shave a little off the inside of the body at the rear (which, if scaled up would be made of 3” thick steel ?) so the tires wouldn’t rub, but I like how it sits now…just how I imagined! Not a very productive day, but worth the effort to get the look I had in mind - more soon!

Wow, that’s some good knowledge right there! Who would’ve known! I’ll keep it in my stash - someone might need ‘em someday…thanks for the insight!