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That is one sad looking Hudson. Very nice work Andy. Nice weathering skills.

Another cool Beaumont project. Nice work on the bespoke details.

Thanks Ken. Some helpful information there.

Very cool little Vespa, Carlo. Looks like a fun road trip for the thrifty minded. Nice work. And by the way, your English is just fine.

Good looking T-Bird, Donald. I really dig the uncommon colour. Nicely done.

Good looking Monte, David. Very nice paint work. All round nice clean build.

Great looking Lotus, Matt. Very nice work on the best looking of all variations of the Esprit, and white is the perfect colour. Fujimi really did a fantastic job of replicating the subtle lines of the S1 Esprit. Very cool build, and I really like your photo shoot as well. Very creative, and the result looks spot on. Well done all around.

Nice looking Daytona. Looks good in blue. Well done. What kit is this?

Does it have enough batteries? Seriously, great work here Noel. I love a good chassis display. Lots of opportunity for scratch building engineering details and flexing one's craftsmanship. This looks like a fun project. Excellent work.

Beautiful Starliner, and that great honking Cammer should get it down the road without much struggle. All round lovely build. Nice work.

Nice work Mark. Cool concept.

And two hours later it's working slick as ever. Weird.

Yes! I would love to see some 80s vintage T/As. I know it's a stretch, but boy-howdy would I love a set of 235/50 13 in 80s vintage. I also think 70s vintage T/As would be great for period muscle car builds. This is a very different tread again, and different side wall lettering. I have never seen these in scale anywhere but would be great for many 70s projects.

The Boss looks killer in orange.

Those T/As look nice!

According to the ad it's multi-braid, seven strands of 0.05 mm each.

Dead slow for me, pages frequently failing to load and timing out. The last few days have been like this.

That a curious problem. I have yet to use MCW paints, so can't comment specifically on them. But I have chimed in here just to say that I seldom use a clearcoat unless the specific job requires it for one reason or another, and have not incurred this problem. This is true whether I paint with acrylic, lacquer, or enamel. I cut the paint with 3600, 4000, or 6000 Micro Mesh pads, depending on how good the paint is to begin with, then polish with finer Micro Mesh pads, Tamiya polishing compounds (usually just Fine and Finish), and finish off with Tamiya wax. I wonder if the problem is specific to MCW enamels. Repainting after waxing could be tricky. It may depend on what type of wax was used. Tamiya wax seems pretty forgiving. I have not tried to paint over a waxed surface, but I have glued to it with no problems. With enamel paint you may be able to wipe the body down with alcohol (but don't try that with lacquer or acrylic) though can't say for sure it will be effective at removing the wax. It may be difficult to ensure all traces of wax have been removed, even with a good wax remover. It may be worth painting a spoon and giving it the same treatment as the car body including wax, then try to remove the wax and repaint. Just spit ballin' here.

I just had a cruise through your build thread. I am very impressed with your project. A fine example of proper model building, and the finished product looks great. Nicely done.

This is some top notch model building.

Looking good. I agree about the black-wall tires. I'm digging the colour.

I was scratch building a side mirror for an MGB Roadster. I put a lot of work into and it was looking great. I gave it a coat of Molotow. I was admiring it, holding it by the mounting pin with a pair of tweezers when it pinged away. I had no sense of what direction it went. I searched to floor for over an hour on hands & knees with a flashlight. A very thorough search to no avail. So I reluctantly threw in the towel and spent the next evening making another one. And then the same thing happened, admiring my work (maybe the sin of pride was upon me) and it pinged away. I couldn't believe it happened twice, but this time I had a sense of its trajectory. After a couple minutes I found it half way across the room, and when I bent down to pick it up, there was the first one lying just an inch away from it. On another occasion I was removing the contents from a Monogram S'cool Bus kit box when a front tire dropped to the floor. I told myself "I'll get that in a moment" and didn't watch where it rolled. It's a whole tire, easy to find. But a moment later when I tried to find it, it was no where to be seen. I tore that room apart but could not find it. Over the next year I made two more ridiculously thorough searches but it was nowhere to be seen. Three years later I inexplicably found it by chance when moving the freezer completely in another part of the room. How did it get there?

Welcome to the forum, Tim. A great place to get some of those kits built. Enjoy.

Welcome aboard, Gilbert. Enjoy the forum.

Good looking Lotus, Matt. I agree with your comments on the body, it is very nicely done and captures the Esprit's subtle lines very well. I have one of these kits 95% complete, but stalled. I found it to be a fun build.