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Adio' apareciste, donde tu estabas, Kerc? PM me Simon

Since I had visiting new shows for the last 2 years, I had been taking them to all those shows, due to that's a first time for all of them. Simon Rivera

Hey Bill, as always, a nice and clean work as tall as you are! Simon Rivera

Hey Steve, it can be seen you will take pretty nice models with you. Good luck! Simon Rivera

For my painting, like my good pal, Bill, I mostly use a Badger Crescendo 175T, going from the small tip to the Large to the bodies. Sometimes I switch to me Testors Professional model for detail and acrylics. The good amount of tips/needle combo gives a real nice control an variety. For paiting, like much of you, lacquers of any tipe, from the Tamiya, House of Kolors, Gunze's Mr. Color, Alclads, Finishers, etc. Even due I use them a little bit, I use some enamels aswell like the Model Master's and the good old small bottle testor's enamels. In the water base deparment, my choice are Gunze, Testors and Tamiya Acrylics. In the past I have had experimented also with nail polish inspired by the great Custom models modeler Ted Lear. To me thr ise of spray is almost null, just use the black like flat and semi-gloss when I'm in a hurry(like most modelers) Simon Rivera

Hey man,..good for you...you have one wheel already, you just only have to get the remaining three wheels and a car,..it's that simple!...I guess it's not too much!...jejejeje! Simon Rivera

Hey Jairus, pretty impresive decal job indeed!...Like you told, the secret for any hard decaling like this it's just to let the decals sit for a couple of days. Sometimes a hair dryer work too. I remember to had seen this fisher models in a slot track page in Japan. Simón P. Rivera Torres

I forgot to say, that I painted everything over a white base. I think it's important to talk about it, because, the base, like in any painting, could make the difference. Simon Rivera

On my suggestion, I have also an observation. If you guys look closely to this Ferrari interior picture, will notice that this italian interior tan, like almost Italian manufacturers, has a little red tint on it. After a lot of research and experiment building my Hasegawa Lamborghini Miura, I tried to replicate this color with some Gunzy Sangyo and Tamiyas tan, a little of flat white, and very important,..a little bit of tamiya's flesh color. I sealed everything after with some semi-gloss acrylic clear. Here's what I got: From the outside On my Ferrari 250GT California Spyder, I used Gunze Sangyo Tan. Simon Rivera

Wow...it can be see that you had the time of your life, what a weekend!...I'm thinking about that my chance will come up in three weeks at the Porsche Rennsport reunion at Daytona. Would my heart reist as yours did? Que clase de curete te diste!!! Simon Rivera

Jmm..looking good!...Pretty cool project. Va muy bien. Simon Rivera

Woww..the car looks very sharp. I think it's a well deserved award. Simon Rivera

Here's some of my toys: Italeri Ferrari 250GT California Spider BBR 1/43 Ferrari 312T 1975 World Champion Niki Lauda Union Ferrari 330 P4 1967 Le Mans 2nd BBR 1/43 Ferrari 250LM 1965 Le Mans Winner Simon P. Rivera Torres

Cool custom conversion on this one...nice paintjob too! Te botaste pana! dame una llamada al 787-391-1913, te voy a preguntar algo Simon Rivera

Looks real good and like a real car....keep the good work up! Te quedo bien conco...! Simon Rivera

Wow Mark, it's very original and amazing!...as any of your builds. Simon Rivera

Jmmmm...nice! :ph34r:

Hi, My name is Simon P. Rivera Torres. I'm from Aguas Buenas, but, I live in Caguas, Puerto Rico. I have a B.M. in Music Education, and a Master Degree also in Music Ed. from the University of Miami. I 've been working as a Band, trumpet and music theory teacher for the last 10 years now. Besides that, I had been working as a professional trumpet player for the last 30 years. That work as a trumpet player had give me the chance to travel around the world and in some of those trips the chance to visit some hobby stores on some interesting places as Holand, London, California, Frankfurt, etc. Our beloved friend Gregg Hutchins can tell you guys how hot it's the trumpet playing here in Puerto Rico, we had a lot of fun here last year in his visit to our island. I started on the hobby when I was 4 when I "tried" to build a Pinto model using bits of paper as glue because my parents didn't allowed me to use glue. After that, I started a little bit more seriuoslly with WWII combat planes, were almost no cars in my table then. The Revell ARMY Funny Car freak me out then because of all the parts I saw in the box of one of my class mates at the school. Then in my 7th to 12th grade were also some Battle ships and aircraft carriers, some cars were added to my collection. From that time I remember a yellow Monogram Porsche 911 and a Formula 1 model. That period extended from 1969(4 years old) to 1982 when I stoped my modeling life with a Testors 1/48 F-5. It was back in 1997 in a trip from Cali to Bogota in Colombia, where I picked up a Model Magazine and started to read about the building of the Jeff Gordon's NASCAR Chevy that I was hunted again by the hobby. I was amazed how much the hobby had advance in 15 years. A couple of days after, I was taking an after meal walk in the streets of Bogota, that I notice a hobby shop that have a model of my favorite car maker...PORSCHE! a 1992 Italeri 911 Turbo, I'm still have that model. 2 weeks after I went to a music trip into Miami, and I visited the Orange Blossom store that I heard was the late Augie Hiscano property's, I bought a lot of stuff there and the rest was history. I started like a mad! To me, that was when I started this seriuouslly. Since that afternoon in Bogota, Colombia 10 years ago I've had some happy moment, some sad and no too happy ones, but, what the hell,..let's remember the best ones and take as always the best from the not so happy ones. I can't forget the first time I won an award here in the island, a 2nd or 3rd place with a Porsche 959. That was a lot to me for several weeks. After been trying to improve my modeling skiils(I'm still trying though!), 3 years later, I visited for the first time a show in the states, the 1st Scenic City Classic at Chattanooga,TN. It was real impressive, imagine to see and meet in your first trip the person that I consider my model cars teacher, Pat Covert; the late Auguie Hiscano, Mark Gustavson, Ted Lear, Gregg Hutchins was there too, Bill Cunningham, etc. After that one in year 2000, I've been in several more every year until this year. The list include: ACME Southern Nats, LIARS, Classic Plastic, TAMS, Birmingham, GSL XX, Heartland Nationals in Overland Park, and this year's GSL. Among the awards on that shows I have: 1-2000 ACME TOP 10 2-2004 Birmingham Top 15 and Best of show 3-2001 LIARS Best paint award 4-2007 GSL XXI Small Class Best in Class award 5-2006 Heartland Nationals Best Detailed, Best Foreign, Best Small Class and Best of Show Even with those award I'm always looking to improve and to share all that I can with anyone that ask me. I think this is the best of all and like I said from my 2003 trip to the TAMS show in Norfolk Virginia....."Have Fun". Best Regards Simon P. Rivea Torres

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I'm with Zoom Zomm ans Jairus on this. For the last 2 years I've been thinning enamels with Lacquer Thinner, in this case with the PPG DTL 876, as Jairus mentioned before. This is the Mid-temp thinner from PPG, in this case it's the one I should use for my hot weather, since I live in Puerto Rico, wich is hotter than most of the states all the year. It's also the kind of thinner recomended for automotive lacquers for models like House of Kolors. My favorite ratio for this, and for almost any kind of lacquers and even some enamels is 1:2 paint-thinner ratio. The purpose it's to be building up thinn coats of paint to the body and to the same time to avoid the excess of paint over the whole body aswell. Lately, I've been adding also a 10-20% of Gunze Sangyo Mr. Retarder Mild to the Paint-thinner total mix. I've also bee succesfull using this final mix with decanted Tamiya Lacquers and it's Tamiya Lacquer thinner. Simon P. Rivera Torres

Great news, Matt, the group it's growing up fast. I'll be there with my little son and two friends from Puerto Rico. See you there! Simon P. Rivera Torres

Ismael....It's just PERFECT, I think there's nothing else to say. I too obvious you love Corvettes, because, you did this one with your heart. You said that you hoped we like it, man!...we love it! Now we have another BBQ or a reason, to see models in the days to come. Te quedo bien bravo! Simon Rivera Torres

Hey Ismael, you're so brave, finnally you got it!....good luck with this stuff. I used to use it in gray and white 10 years ago. I remember that I even polish it before to use it. Simon P. Rivera Torres

Are they still produced?...and like I said, where I can buy them? Simon Rivera