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Beautiful paint and detail, looks just right. The only suggestion I would make is to go back and see if you can clean up the outline of the black paint on the wheel well flares.

If you want to have up-to-date (or antique) plates, search Google Images for the blank license plate you want - not always a sure thing, but often useful. Then you can add any numbers or letters using a word program.

Here's a material that a modeler who's building a 1/8 Citroen is using. Looks interesting. Do you have a 1:1 picture of what you're trying to replicate? http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/large-scale-cars/30170-citroen-15-six-traction-avant-1952-heller-1-8-a.html

Wikipedia has info on the involvement of Honda in F1 racing. Perhaps there are F1 kits for other teams up to 2008 that have Honda engines in them. Japanese car manufacturer Honda participated in Formula One, as an entrant, constructor and engine supplier between 1964 and 2008. Honda's involvement in F1 began with the 1964 season; their withdrawal in 1968 was precipitated by the death of Honda driver Jo Schlesser during the 1968 French Grand Prix.[1] They returned in 1983 as an engine supplier, a role that ended in 1992. They returned again in 2000, providing engines for British American Racing (BAR). By the end of 2005 they had bought out the BAR team, based at Brackley, United Kingdom, and renamed their new subsidiary as Honda Racing. It was announced on December 5, 2008 that Honda would be exiting Formula One with immediate effect due to the current economic crisis and were looking to sell their team.[2] On 27 February 2009 it was announced that team principal Ross Brawn had led a management buyout of the Brackley team.[3] The team raced successfully as Brawn GP in 2009, and was subsequently sold to Daimler AG and renamed Mercedes GP for the 2010 season. I was at the 1968 French Grand Prix, when Jo Schlesser's car spun out around the curve from my position, rolled up a hill full of spectators and burst into flames, killing him and some others. The magnesium wheels went off like 4th of July sparklers. This subdued my enthusiasm for Grand Prix racing for a few years. PS: You can find a 1/12 1991 McLaren, powered by a V-12 Honda. Driven by Ayrton Senna, with success, in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4/6

The Amaco WireForm mesh mentioned above looks pretty good to me. I'm looking at two versions I have right now, and the 1/8 size is the smallest you'd want. I'd go with the 1/4 pattern, etc. which you can see here, in diamond mesh or studio mesh. I don't know that they have the interlaced woven look you want, but they seem convincing to me. If you really need interlacing, Sculptor's Mesh appears to be the ticket. http://www.amaco.com...metal-mesh.html

This may not be applicable to many of our members, but if you can get the Internet on your cell phone, you can use it as a modem for your computer using Bluetooth, even if you're traveling in a car with your laptop.

You might find some answers here... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63775

Agreeing with Harry and subsequent posts, what ON EARTH are you talking about?

That forum is called Modeling Q&A, and is directly under the main topics menu.

Beautiful. Any interior shots?

Speaking of chrome pinstriping tape, what brand is it and where did you get it? Will it lay down in curves and arcs without crinkling?

Are you going to paint the hardware on the interior door panels?

As seen in the film, Prost behaved like a childish jerk during most of their rivalry, but at the end, when you see his sorrow at the funeral and learn that he became a trustee of Senna's foundation, he must have really respected the man. I think there's more there than the available footage showed. What isn't shown in the documentary is a scene at the funeral where Senna's family pushed his girlfriend away from the coffin. Must be a whole other story there.

I think you've got to take it on a case-by-case basis. Some reissues are using older tooling that may not be as crisp as before, OR they may have improved the tooling for the reissue. My own experience: I recently got a Jo-Han Mercedes 500K in its original Gold Cup version from the late 60s, which is a fine kit. Then I got a later re-issue in slightly different packaging, not Gold Cup, which was now molded in red, had tons of flash, and the chrome sprue did not have complete coverage. I had the same problems with the difference between Aurora's original Maserati 3500 GT and the later Monogram reissue.

Looking fabulous. Beautiful paint job! My only critique would be that I think you should see the tops of the tires in the wheel openings - too low in front, too high in back.

If you look at the last thread that was quoted, with a link to the first thread, I said that I had finally found a Region 1 DVD (US version) that was poorly translated by somebody, maybe of Asian origin. Do you know of a new US version? I can't imagine that this movie, which was a big hit - released in Fall of 2010 - isn't available yet on a good DVD. You don't have to be a racing fan to appreciate the beauty and honesty of this film. or the spirit of Ayrton Senna. No Hollywood movie could duplicate it.

What on earth are you talking about? You're talking about WWII and the Civil War ("Bloody Kansas," which I have no idea how that relates to 1982). This is mostly a car forum, and only a few know about armor, though some do. Do you have reference visuals? This is the weirdest post I have ever seen here. Cuckoo.

I think the light tent will work okay, though not ideally, if there was a certain amount of soft, reflective light from the front, just a bit higher than the model. There's no reason not to get things better when you've got a digital camera with a good-sized viewfinder and immediate review of the shot.

You might get better responses if you post this either in the "How Do I..." or "General" topics. I don't think it relates specifically to large scale in "Big Boyz"

How are you going to make the decals?

Last month, the Speed Channel was running a series on great movie car chases. What a hoot.

I believe this is the model that was posted on this forum. http://www.thepartsbox.com/BB/viewtopic.php?f=252&t=3142&start=45

Shot TV commercials with John Madden and Geoff Bodine for Exxon Superflo motor oil. For Food City's NASCAR promotions: Dale Earnhardt Sr. & Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip, Richard Childress, Richard Petty, Kyle Petty, Rusty Wallace, Jimmy Spencer. Cool parts: got to ride around the Atlanta Raceway a few laps with Geoff Bodine in his race car, hanging on to the roll cage (and also got to drive a SAAB turbo around the track), and got a tour of Petty racing's facility from Kyle Petty, who also drove us around his Victory Junction facility for sick children while it was under construction.

I just thought I would bring this over from the other thread about "How functional..." Seems to me the topic is quite similar... Chuck Most, on 10 March 2012 - 06:38 PM, said: A model car will never be driven, never have to operate upon public roads, etc., so in some cases I am willing to let a few details slide. Hey... I've never seen a 1:1 car with a big hole in the engine block and a big metal axle going through it, or the front and rear suspensions and exhaust done as one piece with the chassis, but I see quite a few models done that way. Harry P. It all depends on what your goal is. A lot of people who build model cars don't even think about whether or not what they build would be feasible or operational in the real world. They're not concerned with making an accurate miniature version of a full-scale subject, they're "creating." And that's a perfectly legitimate way to enjoy the hobby. But others see the hobby as building a miniature version of a 1/1 subject (military modelers being the prime example), so realism, faithfulness to the real thing, etc. are the whole point of the exercise. It's like art. Some artists paint in a very realistic style, and reproduce the real world in exacting detail... like Norman Rockwell or Edward Hopper, for instance. Others are "abstract" artists who don't paint what they see, but what they feel, like Wasily Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock. Both are equally legitimate art genres, neither is more "correct" than the other. Same with modeling. Neither way is "right." It just depends on what it is you are trying to accomplish, and how you personally define the reason for building scale models.

A lot of this can be understood through the other thread about the "Zen" of model car building. There are people who just start a build and go with the flow the way they feel at the time, with a wide variety of builders ranging all the way to people like me who have to do a ton of research to make everything as 1:1 accurate as possible, plus everything in between There's no definitive answer, just a very interesting range of fascinating information to this question, plus insights into the personalities of our fellow forum members, about the way people approach model building. But I think this is a cool thread that attempts to quantify the differences.