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What Harry said. I lost both parents before my 30th birthday. Appreciate every minute I had with them and miss them dearly. Shout out to all the Moms this weekend and cherish your time with them. My parents too were very supportive of my hobbies, especially model car building. Good times Dr. Cranky ... very nice.

At this point you could easily use Scratch X and give the body a good "rubbing" 3-4 applications will turn the finish glass smooth. Use a clean cotton T-Shirt and rub the Scratch X into the finish well. Just be careful you do not rub through the clear + watch your edges/corners. I typically do not wet sand my clear.

Looks cool but the pics are really blurry. Use Macro mode on the camera.

Hi folks, I wanted to let you all know that I'm not accepting any new orders until May 15. Any and all pending orders will be shipped by this Saturday 4/16. I'm taking a slight break to make some new molds, finish up some masters for new product, and build up a little inventory. I will update my Fotki with the same message tonight when I get home. Thanks to everyone who has ordered with me. I hope your very happy with your parts, service, and communication. Doors open again shortly and look forward to offering you guys some new products! Thank you, Mike

Few of mine... GT500 Big Turbo Tamiya Rotary Big Turbo VW 1.8T MkII GTI

Chuck does it again! Awesome !!

Al awesome job! Thanks for posting this. I have a street/drag Mustang that these will look fabulous on. Will be in touch.

AWESOME!! What else is there to say. Once of the nicest Rods I've seen.

Hi Erik, I'll start off by saying your doing a really nice job on the Enzo build. I can tell your really "into" the build considering your attention to detail and amount of photos your taking and providing. I do not buy into the whole "MCM forum is not into foreign or exotic sports cars" thing. You have to realize this, like any forum, has its fair share of "cliques" and those modelers who all "know" each other like to post in each others threads regardless of how "good" or "bad" the build may be. A lack of replies to your thread does not necessarily reflect your doing a bad job or that we are not interested. Building and posting your progress should be a fun venture so please do not get discouraged. If I may give a bit of advice? Its personal opinion, but I would say post slightly less pictures. I for one take loads of pictures during my build processes, but that doesn't mean I post ALL of them. If someone wants additional pictures of an item your working on they can simply ask you. Posting a couple before and after pictures generally does the trick. Or, if your scratch building something post the best of the bunch of the process. Again, if the forum or member wants more they can ask. Thats how I've always done it. Keep it interesting. As in, how many times do we need to see photos of the pulleys unfinished? Or how many times do we need to see 20 different angles of the same engine with very little progress? Sometimes posting pictures of every single step a modeler takes can get boring. As in, you may feel your making significant progress by adding a single detailing bit here or there but to us viewers it kinda gets boring at times. Just sayin'. Lastly, your building an Enzo. I have to say the Enzo kit may be one of the most popular exotic kits in which builders have detailed the snot out of every way possible. Meaning we've all seen Enzo's detailed to the max many many times. Its not that your not doing a good job, its just that its just another detailed Enzo. BUT keep up the good work and have fun. Thats what its all about.

Nice and clean Bob as always.

Yep! I agree Kevin is awesome and has always come through for me. Just received another order from him last week in fact.

Yeah, you can easily make this by visiting your local hardware store. I made a few that work wonderfully. Cost? Like $1.00 or so each. Various washers and plastic sleeves allow you to work with different sized tires as well. I can post a pic of mine when I get home if anyone cares to see.

The caps are made using styrene sheet and a circle template. The aluminum trim ring on top of the cap was punched using thin aluminum sheet and micro mark hole punch. Thanks for the kind words folks.

Brad thanks my friend. Your check is in the mail j/k ... thanks for the kind words. I hope to install one soon on my drag Mustang after my 32 Ford is finished.

Thanks Gus, simple and to the point. Nice!

Agree with the others, nice work so far! This one looks like its going to be a monster!

The belt is in fact a scale 3 inch belt. Cant wait to see more progress.

Um, no. I remembered I have some from MAS, I'll have to see if they fit my tire/wheel combo.

Does anyone make trim rings in aluminum or other? Some of ya'll might call them beauty rings?

You know, even though I have one of these I enlarged the wheel openings slightly because I was going to build a drag version (back in the day). I've always thought this kit would be awesome in resin. Hint hint to anyone listening...

Nice kit and pretty fair deal. I have one myself tucked away in the archives.

Sorry, no they are not. I know its been a really long time and I wish I had better news, but I do not. This is on indefinite hold for now. I know Ma's resin is/was working on some of his own, so perhaps check with Alan as he does offer the best tires in the biz.

What is your idea of "laying down smooth?" It will normally dry to a "matte like" (flat) finish, but it should still be "smooth" to the touch. If its rough, you sprayed it too far from the work piece. And if you used primer, ensure that is wet sanded extremely smooth before laying color.

I have a small line of parts that I cast. Website opening soon as well as more products being added. Check out the resin section on this website, lots of really good folks, great service, and high quality items.

Randy, in my opinion this has to be the most unbelievable model I've seen come together in recent memory. The scratch building and "spot on" paint detailing truly make this build a work of art. This is definitely in a class by itself. Most guys cant achieve results like this building in "large scale" and you are doing it in 1/24. Simply wonderful. I've saved all of your photos so far for future reference. Amazing! Keep up the outstanding work, and thank you for sharing this masterpiece. Hope you stay around the forums for a long time, I'd love to see more projects from you both past and present.