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Hi, thanks for the compliments. The pulleys are from Model Car Garage I believe. Just some old ones I had laying around. The hose couplings are aluminum tubing painted with Tamiya light blue. I find the Tamiya red, black, and light blue look closest to the 1:1 couplings colors. The hose clamps are simple... it is thin strips of BMF with tiny flat cut sections of beading wire epoxy'd in place. Beading wire can be found at most craft stores.

And if you dont want to scratchbuild turbo's you can order from "thepartsbox" .. they have some resin items that may interest you. Good luck!

The Tamiya RX7 R1 kit is pretty nice. It does feature a rotary that can be built up to your likings. Here is the engine from that kit with scratchbuilt turbo, exhaust mani, fuel sys, ignition, pulley sys, etc.

Bob, I was kinda taken back when I first seen your build post on this subject ... but I have to say everything fits together so extremely well. One of the more interesting builds I've seen. Its pretty wild to see the 3 cars all blended into one. Really outstanding job and the color is perfect IMO. Just looks "right." May I ask where the wheels are from? Again, excellent job!

For some reason I cannot open your link. I met JD many years ago at the Boulder Hill model car contests in Montgomery, IL. I won the "JD Booth" award two years in a row from him. I haven't seen him in many years. Does he have a website for his display cases? Know how to order them? Thanks!

I agree, I have a pretty hefty collection from Bob at scalehardware as well as RB Motion stuff. Both excellent, cant go wrong either way.

I came up with something myself ... will hopefully post some mock ups this weekend.

GTO is looking great! Did you use Duplicolor clear? If so, what did you use to polish it? I noticed using DC clear it goes on really nice and smooth, but dries to a semi-gloss appearance. Cant wait to see this one finished, keep up the great work!

The wheel centers are not aluminum, they are all photoetched. The outer rim blanks are machined aluminum. The photoetched center gets positioned (sandwiched) between the two outer wheel blanks (front/rear).

I have a bunch of their photoetch and multimedia tire/wheel kits and the quality is excellent. Very very nice stuff. FYI, although I love their tire/wheel kits ... watch out for the tires, they turn white (chalky) with age. You need to give them a little lube of Armor All (tip given to me by DaveZinn.. thanks Dave!)

I may be in. Let me see what I have when I get home.

Nice job on the paint! I read the thread your speaking of about painting, lots discussed there. What was your secret (method) on this one? It looks fabulous!

I cant wait! This is some juicy info ...

Thanks for the warm "welcome" folks..! I scratchbuilt the turbos and superchargers. The turbos are made from polished coiled solder, styrene, aluminum tubing, some PE, etc. Thanks for the kind words also, appreciate it!

Hi guys, been browsing these great forums for quite a long time but never signed up until now. I know some of you from other forums as I recognize your user names, and mine is the same as well. Been building since as long as I can remember, so ... about 30 years on and off lol .. I took a long break because of "contest burnout" and now just build for myself and to share with others. I posted some pics below of some recent projects. So "hi" to all of you and I look forward to sharing and learning. I'll get some new posts going for some of my projects, hopefully I can get to finishing something soon lol !! GT500 - Turbos & superchargers - MkII GTI big turbo -