Jonathan

Thank you all. What initially attracted me to this kit was the staggered seating arrangement. I have another in my stash, and I'd really like to build it as more of a hot rod. But, finding appropriate wheels and tires stumps be at the moment. Well, that and appropriate engine bits, like a blower, or something.

Wow! Beautiful build!

Nice work on a challenging kit. Looks great!

Testor's enamel for the interior and spare tire/wheel covers. The body and frame were painted using Tamiya Lacquer (TS15) Blue and (TS14); with the bits of the frame being picked out various colors. Alclad II for the radiator and headlights, as well as for the chrome beltline. (In reality, I'm not sure this should be represented as a separate piece - and it's molded to the body in the kit.) I cheated on the hood side vents. The kit includes eight small, chrome-plated, rectangles for these pieces. I lost one, and then another. In frustration, I cut a piece of card stock, applied Bare Metal Foil, and glued this to the inside of the hood. I felt it turned out ok. I see I forgot to add the top. I'll have to fix that ...

Me, too! Would loved to have seen how you meshed the two cabs together. It really looks great.

Man, oh man! This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while!

Nice work! Do you have any in-progress shots?

Oh yeah! That would be awesome.

That's cool. Do you know if there are films that don't require heat to set?

That is a bummer. I like the odd-ball skirts, etc.

Does anyone know if this boxing will include any custom / option parts?

I've seen a few builds done with the Psycho Swirl / Swirl-a-delic techniques. (Awesome names, by the way!) I do like that it's kind of "fluid" and you get a different effect every time. Although, I wonder about how "smooth" the paint really is without miles of clear coat. That said, this film stuff looks like you could control the pattern. But as noted by Ray, it seems that finding something scale appropriate is an issue. Here's another sample, I found on Amazon. I wonder what the finish is like - is it smooth? I figured surely someone has tried by now.

Something like this, yep. If there were a way to do your own film.....

This is what I was referring to - the film. I think it's sometimes called "water transfer printing", but I'm not sure. Seems, if you could either find or create your own scale-appropriate patterns, that there might be a way to use this in our hobby. Here's a full-scale version:

Is anyone familiar with a process called "hydrodipping" (maybe "hydro dipping")? I've seen a (very) few videos where people have used a film that lies on top of water, dipped whatever item they plan to color slowly though the film that is floating - and the pattern of the film is transferred to the object. Seems there might be some application for our hobby, but I've not actually seen this in person - so I don't know how think the film is, etc. Similar to spraying oil-based paint on top of water and pushing an object through the resulting film, I guess. Anyone have any experience with this?

That is wild!

Wow! This may be the best this kit has ever looked! Beautiful work!

Nice - you hardly see these built. It really looks great. I have one - started 17 years ago. Unfinished.

Absolutely stunning!

Very nicely done.

I just picked up one of these a couple of weeks ago. A guy on our hall in college had one and it was such a cool/weird car (truck? ute?). My kit has major warpage issues with the body, however. Hopefully, I can get that worked out when I build it. Nice work, by the way.

I love this build. I never knew about the car, or that race really. Really cool build.

Very clever! I like it!

Tangent to the topic at hand, but how did you do the leaves?

Even so, I'll pickup a couple of copies of this kit. (pickup! haha)