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Excellent stance Ken and nice clean build!

Oh my! That’s a winner Kimmo!

This is neat!

I’m with you on that. I was surprised to see another Corvette with gold coves like the built up one I restified a few years ago. Nice job JJ!

Love the Steve Vai flame guitar!

Your project is fantastic Ian!

Thank you for the comments guys. It means a lot.

Wow those are hot!

Thank you Bob and thank you for your service to our country!

Michael very nice job on this kit. Great work getting the opening panels to look tight when closed.

Hi gang I have always wanted to see if I can cram a big block into this kit while maintaining the kit provided inner fender wells. No small feat this! It took me forever to find a pair of headers that would work. The big block is basically cobbled together from parts box pieces. And those headers… Well I bought a few sets for a nominal fee at a swap meet and I found one set that came close to working. However they don’t quite meet up with the heads although with such a tight fit in the engine by it’s hard to tell. I also had to reverse the steering linkage which in the small block kit mounted behind the motor mounts about midway back on the engine. I also had to forgo putting in the kit provided steering box to my chagrin. I really wanted to put all the pieces back but I had to make this one concession. like so many of my recent projects this one was Painted by somebody else because I bought it as a built up at the swap meet. I like the green color though so I decided to retain it. The only thing I did was polish here and there and then brush on three coats of floor wax. I really need to get my hairbrush up and running because I think the floor wax through an airbrush would yield better results. The original builder also painted the tin work gold and it appeared to be gold anodized which was a look I always liked in the vintage 80s pro street and drag cars. It needed touched up here and there however so I used my own craft store acrylic gold paint which was really close to the shade the original builder used. I also just entirely remove the rear tubs in order to jam the tires directly up under the interior backlight. I like em low! I was not able to get the front end quite as low as I had hoped to. I wanted to get it as low as some of these kits I have seen built on tube chassis. I didn’t quite get there but close. The only other thing I did was scratch build a simple eight point roll bar from plastic coated wire rod that I have. I forget if it was Plastruct or Evergreen , but I believe the former. Most of the models I have posted on here the last year and a half have been projects like this painted by somebody else and I just personalized them to my own taste. It has been really fun to do that but I’m ready to do a couple of projects which are completely mine. Even with my substandard paint work! I hope you guys enjoy…

This is very nice. Great job. I just put the same Fiero widebody fenders on a Porsche 914 kit

Definitely the flashiest version of this kit I have ever seen! Fantastic build and killer paint!

Yeah, this is amazing!

Very nice build. It screams Muscle!

Looks cool!

Awesome build! I just pickedone of these up at the swap meet last weekend

Awesome! Thanks for sharing Derek.

Wow George, what a save! – Mark

Jim this is awesome! Also I love that 1:1 Vette you bought

Alan here is one for Luke. I had Coco 15 wonderful years.

Got time for one more? For all I know this was created by one of our members on this very site. I wish I could take credit for it because I think it’s kind of cute. Especially being that I build all different scales.

I just was afraid of offending animal lovers. But I am one myself and it didn’t offend me too much so I guess I need not have worried. Cheers friends-Mark

Okay guys you talked me into it! Here it is and sorry for my earlier typos, my phone doesn’t seem to think I dictate in English sometimes! I just thought it was funny that anyone actually thought this could ever be a good idea but it was in fact advertised in Popular Mechanics in the late 30s!

There are some pretty funny things on here guys. Thanks for the lailughs.