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Thank you Funkychicken

Thank you Bruce and thank you Nazdrave. Here are the rest of the trunk tubes for the body. Not as hard as yours Chris.

Thank you Ray. Building the trunk area . Nothing exciting here. More tubes. Painted the trunk area polished alclad aluminum.

That is beautiful!

Thank you Vamach 1 . I put the tires and wheels on just to get the juices flowing.

Getting a break from the big 1/8 kits. Have to get my brain in gear. The rear trunk area and radiator mount. Fitting floor pan. Here we go. More tubes. Fitting tubes. Going to need that therapy

Hello Bill, yes Paul will sell separately. Absolutely call him. Mark says he is a great person to talk to. Oh boy, wallets getting a lot lighter.

The wife and the dogs. We are doggie people.

Very nice dogs, I’m sorry about your dogs

Sorry to hear this. Another part of my childhood going away. I used to order HO slot car stuff from him! RIP Oscar.

Hello Bill, yeah the instructions are a little tough sometimes. Especially if hour phone is down on power. I have some news. Mark has called Paul at Thunder Valley and detail parts are comming for the DeAgostini ford GT. I am building mine pretty stock for the company build but I will be taking it apart and change the paint scheme to another ford GT team. Mark has decals for another team comming. We are going to talk about which team and paint scheme I am going to do. This rebuild will be with the thunder valley detail set. It’s not going to be cheap, I heard about the price of the model. It will have new wheels, brakes and rotors. Real knock offs , and a bunch of other stuff. Probably a lot of things for the engine. I’ll let you know as I find out.

Hey Chris..... man the Porsche is really comming out great!!! Gotta love the detail of a mfh kit.

Thank you Carl, Thank you ewetwo.

I was very surprised that my 2000 GT made the NNL West Poster this year. Thank you NNL West! And Andy Kellogg for the information.

Hello, getting a break from the big kits. Wanted to get back to this project. Worked on the windshield of the cobra. It’s the hardest part of the build for me. So thin and fragile. It’s looking good . On to the next stage. Rear trunk area

Pack 11 completed. No issues so far. Cleaned up the radiator pipes. A little detail , if you remove the spare tire you will see the pipes. Chassis reinforcements in place. Started on the front end .

Hello Bill , I’m not going to get too crazy either. Here is what I did to the interior. Painted the seat belt backer flat black. Washed the gold seat rings in a black wash, and motolow the toggle switches. ( gold toggle switches?)Then added a little black to the toggles. Added mountings to the fire extinguisher. Painted some of the bolt heads silver. I was informed by Mark from DeAgostini that I am to do the official build for DeAgostini. Starting at pack 11. The person who is supposed to do the build in the UK is very ill. I was drafted into this. Not that I do not like a build, just not under pressure. Anyway Bill if there any issues with the build let me know and I may be able to help . I was supposed to do super details on this build but this has changed. Just a little detail. Pack 11 next.

Great job Bill! I just left the paint alone . It’s not perfect but race cars are usually a little rough unless it’s a Penske car. So far I have had no issues with mine. I did paint the toggle switches motolow with black. They come gold and look a little toy like. Your gonna have fun!!!!

Boy Chris, everything is going into place! Very nice job on a very , very hard kit. The frame is fantastic. The frame is very hard to work with. And your engine is fantastic. I hope I can wire my engine like yours. Beautiful job!

Chassis and interior. So far it’s a great build

Dash is cool. Had to paint the toggle switches, they were gold. Does not need a lot. Very cool model so far. As of today, not a single issue.

Interior, work in progress. The seat belts are wrong for the era. They were black. The Sabelt are a vintage race car safety item update. I put them in my GT350 to vintage race the car. It’s ok and they look great but vintage updates should match. Like Avon tires etc. I was going to make them black but the red pops. Gives a little color to the interior.