Brudda

By the way, had a club member make the GT500 in a decal. This was a part of the build I had a question on. But a guy by the name of Neil Hulse made the decals. He saved me. It sure makes the paint job. And I would like to thank Mark Adams ( from Agora Models )for supplying the kit. He is like Bill (Mr Obsessive) just knows a lot about these kits and how everything works.

Thank you Bainford. I could not believe the time it took to stripe the car. I painted it Saturday. Color sanded it with 1500 Saturday night. Sunday morning put the parts together. Masked up the car , took the car apart. Painted the white. Unmasked the parts. Took all day. Still need to clear the parts. Hoping to do this tonight with some luck. The color is a very beautiful blue. Acapulco Blue. Very fun but yesterday was a little bit of a pain. Hopefully the clear goes on nice. Sometimes we just need a little luck.

Alotta tape

Thank you

Striped the car. Will clear this week,

Hello. Taking a agora super snake and making it a GT500. Or maybe it’s a GT500 with a 427 . Anyways it’s painted Acapulco blue. I have several 1/8 builds going now but my friend Mark said build the GT500 for our local contest. So im going to try to build this in less than a month. Probably will not be finished but I’ll try. Here goes. Next is sanding the blue with 2000 wet and dry, put the body together so I can lay down the Shelby stripes. I had a friend make the “ GT500” . He makes decals. So the stripes will be painted and the GT 500 will be a decal. I will take it apart then reclear the entire car. I hope I can do this , this week. If not I will not make it. I hate deadlines. I have them at work, do not need them on my hobby. I see 2 day builds on this site and they are amazing. I usually take more time than that deciding a color .

Fantastic

I had the same problem with the tail lamps Fixed a hood louvers problem. They were too high. Recessed them into the hood.

Although very expensive the model factory hiro kits in 1/24 are pretty accurate. IMHO. I my early days, I was designing products. We sometimes had to scale a product up or down. The dimensions would be spot on but sometimes the product would look weird. So things would change to be eye appealing. I think model companies probably do the same thing. I modeled a mfh Ferrari P4 a few years ago and if I copied the rear engine compartment on the real car, it would look like a 6 year old did it. Things were hammered by hand and looked actually terrible. If I put that into the model , I would have a lot of explaining to do. Thank you guys for the information as I will try to locate some of these kits. The knowledge is just amazing on this site.

1/8 Mercedes 1955 gull wing engine wip. The bodywork finished, filling gaps and smoothing out the body. Black needs to be straight. . Sanding and reprimed over and over.

The body panels fit real well. Getting ready for the black paint.

I finished it!

Engine starting to look good. Front bumper chrome is very nice.

I really love the styling of the c3. I restored a 1969. 427 L89 car. 1:1. IMO the best styled body ever for an American car. Yours is fantastic. Color , everything. Good job ! Your uncle and aunt will be very pleased.

Filled with evercoat putty , sanded with 180, 320. Prime with self etching primer. Let the primer dry, next step, resand with 400. Reprime. Do this over and over till it’s straight and right.

Ok I am super glue with activator. Eyebrows over the wheel house. And a roof to quarter panel seam. Sanding the glue. It’s insurance for the bolted on eyebrow. Next, Filling with evercoat automotive putty. This part of the build is the most exciting to me. I love to do the body and paint on models. Stance, paint job then details. For a contest , I use this as commandments for building a model car. The stance and paint catch the eye, draws people in to look at the details. Actually I use this for all my car models. Fun or contest. I’m sanding the super glue with 180 grit. Apply the putty over the sanded area. I will use 320 to finish it off. Primer. Reblock as nessary, reprime as nessary.

Hello Carl!

A duesenberg. Out of box

A nascar out of box. Simple and very fun to build

Beautiful

Yes sir I do understand. It’s a lot of money to invest. Ray(cobra man) did not buy until it was a complete kit. My personal opinion is that agora is not going anywhere. I have insights and cannot disclose them but from what I see , the company is investing in new tooling and buying out other companies . The Mercedes is a very cool and fits pretty good. So far , I’m impressed. I have built the cobra 427 and the supersnake. Those are great kits. The agora Muira is a handful. Needs a lot of modeling mods to get it to fit and look good. Just telling it like it is. Like all 1/8 kits they all could use some extra detail. I have detailed the cobra and detailed a ford GT from another company. Just added a little bit and sanded the seam lines, repainted a few things and they come out great.

Painted hood. Starting pack 2. Mark A from agora has supplied me a complete body to paint black. Needs some body work going to disassemble the body and paint the body. Do not have to wait for each pack to arrive to paint her. Saves a lot of time.

Agora 1/8 Porsche. Not mine it’s a friend Mark A . Beautiful build.