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Nice conversion.

About 20 years ago a buddy of mine's brother had one of these. He had it pretty well hooked up and just finished the extensive audio work on it. And then he pissed the wrong people and woke up one morning watching his prized 3000GT burn to a crisp right in front of his house. It was red with carbon hood too.

That's different. I like the outcome.

Pretty sweet. Great choice of colors too.

I was thinking about printing this one myself. It is nice to see built by someone. I am not very familiar with the real car, so isn't the front axle a little narrow or is it supposed to be this way?

I love what you have done with the lights. Especially the covers at the front.

So after I gave the body few days to relax I masked it very good and sprayed Tamiya Matt black over the areas I needed, like the window sills, engine bay and the lower rear bumper. And as if it was done by design, since I am using this build to discuss paints and materials, problems occurred. I am not saying that I like having issues when painting model bodies, but it is in a way a good way of making a point about paints and experience. When I painted the model I used PPG original Ferrari Paint. That paints has no problem handling Tamiya clear coat or any other Tamiya paint. I cleared it with automotive 2K clear. Because I wanted some color in the engine bay, I sprayed the two panels in the bay body color. When I cleared everything, I cleared those panels too. But I did not seal the entire surface with the clear. So there were areas where there was no paint - just primer and then barely some clear overspray. Anywhere where there was a solid clear coating, the Matt Black Tamiya paint (straight from the can) laid perfectly smooth. Except in parts of the engine bay, where there was just some clear overspray. In that area, the black crept under the clear overspray and spread and bubbled/lifted/crackled the surface. This is pure user error and it has nothing to do with plastic, materials used or whatever. And I know better, but still made the mistake. What is the real disaster is what happened on the front fender when I removed the mask. I used automotive vinyl mask and while removing it somehow managed to lift the clear coat, which peeled together with the paint right off the primer. Again, I am not happy that it happened, but I am glad I can show it and talk about the reason for it. Basically the primer is to blame. Or more precisely, the primer in combination of the way the separate coats were applied. I had the same exact issue on my 1:1 C5 Corvette, which was painted and prepped entirely with HOK materials meant to work together. Basically there is no bond between the primer and the base color coat, while there is perfect bond between the color and clear. The reason for it is because this bond can be either chemical or mechanical. For a chemical bond you need to spray the color while the primer is not fully cured. Then the color "melts" the surface of the primer and blends with it. By following the same way with more paint coats within short time each coat fuses itself to the one below. This was clearly not the case with my model, because I let it dry for a whole day. In such case you can create mechanical grip by sanding the surface of the primer prior to painting the color on. But I decided to experiment and use this primer sealer, which does not like being sanded, so I didn't. And here are the results. Now I have to sand and blend the edges of the peel and very carefully feather new color layer, praying that it doesn't get under the clear and make a mess, after which lay another coat of clear and then wet sand and buff everything. I'm giving this one try and if it goes haywire, I'm just ordering another kit and using another body. Why you may ask. Because the value of the time, effort and materials for stripping this body and getting it ready for paint again far exceed the $30 for a new kit.

One of the greatest Bimbers ever made. And a great kit to boot. You are definitely doing it justice.

This thing was a monstrosity when it was first build. In a good way. One of the biggest cars ever made. I think some of the engines end up powering locomotives. From all the Bugatti Royales, I don't think there were two the same.

Very impressive results for a 3D printed body. My grandfather owned one of these in Switzerland, back in the '80s. His car attracted more attention than Lambos and Ferraris.

Dirty, but perty! Great job. Love the weathering.

Awesome land yacht.

I was definitely not expecting to see this when I saw the title. Very cool!

Not bad. the only issue is that this is most definitely not a 250 GTO. This is a 1961 250 GT SWB (for short wheel base). The GTO was developed from this car, but it is different in every possible way. The only thing the SWB and the GTO share is the engine block and heads, which is derived from the 250 TR. Both have won LeMans and have been driven by the greatest drivers of the era. Both come with eight digit price tags our days.

Very different, but I love it.

I am by far not a Mopar guy at all, but this thing looks just sweet. The color, the wheels and the stance definitely bring it in 21st century. Great build.

My kind of hot rod. I personally think it would look better without the big decals on the doors, but that's a bout personal taste. Everything else on this ride I absolutely love. That engine is super cool.

The C4 Corvette holds a very special place in my heart. I've owned a couple of them and have some amazing memories, including almost dying in one of them, after wrapping it around a pole with about 120mph. That does not change the fact that the C4 is probably the worst built Corvette ever. They do make for great models tho and it looks like you did great with that yellow convertible. Difficult color to paint and not one you see on a C4 often.

That's definitely blue. Very rich color. I love it.

One of, if not THE best Mopar color ever. Gold stripes on the sides work surprisingly well.

I think Gold suits the car very well and I love your choice of wheels.

The car is definitely not my cup o'tea, but this one fantastic model. Great job.

Gorgeous paint. Very Ferrariesque!

I'll second that. paint is really killer.

Very cool idea and very well done. I love it.