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Would be great to see a pic if you have one! Sounds awesome! I have a cheap old drum kit I might take apart and do something with the components. The floor tom could make a nice bedside-table or something like that.

Thanks, it’s the one that started it all! ?

That is awesome! Screams 80’s ? Did you glue them together? I’ve been toying with a vinyl LP clock idea, but old VHS never crossed my mind, and I have a tonload of them ? I kinda dig the old crate shelf in the back also!

Thank you! Thanks, they are indeed! The usual reaction to the JD lamp is “are those bullets?!” Nope. Just leftovers ?‍♂️?

I occasionally enjoy some basic DIY projects, mostly repurposing junk stuff. So far my main achievements are a coffee table made from a wooden pallet, and a couple liquor bottle lamps. I usually try to keep costs as low as possible, but it doesn’t always work out like that ? The table is based off a euro-pallet a friend gave to me, wanting to get rid of a bunch of them from his storage unit. I painted it white with some leftover wood paint I had, going for the “shabby-chic” style and not worrying about perfection. I bought the wheels at a local DIY/hardware store. They weren’t the cheapest, but worth it as they have the brake/stopper and rubber rather than plastic to roll on. The priciest thing was getting the glass cut to size at a local glass shop. The lamps are based on empty liquor bottles I had left over from various soirees. I bought cheap new lamp kits at the hardware store, and used lampshades at a fleamarket, while the “content” of the Jack Daniels bottle are spent 9 mm casings from a place where I go shooting. I still have to find something cool to fill the Monkey Shoulder. Perhaps marbles or some sort of crystals from a craft store. Total cost for the lamps, not counting the consumed liquor, of course, was next to nothing. Maybe 5 bucks per lamp - including lightbulb! Does anyone else do similar stuff like this? Let us see! It can be any kind of DIY, from furniture to decorations, accessories, etc… just as long as it was not purchased from a store as is!

Dang! That would have been worth a buck or two nowadays.

The only half-decent thing going for that Fujimi Evo II is the interior, which I robbed from a gluebomb to replace the base car interior in my Esci/Revell (Italeri) kit. The body and undercarriage, especially, on the Fujimi kit are atrocious, and leave much to be desired in terms of detail. You made yours look great, considering what a mess of a kit it is to begin with! The Italeri re-pop might make someone consider designing and 3D printing a proper Cosworth engine. I’d buy one for sure!

I wish it were a new tool, but it’s the same old Esci kit. Which is really only the stock 190E with bodykit add-ons. The interior and diesel engine are from base car. The above mentioned transkit is from a vendor in Spain, if I am not mistaken. I have the Fujimi Evo2 interior, which I will put into this car, instead of the bulky base car seats, but I have no solution for that diesel engine and wish someone would actually print a Cosworth engine that went into the 2.3 16V car.

Yes, I am aware, I was just attempting a joke since Revell also last sold it around the same time as the Corrado, and it’s reissue (Dragon or Revell) is as unlikely as the Corrado had been in my mind all this time, but thanks ?

I completely missed it in that topic. Thanks!

Could you please buy the E36 BMW M3 next, please? Thanks! ?

Just learned this one is scheduled for june. Excited for this one as I’ve been in the market for one for years, but prices have been in the triple figures for a while now. There is not much in terms of box art from what I’ve been able to find, except for this pic, which is not great. Anyone have more info? Another interesting announcement from Revell, at least for VW fans, is the T2 van with working lights. Here is a full list of 2023 releases: https://hobbyzero.com/news/revell-new-kits-2023/

I’ve noticed that the engine in this kit does not have the GTI configuration. I presume that is because, according to Scalemates, the Kamei and Zender versions came before the GTI, so they never bothered tooling new GTI specific parts? Does anyone know what engine is really in the GTI kit? Is it even a gasoline powered engine, or a diesel? I’ll probably just do a VR6 transplant anyway, but I’d like to know if possible. Thanks!

Nice to see one of these being built. Shame the hood is so ill-fitting on this kit, so I'm curious to see how you tackle this issue.

There is a funny scene about how the Miura “eyelashes” supposedly came to be… Ferruccio was sketching it on a napkin during some event or another, when a pretty girl walks up and starts inquiring about the drawing… he replies he’s sketching an idea for the most beautiful car ever… he shows it to her and then tells her to shut her eyes, and looking at her adds the lashes on the car. Then his wife, played by Mira Sorvino, rushes over from the ladies room or wherever she had been to, apparently not getting the joke and telling little miss thing where to go and all ? but, it seems the eyelashes on the Miura remained, nonetheless.

Besides, a biopic of any person is s movie about the thing a person does/did. Lamborghini did cars. Hence, car movie. Definitely not a boxing movie, say, if we were talking Raging Bull, for example - the Jake LaMotta biopic. Ya know what I mean? ?

Well, I’d have to disagree, since his entire life was obsession driven to build expensive cars, few people could afford, just to prove to Ferrari that he could do it better, knowing well it will be the end of him. If a car/cars were pivotal to any man’s life, it was Ferruccio Lamborghini. Therefore, I don’t see how one could make a movie about his life, without it being a car movie. That said, this movie does in fact try hard to be a car movie, but fails, unfortunately, on many fronts, with that respect.

They clearly chould have made a better effort regarding automotive consultants on the film. I guess a non-car person might not care the slightest bit, and find the movie interesting enough, but it ruins it for me when a supposed “car movie” keeps getting the car bit wrong! ?‍♂️

I always make a conscious choice for my first movie of the year, and usually pick one I have been anticipating for a while. This year, it turned out to be the Lamborghini biopic, which, being a car guy, I had been looking forward to with excitement for quite some time now, but decided to postpone it for my jan 1st movie. Right off the bat, however, I must say, it fell way short of my expectations from a “car movie”. It starts with young Ferruccio Lamborghini returning from WW2 to his family farm, proclaiming to his father he does not much feel like ploughing, but instead wants to participate in a car race to make money and a name for himself, in order to start building tractors. In real life, the race in question was the 1948 Mille Miglia (called something else in the movie, perhaps due to copyright), but it was the point in the plot that made me realize this movie was not made by car people at all. What bothered me were the cars. The race clearly takes place in 1948 (as highlighted on a poster on the podium behind Enzo Ferrari, played by Gabriel Byrne), but the cars Lamborghini and his friend are racing against are a Mercedes 190 SL and Porsche 356 Speedster, both of which were made years later, in the mid 50’s. Sure enough, both are pretty looking cars, but I’d say this is a glaring mistake for any car buff, and somewhat off-putting. Furthermore, engine sounds throughout the movie are mostly wrong, and most of the driving/racing scenes are quite dull/slow looking, all of which is not saying much for a “car movie”. To top it all off, there is an “imaginary” drag race scene between Lamborghini and Ferrari, supposedly a methaphor on their competition in life, which keeps popping up throughout the movie, in various stages. Ok, neat idea, but the problem I had, this being a car movie, was the choice of rides. Lamborghini drives a blue Countach, which is an iconic car, sure, but it happens to be a US spec car, and the movie clearly takes place in Italy, while Ferrari drives an underwhelming Mondial (also a car targeting the US market), instead of an F40, for example, which would have been more logical. Another off-putting, non-car related thing, was the accents, which range from bad to attrocious. As for the drama itself, it matches the slap-happines of the production aspects regarding the cars. The entire movie, which could have been an interesting, charged story of the triumph of an emotionally unavailable and unscrupulous farmer, who decided to throw away everything, including his family, in order to make expensive cars just to stick it to the man, Enzo Ferrari, when he brushed off Ferruccio’s suggestion of partnering-up, seems kinda roushed-through in just 90 or so minutes, and while the relatively short running time is a blessing of sorts, considering the tedium, one can’t help but wonder how this story might have played out over two hours in more apt hands. I’m thinking Ford vs. Ferrari. That said, hopefully the upcoming Ferrari biopic will wash out the sour taste of this unfortunate misfire. Shame, really, because Lamborghini is an icon. He/it deserved to have this story told a little bit better than it was with this attempt. Of course, this is just my 2 cents. Let me know what you thought! Thanks!

In industry lingo, such a device, which drives the plot, but is in itself unimportant or irrelevant, is referred to as a MacGuffin. The Wikipedia page even includes Pulp Fiction and Ronin as classic examples. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

Ronin had two major/prominent car chases. The first one involved an Audi S8 and Mercedes 450 SEL (W116) chasing down a Citroen XM, accompanied by a couple Peugeot 406, down to the French riviera, while the second one was a Peugeot 406 chasing a 5 series BMW (E34) through the Paris rush hour.

It’s not a remake, nor a sequel really, but a spinoff. Also, surprised many of you are bashing McQueen’s acting in the original, when it is in fact hailed as one of the breakthrough method acting performances on film, moving away from theatrical delivery, which prevailed in movies before that.

It’s interesting, from a casting standpoint, that Brando was only 16 years older than Pacino and Caan, and just 11 years older than Cazale.

Cool! Never seen this kit! But, yes, those wheels are atrocious!

Thanks for the reply! Yes, it does seem a little pricey for a curbside kit, but definitely interesting and uncommon subject matter. I really do wish someone would make more recent BMW streetgoing M cars in styrene, because what Alpha model offers in resin is way beyond my hobby designated budget.