Harry P.

Your own decals?

That's the cool thing about big scale... you can add detail like seat upholstery. Well done!

The paint looks beautiful. Very nice looking model!

Holy cow! Stunning! And the wheels... like everyone said, they make the model. Two big thumbs up on this one.

Also no fan of giant wheels as a rule, but somehow in this case they look right. Very cool. Nice work!

Very nice! A guy who can do it digitally and "old school!" I like it!

Ohana is Hawaiian for "blabbermouth!"

Whoah! That's pretty cool!

I can see having that kind of talent, what floors me is the amount of time he obviously has to put into any one model. I would lose my patience and interest long before I ever came close to finishing one.

How about it? Real or model? The answer: REAL!

Scratchbuilt, yes... but he's not making that internal stuff up out of thin air. He must have an incredibly detailed set of plans from somewhere that he's working from.

I wonder where he gets such incredibly detailed plans from?

How did you upholster the seats?

It's extremely rare (if not completely unheard of) for a modern day car's brakes to totally fail. That would mean that both circuits had to fail at the same time (highly unlikely). In such a "worst case" scenario... a manual trans car with totally inoperative brakes... my guess is that in 99% of those situations (rare as they are, probably actually non-existent), the average driver in a panic situation is better off mashing the clutch and yanking on the parking brake lever than trying to practice his F1 driving skills and downshifting to slow the car. Even the best downshift expert will have rear-ended that semi long before the magic of downshifting had slowed his car to any appreciable extent. Bottom line: Downshifting to slow/stop a car in everyday driving is a completely silly and useless exercise. Sure, if you want to play Jackie Stewart, have fun... but the average person driving the average car in average conditions has absolutely no need to do so.

Why are the front and rear bumpers all grainy and not shiny? Did you do something to the kit chrome?

So why does the unpainted fiberglass front end have chrome trim on it?

It will also be available in white.

You don't need to do anything before you start posting pix. So feel free to post away! On the Jaguar, I'd suggest adding some chrome foil trim to the window surrounds, wipers, and the two long trim strips that run between the headlights and the rear edge of the hood (I mean "bonnet! )... and also the little covers for the hood latches on the sides of the hood between the front wheelwell and the door. Adding the chrome trim that's missing would make the model a lot more realistic.

It's one of my modeling pet peeves... along with no mirrors on street cars and the "magic floating alternator"...

Check ebay. If it's been selling there, you'll know what people are willing to pay.

I see a lot of "street rods" and that sort of thing here with absolutely no inner fenders... the tires completely open to the engine compartment. Is that the way they're done in real life? Or a common modeling mistake?

Why do you put such a tight, arbitrary limit on yourself? There's a whole wide world of automotive subjects out there.

Not much of that, if anything, translates to everyday driving. Not a whole lotta F1 cars being driven back and forth to work or the mall. Not many "daily drivers" getting a new clutch after every run to the 7-11. Downshifting to slow a car in real-world, normal driving is pointless and counter-productive. Every car has a braking system, that's what's meant to slow/stop the car.

All the explanation in the world doesn't make it any less ug-lee!

For your next one you'll have to do a tribute to my favorite ZZTop song...