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Personally I'm flattered someone thought my Eldorado was Juha's, even knowing full well it can't hold a candle to Juha's work...not that I ever intended for it. It was just a broken old promo that I had fun bringing back to life as a cool curbside. One of the cracks re-appeared on the decklid next to the right side taillight...small evidence of what I started with.

Now that I see the images on my laptop I think the cool custom green Chrysler 300 may be Steve Milberry's work and the blue/white '62 Cutlass doesn't look like Juha's either. I have one of the resin custom '46 (?) Fords that Juha mastered for R&MoMD to build someday. Here are a couple recent photos of my '71 Eldorado promo that I rescued from very damaged condition, it was brittle from sun damage, missing an A pillar and had terribly yellow glass when I resurrected it:

I love Juha's models, was great to meet him a couple years ago. While I'm honored you slipped a photo of my silver '71 Eldorado restored promo as an example of Juha's work (because someday when I grow up I'd like to have half his talent), the Eldorado is my work. If I hadn't been lazy and added a side mirror...that's one clue LOL.

Easy answer; my Flashback II. Start w/a Camaro, add a Challenger front end and Mustang rear end and enjoy the mayhem at Caffeine & Octane every month! It was funny enough reading the comments when the first one I built went viral on car blogs almost 10 years ago. 90% of people wouldn't give it a second glance.

Steve Goldman brought it to the show. He also had the 4x4, might have mixed up the forms.

Nothing to stand out? Electric powertrain. Nearly 1900 HP. "Expect a sub-two-second zero-to-60-mph time, zero to 186 mph in less than 12 seconds, and a top speed of around 217 mph. The company also says it is targeting a range of 280 miles". 150 will be made. Looks pretty good to me, if slightly skewed towards exotic $500k cars vs. $1m-3m hypercars. Sure looks better than the Tesla roadster coming out that looks pretty boring.

I use Google Chrome as my browser and it will automatically translate the page from a prompt in the upper right corner of the page. Very handy!

Revell did a full-detail 1/24 575 SA and it's a pretty good kit, mix & match w/the Fujimi 550... I did the exact same thing! I did build my Fujimi 550, and used the Burago 550's seats, so it wasn't a complete waste...they were much better than the blocky Fujimi seats.

Adding Alclad gold to their chrome likely won't work. The chrome metal particles are a much finer grind than the gold, it gets reflective look by how each molecule lays down flat on a surface and reflects light. The gold is just regular gold flake, it won't have any reflective quality, the metal pigment doesn't work the same way the chrome does because it lays down in more 3D particles. That's why I suggested using clear yellow (or perhaps orange, or a mixture with orange, or perhaps smoke) to fine-tune the tint/look of the chrome to more of a gold appearance.

I doubt I used any thinner, the chrome is very thin itself and goes on in very thin coats. Their gold doesn't have the plated/reflective qualities that the chrome does. Aren't the Nazca kit windows molded in smoke tint? You might want to try a test by replicating the smoke tint on spare kit glass using one of the transparent smoke colors. First see how the Alclad Chrome looks under the smoke tint. If it's still not gold enough, apply a thin layer of transparent yellow to the glass on the outside. Or try it inside the glass before applying the Alclad. It might get you a lot closer.

That's where Alclad Chrome works. These old photos are grainy and it looks perfect in person, but since Spaz Stix mirror chrome (similar to Alclad but will stick to a black lacquer base) was intended to be shot inside of clear R/C bodies, I tried Alclad II chrome inside this Kaminari Celica's windows. It looks great in person. Just shoot it through an airbrush in a couple light coats, followed by some smoke tint. You can get a nice fade too.

A lot of people hate him, I think he's entertaining and he's a true enthusiast. This video shows a lot of cool details about the 959, including the sound of the horn which sounds almost identical to the Hella Supertones I have on my MX5

I just started one as well; a few of my friends in our local club are started on a 959 group build. Look at the Canepa website for inspiration; you don't have to go w/the basic colors, they have been building/rebuilding 959's as Generation III cars. They do amazing work and a shop tour is mind blowing. One of my friends has already painted his in blue w/red interior like one of the Canepa cars that was sold. Mine will be more creative; I'm making mine into a phantom 959 RS Series IV Weissach Edition using kitbashed parts from Tamiya and Fujimi Porsches. Canepa Sold Listings

Kind of self-explanatory if you know Mazdas! Long time Mazda owner/enthusiast; on my second Miata. They last forever and a blast to own and drive. Here's my current ride in it's natural habitat, on the curvy roads in NC/TN. One day a local friend of mine and I took off for the Tail of the Dragon to meet another friend from PA, coincidentally all driving True Red Miatas. It was a Tuesday and my assumption was right, we had a great chance of making the Killboy Highlights that week, and sure enough we did. We had a blast that day. My former Miata, had it 14 years, best car I've ever owned, sold it to one of my best friends who is keeping her in good shape to this day: For awhile I had both, this is before I modified my red one w/new suspension and updated OEM wheels.

Thanks! It was as much fun to revisit as I had decades ago on the first two.

Thanks! I built it for NNL East "I could've had a V8" theme in '06.

You can be Revell's new marketing director!

Doesn't make sense about the F12TdF, that's timeless like 599 GTO, and it took awhile for Revell to do theirs well after it debuted. I'll bet if they offered TdF it would outsell the 812.

Sometimes I think Revell's motto is "it's always something".

There are too many grumpy apologists in this hobby that can't handle the truth. I buy/build enough models to know what's good and what isn't...haven't seen a modern model body that sloppy in ages. Looks like the Panamera has a nice interior at least; the body will take many hours of sanding and some filling, especially all the excess material above/around the headlights. So much work I'm going to do a what-if widebody from that beast

Tommy May and Mike Siegman are both doing well and are on Facebook. We haven't heard from Russ Schwenkler for years, ditto for Pat Covert, both moved on to other hobbies. Tommy is still in Birmingham and Mike is soon moving to Ohio from Washington state.

Ever since I built my restomod BRAT STi I've wanted to build another in stock form; my model below was built in 2006 from a vintage kit I'd had for a couple decades. A guy on this forum from the UK liked it well enough to build his own version in 1:1 scale!

I despise Revell's flat boxes, I recycle a box bottom from a Japanese kit that I already built to use as an insert to pull in/out of the flat box like old Testors kits. Revell's US boxes are much better, and quality of Revell US kits made in China is better than their Euro-based kits. My Panamera kit has a body that's so poorly executed it looks like it was tooled by a drunken apprentice in Bangladesh or Laos

Would be nice, at the rate of delays Ebbro has getting their DS21 out, if they announced an SM it might be 2025...LOL. It also would likely be rather $$$. With that in mind I hit the "easy button" and got this 1/24 WhiteBox diecast that's pretty nice. It's attractive as a place-setter if there were ever or never a plastic kit offered, at about half the price of the Ebbro DS21 (that's still not out...). I'd like to do a color change on it , but it's easy to take apart to fix/personalize things to my own standards and so far I have fixed the ride height to get it out of the stratosphere while parked on my shelf and I enjoy models primarily from a design perspective so curbside w/o opening features is a plus:

Thanks! I don't remember having to trim them; the VRM decals are superb, perhaps the best decals I've ever used. The white one actually has the kit stickers for the hood grills which actually work quite well.