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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.

This is a pic from the new kit:

The new reissues don't have them? The vintage ones do.

I love the Revell snap '63's; I've built two and intend to build the roadster as well. VRM makes a sheet of Corvette racing decals that I used on the Bondurant car, there are sets of decals for 4 different early 60's Corvettes with lots of extra emblem decals that are really nice; chrome base, layer color and lettering over them.

Wow, very nice! I have one of these in mint unbuilt condition. Thanks for the inspiration

Very nice!

I do that too sometimes, all depends on the lens/bucket itself. I think the headlights on the SM are already painted from behind, the nib will have to go in that case. The Renault has cleverly hidden nibs on the headlights and the taillights/turn signals are tampo printed transparent red/orange over chrome, they look sharp.

Because I liked the Citroen Ami model so much, ordered a couple more WhiteBox French cars; Renault 16 and Citroen SM. Placed order w/American Excellence last Thursday AM, their UPS flat-rate shipping had them to my door less than 30 hours later. I'll leave the Renault as-is, I want to improve the SM in stages. It needs a few minor paint touchups, I'd like to cover all the tampo-printed silver trim w/bare metal foil, and revise all the lenses to remove the mounting nibs. If I'm really brave it might get a repaint to jet black. Yesterday I turned the wire axle mounting holes into slots, lowering the model by .2" all around so it looks like it's properly parked which improves the look of the model a lot.

Here: https://www.american-excellence.com/Welly/223966/Diecast-Car-Porsche-911-991-GT3-RS-orange-2015

Comparison of both:

The new Welly GT3 RS is the 2016 991 generation; the old one has been available for many years. The new one is also available in Lava Orange, kind of a burnt orange. I'm scheming a "paint to sample" version w/some Studio27 GT3 RS decals that were done for the old Welly variant; a handful of Porsche customers have custom ordered their GT3 RS in vintage paint to sample colors w/various vintage GT3 RS graphics. Seinfeld's GT3 RS is paint to sample in the liquid chrome blue that was offered on the 918 Spyder...looks pretty sweet. No kit? No problem! For $20 I can rip it apart, repaint it, and have just as much fun w/a bit less stress.

Just got a delivery from American Excellence in NC; 1/24th Welly Porsche GT3 RS and WhiteBox Citroen Ami 6. I got the Porsche because I love the real car (and there's no sign of a kit), I got the Citroen because it's the most hilariously fugly car ever made and there'll never be a kit. Got an extra Porsche so I can paint it a cool color.