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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.

Just recently revisited a favorite model from when I was about 15. The dead-simple Monogram Porsche Carrera circa 1976. First model that I had spray painted and clear coated, came out so good I got another one and built it. Have no idea where they ended up. Found the kit for a very reasonable price at a show, combined it w/parts from a couple Fujimi 911 parts boxes that lay dormant for about 30 years, such as fog lights, wheels, tires, front turn signal lenses, side and interior mirrors. It went from 26 total pieces to 36. Really happy how it turned out. Revised the headlight lenses/buckets since photos after seeing several one day at Caffeine & Octane.

I looked at my built DBS earlier, there's enough space under the hood corners that you can do a reinforced repair w/a bit more thickness underneath than the hood itself which is very thin.

Looks superb, and personally I like the look of the '64 over the '63 with the big swath of trim down the middle of the body, looks much better on the lower body. Never knew this resin existed!

Very nice! I have the same kit, but really would rather build the quad-headlight DS21 that should have been out in November but still MIA...

Easily the nicest builds I've ever seen of the '69 Riviera, great work!

That's amazing, tons of character!

Are lenses clear or is the entire piece plated? If so, get red Sharpie Twin Tip and use the ultra-fine tip in the corners/edges, fine tip to fill out the rest.

You'll get similar results w/a red Sharpie (thin and translucent) or bottled Tamiya acrylic transparent red if you don't already have the glass stain which I don't know will work or not.

I watch enough Youtube videos that I'm not sure that's a typo...

Yep, filler, sanding, rescribing required. Can't be unseen.