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Sorry, it's still not finished. I still have 2 or 3 parts to design for machining, then I can get back on the body. It's not that far from being ready, but the whole project keeps getting pushed further and further behind (we're already nearly a decade behind), and w/the sliding due date I don't get enough "shove" to get it back on the front burner, and w/my modelers ADD I'm always off in another direction. I work better with strict deadlines 8)

What, no martinis? :wink: Fun tack is available everywhere; it's for holding up posters on a wall w/o tacks. Michael's, Hobby Lobby, Ace Hardware, Wally World...it's everywhere.

I'm glad I can get the Revell AG kit for about what the Revell US kit will retail for I'll get another one next year in white plastic :wink: I actually think I'm going to pass on the Fujimi version, unless they do one w/the Challenge rims.

This was a bendy straw, I just cut it into several pieces. I hear McDonald's straws fit really tight w/o the need for fun tack. But since I don't eat there, I guess I'll stick w/the grocery store bendy straws.

Hi Chuck! These are pics I can use! Seems to be a staggering amount options as to how the interior can be equipped and detailed. I'll finally grok a Revell kit this Saturday. Saw the 1:1 599 at the auto show a couple weeks ago. I must say it was far better in person than in pics. Even in red, even w/pentagram wheels. My model will be customized not unlike my 612 Scaglietti. I certainly hope I figure out how to paint before then, considering the myriad of paint issues I had w/my Scag :roll: I've seen some other 599 GTB seats, some custom-ordered ones w/Daytona inserts, that looked really sharp 8) Speaking of Ferrari models, if I ever get an F430 GT I'd like to build one in blue like the one at Sebring, even if it wasn't the car involved in one of the finest laps of racing ever seen in this country.

Nice work. I can attest to the amount of time it takes to get 'em to look this good. I have to do a similar setup on my AMT Astro 1 (Corvair) showcar, now that I'm armed w/ pics of the 1:1 from Amelia I'm ready to do a double-dawg-dare build of my original kit. The kit only has lap belts, but the real car has a full harness. While time-consuming, I really love making these racing harnesses in models-I'd do this all day long before doing another BMF job!

The really fun way to do it, from my perspective at least, would be to recreate your demo and document it with photos, as I have done with my boring method :wink:

After reading about disasters associated w/decanting (poking holes into a pressurized cans :shock: ), and also reading about some convoluted and expensive (and unnecessary) ways to solve the problem, I discovered this solution. Recently someone somewhere turned me onto the simplest solution I've heard of yet to decant spray paint. It costs nearly nothing, it does not make a mess, and no tools beyond a pair of scissors or your X Acto knife are needed. No need to go the hardware store or clean up a disaster. Captions below photos. Ingredients: Spray Can Length of drinking straw Small piece of Fun Tack (poster tack) Suitable container Make an O-ring from the fun tack and surround the nozzle with it. Attach the straw to the fun-tack O-ring, adjust as necessary to make a good seal. Simply spray the paint into a container. The paint mostly runs into the container, splashing/mess is almost non-existant. Remove straw & fun tack, wipe nozzle clean, and the spray can is able to be used again. No need to poke holes into a spray can! Fun tack removed, nozzle wiped clean w/a paper towel. Fast, clean, easy; spray can is still usable. Decanted paint is ready to run through an airbrush. Let decanted paint sit open before covering the container, unless you immediately spray it through an airbrush. The propellant from the decanted paint is still there, if you cover the container it will pressurize and make a mess when you open it later. I have had zero problems w/immediately spraying the decanted paint through my airbrush, the propellant atomizes completely before hitting the model's surface. This is one of my all-time favorite KISS methods.

Okay, now that we've all laughed this off, I have some helpful input :wink: Why model builders come up with such crazy ideas like poking holes into pressurized spray cans is beyond me. I think a lot of modelers are hard-wired to do things the hardest way possible Bob's example is a very funny look into what will happen when things go horribly wrong. Which is something that is bound to happen when one does something so dangerous. Recently someone turned me onto the simplest solution I've heard of yet to decant spray paint. It costs nearly nothing, it does not make a mess, and no tools beyond a pair of scissors or your X Acto knife are needed. No need to go the hardware store or clean up a disaster. Captions below photos. Ingredients: Spray Can Length of drinking straw Small piece of Fun Tack (poster tack) Suitable container Make an O-ring from the fun tack and surround the nozzle with it. Attach the straw to the fun-tack O-ring, adjust as necessary to make a good seal. Simply spray the paint into a container. The paint mostly runs into the container, splashing/mess is almost non-existant. Remove straw & fun tack, wipe nozzle clean, and the spray can is able to be used again. No need to poke holes into a spray can! Fun tack removed, nozzle wiped clean w/a paper towel. Fast, clean, easy; spray can is still usable. Decanted paint is ready to run through an airbrush. Let decanted paint sit open before covering the container, unless you immediately spray it through an airbrush. The propellant from the decanted paint is still there, if you cover the container it will pressurize and make a mess when you open it later. I have had zero problems w/immediately spraying the decanted paint through my airbrush, the propellant atomizes completely before hitting the model's surface. This is one of my all-time favorite KISS methods.

Beautiful 8) I'm so glad to see MK kits evolve from amateur to amazing boxart. I almost cry when I see Revell boxart these days :roll:

Looks like a great fun project 8) I'd like to do the same w/a singlecab. Old VW's have always been cool; even when they were new.

That turned out very nice, it looks like a real car in that first photograph 8)

If I had to choose one I'd say yellow. But then again, I think of any shade other than red when I think Ferrari. F40's would look great in subtle silvers, grays, white, blue... I have a Tamiya F40 that's going to be a nice and friendly shade of jet black :twisted:

It did turn out nice 8) I am tempted to get another STS-V and see if I can keep the Lambo doors, but do the same work to the doors I did on the glued-shut version; the doors need a bit of styrene strip to make the openings smaller. I just wonder if the doors could close completely w/o being out of kilter. Also one could potentially make the doors work normally, with a different hinge arrangement. The sky's the limit. Kits like this are simple enough in overall construction to be fun to build and modify w/o them becoming so overbearing that they end up half-finished inside the box never to see the light of day again.

I would think Revell would be interested in doing more than one variation; if so I'd love to see them do the Superamerica's predecessor, the 550 Barchetta 8) I'm not sure if Revell AG is as worried about making several variations from one kit as Revell USA is.

The Rennsport Reunion is the weekend before our ACME NNL; a group of us are going down there even though it's the weekend before our show & we have a club meeting on Sunday-guess we'll figure out how to not compromise our show by planning ahead. There are rumblings from above about a model contest; more information when we find out about it. If so we'll be bringing our club displays of the Porsche IROC racers (first race @ Riverside that we showed last November, final race @ Daytona which is partially completed). If so you must bring this model to the festivities 8) Our club president is a huge road racing/Porsche fan, and we couldn't convince him to go to Amelia this year (it's hard for a school teacher to take time off and travel). So he was shmoozing in Cookeville while we were soaking up the sun in Florida 8)

Matt, the Porsche was at last Sunday's Amelia Island (just north of Jacksonville FL) concours d'elegance. This years theme was a celebration of road racing events, including a great turnout of La Carrera Panamerica racers, LeMans racers, etc. Incredible show, as usual. I'll bet it shows up again in November (first weekend) at the Rennsport Reunion in Daytona. You can see all my pics from the auction lawn and show here: http://public.fotki.com/grdeyed/car_shows/...a-island-conco/ Another site that has a ton of great pics from the show: http://www.scaleautosport.com/tx/ai2007/index.html

Has it thrown the fan belt or blown off any plug wires yet? Nice work. I'm a longtime fan of Corvairs. Would be fun to see it beside the candy jade green custom Corvair named "Shamrock" that Dave Shuklis built back when they were new. I did the exterior restoration (fresh paint, period chrome, overall freshening) and Pat Covert did the rest on Dave's Shamrock. This green Corsa gave me fond memories of working on that model 8), and I think seeing such a fine stock example next to Dave's would be pretty cool.

I just found the one on Feebay; it looks just like my MPC kit. I bought mine from the 'bay a few years back on the advice of respected builder who recommended the MPC kit as a very good rendition of a Bora, and they don't sell for all that much $$ so they're a relative bargain.

Perhaps the one on Ebay is in the wrong box? The MPC kit is not motorized, mine is molded in red w/black interior and chassis. It may have been motorized in it's original Japanese issue; but for MPC there's a simple flat chassis w/no battery box. There's a slot above the right rear axle locator that would be a logical place for a gear, but otherwise they've hid any indication of an electric motor. The steering mechanism has front and rear tierods for strength. It's in proper 1/24 scale; 1/28 would be a very small model. The body engraving is nice and crisp on the MPC kit, the interior compartment doesn't look compromised either, though the area over the engine is has fairly simple engraving. The wheel centers are a prone to a central/rounded sink mark, not a crisp convex cone w/central point like the 1:1 has. I'm going to use Maisto Maserati Trofeo wheels which look great on it w/their 5 spoke "trident logo" design. Otherwise it'll be built in a stock color scheme w/ BMF or metalizer stainless roof.

I have an MPC Bora; I don't know it's exact origin, but it's a decent enough kit in the correct 1/24 scale. IIRC Revell's Bora is also a decent kit, perhaps it's full detail.

8) 8) 8) A day at the bench building models, watching Sebring, and perhaps even stay awake long enough to see Bernie's big parade that starts at 11:00 pm

When I saw this out on the lawn last Sunday, I thought to myself "where have I seen this car recently?" Nice work 8)

Looks great so far, I'm a big fan of vintage VW's like this. 8)

When I grow up I'd be happy to be 1/4 as good as Juha. He's the man. His models are nothing but amazing, from subject matter to execution. His reference library must be just as impressive. He's able to make magic in 1/25 scale that other masters rarely achieve in much larger scales.