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Yes, I know, he told me last night he had an extra license for it that he gave to the club. Purchase price seems pretty reasonable considering it's better features/security vs. the current MCM forum software.

Wow, I'm honored to be mentioned in that 8) BMF is one of my least-favorite details, I love the outcome but I find it tedious to do the job; I learned long ago I couldn't scrimp on the preparation of the areas to be covered, and also that BMF doesn't hide anything-just like paint. I do take the time to get the areas that are to be foiled as smooth as possible, and then I start the tedious task of measuring, trimming, application, burnishing, trimming, or peeling back and starting over, or re-burnishing when the adhesive isn't as good as it should be... :roll: :wink: I love it when a BMF job comes out right, but the road to get there for me is always full of potholes, bad traffic and a bunch of U-turns It's one of those things that I have to be in the right mood to accomplish because the frustration factor is especially high if I don't start out relaxed and often I end up anything but relaxed after a session w/the foil.

I wanted to do this conversion but didn't see how to do it easily (I went off in left field on mine), and here you come along and nail it! Nice work. Color looks good on it. I like the Chrysler wheel style better but the Magnum's 5 spokes fit the openings better.

Our club has a free forum software that works well and has been relatively trouble-free from an administration standpoint. I think it's VBulletin software. I like forums with an "ignore list" feature so that posts by habitually annoying or incoherent forum members :roll: :wink: become invisible once you've placed them on your ignore list. I'd be overjoyed if that feature was available on every forum

Welcome Doug! Where in Litchfied County are you? I was born in Winsted. Visited there this past fall. Still haven't been to Lime Rock :cry:

I haven't figured out yet how to combine this kit w/Fujimi's. Not sure if it's best to splice in Fujimi roof/deck/taillight panel, or use the entire Fujimi body and open the hood. Measurements must be taken, yada yada...and I've got no time to work on it for awhile w/other projects ahead of it :roll: :wink:

I did a quick test-fit of the body/rear bumper, interior, chassis, and the working roof. The roof works perfectly and fits well open or closed 8) 2 of the 3 examples I've seen (one of mine, and Eric Cole's Revell Germany) roof frames were warped. Can't speak for his, but I carefully twisted/bent the frame into shape, took only a few seconds. The roof glass (if it's not warped) should also help to keep the frame straight and true when it's glued in place. For ultimate accuracy, the entire frame and visible rotating mechanism is made of carbon fiber; it's a beautifully-rendered part on the 1:1 car. The tolerance stack of body/interior/chassis seems to be good, the only thing I've seen so far quality-wise are a number of sink marks that will need to be filled. Interior engraving of the door panels and seats is far superior to Fujimi's Maranellos.

For the three people that care, listen up! Revell Germany issued their full-detail Ferrari Superamerica last year (basically a 575 Maranello w/a rotating glass convertible roof that made it a hardtop convertible); in their hideous end-panel access only flat box and molded in a strange combo of red and gray. Most of the body in red, but some parts like the hood were on the gray tree. Retail on 'em is $22.00. A very good kit effort ignoring the box and the plastic colors. Revell USA's reboxed version of the same kit is out now, retail is about $16 and it's available from the usual discount online sources. Ignore the awful boxart model photo (I've given up hope of mainstream boxart from the US ever being able to properly sell a kit), the kit builds pretty well from what I've seen on another forum or two. What's important here is the Revell USA version is molded in white. Hallelujah! If you are careful in your assembly (make sure the frame isn't warped before you start-a common problem fixed by careful bending), the rotating roof works on the kit like the real car. The wheel design is a bit weird, the design is rendered well once you tone down the chrome but Revell sandwiches the brake discs between inner and outer wheel halves which is...strange. It's molded in Poland, so I imagine there's a chance the plastic formula is better than what's being spit out of recycled take-out containers in China. For those Tifosi who waited on this model it's a true bargain being molded in white and packaged inside a box that won't make you lose half your parts when you try to re-insert them in the box. IMHO it's a far better product in US packaging and I'm tickled pink to have bought a pair of them for less than what an original cost. I got a second kit for combining w/a Fujimi 575 curbside Maranello, though I suspect Revell will probably do a regular 575 w/this tooling at some point though I'd rather see them revise the tool the earlier 550 Barchetta.

Nice start! The weathering is superb 8)

I lost a post yesterday too; but I don't know if it was my fault or the board's. I thought I had posted a reply, but it didn't show up later. I posted on it today and it's still there.

This is a second reply, oddly the first one disappeared??? :?: :?: Or maybe I forgot to hit submit :oops: Someone else mentioned missing posts, so who knows? Nice bike, the hotrod look suits it well 8)

That is a beautiful model! Nice choice of color.

WOW! That's killer! Old Ralph would...ralph!! Seriously, that came out great! Will it be posed doing a wheelstand at the show? Interesting trivia; I also am from Winsted, CT. It's a beautiful little town. Great Italian food, and the curvy country roads in those foothills are perfect for sports cars and Corvairs alike My Dad was a GP (Doc) there for years; he and my Mom set up household in Winsted after they graduated from college and got married. A year or two ago I found a series of letters back and forth between he and Ralph Nader, who was a local attorney at the time. Classic doctor vs. lawyer stuff, and my Dad pulled no punches!! He didn't take any of the nonsense; had to do w/a case of personal injury and Ralph's client was my Dad's patient. The letters were from August, 1960, the month before I was born :shock: Wonder what those letters would go for on Fee Bay??!!

Happy B'day MCM forum! Sure is a fun place to hang out. It's come a long way in just a year!

Welly made a VW Bora diecast in 1/24 scale, which is what the Jetta is called in other countries. It's not an easy model to find in the US. They also made a Golf Variant, which is basically what the Jetta wagon was, but w/the slightly different Golf fascia/hood than the Jetta/Bora. I did a quick Google image search and found quite a few of the 1/24 Boras on Ebay in Germany. No plastic has ever been made, though someone may have made a resin conversion of Tamiya's 5 door Golf V5 hatch which is OOP and still a hot commodity from the tuner builders all over the globe.

Funny, another friend (a talented graphic artist) and I were discussing these very decals the other day. That bird that Keith did looks like it was hand-drawn; it's not particularly good artwork, it's sufficient if you like a 5-footer. I've also seen some of his Z28 decals that were awful (a very well-regarded builder sent pics of a silver Monogram '79 Z28 he just built for a magazine article); jagged/pixelated edges, flaking pigment, the orange stripe was rendered as a series of stripes because ALPS decals don't blend "non-pure" colors very well. For the record, I have four sets of Keith's decals for other cars, and they're all very nice; crisp and the colors are pure, and I'm a happy customer too. Unfortunately they're not all to the same level of quality. I don't know if Keith's T/A name emblems are the right size/scale for a '70. I've already taken care of Eric in the form of some blue T/A decals he can use w/o needing to go to Keith. His model is stunning in person. It practically glows. It's gorgeous; pictures don't do it justice.

I got an aftermarket resin rider figure for my 'Busa; helmet/leathers/etc. Tamiya has made some kits w/riders, one was a Yamaha Virago that would probably have a rider figure most suitable for a chopper. Perhaps it's time Jimmy Flintstone did some PG-13 stuff for a change and make a chopper rider. Who knows, maybe one of the vendors on Satuday will have one of these Viragos cheap and there ya go... Here are pics I snagged from the 'net: http://i10.tinypic.com/4ddk21i.jpg http://users.teledisnet.be/web/fbo02001/images/virago.jpg

Lookin' killer! The wheelstander is a Hyabusa w/rider doing a stoppie, working headlight/taillight, compressed fork, yada yada. It wouldn't have been done in time regardless but it's a fun project that will get done

Looking awesome 8) Things are conspiring against me being able to go to the show :roll: :cry: I know y'all will have fun, and I hope to see lots of pics by sometime later in the weekend on the 'net to show off all the cool stuff that showed up.

This project will have to be a labor of love. I also have the decals, and a couple restorable Vegas that I want to make one into a Cosworth. Nobody makes the wheels; all the ones shown are good starts, but require a lot of fiddling/work/whatever to make into anything approaching "replica". I'd almost rather just throw vintage Panasports on it and pretend the owner of the 1:1 did so as well :wink: As for the engine, the R&D one isn't correct for the Vega; in fact I think it's a Ford engine. I can't say for sure. The Cosworth Vega is a 2.3 litre engine. Electronic fuel injection, stainless steel headers, production cast aluminum wheels, 16 valves in hemispherical combustion chambers, dual overhead belt driven camshafts, and pistons sliding directly on die-cast aluminum cylinder bores were all used and pioneered by the Cosworth Vega long before they became common on later cars. The intake/fuel injection on a Cosworth Vega is very unique looking, I see none of that detail in the photo on R&D's site, that mill looks like it has sidedraft carburetors instead of FI. You'll have to see pics of an actual Cosworth Vega engine to see what I mean. Visit the following website if you haven't already: http://www.cosworthvega.com/

"By the Donzer Lee Light" Gawd, I still remember that from grade school about 8 million years ago Here's "Daddy's Girl" *cough cough* : Little Miss "Dieter" aka Enzogate Stefan isn't quite the hot little fantasy teenage chicky in trouble :wink: Though that might change once incarcerated :shock:

Lovely color; it was tough for me to choose between a metallic red like this or the silver I chose when I built mine (using stock Magnum rims and gluing the doors in place). Silver won out as I see a silver SRT numerous times around town and it never fails to catch my eye 8) Should look great when finished. It should sit okay (lower than stock but not as low as these pics) w/o having to move the kit's stock axle location. I used the kit's big brakes (seems they borrowed the basic brake/axle design from Jada), ground down the calipers so they wouldn't contact my wheels, and then used the Magnum wheels w/some resin brake discs/calipers outboard of the kit brakes attached to the chassis. Gave it a nice slightly nose-down attitude that fits the aggressive look of the Charger.

Yeah I did, but it was a crumby day and I was a wreck afterwards

Shhhhh. :wink: I should have said "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him read"! Part of the problem of people asking the questions is because of the policy against pictures. Combine that with lazy readers and I'm left :roll: :evil: :x I've thought many a time about simply posting photos of a new build on forums where that is common (this is not one of them), and just answering questions if/when they get asked.

Nice 8) I love models of weird/obscure/rare cars and racers like this. Vintage racers especially