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Seems like I remember both chassis warp and rear wheel wells hitting part of interior bucket, making it frustratingly awful to finally get the rear of the chassis to finally fit. I was lucky; both kits had straight hoods, everyone else seemed to get a warped hood. Both of mine were early production kits.

It's interesting how the 612 itself has aged fairly gracefully, but when new there was something kind of generic about the design, aside from the odd side cove. I almost forgot about this second one I built, inspired by a late-production OTO version. This color scheme looked pretty sharp to me. This one only got the opened up fascia to each side of the main grille. White w/gloss black roof (standing in for the glass roof), cuoio interior and charcoal Challenge wheels:

Here's mine; it's currently disassembled as I want to reshoot the paint (had many issues when building), and replace the wheels and brakes. Has a Viper hood w/custom vents, custom side vent, opened up front vents on the front fascia, revised C pillar design. There's no way I'm getting these wheels off w/o damaging suspension, have a parts kit awaiting. Built this 12 years ago!!!

The whole point of this quiz has always been to keep quiet on the answers and PM answers to the OP. Giving away the answer or even hints on the thread negates the quiz...but then again, they quit putting the rules up there so I guess this is what happens

Well, there goes the neighborhood...

Ever have a morning where you wake up feeling like you're in another dimension? No, Tamiya isn't doing a Rampside, it's completely outside of their universe subject-matter-wise. If they did, MSRP would not be that much less than this fine resin kit by Best Model Car Parts.

Looks good! I'm slowly working on mine, but had to put it aside for a bit as I work on another project w/a deadline and wait for somewhat warmer weather to paint...

Thanks guys; I wasn't counting hours but I'm pretty sure I spent a good 8-10 hours refining the panel lines and getting it in final primer. I was working on model projects w/friends over the recent holiday weekend so it was relaxing/therapeutic work w/o a deadline. Just wanted it to look as good as possible; the basic master work and parts fit is extremely nice, the platform-style assembly is very precise and allows for easy painting of the various colors. Having a good friend since high school that's been restoring/owning/driving Corvairs since age 16 is one of the reasons I had to have this kit; love Corvairs and Rampsides. Quirky cars/trucks are especially great model subjects!

I've been working on mine; it's very well engineered. Everything designed w/a precise platform-style assembly. I spent considerable hours working on the myriad of panel lines; the shallow ones need to stay shallow as they're seams (they're all there on the resin body, very faint), and the doors and engine cover that had to be scribed much deeper. My chassis is done, so I can see it up on all fours:

R&R had one back in the day.

He sold out the production run (I believe 100, based on production run for photoetch); I built it...fun model, looks great! I built mine w/the original color scheme vs. the restored car which I have seen in person and running on its own power.

Pico's happy as a pig in...his workshop Lookin' good, so I guess the local printer worked out well?

Meanwhile Fotki is having a sale. Why anyone with a single functioning brain cell would even consider the bucket is beyond comprehension, aside from comic relief. Even the 1TB accounts are no more than $67/year, and this has been a stable and reliable host 99.9% of the time. I've been with them almost 17 years. I despised Photobucket before they hit the red button. Slow, laggy, loaded with ads...so many that even the adblocker would melt if you attempted to look at an album. Seriously...what a joke.

True; he sells a lot of pro touring style (and hotrod) wheel sets at NNL East, NNL Nationals, and Detroit NNL, otherwise it's from his own Facebook page. Neat stuff!

I'll buy the Ford GT LeMans for sure, it's a Revell USA kit; we get it first. And I'd forgotten about the Pirelli GTI; perhaps I'll go for that since the base GTI kit is pretty sweet. Perhaps combine it w/my Cabrio that I've always intended to build as a tuner in triple black...the antithesis of the triple-white Barbie mobiles that plagued the world for too long It really depends on how well they do the wheels/tires. Ugh...that reality is not looking good from a historical perspective, is it?

Sad state of affairs, isn't it? There is literally nothing from Revell Germany that I will buy in 2018. Nothing. Easily first time in 10-15 years they literally have nothing coming I want.

Ah...and I just spied one of the bumper sensors in that 1:1 photo, reflections doing a good job hiding it. More detail pictures like the brakes and chassis tree that show just how "enthusiastic" the kit engineers and designers were on this project. And then last week we were treated to this kit description on Revell Germany's own webpage. It was so perfectly on-point that it didn't remain long, but Google has a cache... Alas it was updated to this:

The photo of the real car is likely one w/o parking sensors at all. They're optional...that's how Porsche makes so much profit, the option prices are punishing, and you might be surprised what's not standard on a high $$ car.

No I do not. Hoping it's UV stable; it's clear in the bottle. It hasn't been around long enough to compare with products that have been around for decades. I had some replating done years ago by a guy in Canada (Chrome Plus??) who used way too much clear over the parts, and the clear he used yellowed over time.

I tried it on a spoon test with some Tamiya yellow masking tape. Even though sprayed months ago, it pulled up some of the chrome effect. On a spoon that I clearcoated with Spaz Stix Ultimate Clear (which hardly touched the reflection of the Molotow), no problem.

It's part of the charm of building a series; once complete I'd have the boring base Rabbit, the GTI, the Caddy, and the Cabriolet. Partly because they're all geeky cool, and also because it's one of Revell Germany's best 1/24 efforts. I doubt anyone will be saying that about the Panamera...

My intention with mine is to build just an OOB boring, stock Rabbit with it, to contrast w/the Revell GmbH GTI variant. I already used one Rabbit for my C1 Caddy conversion.

I've shot Molotow through both an Iwata HP-CS Eclipse and a Grex Tritium TG. Equally good results.

It's actually a gem of a kit; a lot of them got sold cheap at Ollie's. Good luck with it! Great mainstreamer model.

I've been testing it since summertime, have a comprehensive article submitted to Scale Auto for (I think) April issue. It's great stuff. Forget everything you learned about Alclad/Spaz Stix chromes...this is far more user-friendly and looks much better. If you demand perfection, continue using professional services that do vacuum plating. In general: 20 psi is good (no thinning required), it covers anything and everything as it's very pigment-dense and sprays just like real paint; you want smooth? Make sure you spray it on a smooth surface. Spray it WET. Let it dry a minimum of 24 hours, 48 is even better, before handling, putting in a dehydrator, whatever. Recently bought the Best Model Car Parts Corvair Rampside that someone here posted, have been working on it now for a couple weeks. It's about ready for paint, here is the chrome I shot this weekend: [/img] [/img] [/img] The spoon above is Molotow w/airbrushed overcoat of Spaz Stix Ultimate Clear. Try that with Alclad or Spaz Stix!