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I have two friends that bought the Grex airbrush & compressor systems after seeing the Grex sales representative demonstrate them at a local show, and from knowing how pleased I have been, as well as other friends, with Grex airbrushes. The compressor is amazingly quiet, it's a very high-quality item, as are the airbrushes themselves. If you have the budget, go for it. I have two Grex Tritium TG's (top gravity feed, I have 3 or 4 different cup sizes, including a huge 1.7 oz. cup for big jobs), and absolutely love them. The pistol grip is a natural (I learned on a spray gun before ever using an airbrush), and the spray quality is unbelievable. You can easily adjust airflow (with a separate inline adapter) and paint flow, where the exact same needle and tip can do tight, hair-line detail up to full-blown wet coats on bodies. I also have Grex's new fan-tip spray nozzle that makes spraying bodies even better, it was developed specifically for model car builders. The Grex airbrushes are not cheap and they do require you to keep them clean and the needles lubricated where they pass through the O-ring seal. They require one small wrench (included w/the airbrush and with every new needle/nozzle purchase) to remove the inner nozzle when cleaning, everything else assembles finger-tight. This only adds one small complication of cleaning over my Iwata & Badger brushes, and it's not much, I have several of the wrenches at hand. The Grex .2 and larger needles/nozzles flow so much better than my Iwata and Badger 175's, and the quality of spray is far better than the Badgers. I don't miss the siphon feed cleanup and waste of paint and cleaning materials. If you are serious about your airbrushing, you can't really go wrong w/Grex. You might consider a lower cost setup to start with depending on skill level, with practice nearly any airbrush/compressor can give much better results than any spray cans. Grex is good if you have some experience, you actually plan to use it with frequency, and want high-quality tools that will last for many years.

Thanks for sharing those Len! It was a great fun show, good to see you again.

It's my photo that I took at our show. This particular model shows the kit as it will be available for kids to build at the auto shows. It will reportedly be available for public consumption in March with a pair of side mirrors. There's engraved detail in the headlight bezel area under the headlight covers (where Mustang/Raptor etc. have none). Engraved detail on the interior is more complete than the Mustang/Raptor etc. This kit sort of bridges the gap between Revell's build & play and their regular snap kits. While it's troubling to see their focus on modern cars go away from detailed kits (there is absolutely no guarantee that they'll do a more detailed 2015-up Mustang at this point, for instance. In fact Maisto's diecast is far more detailed, but suffers the typical diecast issues), this may be the only way we'll see the GT in plastic at all. I can have lots of fun w/the kit if it looks right and subject matter is enticing. I'm hoping the windshield fits better than this sample.

Not true. When using img tags as shown above, the copy/paste function in between the tags merely copies the offsite host URL for that particular photo. This forum is not uploading the photo, it's still hosted offsite. The gold Mustang I show is not hosted here whatsoever.

I'm using a PC laptop w/Chrome and occasionally Firefox. I think people are thrown by the "Insert other media" button, rather than just posting the img tags right in the body of the message being typed. Img tags seem to work pretty much universally on forums like this.

Test 2; used the img tags as mentioned above by ChrisBcritter, pasted the photo URL from right-clicking on the photo in my Fotki album in between the tags. Not a big deal. It works.

Test. http://images49.fotki.com/v559/photos/8/10258/13860787/IMG_4163-vi.jpg

I asked and they will include the stock parts as well as the new custom parts.

Mazda has not shown any removable HT nor retractable HT yet. The Global Cup racer has a huge roll cage so it doesn't require a top. People have found RHT anchors under a couple narrow plastic panels between the door and trunk lid where they've hidden them. So far soft-top only, and I believe there is no uptop in the kit. It's a kit of the 1st year ND MX5, obviously as time goes by there will be more color and roof options. Whether that means Tamiya does any updates, or we rely on the aftermarket, is TBD. But as a complete Miata fanatic, I have 2 Tamiya kits on order and a ton of ideas. I've driven a trio of ND's at an event put on by Mazda.

Revell has been working with Italeri for years to get this SWB reissued. Even though Italeri is located practically next door to Ferrari in Maranello, the process of obtaining licensing and doing business in Italy always creates some sort of head-banging roadblocks. The Italeri kit is quite good..only issued once, I already have two of them in my stash. It's good enough that new tooling simply isn't necessary. The aftermarket needs to step up and make it easy to obtain good quality detail parts for the engine, wheels, tires that will improve upon out of box.

I put in my preorder at Hobby Search on August 25th. And that was after waiting to make sure it was the ND Miata and not an earlier version.

Duel!!

Beautiful build! It's one of Monogram's well-kept secrets, many don't know the kit has lived on in plastic. The last one I got was rebranded by Revell Germany, even Aoshima has had this kit in one of their boxes. The option of racing parts is another reason it's a gem. Would love to see this in person, would be great it if you would bring it to the ACME NNL Southern Nationals near Atlanta on Nov. 14th! NNL Southern Nationals November 14, 2015

Tim, the model was built by Jim Shepherd of ACME, and I took the photo yesterday at our club meeting. Jim did a fantastic job on his model, combining it with the Motormax camper from one of their diecast pickup trucks that he found at Wal Mart and refinished it as part of this very unique kitbash.

None of the Silvia kits have ever had full detail, they're all curbside; generally they have had pretty unremarkable 4 cylinder power (a few had 3.0 V6's in the US), they're popular because they're light and RWD. One GTR from the late 80's/early 90's, the Tamiya R32 GTR, has full detail, and that's the one everyone gets to kitbash with earlier and later inline 6 GTR's. Doubt its the same platform as the Silvia/SX's. If you go to Hobby Search, convert to English, you can generally see photos/scans of parts and instructions for most Japanese kits. I have an early 70's fastback GTR kit that has an engine, but it's an afterthought and a bit of a job to open the hood and underhood detail is weak, but it does have a full engine.

Just got mine on Friday, well worth the ~15 month wait.

Just one that I'll build someday...probably as a race car.

Art, It's Aoshima, not Gunze who did the 1/24 MGB bodies. I know the kits pretty well since doing the GT master for you a couple decades ago. I wish Aoshima would reissue them, it's been awhile and the kits are almost as hard to find as the resin bodies. Dave Toups did a great LHD dash conversion that Norm/Replicas & Miniatures cast, not sure if it is still in the catalog or not. These MGB kits need some lowering for the earlier versions; the kits are done w/the tall ride height seen on the rubber-bumper variants.

This model knocked my socks off at the Southwest Challenge when I saw it many years ago, since I love both CRX's and 911's. Seared in my memory...and provided me years of inspiration for similar mashups that I've done. Thanks for sharing

Thanks guys, wasn't quite expecting to see this here, the Mustang was a blast to build and ended up being the perfect slump-buster for me after a couple of far more-involved projects. A 1:1 just like it would be more than welcome in my garage. More photos: http://public.fotki.com/grdeyed/model_cars-1/2015-mustang-mach-i/

Wow, I have to have one of these! Thanks for giving Brad the master, this is going to make a lot of Porschephiles very happy. Now I just need to build the Maserati 450S and the Ferrari 250 TDF that I got from him recently...our ACME group spent quite a bit of $$ at his NNL East table.

You certainly went above and beyond with this incredible model! Beautiful work.

Excellent! Glad to hear it might be available in resin.