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Conspiracy all the way :lol: I figured someone would rat me out...though it was already a landslide when I put in my vote. This is the first time I ever tried the function that shows who voted for what...yep...it works

Photo was from an auction company, instantly I knew this would be a fantastic ROM subject due to the photos that for whatever reason lack the depth of field usually seen on a real car. It also made a good subject because there have been excellent large-scale models of the McLaren. It's not often one finds photos of a real car or model that are so easy to deceive the eyes.

I love those Grand Am's, Can Am's, and mid-70's Monte Carlos and Grand Prix. Also the Laguna S3. If there's a way they can make them with some sort of common tooling so each kit isn't new from the ground up, then that's a good sign we might get some of the better looking cars from the "malaise era".

You need to go through the forum and read how to post photos, this is far more work than anyone is going to bother with to figure out how to view your photos. Read This!

I had no love for Schumi back then, I have even less now. He's even more "Summers Eve" - tastic than ever, apparently.

Shocking, isn't it? My "anything but red" Ferrari stance is really "anything but Rosso Corsa/Rosso Scuderia" Get away from the "I look like I'm molded in red styrene and clearcoated" "resale red" aka Rosso Corsa, Ferrari's iridescent reds transform the cars. You should see Rosso Fuoco in person...it is amazing. It's also about 20K extra. I've seen a stunning Scuderia in Rosso Mugello, a slightly darker/cooler shade of red vs. Rosso Corsa, looking more "serious", without being as dark as Rosso Barchetta, also a killer shade of dark red.

Nice kit, nice work, I've always been bugged by it being 1/25 scale instead of the international industry standard 1/24 for subjects like this. Revell USA did a lot of that nonsense

I also vote for Rosso Fiorano. It's much nicer than Rosso Corsa. Blue NART would be nice too. I saw an F355 this weekend in a blue that I've never seen before, it was a medium irridescent cobalt blue with a slight violet pearl flop in direct light, it was called Azzuro Monaco. I need to get some of that paint for something, it was a beautiful color; subtle but bold, and not the "expected" shade of blue. Blue TDF would be nice too. Beware of chassis fit, especially at the back. Also the fit of the interior around the back, there's some problems with the package shelf hitting the recessed window channel. Hood hinge is also problematic for allowing the hood to fit snugly. Many hoods are warped. Will be nice to see this version; I took the easy way out and just painted the top center black and kept the seats with the stock configuration. Now that you can get online to Ferrari's configurator, you can create the exact scheme you want to see on your (model or car).

McLarens are rare; I've seen a handful, most of them the year I saw them race at Sebring, but I've seen a couple of the street cars as well. The pearl orange one that's been seen in some magazines was at a local dealership a few years ago sitting next to an Enzo. I didn't even look at the Enzo that day. I've seen a small handful of Enzos, and a trio of FXX's at Road Atlanta. This weekend at Caffeine & Octane here the orange Ford GTX1 prototype was on display, the one that's selling for or sold for about a half million $$. I've seen it once before. Killer car...and there was a yellow Lusso w/race livery that must be new in Atlanta; it was previously owned by someone in the Netherlands. But Atlanta can't hold a candle to SoCal for interesting/rare cars per capita. We only get the big Caffeine & Octane show once a month, you have it every single weekend.

What? You live in SoCal. If you don't see them on your daily commute, you're doing it wrong

I think it's pretty awesome when a scratch builder adds their own mold lines and ejector pin marks just to throw people off...

One of my best friends was a major rotorhead; he worked here in Atlanta for Jim Downing, I even got to ride w/him in Jim's '67 Cosmo Sport one time...nobody on the road had a clue how rare it was. My friend owned a bunch of RX3 SP's over the years, and I'm going to eventually do an SP conversion of Fujimi's kit. His last SP was sold and shipped to PR. Seems PR and New Zealand are the two world hubs of vintage rotaries. Anyway, here's the RX7. Was a fun OOB kind of build; guess it's been 10 or 12 years since I built it.

Nice progress; I have one of the Tamiya RX7's w/the rotor wheels in my "built decades ago" stash, never got the 1st version (green one on the box) since it was rather toylike. I like the Monogram kit; the shape may not be quite as dead-on as Tamiya's, but if you do a nice job finishing the model it becomes a non-issue. I realized that after I had someone commission me to build the Monogram kit; I ended up building two of them side-by-side, so I could keep one for myself. I have the RX7 cafe racer as a parts kit and found a mint/unbuilt this past year, had terrible time finding them for a few years. It's a real shame that you can't build the "real" Racing Beat car from it; they did the basic graphics but the body kit is quite different. Guess they weren't going to spring for a new body, so went with separate flares instead. Oh well... I may end up robbing the parts kit for outfitting a Fujimi RX3 w/an opening hood and full engine.

The Revell ones look fine, but I was just thinking aloud about what I'd seen somewhere that it was AMT and not Revell doing the 2010/2011 Corvette promos. Wish I could remember the source. If they're Revell that's a good thing. If they're AMT, I'm afraid the wheels will be at least 1 or likely 2 scale inches too small in diameter. Like their Challenger SRT-8 rolling on 18's

Are there any photos out there of these promos? Seems I remember they're not Revell but AMT? Would that mean seriously undersized wheels/tires?

That's how mine will be built. ACR's with red stripes: Or no stripe, but w/black 2 tone: A yellow one, with or without red stripe, would be cool:

And yesterday while out at lunch I had the pleasure of seeing a gorgeous metallic green '51 Hudson Hornet coupe make a left turn onto the street I was driving, and passed me. Looked like a brand-new car A question about the chassis bracing: I was showing the photos online to another builder last night who is familiar with these cars, I believe he still has one somewhere on his property. While drooling over the photos of all the details, he commented that the quantity of bracing underneath looked to him to be from a convertible. Therefore my conjecture is that this is a good sign that a convertible is planned from this tooling?

Looks fantastic, but I was pretty surprised that Moebius was doing a new & modern truck; I would have pegged Moebius as the perfect company to do one of the coolest trucks of all time...the Pete & tanker from "Duel"

No thanks. But thanks for the kit photos. One can build an ACR in at least 3 different colors using the kit-supplied red stripes.

Every year MPC re-engraved the previous year's model to update it. So the bodies were modified, interiors modified, etc., but for the most part the tooling was shared and updated every year from 1971 through 1976. It's possible there was new tooling in '73 when they started making the Caprice instead of the Impala.

Looks fantastic Can't believe it's taken '55 years to get a kit of the '55

Looks great, thanks for sharing. Don't rush 'em, get 'em right...

Thanks! These kits are pretty easy, no major problems, but they are a bit crude underhood/underneath vs. more modern kits. For shelf models they're fine.

Yes, 1/24. If it ends up 1/25, I'm going to quit the hobby