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Hi, AFX, I already new about his decal sheet, but did forget the producer name, I did try to find it these last days, but in vane... I thought it was Shunko... but I did find a new alternative, a new brand that also make this white striped decals but specialy it was expected to make THESE ONES, the Martini, but unfortunately I already contacted them and Andrea, one of two the partners, explained me that this decal sheet was drawm based on a Heller 1/43 Martini Beta decal sheet they did multiply by 24, but the result was not good enough for some buyers, so they decided to stop making it for now... they are now working in a 1/24 LC1 Lancia full kit that will lid to make a new LC2, and may be they make new correct Beta decals again at the same time... this one was a transkit and did also have these two small extra panels that in Le Mans did close about 50% of the engine aperture, on bot sides of the exausts... they are 3D experts and already have lots of interesting 1/24 stuff! I started my "short tail" again and, regarding the tires, I found a Revell 934 Porsche set in the junk box, I replaced all the kit wheels with Scale Production great and correct ones, as these Revells do have the correct dimensions for the Beta car... I only have to add an extra rim to enlarge the rear wheels; the engine, as the instructions images are a little vague... that drive chains box!... judging by the MFH 1/12 Beta engine, the should chains face the right side of the car, as the pulleys are in this side of the engine, so all the details this part has will desapear when it is glued to the engine block... is the right side of the drive chains covered? I could not find, not one, image of this part in the real cars photographers for some obscure reason are always on the left side! and I decided to draw some hinges to allow the engine cover to open, it would be GREAT to make it in photoetch, so I will try to make it in beer can tin,,, PS: Well, this "tunned" red street Lancia Beta you show manages to be very good to the eye...

Great work you are doing, as usual, AFX! I follow your AC COBRAs building articles here, and I am amazed to see you are dealing with this Lancia Beta Monte Carlo model! I have to agree with Gramps46: it is amazing how a really ugly car became such a wonderful racing car! Now, returning to this kit, as you are American, you might not be very familiar with ESCI kits AND IT'S DECALS... most of times, when you put it the water, in a few seconds they use to "spread in little parts" like a plague... I bought one of my Betas completely painted in white, but almost half of two MARTINI Le Mans decal sheets where wondering inside the kit box, lots of these tiny little decal parts all around! I found a new decal sheet in Patto's Place, but I am not very pleased with it, the contours of the images are a little vague, so I did not try to decal the car yet... and you may not know that an Italian modeller, gionc 01 made a great photoetch set for this kit some years ago, but although some modellers asked him to make some new copies, he was/is not in the mood to do it... what a pitty... I have been expecting to see if MFH's 1/24 photoetch set shows around... I did not notice that rear wheels size "trick"... I do have some spare front wheels to correct it, but what is the Scale Production reference of the tyres you will use in your car? Thank you very much!

Hi Dale, I am a LUCKY owner of both versions of these kits, and can confirm they are really difficult to find... specially the short tail version! Being just a "tale" I heard from two sources now, in some particular time, the moulds of this Lancia Beta Monte Carlo (that travelled to Revell and Heller) and other moulds(?) have been lost for ever (sunk in the sea) in an accident the carrier had, don't remember if it was a pane or a boat... I have two long tales from ESCI, one long tale from HELLER/HUMBROL (made in France - kit nº80741), being that the short tailed one, that I "tracked" may be for two years, show both brands, ESCI and REVELL, and was made in Italy, kit nº H-2371; If this story is true, we can not expect to see another one "made" by Italeri... it will be better if you start "digging" in the net...

Hi, how can I mount a 1/24 Hightech Ferrari 250 SWB photoetch grille!

Hi all, if you like Mercedes reliability, take a peep in this video, and just watch how STRONG the BOSS Mercedes is... it starts at minute 0.49...

Hi, "peteski", I also have five of this kits, for several projects, one orange street version (ODB), one Dakkar BOSS blue car, one for the Bandama Rally (ODB), one already chopped to mix with a Monogram 350 "Pagoda" hardtop to make the closed short wheel base 350, and another one to build the Hans Heyer MAMPE Lufthansa #78 car; all of them however need some corrections or extra parts: except the "SLB" car, all the others have a wrong rendition of that small rear side window with some sort of "flip blinds" (?) is this the correct name? that are not deep enough to be covered with a window... well, about the kit wheels, I was also deeply convinced that they where undersized, so I was very happy to find a brand, USCP from Ukraine that are making gorgeous 1/24 wheels, like these 450 SLCs 14" Barocks but, while trying to find proper rally tires, I had to measure both wheels, USCP and ESCIs and... the USCP 14" in 1/24 scale have 14,8mm, while ESCIs have 15,28 mm... HOW ABOUT THAT! whell, if I accept the kit tires, that do not look that much as rally/mud tires (and show Pirelli Cinturato P3 and also a 205/70 SR 14 size logos...)... don't forget sometimes cars use different wheel/tires in the various parts of rallies... in the Jean Todt photo the car has kit's wheels... on the others they use 15" BBSs ( RENAISSANCE 24BBS15) with All- Terrain big tires (Fireball ModelWorks FMR-027-25 rubber BFG All-Terrain TA 1/25 tires set) will be very good; you will need to widen a bit the tires to fit the BBSs... PS: Somebody said there is somebody thinking about 3D printing these rear window blinds, I really hope he will do it, it is very important to a model in this scale! I hope I helped you in some way...

Hi, afx I have three projects with this car as a base, a street version to be painted metalic orange (the only one I keep in my memory), the Bandama car, and the DAKKAR BOSS blue car, all waiting for proper/ CORRECT size wheels and tires...alhough things are changing, now, as we can get from USCP correct size wheels for the two first projects and proper BBSs and the peculiar optional rear sand tires from RENAISSANCE (now finely available) I only saw in this particular car BUT, is it possible no one ever noticed these also peculiar rear side little windows (what are these 45 degrees aluminum blades intended for?), BEHIND A GLASS, impossible to correct as there is not enough depth for it, wrong in the original ESCI kit, but kept in the ITALARI remake kit? (what a long question!....) these little damned things seem to be very difficult to reproduce at least for me, and are present in all cars except in the left side of the BOSS car, where it was removed to allow refueling the beast... Is there any magic modeller "with the guts" to make these missing parts???

Sighs, sighs, sighs... Thank you very much, James...

Hi! I am 100% sure there was a Sport Turismo 1/24 resin body annouced, one or two months before the Revell arrived in the shops... photos showed a matt chocolate brown (primary painted?) ST (5 doors) resin body, but now, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IT! I AM POSITIVE! it was not a dream! Is there anyone who did also see it, like I did? very good images, like USCP use to show their resin wheels... always the same back color behind the body...

Well, I did not expect less than what you show us at last! what a great work-of-art!... why don't you try some photosof the car on some P100 grain metal sanding paper ( may be a little lightened), it would look just like the real car... or over some green flocking paper, like the Peeble Beach green lawn... Thank you very much for your new build

Hi, Pico! great look, although light reflections are a little tricky... seats do have the correct shape, don't they? and windows, plain clear sheet or vacuform? I can't wait until it has the wheels!

Pico, you are making us all feel real thrills when seeing your magnificent Pegaso Thrill going to the Great Apotheosis... don't stop until we can see and Enjoy it at last with you, please! Please...

Hi JC, well, I did already improve my chosen wheels, so I moved to another big issue, the hood, as this particular car is seen always without one... I suppose it would be sold as a roadster, as it does not have a rear windshield... so, I chopped an old ESCI 934 to get a roof for my Viper; it seemed a to be a "piece of cake"... cut it by the middle and added a 4mm plastic ribbon to increase the width and when I finally test fit it... the Viper just looked as the most beautiful of "all ever designed" trucks, the Spanish Z-206 Pegaso!... after checking the Viper blueprints I found that the AMT kit windshield is too high, or it might also be possible that these two racing Vipers had shorter windshields... a new rooftop was chopped from a Tamyia Moby Dick bought in a scrapyard sale and, after filing the windshield until reaching (above) the little protuberance where the rear mirror is attached, this time I think I finally made it! a little front spoiler was also added; the hole in the back is the second filler cap this car did have. Now I have to make a rear spoiler and the rear winshield (I found one photo where it clearly appears rear photos of this car are hard to find, and the rear spoiler is too big...)... there it is, that little white sticker... some more to come...

Beautiful 'Vette, Rob!I have one like yours to build, but this (these C5-Rs) model major drawback is the Very Poor wheels!... I had already lost some time with one wheel, but did put it apart; now, because of you I already spent 4 hours just to open the smaller holes inside each Y (10 each wheel...) of the two front wheels, and still have to find a way to clean these millions of microscopic grains of unwanted plastic in the insides... I have to find a tinny metallic bristles brush... for the other two 'Vettes I also have, that used the same BBSs, I think I will by two Scale Production 18" BBS GT (SPRF24030) wheels sets...I lost some 1/4 litre of my precious blood while using that new X-acto nº11 (?) extra long blade in this operation!... But these Corvette BBS wheels are different from the Viper's... there is that "multi nuts" ring missing... And I noticed I still have to correct my Viper rear wheels, as the center part of these wheels will have to be pulled out as like the front ones... will have to undo what I did with the rear chromed metal outer rings and "machine" the resin part of the wheels, as I already explained above for the front wheel centers... Thank you very much!

Thank you very much but, the only ones in all that list, that I thought would fit, are the Hobby Designs 16" (I suppose the ones I bought are 16" but lost the bag...), the ones in this site are 18", but, if the size of the ones I bought is ok, they are unfortunately all VERY DEEP and, besides, it is impossible to correct it as the multi nut rings are molded in the outer rim, and, being SO tinny, it would be impossible to remove these rings to bring it 2,5 mm out without destroying it all... I am absolutely sure the only way is the method I described before... the way I am doing it, is fixing one of these flanges with expanding rubber where we fix a sanding tube, where I did put a 1/32 slot car tire reaching the interior diameter of the BBS wheel, and securing it so I could "machine" it in my "motor tool" in order to separate the central part of the wheel from the rim; next, glued it to the inner tube, that was then inserted inside the wheel rim; The chromed outer rims where also modified: the front ones went to the rear wheels, and the wider ones (intended for the Dauer Rear wheels) where then cut to become a little slicker (about 1mm) than these that went to the rear wheels; This is the way how I managed to get what I thing the Le Mans 1994 RT-10 Vipers BBS wheels look like, as you can see in the images; now what I need is a Zero-paints ZP-1009 Fluorescent Orange and a scratch rear spoiler; and yes, a racing seat also; And then: building this fantastic beast that, in it's maiden race, achieved "the" 12th place!...

Yes, I usually buy in Scale Prod, but none fits this particular car... first, it would have to be 1/24 16", that would become 17" in 1/25; this Viper is in 1/25th scale... no one of his BBS in 16" have the surrounding multi nuts ring, that is clearly apparent in this car's wheels!... I will post some photos as soon as I have the wheels made... and have to be assured by him he will restock the 16"/19" BBSs , as I need the front 16" slicks from this set; I have one set already, but I am waiting for an ARII BMW 3.5 CSL, that will become Frank Stella's Le Mans Art Car, the only of the four 3.5 CSL built that used Bi Turbos, but was so powerful that needed much bigger/wider rear wheels to put all that power on the ground; wheels did hold it, but not the trans-axles... even a new and stronger one in the following year, barely did the job... 19"s will be great in the model, and this one will be static, no trans axle problems at all! Thank you very much for keeping this thread on!

Thank you very much, Andy, but I have to disagree totally with you... first of all the Viper is a 1/25 model, while the GT1 Evo is at 1/24... second, the Viper wheels centers are "outlined" by a multi nut rim, unlike the Porsche's... I posted this query yesterday, in total despair, since I found once in some modellers forum that the answer would be the Le Mans Miniatures Dauer Porsche, and, when I opened the box and tested it in my Viper, the world just collapsed... these wheels, with it's tires, are monstruous in this car! that is why I ranned to internet to find some help... BUT, today, looking again to these wheels, I decided to try to figure a way to save it, so I began to test some tires from different cars and makes, and fond that the FRONT Dauer wheels, and TIRES, are exactly the proper size to fit the rear Viper wheels; so the next thing was to solve the front wheels problem, which is the REAL challenge... First, tires had to have a smaller diameter; after extensive search I found that the Scale Production 16"/19" BBS front tires will be PERFECT, I have only to order it, but I found they are now out of stock... Now the final and Main problem: modifying the Dauer front wheels to become Viper wheels... the latter are quite different, the center part is considerably less deeper, and protrude the outer rim, so I will have to separate/cut the center part from the rim, glue it in a tube which outer diameter is exactely the inner diameter of the wheel rim, so I can pull it out about 1,5mm; in the end, I will have to trim the rear chromed metal rims to make it the same width of the front ones, and I WILL AT LAST BE ABLE TO FINISH MY 1994 "L' Orange" RT/10 Dodge Viper! I hope this is of help for you all...

Did somebody build the Dodge Viper RT/10 "Rent-A-Car" Le Mans 1994 (1/25 AMT base)? I can I find the correct BBS wheels for this particular car?

Yes, I already contacted them and they told me that all MGs As and Bs are long out of production...

Thank you very much for your answer; but I learned for extensive search that they are all three looong out of production... couldn't find one everywhere/anywhere... I think the only option is scratch building one, did somebody try to do it?

Hi, is it possible to ignore one of the most beautiful sports cars of the fifties, the MGA, Roadster or Fixed Head? Why such a model kit never appeared? Did anyone make one MGA model from scratch?

Hi, is it possible to ignore one of the most beautiful sports cars of the fifties, the MGA? Why such a model kit never appeared? Did anyone make one MGA model from scratch?

I told you it would be a great Waldorf Nomad model, did'nt I !!!

Streetmachine 11, now we have a little problem here, we are seeing two different buildings: yours, based on a '56 Nomad, and Superbird McMonte's, witch I might say is based on the '55 Nomad... I too would like to build the four '54 Motorama Corvette "jewels" so, after some research I did buy a '55 Nomad kit, along with a '53 Corvette BUT, what I think would be great, it would be to get some blueprints of this particular Nomad, to get the correct wheelbase in order to see exactly where to make all the "surgical" cuttings... You lengthened the '56 chassis how many mms? Is the '55 kit chassis the same size of the '56's? are they the same size in 1/1, or are they different? And, of course, you will get a great model in the end!

Well, for now I do have to agree with you, I do have a Lindberg GT6 ( that was waiting for the finding of the wheels they used in Le Mans, a most probable impossibility, as I never saw it in some other car... so I did not pay great attention to the kit...) it's quality is really is very, very bad! so I already cut the top off, and it may go in the Corvette with, I believe, a BIG AMOUNT of work... let us see what I can achieve with it... thank you very much for your tip