Merkur XR4Ti

The decals were no-name and they were awful to work with. Doubled up all the whites but had lots of issues getting them to lay down well. I posted this model on Facebook's Nascar models site and Jerry Nadeau himself saw it and loved it, so that was a real thrill.

Built this years ago, but used the wrong color for the chassis, so I finally built a chassis in the proper color and adjusted the ride height.

Built from the Revell Challenger R/T kit. I know this kit has its detractors, but I found the build very rewarding and the model looks great on my shelf. Has the proper Colorado plates from the classic movie car.

Color is a very rare GM shade called Agean Aqua. This model won 1st place in the Shelf Models, Factory Stock category at Masscar in 2010.

Pactra Fluorescent Yellow spray.

Paul Menard's Brickyard winning Impala. AMT COT kit. Decals from Patto's.

First build of the Chevy SS kit. Decals off ebay, made by Brandon Miller.

Never seen this one before, it looks great!

Not cleared. I used Tamiya Pure White and their TS-12 Orange on the car.

Yes, the decals came with the proper Underbird graphics for the front bumper: no TH and with the Mighty Mouse.

Bob, what color do you use for cuoio interiors?

This was the color-changing paint scheme. I used Chromealusion Purple/Green flip flop paint for this one.

The legendary Underbird. Powerslide decals, Tamiya TS-12 for the orange paint.

Buckshot Jones' Aquafresh Pontiac. Toyota touchup lacquer for the paint, Sunset Graphics decals. One of the more obscure rides out there to build.

I can't get in with my usual ID so I think a lot of the membership files have been lost. I'll probably create a new one.

It doesn't appear fully back yet; for example I'm unable to log in under my usual username. Not a complaint, I can only imagine how hard this is to deal with.

Ian, for what it's worth I got the decals on ebay. I'm sure they'll ship to NZ as long as you pay for the Uruk-hai insurance.

Just finished this one up this morning. This is the Harrod’s McLaren that finished 3rd at Le Mans in 1995. Built stock from the Fujimi kit with Tabu decals. Paint is Ferrari yellow from Scale Finishes and Tamiya Racing Green (TS-43).

I take it we can expect it's never coming back? Would be a terrible shame if that's the case.

This is the only Earnhardt car I've ever built. Powerslide decals on this one, and boy are they wonderful to work with.

Here's another new build of a model I first built years ago. I used the Slixx decals for this one, but decided not to use all the grey checkerboard graphics that came with it, because I saw some pics of the real car without them and I felt that it looks cleaner without them.

This was another one I built again recently, after having built another example right out of the box years ago. I sourced the correct slab sided Monte Carlo for this model, used MCW paint, and a combination of Slixx decals (for the vast majority of the graphics) and Patto's (for the Velma on the other side, the kit decal was useless for her).

When I first got back into modeling as an adult, I bought and built one of the Revell Remington T-birds right off the shelf and out of the box. At the time I wasn't very happy with the results because my skills weren't very good and the kit decals, particularly the bright flour. red stripes, weren't very good either. So after years and years and years of building, I decided to build this car again, using better skills and a combination of decals from 4 or 5 different sheets. I'm much happier with this result, and I'm really glad to have this car back into my collection. I painted the flour red, much easier than using decals for them.

As promised, here a couple more pictures. I would recommend this kit to anyone, it's one of Tamiya's very best.

Built up from the AMT COT kit. These are surprisingly good kits, lots of little details that pop up while building them. I really enjoyed putting this together. My daughter chose the paint scheme, she thought it was so cool there was a woman driving in the series, so I built this for her. TS-22 Tamiya Light Green for the paint.