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Nice!

Thanks guys, means a lot. I've got back into modeling after I broke my heel bone last Feb. Its because of this site and its members that I'm improving my builds and found a new passion. Thanks for the inspiration and here's to many more builds in the coming year!

Great stuff!

Great color.

Wow, this blows me away. Incredible.

Awesome to see this done, and that first pic is epic!

Thanks Ray and Hector! Glad you noticed Steven. That little touch is one of my favorite mods to this model. Simple things for simple people and all that...The wipers that came in the kit were very wonky, and pretty much unusable. I liked the idea of a pair of stanchion studs to replace them, so I raided my parts stash for any chrome do-dads I had. I ended up butchering a pair of rear view mirrors from a forgotten kit.

Great Idea.

Awesome stuff!

Gonna be sweet. Looking forward to this build.

Whoh! I was drooling over the 'Merc, scolled down a few and there were these super slick Chevys hiding there. Any more pics of the the delivery and fleetline?

Man, that paint is sooo smooth. Great pair of builds.

I love that DTM C class and the 6 series with the cage. Great stuff.

The into the sun pic is way cool.

Thanks for the kind words! Bob, the taillights are stock, they came in the kit.

Nice comeback to the sport. My first model when I got back into this was nowhere near as nice. The boy-racer in me loves a car with a cage.

Nice save you got going there. This is a neat model

Pretty neat trick sliding the roof forward. Looks worlds better.

Thanks guys! Jim, I don't know what paint scheme "The Cabaret" would use, but rides based on local establishments would be too funny! Tom, thats it, my next purple car has to be called , "Fuzzy Grape"! Lee, first I did all the shaving/molding with Squadron White Putty, then sanded the whole body from 4000 up to 12000. I used Testor's lacquer grey sandable spray primer. I then started sanding from 3200 back up to 12000. I know people say that primer should have some tooth, but I'm a Donn Yost believer in getting the body as smooth as possible. Next up was a Testor's lacquer Diamond Dust spray bomb. Just a few light mist coats, enough to cover the primer. Following the 'Dust was 4 or 5 coats of Testor's Inca Gold, which was left to dry then masked for the Testor's Firey Orange spray trim stripes. I let it dry out for about a week then layed down Testor's lacquer Clear. After curing for yet another week I buffed it out with Novus 1 and 2, then some pure carnuba wax I had in the garage. Thanks for asking!

Thanks guys! The foil was a challenge to say the least. All told it was 3 hours of steady handing it. You might laugh but I meditated right before the job and got it done. I actually raised the car up a bit in the back. I didnt take into account the driveshaft hitting the floorpan during mockup. Some rake is cool though. Also it was tough getting the engine to clear the hood after zeeing the front frame. If you look carefully you can see that the car has the latest in exhaust manifold technology..invisible pipes! I was going to try fabbing up some headers to clear the raised crossmember but....ehhh I just wanted the thing done. Just noticed I forgot to mount the ignition coil, gotta fix that..

I'm channeling Roth with that one Jeff. lol

Came out great. Amazing build for 8 hours. It takes me at least an hour to open the box!

That Merc is killin 'em!

That came out simply awesome! Love the paint and all the little custom stuff.

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