Intmd8r

Nice touch on the intake. If you didn't know what you're looking for, you might have overlooked it.

Nice work. I'm a sucker for the "Barn Find" E-bodies.

The windsheild is a funny story. It fell off my bench and I acutally stepped on it as you can see from the virtical crack down the middle. To salvage it, I used a sharp knife for the lines (or cracks) and cut a hole into what was left of the windshield. Not at all what I intended, but I guess it turned out OK.

I just thought that I would share this. If you watch much Speed TV, then you are probably familiar with Legenday Motor Car or LMC. They are loced roughly an hour north of me. While I've never been there, I'm a big fan of their work. They do Barret Jackson quality restorations from Musscle cars, to exotics, to vintage race cars. What I find so great about this web site is that they have available high res and detailed pics of restored cars and the restoration pics (which I find useful for scale model building) from past and present cars. http://www.legendarymotorcar.com/site/index.php I pland on visiting this website often for a futrue Shelby GT 350-R build of mine. Oh, and if you find yourself with some extra cash, you can upgrade from the 1:24 version to the real thing ; )

Thanks for the positive coments. Aparently my photo files are too large to upload, so you can see the rest of them here:http://s1146.photobucket.com/albums/o533/Intmd8r01/ ; ) -For additional detail, I used garbage bag ties for the fuel and brake lines. I just stripped the paper and super glued them in place. -The hood hinges were scratch built using left over plastic trees and throtle return springs from Model Car Garage. -For the oil leaks, I used Indian Ink. The engine "gunk" is Indian Ink brushed over putty. -The base is what's left over from and Acrylic display case that had an unfortunate shelf accident. I sprayed it with Ashphalft undercoating. No happy with the result, I took a quilted papper towel to it while it was still wet to give it a more realistic texture. Next I misted grey primer and then a little flat black over that. I couldn't be more thrilled with how it turned out! -For the debris, I was going to purchase some Diorama leaves at $12 a bag. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it didn't look any different than fish food, so I went to my local Dollar store and purchased some Goldfish Flakes. The base looks unfinished to me, but I haven't seen any sort of extras that would make it more complete yet. Perhaps something will jump out at me later. Now if anyone has some hungry Gold Fish, I have more than enough flakes to go around........

Great stuff! You don't see many Honda Builds, let alone Drag versions. It looks like you have a good handle on things, but in case you need more insparation, don't forget to check out Honda Tuning: http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/index.html Good luck ; )

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This a is build that I'm partcularly proud of. It's many first for me, including the first finished model in close to 15 years, the first weathered model I have attempted, my first time using PE parts, and my first Diorama. While not everything turned out like I expected, I still had fun learning and experimenting with techniques. Enjoy!