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I finally finished a car! I have so many models started and never finished that I finally forced myself to finish one before starting anything else. This is the MPC STP turbine car in 1/25 scale. I thought it was going to be a quick job to finish it up but the longer I worked the more things got changed or added. There's only one shot with the body on because I just couldn't get everything to fit right so I decided to display it with the body removed. Has anyone else built this and had trouble fitting the body or is it just me? I added some wires, hoses, tubing, some details at the very rear that were completely missing, replaced all springs on the shocks replaced clear pieces on the turbine with screen. Seems like every reference picture I found everything was just a little bit different so this isn't any specific car but a combination of all of them.

I started work on this almost twenty years ago, moved on to something else, and put it back in the closet. Last night, I decided to get it out and take some better photos of it. It began as Monogram's old off-scale Midget kit. Inspired by the old Belanger Special Indy car, I cut it apart and lengthened it, to better represent one of the "big cars". I am considering finishing it up, as I don't think it would require too much time (relatively speaking) to do so. The radiator is completely scratchbuilt. The firewall, hood and seat support are aluminum sheet. Evergreen styrene tube and half-round were used to represent the chassis tubing. The dash has photo-reduced gauges, is covered with "tooling aluminum" found at a crafts store, with bezels (one of which has detached and departed) made from aluminum tubing. Most of it is from the kit, with some modifications and/or enhancements. I've said before that I love these old Monogram kits! I've also been told that I do much more work on them, than they deserve! For me, they capture a real sense of Americana and nostalgia, and, given some attention, they look pretty cool, sitting in the display case. Comments and questions welcome. Thanks for having a look!