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See new introduce myself for details mentioned here in: I have medical issues that could challenge your patients and only source of income is once per month. I'm 81 years old now and completed my college in 2009. When in collage the teacher asked class what were their hobby interest, and when I mentioned my hobby was model car building saw a few classmates snicker and laugh to themselves and friends. Looks, age and even shacking hands don't mean my hobby will be shacky or have weak construction, and what I do sometimes takes time to develop the right approach to get the proper look I want. I have build this car several times each kits were purchased or my junk yard then had plenty. But these days that junk yard is gone as are many things used to pursue this hobby, but that is another story. You will see how to construct this lift angled top (two kits required), channel the body on the frame, build those door hinges found on the door type using sheet metal and piano wire, drop the front end lower than the kit that already had a 4inch dropped axel design, Not sure if steering will be included perhaps an option, the Engine with tires and wheels are from Revell 41 Willys Street Rod and several home made parts including injector hat. You will be shown to use the Exacto knife back edge methods. All this is fundamental these days but not meaning to bore you it will be shown in steps of application. Now the real reason to brinolg it here to this forum: We make cars in miniature and some of you are a marvel at what you do. But painting these cars has for me always been the challenge how to get it where I can see it in my minds eye. I can create what I see in my mind otherwise it becomes a challenge. Hence I created a theme for the build and from this theme create the paint technique and method of application. The theme is Meso American Culture of Mexico empires ruled by Aztec and Mayan cultures. Each shared cultural behavior of Fierce Warriors, that developed into ranking and standing within their cultures. The Jaguar Warrior (was not the highest rank) but the artistic images easily come to mind, especially if you like Green as a foundation color (green either Toxic, Emerald, or candy apple types) as that fits jungle. Add to that a culture that built from the jungle an empire of architectural structures and artistic expression among the most famous in the entire world. So Images of symbolic designs are found or created again with ease. Not liking to hold the human sacrifices made by both of these cultures, but can reflect with skulls or other designs we use in painting methods. All in all what it comes down too...the artistic expression must become the entire car construction as one big graphic design...not a single color, not a few images but an expression in color (candy apple red, toxic green, pearl whites, along with common colors used within the cultures themselves...a special blue for human sacrifices, Gold and Silver for the reasons other came for there precious valuable, It is possible to build many stories on this background, but I must create as I go what this will look like. You see the copy right laws are very serious and easy to violate unless you can document... it was not copied, instead hand crafted for little to noting at all. This method is both good and bad...if you like and follow crats (see a list of sources for research I will provide later) and can create forms in Bondo for real hard and sandable forms to texture paste commonly used in crafts, but "Don't touch it later as I won't harden solid to the touch" Then their is stencil use...Please look at this my home page used in school my major was Art and Photography...along with other studies of interest: Many of these images are created from stencil works I use in art. By the way I don't as a rule build this coupe with moveable steering because the axels have failed my earlier attempts so buying When the art is one big graphic, there is no expected image as it becomes surreal or Abstract...but keep it in symmetry (what you do to one fender or side, do to the other) by design then the color can be abstract Imagine being able to paint each side or parts of a car body with colors that may not be perfect, yet by design it fits???? Sounds screwy, but must see to believe.. I won't go to extremes to show this, but here is an idea to let you see it in your minds eye. A Jaguar embossed (raised image) on forward edge of a fender as a pair of eyes little color contrast like from the bushes where you expect to find this animal...trailing that image is embossed body marks the drift back over the fender growing small and less raised till it is flat on the body and ghost painting. Symbolic of he can move so fast as to leave his spots behind...very expressive of 32 coupe setup in an A altered, and certainly fitting the Jaguar Warrior of that period, whose speed and power where his expressed virtues and belief he had in his use of that deity. If such car would have existed then...but that was pre Columbian (before Spaniards found the Aztecs). There is my theme, concept, and reason to use the idea. Larry

This is my build of Max's car from the first movie. It's an Aoshima Road Warrior kit with a mm1 resin transkit from Frank. the kit is the latest release with the photoetch extras. The build went very well, except for the boot lid, which i had major trouble with the hinge and making it fit. (brass rod snaps if you bend it too much!) I plan to use the left over upgrade parts to fix up my previously built Road Warrior Interceptor.