Let's see your scale models.

[2mAn]

My brother got this for me for Christmas not gonna lie I'm pretty nervous that I'm going to screw this thing up royally

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Had most of the parts paint before I went to bed last night. So was just assembling it.

[QUKBMER]

Nice :up::up::up: I have the Repsol sponsor Porsche model.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Nice engine!

Great job !!

Looks clean!

Thanks!

This showed up today! Wont be able to start it until i get some flat black and blue spray paint along with 2-3 misc colors for the dash and engine. Really surprised how simple this kit is as far as amount of parts. Decals on this one are shot too can tell just by how the paper is curved i snagged a set of repros before i even start it.

[LateFan]

A little S38 action

Nice engine!

[QUKBMER]

Great job !!

[JasonC]

Looks clean!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

A little S38 action

[JasonC]

Amt just re-issued there chevy monza 2+2 basic bone stock kit and im going to use a donor 66 chevy ll prostreet kit and try to make pro stock or pro street out of it.

Mmmmmmm, that model would make a nice street machine. Need to look for it

[BlackbirdM3]

Oh, nope. I didn't realize that was a live sale. And I have too many unbuilt boxes in the stack. My son's off at college now so we don't get the modeling time together - it was more fun that way. I just looked on the shelf - I have the ultimate 914, a Tamiya Carrera GT - that one will be pure black with leather seats. There's a Tamiya Ferrari F-40, the two Fujimi Porsche RS kits, and a vintage Revell '59 Impala convertible in a bizarre 1:32 scale. It has a shitload of chrome on it, so we bought that chrome foil to try - it looks really difficult if you ask me.

I want to build a nice 917 sometime, but not the #23 LeMans winner, mostly because of those scary-looking white spikey decals on it. I like the #3 silver Martini 917 that won Sebring - Vic Elford.


Then a wild Lancia Delta appeared! Always loved that funky, fast, rally-winning thing. Decided I wanted a street version of the rally car, sort of a sleeper instead of covered with race graphics.

I made a lot of mistakes and learned a bunch on this one.

Here's what we use to spray bodies - just a coat hanger wire frame. For a lot of pieces, we have bent wire hooks hanging off a pipe on the basement ceiling - but then you spray a cloud of paint dust all over everything in the basement. Then we made a cardboard "hood" of a thing to fit behind the spray stand. We never got to the airbrush level of expense or skilz.
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Airplane models give you advantages in rallying.
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The kit came in all red plastic for some reason, like you'd leave it raw plastic? I wanted a nice dark grey, but couldn't find the shade. My son had this cool battleship grey but it was matte. I used that and then tried to sand smooth and spray gloss clear over that, and made kind of a mess. Sanded a lot of detail off the body, sadly. Had to wet-sand the clear so much that I went through the color layer - ARGH! Gave up, went with a cool Tamiya dark burgundy. I'll look for the finished pics somewhere.
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Battleship grey and orange peel.
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That rally-winning AWD suspension!
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Who cares about the Lancia, lets see the B25! Looks like 1/72 scale.

Will

[LateFan]

My son is good with the "micro-sol" decal fluid, but it doesn't do anything for old dry ones.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

^^^ Old crumbly decals! AARRGH!! I love that hood decal.



1:25.....why do they do that stuff?? 1:24 is 1/4" scale, so simple to figure out. I wonder if it's got to do with design copyright laws or something.

The hood decal and emblem are only ones that came off okay i screwed it on on install trying to line it up but got it back together enough you can see it much. New ones are one the way!

They did it with my brabham but made it bigger its 1/20 scale.

[LateFan]

Oh, nope. I didn't realize that was a live sale. And I have too many unbuilt boxes in the stack. My son's off at college now so we don't get the modeling time together - it was more fun that way. I just looked on the shelf - I have the ultimate 914, a Tamiya Carrera GT - that one will be pure black with leather seats. There's a Tamiya Ferrari F-40, the two Fujimi Porsche RS kits, and a vintage Revell '59 Impala convertible in a bizarre 1:32 scale. It has a shitload of chrome on it, so we bought that chrome foil to try - it looks really difficult if you ask me.

I want to build a nice 917 sometime, but not the #23 LeMans winner, mostly because of those scary-looking white spikey decals on it. I like the #3 silver Martini 917 that won Sebring - Vic Elford.


Then a wild Lancia Delta appeared! Always loved that funky, fast, rally-winning thing. Decided I wanted a street version of the rally car, sort of a sleeper instead of covered with race graphics.

I made a lot of mistakes and learned a bunch on this one.

Here's what we use to spray bodies - just a coat hanger wire frame. For a lot of pieces, we have bent wire hooks hanging off a pipe on the basement ceiling - but then you spray a cloud of paint dust all over everything in the basement. Then we made a cardboard "hood" of a thing to fit behind the spray stand. We never got to the airbrush level of expense or skilz.


Airplane models give you advantages in rallying.


The kit came in all red plastic for some reason, like you'd leave it raw plastic? I wanted a nice dark grey, but couldn't find the shade. My son had this cool battleship grey but it was matte. I used that and then tried to sand smooth and spray gloss clear over that, and made kind of a mess. Sanded a lot of detail off the body, sadly. Had to wet-sand the clear so much that I went through the color layer - ARGH! Gave up, went with a cool Tamiya dark burgundy. I'll look for the finished pics somewhere.


Battleship grey and orange peel.


That rally-winning AWD suspension!

[2mAn]

@LateFan, did you buy that? Ive had that exact one on my watched list for a while, but my 914 boner has gone soft so I dgaf as much anymore

[LateFan]

^^^ Old crumbly decals! AARRGH!! I love that hood decal.

1:25.....why do they do that stuff?? 1:24 is 1/4" scale, so simple to figure out. I wonder if it's got to do with design copyright laws or something.