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Looking nice thus far. I remember having been asked to apply some aftermarket decals to one of the Hot Wheels 333SP's and wondering how I could just leave it at that given how clumsily much of the car had been rendered. No way but up, whereas your judiciously chosen addition are really bringing it a...

Greetings, Addressing concerns related to what can and cannot be achieved and at what pace, please understand that what is hinted at across this thread represents a record of a long accretion of successive attempts and failures not strictly premised upon finishing it in short time. For myself and a ...

Highly-accomplished and exceedingly beautiful they all are in sum. Thanks for sharing your gorgeous and awe-inspiring work...

Mike K.

Greetings, The scattershield was made by first creating eight sheet plastic wafers that were then glued atop each other in laminate fashion. With the resultant puck of material firmly in hand, I proceeded to deliberately sand off the undesired corner or edge using a sanding stick, exercising care to...

Thanks everyone for the kind notice, Consistent with protecting the lower extremities of any would be scale racing driver, I felt I had to replace the cast iron bell housing with a proper scale scattershield. Research revealed a Lakewood scattershield was employed, whereas a web search unearthed ima...

Greetings, On the topic of the finish worked towards and seen above, I used a Dremel buffing brush attachment and lightly dragged the same across the aluminum surface in alternate directions. Tamiya masking tape was used, whereas I wasn't too aggressive in my actions for the task didn't require that...

Greetings, A short update consisting of some experimentation undertaken with regards to livery as well as further instrument cluster work undertaken. Thankfully the livery is fairly simple, with much requiring only a black outline versus some multi-color motif or more substantial artwork. Given this...

Very nice, and clearly yet another addition to 'our' otherwise unannounced Bob Tullius retrospective collection available only at select outlets in Texas and SE Michigan! Until I read the Canepa Designs website description, I didn't know it was an actual car - thanks for including this.

Mike K.

Greetings and thanks for the kind notice... A unappealing fact one encounters for converting a stock production diecast model into an stripped down production-based racer is the oftentimes less than appealing surface contours left behind for cutting out panel work and trim. The most basic modificati...

Greetings, An initial stab at creating a reasoned sheet aluminum instrument cluster bears fruit. Aluminum sheet can be cut by hand - as long as one doesn't harbor ambitions to use the distorted and twisted material closest to the initial cut for the final panel proper. About 35-38 tiny taped square ...

Greetings, The driver's side horizontal bars have been lowered each and all since the above photos were taken - harrowing this for it isn't certain that the glue burns/residue of the same might strictly be cleaned up consistent with saving the underlying bar contour, etc. Indeed - an 'old-school' se...

Greetings, A more substantive update of the 1:18 Sun Star-based 1964 Pontiac Tempest/1971 SCCA Trans-Am season Gray Ghost this time ‘round. I apologize for my camera clearly isn't amazing, hence detail is hard to discern, a headache forms, etc. What is termed the 'old SCCA Trans-Am' speaks of a prod...

Hello, ...without deliberate intent to drive people off-site, Randy Ayers' NASCAR Modeling Forum features both plastic and diecast pages. The people there doubtlessly know their stuff, are kind and generous, etc. Maybe sample the diecast subpage they maintain by visiting: http://randyayersmodeling.c...

Just as an aside this, but rather on-topic too... It seems a pretty common although largely unremarked upon problem of scale modelers who unknowingly invite trouble for undercharging customers and clients for work they cannot help but apply high personal standards to. It's such a trap; i.e. being fl...

...another report from the field this, For GMP/Welly Trans-Am Mustangs ('69-'70) I've dipped front screens into scale model paint stripper with surprising success. Even if things go all bogus, the worst fried surface can usually be recovered with the careful and systematic use of a scale model polis...