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Having never seen the real car other than on an old CRT TV in the 1970's it's difficult to say! But to me personally I think the red it's in now is a bit too light (might be because of the white primer) and a bit too orange, no. 3 looks too dark, so I'd go with number 2. Also, I think with the white stripe added it will visually brighten the red a little too. Keith

I agree with Pete, I was going to say it gave it more atmosphere, but moody is a much better description! Simply excellent paint and weathering work Nick, it all looks brilliant! Keith

I like this car too, and I'm also not much of a BMW fan. I have built only one and currently have only one other in the stash. Will be following along.

Yes Neddy. But I don't it will be fast enough to tip over! But the roller skates or furniture castors might be a good idea if I can find them in 1/24th scale!

I have confession to make. I am definitely not a BMW fan. Generally I find them to be too testosterone-ridden and I'm fed up with being cut up by them. However, there is one exception - the Z1. I love the quirky styling of this little sports car, the unusual design and above all the doors, so when I discovered a pre-owned kit on Kingkit at a nice price I couldn't resist it. This therefore will be my next build, a straight OOB effort as I'm fresh out of inspiration after the last one!

Have you got or can you get a radiator grille to fit on the front? Make a card bonnet to fit and maybe even add a side pipe to suggest a bigger engine. You may as well go all out! Wider wheels too perhaps?

That's some serious looking lifting gear!

Thanks Jeroen.

Great work! Just be careful when you're cornering in the damn' thing, with that suspension you might need to fit roller skates on the door handles...

Cool. Very convincing detail.

Very nicely done,the colour definitely improves a 2CV! Chris.

Not much left now finally. The body is done up to this point. I still need to add a few more decals. The railings are soldered brass, my first attempt at it. I don't know how the train guys do it. I know I need to get better and find a better way to do it. These came out good though. Oil tank is plumbed now, spreader bars(those green pipe looking things). I had to make a spacer for the rotator to sit on because it was resting on the sides. After all the dry fitting it all still needs adjustments. The truck is very heavy now and doesn't like to be lifted unless from the front and rear only. The rotator boom is almost done, few small parts to add and a few small touch ups.

Beautiful rebuild John, just lovely. That box roof looks very good.

Nick, your skills are way out there man... I love that engine, but what you did to that bed, wow that's awesome.

Wow, this was a quick one. Love the color scheme!

This cornbinder looks great. Weathering looks cold and frosty or just dusty.

Cool story on the Mack. I'd take a crack at building it if I could do the wheels/tyres. But I'm also coming off a big project. I wanted to make the Biggie 1969 Peerless Road Runner articulated truck but it's hard to find more than a few photos. Not enough to build from. It's still around though.

MRP have both colours in their range specifically for the GT40. They also do the same for Porsche in the Gulf scheme. Chris.

LC2, always support the underdog!

I built the original Protar kit when it first came out. Assuming the decals are the same as the Protar ones, then they fit ok. I fitted the windows in to the body (take time to get them to fit well) and then put the black surround decal on top and it seemed to go well. The kit represents the launch/first race version. The LC2 is indeed a fab car, it just seemed to have bad luck. In 1983, the car had Pirelli tyres, but they proved troublesome due to the aerodynamic load put on them, so later in the season they tried Dunlop tyres. The problem was the LC2 had been designed around the radial Pirelli tyres and the Dunlops were cross ply tyres. This restricted their competitiveness. In 1984 and 85, they had lots of reliability issues, but were finally using Michelin radials and the car performed really well. In 85, the would have won at Monza, but were in the pits for refuelling when a storm brought trees down and stopped the race! They did have a couple of wins including at Spa in 85, which sadly was the one with the fatal crash of Stefan Bellof. In 86, the LC2s were really competitive again, but Lancia was also struggling with taming the S4 Group B rally car and sadly they had lost test driver Giacomo Maggi, who was developing the LC2 in a pre season crash. A single car was entered and the last race for the factory team was at Silverstone, where the car kept the Porsches and Jaguars behind until another problem intervened. The car was repaired and then did the fastest race lap, before Lance withdrew from Group C altogether. There was talk of Rondeau taking over the LC2s, but this came to nothing when Jean Rondeau was killed on a rail crossing. The result of all this was a fabulous looking car that was always fast (lots of poles and fastest laps), but it just didn't win enough! I was really pleased to see them push the Porsches and keep them honest!

Well, mounted on the chassis with the lights and an extended mirror to fit, OH and a rear door handle. As it has been built on the car body, it would be difficult to spray paint so may camo the whole thing with brush work!

Picked up this little set recently for the magnifer gt40 so hopefully soon should have a detailed version of ken miles' lemans car from 66 SN

I'd go with no. 1 I think.

So it did have to come apart again one more time..... access to the firewall wasn't good for attaching all the little boxes and greeblies... but now, I think I'm calling this engine bay done, and moving along. The top radiator "hose" is some aluminum florists' wire I bought in several sizes for things like this and exhaust pipes and headers. It's very flexible but not floppy, and goes where you put it and stays there. The rubber ends are heat-shrink tube. The characteristic and brightly-colored "289 High Power" label on the air cleaner is a home printed decal... I found some old "Lazertran" paper lying around which promises that the inkjet colors dry and don't need a clearcoat, and to be on the safe side I freed the decal by putting the paper down on a damp cloth for a while rather than dropping it into water. The little boxes around the firewall, foot-wells and wheel wells are a combination of parts sliced from the original kit, some reading of a handy 289 Cobra wiring diagram and a Mustang parts supplier's online catalogue (want to know what the starter solenoid switch looks like? Pretend you're buying one...), and some creative "gizmology". I should probably put a wash bottle in there somewhere. There is a steering column that runs almost to the right place, and I did manage to slip in the two diagonal frame braces in a way that looks reasonably convincing, thanks to the flexibility of styrene rod and the reasonable amount of wiggle room through the frame as I was working them into final positions. Time to get the wheels and exhausts on and then finish up the cockpit... best, M.

That light gives it a moody effect. It looks fabulous. As for the bed. It's awful and I love it. Well used and showing it.