Mike Dean

I've got a green door that I could enter in this GB.......👄

Went to check my tyres today. Last month it was 50p now it's £1. That's the price of inflation for you.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll await the November poll.

So there's another vote then? I thought this was a done deal.

If I can muscle my way in here, I'm sure I can flex a few muscles and stick together a Muscle car kit for this group build. I have a few contenders, one of which came from Musselburgh. (I may have made that up). Did you hear the one about the whelk that went to a shellfish disco? He pulled a mussel. Taxi for Mr. Dean.........🚕

"He gets to the 30, the 20, the 10, there's only one player left to stop him and.......oh, that's nasty,....."

"Insert Killers arm into his friend's mouth". Some friend! I'm a little disappointed at not seeing Killers hand appearing out the back of his "friends" head. I also thought flying teeth were included but I guess that's Campbells' artistic licence. Flying teeth is the least I expect.......🦷

The box says "cusomize in your favourite team colours", so have you decided on a team? Killers helmet looks like the LA Rams and his shirt looks like the SF '49ers, which is all a bit confusing. But with all the madness of the Weird-Ohs, does it really matter?!

Yellow - use once, loose, never to be seen again Orange - use once, rediscovered when looking for something else Green - always to hand, but never the one you want White - broke the first time you use it

It's all gone quiet. Too quiet. I don't like it. Sargeant, take three men and search for the remnants of an Accurate Miniatures Corvette GS and report back.....

Looking further down the page in that modelcarsmag link, there looks to be some serious fiddling required to get the exhausts mounted aswell. As someone posted on that link, "did anyone at Auccurate Miniatures actually build one of these"?! Still, the modelling fun is overcoming the short-comings, and it looks like you're succeeding nicely 👍

I had a close-up look of the completed kit on the box top (bottom?), and the only thing I can see differently to your engine build is the distributor is angled right back and sits under the vents just infront of the windrscreen, probably to solve the problem you have highlighted. Your solution looks the better one. I also looked at the other version of Accurate Miniatures Corvette Grand Sport (5001), thinking there might be differences between the engines/hood, where it might work for one and not the other. But it looks like the same kit. I agree with Keith above - that motor looks magnificent!

I follow your reasoning too. Take a car that is designed to be sleek and "road comfortable", and then try and make it into a racing car. It rarely works. The best racing cars are designed to be that way from the start. But it's the efforts people went to, to try and buck the trend, which makes models like this so interesting. If someone hadn't done it in real life, you can bet a modeller, some where in the world, (and possibly in Cambridgeshire) would have done something very similar, just for the heck of it. I like your picture of the original GS. Very stylish, until they realised it wasn't going to compete looking like that. Those perspex headlamp covers weren't going to last five minutes. Is it based on the '65 model?

I dunno, to me it looks mean and looks as if it means business. I think the lumps and bumps etc. give it character and presence. If you're gonna be a bear, be a Grizzly. The hairdressers car in the background just says "blow-wave" (with a camp wave) in comparison. I like it. Very much.

That picture of the resin in the bottom (top?) of the fuselage threw me a bit. I thought you'd spilt yer beer. What causes me greater concern is that rather parsimonious slot at the back with which to receive the (probably equally parsimonious) tab for the enormous horizontal stabilisor.It all looks very under-engineered to me. I hope I'm wrong, but I can see that some heavy duty reinforcement might be needed in that area. I think you've already proven what a lash up this kit is, by having to use a plethora of tapes, glues and resins just to glue the fuselage halves together and to stop it falling apart. I'll be keeping a distant watch to see how things turn out!