Bill Abbott

Beautiful build! Clean clear windows and body finish offer little clue to actual size. Nice. Did you dry-brush the carbon fibre colors on the intercooler air duct? On the cold-air pipe down to the turbo-compressors? Very light weathering on the exhaust pipes is clean and effective. I take heart from every clean and sharp GT1 I see online and at shows. Very good photos too! This is not the first excellent build I've seen here. I started one when they first came out - came to a halt when I realized a lot of the "guts" I enjoy were poorly documented and not part of the kit. A personal failing of mine. AMS or "Advanced Modeler Syndrome". I've been trying to accumulate the info I wish I had, and now, about 20 years later, after being retired for a while, I'm getting there. It all comes of building a Tamiya 1/12 Matra when I was a teenager in the 1970s. Working suspension that was robust enough to work. Unlike the Lotus 72, for example. Motor in the motor, gearbox in the gearbox. Functional universal joints in the drive shafts. Real springs in the shock/spring units, Clear "fuel" hose and black "ignition wire" on the V12 Matra engine. Long, skinny springs for "brake lines", connected to brake master cylinders. "Oil lines" and something for flexible water hoses. And AA batteries where the driver's legs should be! The thing was heavy, a solid handfull. Hollow, rubber, tires that smelled like rubber. Set it down, sank onto the springs. Press down and it went lower. Turn on the power and it drove, slowly, and turning the steering wheel turned the front wheels. Not strong enough to demonstrate under or oversteer, but still... Did I mention the motor and gearbox were removable? So one could admire the empty engine mount, radius rods and all the rest. You might say that's more like a die-cast toy than a scale model, and I can't disagree. But I still want all those parts present. Even if they don't articulate.