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Tomasz, that's just beautiful. Another mechanical masterpiece from you - the detail and authenticity is simply stunning. Creatively presented, too. I love seeing the results of your labours, they never cease to amaze me. The spectacular first image almost cries out for a caption competition though.

Beautiful old car, it'll be great to see this one come together.

Lovely looking beastie, great colour and finish.

Regardless of age it's a great example. Lovely to see one in such good condition. I'd give a lot to see what's under the hood!

In the words of the late and definitely unlamented Will Darnell - "Ya cain't polish a turd."

Niiice! Very neat, clean and well-detailed build, especially considering it's a resin kit. Looks great!

That's definitely at the earliest a '63 when there was a major revamp: larger engine, uprated gearbox, larger diameter brake drums amongst other things and (significantly) revised light clusters front and rear to incorporate amber flashing indicators. If it's really a '56 it's been not only re-shelled but rewired to take the later lamp clusters.

Great looking valve covers, that's an effective method. With the distie I tried your method on the 1/16 scale Mustang I built a year or so ago but the leads kept coming adrift. When doing 1/24 scale disties I now use the old trick (filched from Youtube!) of drilling out the centre just wide enough to take all 8 leads, supergluing them all in together and bending them horizontal before the glue hardens. Sounds crude but looks surprisingly effective at that scale.

Look at it this way - any Ford V8 of this era still surviving will have been rebuilt at least once and thus will have been painted whatever colour the engine builder preferred or had to hand, so in engines of this vintage anything goes. 😀

That's one heck of an introduction!

No, you were right the first time.

That is just beautiful! Very nicely detailed, excellent brightwork and paint finish, neat engine bay and the overall "real" look all add up to a brilliantly built and finished model. The 250GTO is one of those cars whereby it would be a sin not to make an extra effort to get it looking right and you've certainly done that!

Fascinating! Great implementation of Matt's original (and inspired) idea.

Hi Chris, from another car modeller, from the bottom right-hand corner of Pom Central. 🙂

There's just no stopping you, is there?

Welcome aboard from another car modeller! Love the Ferrari and Nissan particularly.

Hi Grant, - that's one heck of an introduction! Lovely collection of builds there, particularly the Ferrari and Nissan.

(Shakes head in resigned admiration...) what more can you say apart from "stunning"? The amount of work that has gone into this part of the build and the depth of detail achieved is....sorry, clean out of superlatives.

If this build is anything like the BMW 507 I'm in! I can't hold a candle to your skills so I'll stay on the sidelines and make the coffee. 🙂

From the stance I'd guess it's more than the wheels that were changed up. Maybe there's something fruity under the hood to match the suspension mods? I hope so!

Wow! Amazing finish you've achieved, well worth all the effort.

Greetings!

I've wanted a '50s Merc SL kit for some time but didn't want to go the Gullwing route, preferring an open top. This one dropping into my lap at an exceptionally low price was a large slice of luck!

Very neat job, those decals have gone on really well.

Just snaffled this rarity on Ebay, it came up for auction and I put in a cheeky offer before the bidding got going. The inevitable counter-offer was only a couple of quid more and I bit, landing it at a fraction of it's going value...