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I've got nothing to add, other than I'm looking forward to this one, having see that specific car on that rally back in 1986...

Count me in! Some kind of 90's Le Mans Porsche incoming. I might struggle to find a pink scheme, but I'll try

Much appreciated - this conversation has been interesting. I thought I knew what a muscle car was/is, but it's hard to put rules on it. I'll be in with some US 60s/70's goodness, and look forward to seeing Pony cars, Aussie 4 doors and others too!

Food for thought in the last few pages. The equation for a muscle car is : Big engine + normal road car = fun. When the cars start to become primarily sports cars then they stop being muscle cars. Therefore Porsche 928=muscle car, Porsche 924/944/911=sports car. That's why something like a Mercedes AMG GT is not a muscle car (in my opinion, despite having a V8 and 2 doors), but a Mercedes AMG C63 is (despite having 4 doors).

For me, the definition of a muscle car is slightly nebulous, so agreeing hard and fast rules is difficult. For me, it's less about number of doors and more about the number of cylinders - 8 being the minimum and maximum

I'm loving these oddball Heller kits - I'm glad that the company seems to be back in decent(ish) health. Nice work, the clarity of the transparencies look better than the plastic windows used on the full size vehicle

Nice, AND you can still see the seatbelts, so worth the effort and swearing I assume the spare tyre is a half width space saver?

hmmm, might be useful on vintage racing car dashboards too - although the scale might not suit...

My "Pretty in Pink" Porsche 935 K3. The Nunu kit with no extras (other than blood, sweat and tears!). All paint was Tamiya acrylic and the real star product was the Mig 'ultra' Decal set & Decal fix which worked a treat. Special mention needs to be made to the carpet monster who obligingly vomitted-up the door lights (the little black blobs above the numbers on the doors) after I pinged them into the abyss multiple times.

Great win for the Indie Ferrari today, with spirited driving by Kubica who seemed to be a man on a mission! Anyway, as promised, find the finished pictures below : I really enjoyed building this kit, the parts mostly fit with little cleaning up required. The detail was generally very good, with very little flash/seam lines and the instructions/colour call outs were excellent. The decals were surprisingly good and well thought through (i.e. the background pink decal was separate from the sponsorship/writing enabling a builder to spray the background colour rather than use the decal. If I was to build this again, I would remove the bonnet pins and scratch build them, as in hindsight these are now the most visible weakest link in the entire build. My first Nunu/Beesmax kit and certainly not my last ( I already have the pink pig in the stash!).

I've rushed the last few jobs and decals today, so that I can call it complete in time for the start of Le Man 2025 in 11 minutes time! I'll add some pictures of the complete model later! I'm very happy with the result, although I know where all the 'dodgy' bits are!

Thanks. I know very little about muscle cars, but after watching Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul, know that I need to make something suitably obscure and outwardly mundane, i.e. not a Mustang!

Count me in - any excuse for a Le Mans Porsche

Sign me up. I don't currently have any muscle cars in my stash, but I won't let that get in thw way

Last few exterior details to add, detail painting (front bonnet clips), then the final decals then it'll be complete... Rear lights, looking good with Tamiya clear colour. Decals for the tyres, and glass components. Glass was carefully masked, then carefully painted, to find paint had crept under the masking tape. I removed it the best I could with a cocktail stick, which has scratched the glass in places. It's not too obvious in the pictures, and looks OK from a distance, but still annoying. The door lights which illuminate the numbers on the side were carefully pinged onto the floor several times during painting and glueing before finally remaining fixed to the door. The indicator/running lights on the front wing were carefully painted using a combination of squinting, and luck before being applied. It's good to see that after all the bending, swearing, pinging into the carpet and general butchery, the seat belts are hardly visible....