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My friend Lou (Imagna) reached deep down into his collection of model race car kits and generously provided me with this beautiful Accurate Miniatures kit of the McLaren M8B CanAm Group 7 race car. There is at least one other modeler, Landlubber Mike, who will also eventually build this very same model in a build thread here on MSW. Mike gave me the go ahead to get started while he finishes tying up a few loose ends on build threads he currently has in progress. Without further delay, I got started on my kit tonight. It all starts with construction of the engine and transaxle assemblies. First, here is the kit box/box art: Here is the assembled engine with transaxle in bare plastic Here is the assembled engine with transaxle painted in semi gloss black I'm hoping Lou will chime in and provide some of his considerable knowledge about the history and highlights on this venerable vintage race car. He deserves the credit for making this build thread happen, as I may have never gotten my hands on one of these kits to build had it not been for Lou's generosity. The company who produced this kit has been out of business quite a few years now and these kits will soon be very hard to find without paying a large, premium price for one. Thanks Lou! Hope you enjoy the build and hope I can do it justice.
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The understatement of the day. This past week marked the 41st year since my father passed away, Feb 19, 1980. I was thinking about how much has changed since he passed. If he were suddenly alive today, he would not recognize much of what he would see or hear. When I grew up, my Dad would drive daily down to a specific corner in downtown Tampa to buy the evening newspaper, The Tampa Times, hot off the press. In the mornings, Our daily Tampa Tribune, would be waiting for us in our driveway. Today, Tampa no longer even has a daily newspaper. Both are gone, a thing of the past.
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We can rearrange them as time goes by.
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This one is all over, it's one for the books. She now rests in the cabinet with the rest of the stallions. Finished.
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Maybe I will finish this thing today...or tomorrow. Almost there now.
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Overnight was sufficient for the Molotow ink to thoroughly dry, so I installed the bumpers. They look pretty decent I think and much much better than the sink-mark-ridden chrome plated bumpers that came inside the kit. PS: Molotow ink applied from the actual pen will not dry overnight. It's only because I applied it in very light coats using an airbrush. Molotow ink is very very slow to dry from the pen. Days, maybe even weeks.
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I don't know of even one model railroad shop in Tampa now. Not one. 😟
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Ken, I was thinking about your model railroading hobby today when I visited the south side of town today with my wife. We used to own a house over on that side way back 40 years ago and there used to be a landmark model railroad shop just a couple of blocks from our old house known as Chester Holley's model railroad shop. He had everything you could imagine in that shop with a full line of Marklin and Lionel trains. Wasn't too far from MacDill AFB. Old fella passed away and I guess no one from his family was prepared to keep the business going. A shame, a wonderful thing of the past now gone.
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I bought 2 big refill bottles of Molotow chrome ink (I know that's not the proper term, or is it?) that should have been delivered today, but they stalled in the main post office here in Tampa instead of going out for delivery. I got impatient and took a pen apart to rob the ink. I can relace it when my order gets delivered. It's a waste of $$ to open a pen just to use the ink. A refill is a lot more economical, but still not cheap.
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Thanks for that Ken. I'll try that out with gloss gray as a base. I never had good results with Alclad using a gloss black base. Maybe that's why?
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The kit bumpers had huge sink marks in both of them. I had to strip the chrome and fill the sink marks with putty, sand them down, then repaint them with chrome. To keep it looking uniform with the bumpers, I stripped the chrome from the windshield frame as well. At first, I primed the stripped parts with Tamiya gloss black, then shot them with Alclad Chrome. I didn't like the way that came out. Looked too dark. I decided to take apart a Molotow chrome marker and use the ink from it in my airbrush. I reshot the bumpers and windshield frame with Molotow chrome and am happier with the outcome. Will give this a day to cure before I handle them. Molotow chrome ink is alcohol based and takes longer to cure than Alclad, a lacquer based paint.
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Thanks. That's me on the left and my brothers on the right. I could not squeeze my other brother into the crop. It cut him off.
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That dark blue shows up every speck of dust like it's lit up. Can't even see it until after I've taken the photo. Will hit it with my anti static brush for the final photos. 🤔
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I'm going to do a deep dive into my spare tire stash. I have a box full of nothing but model car tires somewhere, I just have to find it. There's bound to be something that looks better, even if they don't say Dunlop (which is the correct brand for that year Ferrari).
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That's because of my high tech Dollar Tree LED lights in the shadow box. 😄
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The little California Spyder begins to catch her stride once the little chrome bits begin to be added.
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Performed some surgery and reconstructed the dash and door panels. I believe the adjustment will make this work out okay. The windshield frame is dry fitted with blue tack to check the fit against the dash.
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It's completely unrelated to the engine cover. Back when Italeri/Protar were producing these Ferrari kits there were several versions produced, including the 250 GTO and this 250 GT SWB (Short Wheel Base). Doing things on the cheap, they shared some common components in the kits rather than retooling for specific parts as it should have been. In this case, some of the interior pieces are not correct for the SWB and do not fit properly without modification. I'm also just now discovering I need to slightly modify the interior door panels as well. It's all good, it will get there. It's not a shake and bake kit like the Tamiya, Aoshima, and Hasegawa ones. Plus this kit is more than 30 years old.
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My first "fit issue" has cropped up, where the dash rides higher than it should (I think). There are locator holes/pin arrangement that pre determines the height of it, but they seem to be off. Going to play with the dry fitting a bit more before I perform surgery on it, but the surgery should not be a problem if needed to lower it a bit. Here's what it looks like with the tires and wheels in place.
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One of the more decent-looking sets of molded plastic wire wheels I've found in a kit. Think I'll go with these over the aftermarket aluminum wire wheel sets I have on hand. The aluminum ones are a bit too narrow and I do not have a set of tires that fit the wheels properly. Not exactly crazy about the look of the kit stock tires, but they will have to do for now.
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Thanks Mike. Later today I installed the exhaust headers, then the exhaust pipes and muffler assemblies. Then installed the engine well inner panels Installed the interior door panels And last, did my first body-to-chassis dry fit. Everything looks promising. No major fit issues so far.
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Lamborghini Veneno by CDW - Fujimi - 1:24 Scale - PLASTIC
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I once got to ride in one of these. Back in 1971, my brother had a friend he worked with who bought a brand new Pantera. The Pantera's were powered by a modified Ford 351 ci V-8, mid engine. The friend took me for a ride on the interstate in his new car. He leisurely accelerated over 120 mph and it steadily climbed faster while my pucker factor became intense. I had no idea what a car like that cost but I knew it had to be a lot. I asked my brother how he could afford a car like that on a plumber's salary and my brother laughed and said he bought it with drug money. The guy was smuggling drugs. Sheesh. Not too long after that, he was arrested, tried and convicted then incarcerated. I often wondered what became of his Pantera. Awesome car.
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I boxed it up and shelved it when I left to take our daughter to live in New Hampshire last summer (June). I ended up taking the rest of the summer off from modeling while working on other projects around the house. Never got back to it until now.
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Lamborghini Veneno by CDW - Fujimi - 1:24 Scale - PLASTIC
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
There are a couple of Ford GT's in my future. One is from Tamiya, the street version. The other is from Revell, the 2017 Le Mans version.
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