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Thanks for the kind comments, all. The small raffle tickets were $1 each, I bought 20. The big raffle tickets were $5 each, I bought 6. After you bought your tickets, you could drop as many as you wanted into each category bucket. The categories were divided between automotive, armor, aircraft, ships, or supplies. All the proceeds from the raffle go to support the host club while the prizes were donated by individual members and local businesses, some national businesses. I don't know why, but I'm mostly always lucky when it comes to these type raffles. Lotto, not so much. Here are some select photos of the myriads of scale models that were on display.
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The Pelicon 2025 show was a blast! Many, many, high quality models on didplay. Hundreds of people attended. There were raffle drawings every hour in numerous categories with a grand prize raffle at the final hour with some excellent prizes. I managed to win six of the smaller hourly raffles and two of the grand raffles! I felt like a bandit. I managed to win one silver and two bronze medals with my four entries, for which I was grateful. I took a ton of photos but won’t post all of them now at this late hour. What I will post are photographs of Nestor Espinoza’s Nationals winner, the Maserati 250F by MFH. An extraordinary, beautiful build. Nestor is a resident of Tampa who has published work from Mig Ammo.
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Will do! I'm bringing a wagon. 😁
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Along with the Porsche Carrera GT, Kawasaki Ninja, Honda RC166, "Betty" the Bugatti T35B will be going with me to Pelicon 2025, an IPMS regional show, here in Tampa, Florida, tomorrow. I always look forward to this event as it is a wonderful display of modeling talent from all over the southeastern USA. Not to mention a mountain of vendors. So much to see there!
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.3mm Plastruct rod to simulate the white piping used on the red leather seats of the Testa Rossa.
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Sometime long ago I bought this very small gauge insulated copper wire for ignition wiring on 1:24 scale models. I cannot remember who I bought it from. I’ll look for more this coming Saturday at the model show. That’s probably where I bought it the last time.
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Test fitting engine to chassis for fit. Everything looks positive. This is the kit engine.
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Thanks, Ken. I agree about red.
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One of the kit decal options is for a particular year in the life of this car when it was red. I wanted a red Ferrari instead of the black as shown on the box art. Due to complications of fit, I chose to resort back to the kit-supplied engine rather than the aftermarket one. I just won't have the time to fiddle with all the small mods needed to make the aftermarket engine fit this particular car. Maybe I can use it in a later model, Ferrari 250 GTO project. June is quickly approaching so I must get moving. Besides, I was looking at photos of this model built using all stock components and it looked very good. Color applied was Mr Surfacer 1500 pink, followed by Mr Color Super Italian Red.
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Thanks Mike. Some of the newer kit releases like this one are coming in with fantastic decal sheets that replicate the 1:1 car and their livery. I'm 90% certain the 1:1 subject is body wrapped nowadays, so the decals are very much similar to the real car in that respect. In the old days gone by, all those graphics were hand painted but no more. The graphics are CAD drawn and painted, then printed out and applied to the car body just like decals. I've even seen videos of the application using heat guns, similar to the hair dryer technique that Dr Rob recommended I use. It worked like a charm. It was tedious work applying all those decals, but it gave a result I could have never achieved otherwise. The Salvinos Jr modern NASCAR kits come with unbelievably good decal sheets. The precolored plastic bodies don't even need painting, just the decals.
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Honda RC166 by DocRob - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12 - multimedia
CDW replied to DocRob's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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I'll start with the engine. This is a 3D printed one from Texas 3D Customs. Very well detailed, much more so than the kit engine which is clunky, inaccurate, and outdated by more modern reproduction capability. Could I get by without it, yes, for sure. But I bit the hook and here it is. I plan on priming with a black primer then using a combination of acrylics, metalizer lacquers for dry brushing, detail paint the engine in the next steps.
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Thanks for the kind words. I guess there were about 15 hours spent on the decals alone. Decals were very good. Modern tooling, the fit was very good, so the building time was minimal. Probably 15 hours on the painting, too.
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Thanks Ken. it was a quickie.
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In the photo, there is an acrylic paint marker shown. It came in a set of 24 colors from Amazon for less than $9, delivered. Since buying the set, they have come in handy many times for touching up or painting small parts rather than dragging out a jar of paint and a paint brush. For me, the fine tip gives better control for painting or touching up.
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This represents about 40% of the decals placed to complete this model. Thanks to the tip provided by Doc Rob about using the hair dryer to soften and improve flexibility of the decals, the job of placing them was much easier than it would have been without using the hair dryer.
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it would be very difficult to build a model that looked more like a real race car than this one. Excellent model, Doc.
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Honda RC166 by DocRob - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12 - multimedia
CDW replied to DocRob's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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The model is now ready for final assembly and decals. All the paint work is done. With any luck, this one could be finished Monday, maybe sooner. I will plan to take the final photos outside. Too much black, it needs a lot of light to get better photos (I think?).
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Staying well within my twenty day window to complete this model. Tomorrow will mark one week since project began. Should be able to finish it within the next week, ahead of schedule. This is good because the Testa Rossa needs extra time beyond the twenty days.
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Still working on the cockpit and adding a few details. The engine is rather simple and not a whole lot of it will be seen inside the finished model, except what will be visible through the rear glass.
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Honda RC166 by DocRob - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12 - multimedia
CDW replied to DocRob's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
It was a great idea using masking liquid to hold your spokes in place. I wrestled with them, finding the task of attaching the spoke nipples tedious at best. I can see where the masking fluid could have made the task more manageable.
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