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Super nice! Great work, and I love the colour! The Italian dolce vita in one model kit ☺️

Awesome! So, if I understand this correctly, the first picture at the top is of the truck at the dealer shop, and the picture below is of the same truck with a bit of milage ?

The car looks very nice. Maybe just doing all the trims and chrome to finish it would be enough?

Nice yellow lemon Chevy! I like the color of the dress of the woman on the right. It would look really nice on a 50's era car model kit. Ready to go to the prom!

Beautiful red color and amazing paint job. Looks so real.. Now I want one!

I like your B-24 Liberator. Looks "big, fat and ugly" exactly as it should ? Makes a nice pair with the P-48 above.

Beautiful. Trucks model kits usually have a lot of parts and are fun to build. Yours is really nicely done and detailed.

I can relate to that! Your 58 Corvette is really nice. I like the color, and the underneath is very neat too.

Awesome! I built the "Glacier Girl" version few years ago, not an easy kit to build. Your paint job is extremely well done. Perfect color on the exhaust/ turbocharger, and very nice canopy / cockpit! The P-38 Lightning is famous in France because Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of "The Little Prince" was flying one when he disappeared over the Mediterranean sea in 1944. You can read about it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/world/europe/11exupery.html https://www.ww2wrecks.com/portfolio/luc-vanrell-the-story-behind-the-discovery-of-antoine-de-saint-exuperys-p-38-lightning/ And if you haven't read "The Little Prince", please do. It really isn't a book for children..

The details in engine bay (especially the ignition harness) and the interior are really impressive. Love it.

Nice work.. you have a lot of patience..

Thank you TonyK. I am glad you enjoyed the story, all parts of it are true. The events were recounted in a book titled "Down to earth" by the pilot (Kenneth McGlashan).

Awesome job you did removing the doors and trunk. I often thought about doing the same thing but never dared..

Nice! The last airplane model kit I made before having to stop was a Tamiya F-15. A fantastic plane.. Currently busy restoring a RF-4 phantom II that my father gifted me with as a kid, and plans to add a F/A-18 and an other F-4 B phantom to my modest collection.

I love the pale yellow colour. A very nice model kit of a beautiful car. Back in the days when cars were artworks..

Thank you Stavanzer. I take it you are an aviation enthusiast yourself ? The account of the pilot of what happened to him that day and how he returned to battle really humbles me. Unfortunately the plane recovery from the mud didn't go very well. The team was ill equipped and they ran out of time as the tide was coming. They eventually had to cut off the wings (or they broke off) and they were later junked when the plane was on display at the local airfield. There was also a controversy about the guns that were still in the plane (I believe they were Hispano 20 mm cannons) and those had to be junked as well.

Nice paint work!

Nice one. Love the '58 Impala.

The finish on the underneath is impressive...

Beautiful. You even put the pair of dices hanging from the rear view mirror!

I read a post on this forum about how it is nice to know where people are or are from, and I tend to agree with that. So I have updated my profile with a picture of a Hawker Hurricane (one of the very first model kit I assembled and painted and it shows), and it has something to do with my location. Not a car but its engine was made by Rolls Royce, later found its way into the P-51 Mustang, and the name Mustang itself is a legend in car history. I was born in Dunkirk, in the northest tip of France, a town made somewhat famous by Christopher Nolan when he released his movie of the same name in 2017. At the end of the movie, there is a British fighter plane that lands on the beach. This is a true story, but he got the plane type wrong: it was a Hurricane, not a Spitfire (Spitfire were scarce in 1940, but Hurricane were even scarcer in 2017 so I won't blame Nolan for his choice). I saw the wreckage of that plane one day in the sea a few hundred yards from the beach when it resurfaced in the late 80's after being burried in the sand for decades. I saw that wreckage again later in a hangar where we were restoring old cars. And I helped a group of British aviation enthusiasts load it on a truck when they came to collect it. We were laughing at them but shouldn't have, because they rebuilt it and now it is flying again. I have attached a link to the story of the plane and of its pilot: https://airlegend.fr/en/aircraft/hawker-hurricane-mk-i-g-robt/ https://owenzupp.com/mcglashans-hawker-hurricane-p2902-flies-again/ My poor model kit:

Beautiful, I love the colour. I am about to start building one and I think I will make it yellow like yours.

Beautiful, and the engine details are awesome. I wish I had an engine like this!

Hi Bainford, thank you for the kind words. Since you mentioned about how it is nice to know where people are or are from in a previous post, I have updated my profile with a picture of a Hawker Hurricane (one of the very first model kit I assembled and painted and it shows), and it has something to do with my location. Not a car but its engine was made by Rolls Royce, later found its way into the P-51 Mustang, and the name Mustang itself is a legend in car history. I was born in Dunkirk, in the northest tip of France, a town made somewhat famous by Christopher Nolan when he released his movie of the same name in 2017. At the end of the movie, there is a British fighter plane that lands on the beach. This is a true story, but he got the plane type wrong: it was a Hurricane, not a Spitfire. I saw the wreckage of this plane one day in the sea a few hundred yards from the beach when it resurfaced after being burried in the sand for decades. I later saw that wreckage again in a hangar where we were restoring old cars. I helped a group of British aviation enthusiasts load it on a truck when they came to collect it. We were laughing at them but shouldn't have, because they rebuilt it and now it is flying again. I have attached a link to the story of the plane and of its pilot: https://airlegend.fr/en/aircraft/hawker-hurricane-mk-i-g-robt/ https://owenzupp.com/mcglashans-hawker-hurricane-p2902-flies-again/

Thanks Horrorshow. I came across this video today: I am going to get an other AMT '58 Impala kit and maybe build it as a convertible, in that same pastel corail color. I am sure I will be able to find tips here on how to make a good looking folded top cover.