Kit: Polar Lights 1/1000 Klingon Bird of Prey.  Wings were based coated with Tamiya “German Green”, fuselage was Humbrol “Interior Green” Individual panels were painted various shaded of green with the under wing “feather” panels were painted Red-Brown. Entire kit was clearcoated with Alclad Aqua Clear, decals applied (used some from my K-Type Gaming Miniatures Decal set), then a wash of AK Dark Brown Wash for Green Vehicles was applied. I also added some Grey and Black Wash is spots to accent some of the details in some areas. Tamiya Semi-Gloss clear sprayed over this and then set out to paint the metallics and clear areas. Brush painted the wing weapons and engine areas with Tamiya new Lacquers. Coated the Engine panels with Clear Red and Clear Yellow from Gunze. I used Tamiya Weathering Powders to accent many of the panels and add depth to the metallics.

The kit itself was simple but ill fitting. It has 2 build options: Cruise or Attack. I picked the Cruise option. The scheme was something I just created. Every photo of the filming miniatures was different because of the changes made over the years and the lightning. Frustrating to replicate a specific ship used in a movie or Episode. So I just went for the “look” and tried out some new-to-me techniques.

-Mark

1965 Daytona Contintental
Car 72 Pole Sitter/3rd Place overall. Bob Bondurant Ritchie Ginther

After Ford’s disappointing 1964 racing season running it’s Ford GT with zero wins and never finishing a race, the cars were handed over to Shelby American after the Nassau Speed Weeks in the Bahamas. They had about 8 weeks to prepare for the next race. Extensive testing led to many changes to these cars, from the suspension geometry, wheels, tires, and improved cooling to the new paint job and wider fender flares. It worked, as the two Ford GTs, Chassis 103 winning overall, and this car Taking the Pole and finishing 3rd overall. These two cars would go on to a class win at Sebring a few weeks later, then a swing thru Europe racing at Monza & Nuremburgring before being retired.

Kit is a 1/43 Resin kit by Starter of France. It is one of their early kits, so the fit is marginal, detail a bit lacking and poorly fitting photo-etch. Tires look more at home on a Pro Street Car than a mid-1960s sport car. Car is painted the correct Guardsman Blue with the Black Interior and Dark Blue seats. A mix of kit decals and ones from my spares box. The clear parts have yellowed badly. Sun bleaching could get it out nor any replacements could be found.

-Mark

Hey all,

Here’s my latest build. Definitely not going to outdo last year, going kinda slow. Started out as a gift from a fellow member that I decided to play around with.

Started out as a 1967 Shelby GT350. Now, the GT350 had a 289 which wasn’t a bad little engine.  But I decided to upgrade it to the mighty 427!!!

I added as much under hood detailing that I could muster. I made the headers using solder and some shrink tubing.  Added items like a starter solenoid, ignition box, an electric cooling fan and a wired distributor. I plumbed heater hoses, fuel lines to the carburetors and added wiring for starter, alternator, cooling fan, main harness and ignition box.

I painted it in the Testors color shift paint which goes over a gloss black base coat. An unforeseen problem showed up that I didn’t expect. The body gaps and angles at the seems are all highlighted in white. I attempted to repaint with the same outcome, so I left it alone. It looks kinda cool, but I’m sure judges won’t like it.

I added some small details like wider rear tires, aftermarket wheels, traction bars and a tachometer. All in all I’m happy with the way it turned out.

Jeff

Gents. All you supposed car builders who passed on the model car show in Roanoke’s MDA event you just got  “silenced” by our resident small scale aircraft guy – Chad!  He took a 3rd in small scale cars.  Scott, Jeff, KD, Ross you all got mike-dropped!  

Congrats Chad on your win!

-Chris

This is my entry for the “out of your comfort zone” contest. Despite not being an aircraft I still enjoyed it quite a bit. Helps that it was about the size of most of my planes.

This kit underwent quite a bit of customization. I’ve always loved hearing about how guys came home from WWII and started modifying EVERYTHING to make it faster and louder, and that was my inspiration for this. Some guy just home from the war decided to chop up a service bike and repaint it.

The rear fender was shortened, the front was removed. All the equipment brackets and support brackets removed. No blackout light. Shortened exhaust. I had to scratch build the shifter linkage because that’s not included in the kit for some reason. Also scratch built the side kick stand to replace the kits rear wheel stand.

I originally wanted it to have no “chrome” parts. This guy wanted everything simple and black. However, it looked really boring like that so I decided to pick a couple parts to paint silver just for some variation. Everything is Vallejo acrylics, glossy parts simply coated in Future. The leather seat and hand grips got treated with some brown washes to attempt a textured look. The helmet decals are from the T-7 decal sets i made.

One thing that annoys me is that there is no chain, but it’s not super obvious. However, I may make a diorama sometime in the future with a broken chain on the ground and maybe a figure inspecting it on the side of the road. But I’m done for now.

-Chad