56 Chevy Moderate custom

I started work on this 56 Chevy moderate custom about two weeks ago. I prepped the body and used Tamiya white primer, with a coat of Tamiya pearl-white. I have been doing the panels with Tamiya clear orange and lots of masking tape. The clear orange looks more yellow over the white, but I like where it;s heading. Going to get some Bare-metal foil on it, and get some clear laid on next.

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Jim Clark† Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo

Senna wants to ?write a good chapter? in Williams history

Bruno Senna has spoken about the positive impact he wants to make at Williams in 2012. The Brazilian was formally announced as Pastor Maldonado’s partner for the new season this week and he couldn’t be happier. Speaking about what the future holds, Senna said: “I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their [...]

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Kunimitsu Takahashi Patrick Tambay Luigi Taramazzo Gabriele Tarquini Piero Taruffi

Land Rover Defender replacement to be built in India - report

The Land Rover Defender is a British icon, but that could soon be changing as a new report is indicating the next-generation model will be built in Pune, India.

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Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris Francois Cevert Eugene Chaboud

Lancia Stratos

This is an Esci kit from about 30 years ago, fortunately it is from one of the earlier production runs, so the molds were not too worn at the of it being made.  But it still has some issues with flash, sink marks and unevenly molded parts and poor engraving.  (Some of the parts are short shots, but luckily they’re not ones I need.)  It also appears to have been intended to be issued as a motorized version at some point too, so the interior and engine detail is lacking.  So I’ll build it essentially as a curbside.

First I went about cleaning it up with 320 and 400 grit sandpaper and a scriber.  I was able to sand out some of the sink marks, but about a half dozen were too deep to just sand away.

Then it was on to filler to take care of the deeper sink marks.  First round of priming shows some decent progress, and where I need more filler.  I also had to cut open the rear quarter vents in the engine cover since one side had screen engraving and the other didn’t, and they were not symmetrical.

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Oswald Karch Narain Karthikeyan Ukyo Katayama Ken Kavanagh Rupert Keegan