Christian W Thanks to all of you. It sucks that the time for drying lasts days. The next days the red body will become a wet sanding to prepare it for a final layer of clear coat. It should be prepared too for the case to cut of the top roof and replace it eventually.

Today I took out the wheel out of the mold. It's ok again. Also I took the roof out of the right mold. It's harder than the "only" clear one but not 100% dry jet at the surfsce.

I keep you informed.

Christian W Next failure :/. The mold broke while I tried to get the part out. There was a big bubble of air on the bottom of the mold which made the mold to the surface of the top roof to thin. The part it self is not that bad (only 1 millimeter thick) but still to flexible and not even hard.
Next try's coming soon.

Christian W I think I have no solution for the Project "glass top Roof". The latest parts aren't hard yet. It's a week now for drying and they are still flexible. Now I'm looking for an alternative material.

arielvitanovus *fingers crossed! I appreciate your efforts!

Christian W It doesn't work. I'm going to complete it now Sorry. I have no other solution for the clear top roof. The parts I did are all still flexible. I don't know, what else to do.

Munkyslut That's a shame Christian, I thought that was going to be an invaluable new process for custom parts.
At least you persevered with it

Christian W It is a shame and I'm not satisfied to stop at this point.

I want to get this done somehow and (sadly) sameday. This Corvette has to be completeted and sent to the owner. I have no more time for the experiment on this kit.

Maybe someday I'll get the solution. I have to find a material which works for this tiny part.
The suspisious thing is, that the wheels (which I've made with the rest of the material) are hard like a rock and the thin parts aren't. This doesn't go into my mind.

Munkyslut Yeah good point, usually the thicker material would take far longer to properly set hard.

Munkyslut Nice! I like him, a proper racer.
Is it prepainted?

Christian W I found it on Amazon. The Body is prepainted and the Windows are already built in. This woud be a nice Piece for me. For me, who's not that familiar with those big decals.

Christian W Glue included *lol*

Anthony D'Agostino Oh, and I am not sure about the Del Sol, but my new car has a rear fog light as well. It is placed at the lowest part of the rear of my car, the hope is that anyone behind me, will see me before they plow into me at twice my speed while in the fog. It's logical, but not sure how well it works, since I am the one driving and we don't have much fog here in the Philippines.

Christian W That's funny about the fog light and quite interessting, that you have it too!
I can tell you: my Del Sol isn't leaking. Not when it rains or in the car wash. I read about it but I think mine is a good one. It's original all over - except the Radio.

Munkyslut Just scrolling through that lot now, some really interesting subjects, love the beach buggy, my favourite I think

Chris Greathouse I almost picked up that beach buggy... Great builds!

Christian W I'll take the buggy and take a couple of more picture. It was not my built. I only painted it with clear cote and completed it. At the moment I didn't even now whether I did something else. It's a long time ago.

Chris Greathouse I also love the VW Bug in the first couple pictures What is that sticking out of the window?

Christian W On the right side, right under the rear view mirror? That is a hose for fresh air to the driver. Really. No joke. The original gas it too.

Anthony D'Agostino Those bugs are unbelievable simple sturdy engineering, simple air cooled era, easy to work on and fun to drive, great combination compared to the ridiculously complex cars of today. Always wanted one, but I had to have the 66 mustang too, that beat out the bug when I was a teen. In hindsight, I should have gone with the bug!

James C Very nice work Christian

Christian W Thank you! I like it too and I'm glad that I was able to take it apart. There are a lot of other cars which are dusty
It's a nice variety of completely build ups.

Bob Hall If I could own 1 Corvette in this life, It would be a Beauty C2 like this !

Christian W Oh, tahnk you! It is quite interessting on the C2, taht the design is a lot of straighter than the C1. This was a huge step I think. Look at the straight side with this hard line above the wheels. This is my Favorit part on the C2. And then the rear with it's drop design. Was it Bill Mitchell? Well done.

Bill Newcomer Nice 'vette. I had a girlfriend who's dad own a high performance shop. One of his customers cars was one of these with the 427ci 435hp triple carbs. Definitely drool material.

Christian W Thank you
I saw the same car on Gas Monkey Garage - an original "survivor"

Slavo Hazucha Nice 'vette! The combo with the matt black looks interesting - is it there to stay, or will it get a unified gloss finish later?

Christian W Thank you!
After I unwrapped the body, I'm a little sad, that I didn't paint a glossy clear cote first. This satin matt looks pretty good. So I'm not sure what to do. It was planned to give it a glossy shine all over.
But: how would it be to get it a completely satin matt clear cote? Goes straight through my mind. Hmmm....
Currently it is planned for a shiny finish.

Christian W The red can not be polished. It has no clear cote :/

Tim Heimer Tape the black up and clear coat it. The black looks great!

Christian W Until the paint job I was not sure what to do. At the end I decided to paint it glossy allover. I really wasn't sure, how it will look with the matt part on the hood.

The interior is done today. So it is straight on the road to get finish.

Christian W Finish line! 14 parts to go.

Christian W btw: the cleaning and polishing of the windows went pretty good.

Tim Heimer It's getting there!

Christian W It's done. Tomorrow I'm gonna take pictures for the gallery.

Tim Heimer I like it! Nice!

Bob Hall McLaren ! The Forgotten Super car ! I Love It ! What is that awesome color ?

James C Stunning paint job! That's awesome!

Christian W Thank you! When I bought the McLaren 720 I decided to build this one. I always loved the car. Not only, because it was terribly fast in the computer game "Need for Speed 2". This was my favorite car in it.
The kit itself is a good one. Only the mock up engine is a little cheap but at the end you can't see much of it. Would it have an opening hood, it would look not that nice.
But the kit fits pretty good. Also the doors closed fitting very good. As summery I could recommend the kit.

The color. It is Mercedes-Benz, rauchsilbermetallic ("smokesilver" MB 702) in a rattle can by Dupli Color. Clear coat is also rattle can but by K-Lack.

Tim Heimer What make is the kit?

Tim Heimer Never mind, I just saw it! I hate getting old! LOL

Christian W *lol* funny. I know that by myself.

Bob Hall Love this Blue Metallic ! Gorgeous !

Christian W Thank you, Bob
It was the first Color I saw on the ZR-1. I have not a lot model kits painted in blue. It Looks like there are only "special cars", which deserve blue in my collection

Neuling Distinctive colour! Looks good!

Christian W Thank you! I think this color matches great to the Corvette.

Bob Hall Beautiful !

Christian W Thank you!
It is so cute

Tim Heimer What? This ain't a Corvette! LOL

Neuling Schöner Ford!

Christian W Danke, Neuling! Gefällt mir auch sehr. Werde da wohl noch den einen und anderen alten Ford bauen. Zeitnah

Yes, Tim *lol* I wanted to try something different to explore new areas

Bob Hall The Gorgeous 1958 ! Only year offered with the all chrome trim ! Excellent !

Christian W Thank you!
Thie model kit is so good. It fits perfect and it's relative easy to built. I like it and so it came, that I bought another kit of this.
Bevor I built this model kit, I never noticed the louvers on the front hood or trim on the rear hood. Then I read about the tiny differents between 1958-1960. I always had the 1960 in mind. But this is a little more interessting because of the tiny design differents.

Bob Hall Sweet ! American Classic !

Christian W I like the shape of the front bumper to the front panel. Lovely. This sharp nose. And the second area: the big wheels in the wheel housing. Excellent.

Bob Hall Love it ! Can't explain it, but I love them Indy Pace Cars !

Christian W I know! Same here. After I was done with it, I was thinking about to add more Pace Cars.

You know, that my project sounds "Silver Corvette". But when I saw the decals for the pace car, there was no other possibility as building it as a pace car. So I have to buy another C4 convertible to build one in silver *lol*

Bob Hall Pretty little Silver Streak !

Christian W Thank you!
When I look at the Pictures, I like the rear a lot. I like the days, when I see a C5 in the area of my workplace. Silver with black roof. A daily driver. One of my favorite Corvette. I have the feeling, that I'm a modern guy. C5 - C6 - C7. They are sporty.

Bob Hall That's one sexy C6 !

Christian W When I finished that C6 I was sure, that it would be my favorit Corvette. I like the C5 but the C6 a Little more.

Bob Hall Love me some Foose !

Christian W Thank you!
The combination black gloss with that silver matt is very nice. I like the small red trim line especially. Chip Foose is my favorit designer. He has a good eye for lines and styling.

Christian W The C2 is done.

Munkyslut That is just bloody gorgeous!!!! I love that, well done Christian, that is one nice C2

Christian W Thank you very much! It turned out very well. There are small tiny incorrect spots but you have to look pretty good to it. At the end I'm satisfied and think about, to turn the dark red metallic body to a complete model kit. It us shiny an smooth. It would make a good model kit too.

James C Awesome looking shine and finish to that silver paint job. Very cool!

Tim Heimer Nice work!

Dominik Weitzer came out really great. saw it last Weekend and it Looks superb

Christian W Thank you mates I like it too. Great kit, great result

Bill Newcomer You did a very nice job!

Christian W It's done. After and hand full of parts, the Model T is done. Love it

Bob Hall Beautiful ! Henry Ford would be proud !

Tom Really good! Hope mine turns out half as nice.

Tim Heimer Awesome! I like it!

Christian W Thank you, mates!
It's really cute. A little cute car. When you take it in your hands, if feels like it's gonna break. It's weight is maybe half of a regular kit. Sweet. Love it

Dominik Weitzer Really really nice Little Car :-D

bughunter Very nice Blechliesel of a later time, would be a nice addition to my ICM T's in 1:24.

Christian W Thanks, buddies!
The ICM model kits are great. Ask me, why I don't have them so far

Munkyslut I like that box art, will make for a very pretty car.
I always quite liked the soft nose/tail cars, especially the '74-'77 cars with the small rear window & big pillars.
The '78-on big rear window never looked as good to me.
Are you building this now Christian?

Christian W I will start one of the 3rd Generation soon. Sadly I don't have one with the small rear window. Only the "Fastback". I'm the other way round guy: I like the big rear window. Both are sexy anyway.

Christian W I only have this kit (1976 Corvette (AMT/ERTL 38421, 1:25) with the small window.

One C3 (small window) I have already built. It was "kitbashed" by a friend and I finished it. You don't see it. But I can't say, what the kit based on. I guess, it was a Revell-Monogram kit. But I'm not sure. The plastic was silver, the rear end orange.

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Christian W Damn, it Looks good.

Munkyslut That looks great

Munkyslut I love these 300's, I'm watching

Christian W Thank you. It's some months ago when I laid hand on it. The next step is BMF for the window trims.

Munkyslut Blue? I was surprised........ but it looks so damn good!

Christian W I wanted something different than silver, red or black. I orientated me at an old box by Revell, where the 300SL was showed in blue (Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (Revell 7132, 1:24) So I took some blue. There were some people how said, that blue wasn't for the 300SL so I proofed the contrary.

At the beginning of the production Mercedes offered 10 colors *and* it was possible to order any color the customer wanted! If the costumer didn't tell the dealer any wish of the color, it came silver. At the end of the production 1 of 3 were silver painted. This is the typical picture of the 300SL the most people have in mind.

But: also at the end of the production Mercedes offered 49 different colors. 89% had "standard" colors and 11% had a special one - you can say one of a kind color. So it turned out, that there are 9 different blue unicolor and 3 metallic blue. As a sum they painted 69 SL in blue. 8 colors of the blue were painted only for one car.

Christian W Thank you! Yetserday I was proud about the results. Hopefully today they still look amazing Now I can paint the details on the kit and put it together.

Slavo Hazucha Lovely finish, got some serious depth in it

Christian W Thank you. On my point of view it looks amazing in silver. The curves are so lovely

Munkyslut Very nice! Silver always looks good on C3's, lovely shine

Bill Newcomer Nice work! I see the front wheel placement mod was successful.

Bob Hall SWEET !

Tim Heimer Came out nice! Good save on the wheel issue!

Christian W Thank you! I like it too.
I don't know why AMT didn't check the sitting of the wheels. If they wouldn't had done this small inner ring around the pin (which I sanded down), the wheels would fit perfect into the wheelhouse.