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In my point of view, talking about design: - the first generation of FE cars was very ugly, too much "high nose F1 lookalikes"; - the current second generation is very interesting, I like it, something unique between a formula car and a sportscar, and with the advantage that the fenders hi...

Great job!!! Looks fantastic!! Good to see such a well built kit with so much parts done in 3D. Please show more of it. Parabéns!!

Thanks, James! I must say that the inspiration came from my other hobby, free hand drawing. When you do a lot of hatching, specially white cross hatching over black paper, the idea became obvious. I'm using regular 8B pencils, but as you mentioned colored pencils, those Prismacolor ones can be fanta...

I don't like to use CF decals. So I use a combination of techniques. First, I never use black as a color base for CF, but RLM 66 or other very dark grey for the "black" CF, and other colors for Kevlar etc. In this TS020 I used the good old silk stocking as a mask to spray a mist of very di...

Thanks, obrigado, for all the kind words!! I like all three of them, but especially the 72D. As you say you have combined parts from the 72C and 72E, I wonder if you are still able to build another 72? I could imagine you just used those additional flat sidepods and the radiators from the 72C. Or ha...

Lastly, a Hasegawa Zakspeed 189 1/24. This one is from the original 1990 edition of the kit, and the decals are from Shunko, because the originals had been broken for a long time. I added seat belts, tubes and cables and made new wheels and tires because the original kit wheels are too small. Adding...

More details of the 72D.

A few months ago I finished this Lotus 72D, a version of the 1972 Italian GP (curiously, another race and championship winner at the same track!). It was opportune to finish it this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of Emerson Fittipaldi's first championship. It's a mix of parts from Ebbro's ki...

Hi guys, I hope everyone is OK! Lately I've been trying to finish projects that were on hold for a long time and just needed a few details to finish. In these last six months, I managed to finish these three. I apologize for not having better photos. I need to review this part of the documentation o...

Sorry, I'm a bit late in this most interesting conversation, I was travelling a bit... looks good, James, congrats!! Looking forward to see the parts printed. I'm a long time Maya user, actually since the first beta version, because of my job _animation for advertising, TV and movies. So the "M...