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Fantastic effort! What a proud addition to your display case! The Acu-Stion parts look great, and you've even done the heat sensitive paint stripes on the brake rotor edges. Sweet!

Cheers, Chris

If it's a running DVD video, get VLC Player, and watch it on your PC. VLC plays everything, regardless of file type, region, encoding, etc.

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I was surprised to hear about Ricciardo's move, but after reading the posts here, it makes sense to me now. I wish him all the best at Renault!

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Great start. I really should do mine too... Thanks for sharing. Don't drive yourself crazy with the CF decals!

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Amazing work with all those hand-built, home-lathed parts! Wow! @ M.Chriss: The comments are lots praise, mostly saying that the engine looks like it would actually start up. @ gp-models: Caption at 11:25 minutes says he back-filled the tyres with resin, to keep the treads from going concave. Cheers...

Beautiful Protar 312 T5 build. I missed it in 2012! I love the way you got the body to fit, and the work you did with the tyres. Excellent!

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Cowling fitment is a problem with many kits -- even Tamiya's & Ebbro's. I think it's just because thin plastic parts warp a little bit, when they come out of the mould, still-hot. And manufacturers aren't going to keep their moulds closed for a whole minute until the parts cool. They'd only get ...

Ah, AcuStion make medical stuff too? That might explain a lot. I once thought about buying some of the UV light-hardening "bondo" my dentist uses, until heard that it costs a couple hundred dollars for a small vial. AcuStion do have an -- ahem -- different business model, don't they. Cheer...

Lookin' good, Russell! We can see the shape of things to come now, and it's pretty!

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Yes, respect! That's a lot of CAD work! Beautiful lines!

Cheers, Chris