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George Williams
Never seen this before but it looks fabulous.

David Orr
That is very nice. It's good to see an unusual subject like this. I think I had a Matchbox car very similar to that.

Spence Wilson
@George, thanks! Concept car from the late 60s. Always been one of my favorite concepts.

@David, I know Hot Wheels did a version in 1970 and Matchbox did one in 1971. Pretty sure I had the Matchbox version as well at some point.

Alexander Grivonev
You actually managed to order a kit from this website?

Christian W
So cool to see this one build! Great! I love those old prototypes and how they saw the sports car for the future.

Spence Wilson
@Alexander, I have been buying the SMP24 kits for about 4 years now. It was not easy to find or purchase them in the beginning but I have been a pretty consistant purchaser since. I am not sure how many actually get out of Japan or Asia for that matter. Definately not easy or inexspensive to obtain.

@Christian, thanks! I am also a big fan of this era of prototypes, most concepts from the 70s though the 90s I felt really captured what it meant to create really wild and intersting concepts.

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic model of a fantastic car!

Spence Wilson
@Robertt, thanks very much.

Marcel
Great build of a unique car. Love the color.

Mr D
Very nice, great subject too👌
Do you know who the designer was ??

David Orr
@MrD It's got a Bertone logo on the side of the engine cover.

Spence Wilson
@ Marcel, thank you very much!

@Mr. D It was designed by Marcello Gandini while he was with Bertone in 1968.

shadowlight
What can you tell us about the quality of the kit? Sharpness of casting, amount of details, difficulties during building....

Mr D
Thanks Spence😃👍
Thought it had a Gandini look, .. like the stratos ect .
Really nice , ike the window tint.

Spence Wilson
@shadowlight You can watch the full build of the kit on my YouTube channel and see what it consists of. I don't do a lot of resin so I don't have much to compare it to but I find the resin to be a little soft so things like scribing are difficult for me when I am so used to doing it with plastic. The interior is beyond detailed with so many tiny photoetch pieces it is amazing, as it is with many of their kits. The engines in the SMP kits I find are always bitter sweet. They have fantastic detail for the parts that are included but I also feel they are a little simplified and ccould use a few more extra bits to them just to detail them up a little more. All SMP kits come with great photo etch parts and a level of details that is beyond my expectations. Just understand this is a garage kit and more in line with something you may 3d print rather than building a Tamiya or other styrene kit. A lot of the parts can benefit from pins to hold better and you have to decide if you want to go through all that yourself. I love the two SMP kits I have built so far and I have several more of them that I am eager to get into as well. I really enjoy building them.

Alexander Grivonev
There is just something about those concept cars from 70ies 80ies 90ies. Pure nostalgia...

István Szücs
Flawless result, I love it!

Kyle DeHart
I have this but my decals are fried. Your example makes me want to get some made and build it. Beautifully done Spence!!

Spence Wilson
@Istvan, Thanks so much.

@Kyle, my decals were pretty bad as well, I was really nervous putting that rear decal on the wing. One of the orange round ones broke apart on me while I was applying it. New decals would have been amazing.

Kyle DeHart
Well great work anyways!

Neuling
A flawless beauty!

Spence Wilson
Thanks guys, I appreciate you saying!

Sergej I
Wow, nice! In 🙂

Mike Montgomery
Looking great, so far.

CaptGPF
Sitting down for the show!

Spanjaard
detail of that engine OOB seems really great, looking forward seeing it painted. that is the P&W R2800 (Magic Factory 7506, 1:48) right ?

Akaidada
YES BRO

P&W R2800~

Sy Bar
🍿ready to follow 😎

Jennifer Franklin
following 👀

Clint
Great detailing!

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Nice progress, very nice and lovely done chipping - took a seat here as I´m very interested in some more detail pics on your chipping work 👍

CaptGPF
Looking good! Watching. 😀

Peter Wu
Great Job! Can't wait to see the final work.

Shar Dipree
Wow, great dio! 👍👍👍👍

Neuling
Wow 2

John E
Super work. Nicely done! 👍👍

Rui S
Excellent work & Dio 👍

Akaidada
THANKS BROS 😎

Jennifer Franklin
that is an amazing dio!

Christian Lehmann
👍

Pietro De Angelis
Wonderful dio, congrats!

CaptGPF
OMG! That Dio is perfection!

Vincent
Beautiful project. Great work!!

Pietro De Angelis
😲 WOW 3!

Bruce Huxtable
A Master-Class of superb creative work....

JRSModels
Nice work. The pilot figure looks a thousand times better molded/engineered than the Magic Factory crew figures, though. One of the best looking 1/48 figures I have ever seen. Where is it from, please?