Thanks for the response!
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Originally Posted by indy1977tx
Looks great. I always loved the Esprit and you did a great job customizing this one to look like your 1:1. Do you have a circle cutter? You might be able to add the black circles to the rims to fill the space in the middle more like yours.
Jordan
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When I built the model my attempts to replicate the black rings failed: Painting with a permanent marker (applied directly or on clear decal sheet) didn't look convincing and punching out rings from black decals made the decals crack. Today I would simply print the circles including the OZ logo on clear decal sheet.
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Originally Posted by Martini Man
very nice, one of my favorite dream cars. how was ownership?
and the model looks great too. : )
Paul
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The car was fun and rather easy to drive, still usable in daily traffic (visibility und luggage space acceptable), but its very poor quality and reliability was disappointing. My ownership ended when the undersized gearbox (from Renault's Alpine) exploded and Lotus was unable for an unforeseeable time to supply spare parts nor new transmissions.
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Originally Posted by Kjenjak
Cool result, comes quite close to your original car. Good work on all the mods.
Makes me wanna play Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge again! 
I'd change the license plates though. There are some good programs available for download (for free) that create license plates. |
On my more recent builds I used very recommendable decal sheets from the German manufacturer TL. They come with separate plain plates, letters, digits and seals even for AU and TÜV. I prefer them because opposite to number plate generators I don't have to care about the right 1/24 size.
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Originally Posted by BVC500
Awesome scratch building skills! It turned out great. I assume you made it curbside, or did you scratch build a V8?  |
Yes, you are right, it's a curbside model.