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No. I am a fan of Benetton in general, so I like all their cars. But this is the "flame" car B 186 Idk what Europeans called this, if anything other than 186, but here it's always referred to as the flame car because of the colored brush strokes. Which maybe looked like flames to someone? I don't see it, but "brush stroke" car sounds a little too suspect to have caught on. Powered by a development of the same mighty BMW engine as the BT-50, but without the Gorden Murrey chassis.

Heh, Thought you didn't like Turbo cars? I do. The Benetton Flame car is my Fav, but this one is up there too.

Great minds think alike, evidently. I am doing mine as a BRE tribute car. Street legal with all the required parts, but using the paint scheme as a jumping off point. I have that decal sheet. Problem is at the moment I can't decide if I want it left or right hand drive. Which affects some of the detail. And I am probably going to use a darker blue. That's all theory right now. To model the race car the interior would have to be modified quite a bit. Bt the exterior changes seem to be minimal. Growing up my neighbors knew Pete Brock, and their son had a Datsun 510, which was BRE's other famous race car. So he had an original BRE front spoiler on it.

Cars. Car show coming up that I have not been too before , so I need something to enter. Shows are no fun if you don't enter. 1/24 Tamiya 240Z street sport. Beautiful kit. Really outstanding. 1/20 Tamiya McLaren MP 4/13. Not quite as nice as the Z, but it's at least 25 years it's senior. And the aftermath of the Kangaroo, to lazy to clean bench until it really becomes an issue... And another one of the pesky 109's sneaking into everything. They are as bad as cats, really.

You picked a fine kit to return with. Welcome back.

More than a little, I would say... They have boxed it three times already.

Thanks guys 👍

Imagine, as a plane guy, walking into that field... And what three more or less intact 109's would be worth today.

I guess this is armor? In my head canon, this is a scout. These new smaller kits don't come with the description text that honestly hardly ever made any sense anyway. So I make my own, within the framework of SF3D/Ma.K that I understand. And I am of the school that it's the future (space) Nazi's fighting the Alli's, again. WW5 style! The desert pink is mean't to look field applied over a panzer grey base. I feel like I hid too much of the grey, but I like the finished look, so I am ok with that. Also, stowage, which I never see on these things. And the fancy pilot helmet. This guy is an ace, so he gets a few perk's, like a custom helmet. Scratch built fuel cap, cause the carpet monster got the kit part. I added the flex cables, kit molded parts never have the right look, and they are a pain to clean up. Guitar strings are much more in keeping with the original kits. Work in progress here

It's not age. It's heat at the time of casting, how much the mold shrank after curing, how old the mold is, because they do shrink over time. a number of factors. Quality of materials is huge factor. Cheap resin shrinks more. But I don't believe that resin parts shrink over time. It all happens in the mold, or in the first few hours after demold. How you measure the resin has a lot to do with it too. it has to be precise, and it's easy to get complacent when doing a lot of it. Resin casting is a pain in the ass.

Thanks guys. Just need to edit photo's and I will post them.

A last note. Some of the above have their final washes, some do not. Hence the color variations.

Canopy and pilot.

Air cleaners and fuel tank.

Arms.