Gandini was the best car designer..ever.
Stratos, Miura, Countach, Diablo..
The Stratos is in my greatest rally cars dome, along withe Integraçe, 205, Evo, Quattro.

Anyway your BMD is getting really great.
I remember the tracks on that Skif kit are awful.
You did an amazing job with the details & gun.

@ Dave I really don't know!

@ John many thanks for the kind words. Regarding the tracks I've already bought the Masterclub ones to subsitute those provided by the kit

Anyway, I think that track links provided by Skif are rather ugly but not so terrible. At least they are single tracks. Some stiff vinyl ones would have been worse

Cheers

Ps...the Coutach...that's another car which I LOVE!!

Hi Mauro,

Beautiful build! im really getting into the soviet/russian AFV's and thats a cool looking subject.

When i was a teenager the countach was my dream car. Black paint with a hot chick next to me. when i got married all the dreams just faded away! ...

Gary

Mauro, how's the BMD progress ?

Please be patient

I'm incredibly busy with my job so I have to stop my build for a while. Anyway a very kind friend of mine has given me the Elf headlights



I'm almost sure that i'll use them on my BMD...they're beautiful

Thanks for the interest John. Stay tuned

Cheers

Awsome headlights, they look great !

No problem Mauro, I know that sometimes work tend to mess with our modelling schedule.
I would love to get paid to build models...

Take care and get back on the bench whenever you can !



The Milan teams had some different results this week for the Champions Cup. Which team do you follow ?
Inter or AC Milan ?

Neither of them actually... I've supported Juventus since I was a kid

Anyway I would really like to carry on with my build. I hope I'll be able to do something this week end

the ElF lights will look the ....Mauro!

just look at the PT76 post , looks very real those lights!

greetz

I've already seen it Pit

Headlights and model look amazing

I usually make my headlights lenses embossing metal foils and adding a small trasparent plastic circle on them....but, as you can imagine, that's a quite time consuming job, so I think I'll be happier to obtain a very good result saving a bit of time

Thanks a lot

Cheers

I'm know I'm late to the party, but I just couldn't help but comment on the Miura. Way back in 1979 when I was living in Beirut.. a friend of mine - rich bastard his older brother had a red Miura and he allowed me to drive it for a few miles along the corniche... What a dream come true! The most beautiful car ever built.. in my eyes!

Anyway, you're doing some fine work on that BMD.. it's really looking good. You're quite a resourceful modeler!

Hisham

Lucky guy Hisham !! What a car that Miura, what a beauty.. it's the Monica Belucci of cars..

Mauro we are all looking forward to your amazing build, take your time, no worries !

What a great team they had with Baggio, Vialli, Andreas Moller, Ravanelli, Deschamps, Sousa.. so many great players Zidane, Davids.

Hisham
Welcome! Thanks a lot for the kind words

John




Please don't make me cry out of nostalgia!


Cheers guy, thanks for your constant support

Those headlights look pretty good- are they a dedicated set for the BMD-1?

hi Karl. According to the set instructions, 4 mm lenses are suitable for BTR, BMP, BMD and PT series
Headlights for all the Russian AFV are standard. I think that I can use a 4 mm lens on my T-55 or on my t-62, but i haven't decided yet. Now to be honest I regret that I've ordered few of them

Anyway these are the actual BMD headlights





Front headlights sometime have a screen (Which is depicted roughly in Skif kit)



If don't be wrong, these headlights could be the same used on the T-55





So, I think that'll be an incredibly useful set

Cheers


(PS:Pics have been posted for discussion purpose only)

Mauro where did you get that set ?
I might use it for the T-55...

good match this weekend, real lucky with that 2nd Milan goal from Muntari...
Anyway from nostalgia sake.. check the 92' attacking side from Juve...Fabrizio Ravanelli, Pierluigi Casiraghi, Gianluca Vialli
Paolo Di Canio, Roberto Baggio...

John, a dear friend of mine has got it and he gave me the parts which he doesn't need

For a t-55 you need one set. There are 4 4mm dimater headlights (you need 3 of them)
I strongly advise you this set!



(ps... off topic. In this moment the team is the most hated in Italy !!)

I will try to find one set then, do you know a online shop that sells those ?
I checked your photo again, that's really a great set !


with a legal goal like that... what can they expect ??
Anyway Claudio Ranieri is on the verge of leaving Inter soon.

Hey Mauro,

Just stopping by to say hi and how goes the build. looking forward to your next update.

Gary

Hi Gary, many thanks for your interest

As always, I've been very busy with my job this days but I hope I'll be able to make some progresses at this weekend.
I have to paint the inner sides of the rear vents, then I finally will be able to close the hull

I know, i'm slow and this is a bit frustrating for me.
I'd like to start some other projects but unfortunately I can't at the moment

@ John. A friend of mine has given me the lenses, so to be honest I don't know where you can buy them. Anyway I can answer to him to know where he's got theirs


Cheers

hay Mauro what happend did you give up LOL just kidding do you have any up date for us
dave

Any update Dave, many thanks for your interest.

In my stash under a pile of boxes I've found an old Zvezda T-34/85 mod. 1944 factory 183 (flattened turret). I usually make just one model a time, but this old dog has tempted me a lot. Of corse, is not a DML kit, but, according to my large references, its dimension are almost perfect. I've begun to do it, maybe i'll post a build log about. Anyway, I won't leave unfinished my BMD-1. Stay tuned for progresses

cheers