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I’d say you’ve got it spot on. Nicely done. Someone has to

Welcome Srdjan. Nice to have you join our motley crew

Welcome to Eurobricks. I can't help you with your question, most of the time I barely know what day it is, but you've certainly come to the right place.

Good to have you with us. I just know you're going to really enjoy your time here.

Welcome to Eurobricks Jo. Good to have you with us.

Excellent. Makes me want to buy another Chiron

I'm sure you wept as you typed . Here, have tissue...

She is our Little Princess but above all she’s a beautiful, very well behaved and mannered 6yr old little girl .

Hmmmm... Your sincerity isn't entirely convincing But it's pink! Penny has her own building table in my shed so her pink bricks don't contaminate the rest

Good grief Jim, don’t encourage this sort of behaviour. I have a 6yr old Grandaughter who now wants my entire Technic collection rebuilt in pink. Yes, PINK!!! I need to go lay down and start the day again

Thank you Andy. It's a build I'm enjoying very much. With it being the Pimped version the body can be removed in one piece so the good stuff underneath can be seen.

Thank you Igor. It’s coming along nicely. I do indeed. Sturdy framework. Very sturdy framework

Really interesting mechanism. When I saw (TC15) and Dart and mistakenly thought it was going to be the Sea Dart made by the same company, Convair. It's such an interesting aircraft that I'd build myself but I haven't the building skills. For anyone not familiar with the Sea Dart you can see it in action here - Convair Sea Dart

Very easy to see what this is. A real blast from the past. Good work

Nice progress Edwin. Looking forward to seeing the superstructure take shape

Building Time 5hrs 40mins - Total Build Time 35hrs 15mins With the completed chassis sitting to one side work on the body continues at what, for me anyways, has been a reasonably good pace. I’ve always found fitting pins, parts etc., inside frames difficult mainly because I can’t get a tooth in far enough to get purchase to push them into place and using a finger ends with bits going off in all directions. Today I’ve had two to do. Warning: This next bit may (OK, will) go on a bit. Sorry. Over the years I’ve tried all sort of ways to make this easier but nothing worked particularly well. Today though I had an idea. I took a piece of a bamboo kebab stick, broken so it was about 3 studs in length, and pushed it snugly into the end of the pin. From the inside of the frame I then pushed the bamboo through the hole so a short bit of the kebab stick stuck out. After joining 5 x Technic Plate Rotor 6 Blade with Clip Ends (64566) one on top of the other I raised the frame and lowered it so that the kebab stick went into centre hole of the joined plates. This held the frame upright and the pin in place over the hole. I’ve tried many ways of pushing the pin down and into place but found a 2 x 8 Plate with Waffle Bottom (3034old) is best as it has square indents underneath that the top of the pin can sit in. So, with the plate carefully passed through the frame and held above the pin it was just a case of wedging the plate between my palms, locating the top of the pin in as close to the centre most square under the plate as possible and gently pushing down and bingo, pin in place. All that remained was to remove the kebab stick. I know this sounds a convoluted way of doing things (made worse by my less than clear explanation) but it’s quicker than struggling to do it other ways. The rest of build went well. Enough of my rambling, here’s today’s pictures.

I'm not sure but could it be something like this:

It’s sad that time constraints means you’ll not have what you feel is a satisfactory entry for TC15 but it’s best to take your time and have what I know will be an amazing build. I look forward to the time when we can see it completed. Hope all goes well at Uni.

Building time 6hrs 20mins - Total build time 29hrs 35mins Knowing my days building would be starting with the GT3’s engine didn’t fill my heart with much joy as every time I’ve built an engine (particularly V8’s) it’s added considerably to the days building time. If I recall correctly the last one took 3hrs or so. This one though was quick by comparison taking just over 1hr 30mins. Being a flat 6 and not the usual and much more difficult V8 helped as I could lay the blocks and completed crankshaft assembly flat and, using my clamps, tease the pistons more easily into place. With the engine and last few bits and pieces fitted the chassis is complete but like others I’m disappointed that the engine’s covered up so you can’t see the pistons moving. I like to see them popping up & down (or in the GT3’s case, moving side to side) when ‘driving’ and so do Jake and George. The first time they saw the pistons moving on a model they were playing with they wanted to know what they were & why they were doing what they were doing and they now know how an engine works so leaving them visible can be educational. I know plastic covers etc., hide the real cars engine so the model having the same is realistic but I really don’t think any builder would complain had the designer left the pistons operation visible. This sessions pics.

Yippie! Another masterpiece in the making

I like where this is going. I look forward seeing it progress.

I don’t quite know how to answer that

No, I’ve not got that level of competence but I like that you think I know what I’m doing