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Larry Ball
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Compared to recent kits, Emhar’s 1/35 scale Whippet is rudimentary. “But then again, so was the Whippet itself,” Larry says. “As a result, a few surprisingly easy, common tweaks make a remarkably fine result from the Emhar kit.” To that end, he cut the kit’s vinyl tracks into link-and-length to shape them around the running gear realistically, replaced the machine guns with parts from his spares box, drilled out vision holes, scratchbuilt stowage boxes, detailed the exhausts, replaced solid-molded grab handles with wire, and opened the engine louvers. “That’s it,” he says. “Paint it up, slather it with many colors of mud, grime, and washes, top it all off with some graphite and pastels, and the Emhar kit turns into a very convincing Whippet.”