“I made this model as a child, and Mom tossed it after I couldn’t complete it,” Ron Francis said of his Tamiya 1/12 scale Lotus 72D. “I had to do it correctly when Tamiya reissued it.” And Ron has, going so far as to include a Model Factory Hiro detail set for the engine. While he didn’t weather his Lotus, Ron did shade the engine to bring out the finer points.