I quite like the front end.....knew the peace would not last long between us! .....
As you say it creates good conversations.
However would be interested to see the renderings of your pencil....
I am buying all three packs of the road kit which costs just over £3K, so aiming to build it for around £4K.
Doing my usual of making as much use of the donor as possible. I am using a Metro GTi with the 16v, multi point injection engine, which provides most of the pieces I need in one package. With what I have sold in spares it only stands me in at £100 so far.
Blog link:
http://onyx-mongoose.blogspot.com/