Ferrari race cars were often painted with mops, brooms, and roller brushes Last minute before going to the docks, back in the day.. You needed to see them in the pits, up close, at Daytona and Sebring.... NOT at the auto shows and later races back in Yurp! J.C.
I showed this video to my brother. He builds full size cars both as restorations and drag racing. They are amazing, beautiful machines. He has built some models in the past. He couyld not believe your work. I just wanted to pass on to you what I thought was such high praise.
I know I’m way late on this but I’ve only recently found your channel but some of your finished model shots could easily be mistaken for the real car, you’re simply that good. I don’t even build models but I find your videos beautifully done and very informative and oddly relaxing.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS BEAUTIFULL MODEL! Many years ago, it was 25 April 1967, I saw the Ferrari 330 P4 race an win the 1000 Km of Monza, driven by Bandini - Amon, with Scarfiotti Parkes on second place. After the victory, as usual a I nvaded the pit lane and I reached the car, smelling the hot engine parfume of oil, burned tire, and smashed mosquitos in the front of the car. The sound of the 12 cilinder, deep, loud and furious is something the I never forgot. Thank you for this beautifull reproduction of the best racing car ever!
Amazing! I went straight to the end to look at the finished model, and compared it to the photograph I took at the LeMans race (I had a photographer's pass for trackside access). It is incredibly accurate, and only after going back to watch the whole video, did I realise what a massive amount of work you did to match the car in the kit to the real-world full-size car. Thank you!
A red sharpie makes great tailights. Just mark on the “inside” of the clear part. Blue works great for airplane lights, again, paint the inside, not outside of the clear lense.
Absolute masterpiece, the finish is amazing. Very neatly filmed too, especially the final presentation. You say "not perfect", what on earth could you do to improve on this build? These bolts/rivets are SO small, I would struggle to get them off the tree, let alone get them onto the car. A wonderful build and a pleasure to watch. All the Best from Scotland, Dougie.
Absolutely breathtaking. A stunning car and the level of effort, detail and the result is something the Maranello team would be proud of I'm sure. Great work my friend.
Your attention to detail is nothing short of awe inspiring! You have single-handedly gotten me back into the hobby and using your techniques the quality of models I can make now is lighyears ahead of what I used to do. Thank you so much! BTW, doing a warhammer 40k video would probably get a ton of views and certainly be an inspiration to all the people in the mini-wargaming hobby!
I've recently bought this kit and your video is not only a great display of your brilliant modelling talent, but also brilliant reference and research for the car in question. Many thanks, David. Great video.
Nice build - this Ferrari is my favorite car of all time. A little FYI, in the video there is commentary that the 330 P4 and 412P are different cars, this is not quite correct. Given they were hand built race cars every chassis varied slightly and cars had multiple body panels as they were crashed and rebuilt. Mirror configuration changes were made car to car and panel to panel. The 330 P4 and 412P were exactly the same chassis, however, the 412P were sold by Ferrari factory to private teams and ran with carburetors. The P4 ran with mechanical fuel injection by the Ferrari factory team since it was new technology and faster. Mr Ferrari, ever image conscious, held back the fuel injection so the Ferrari factory had an edge (read faster cars) than the private teams he sold his cars to!
@@ungurdani8346 Like I've said it once before; I find it very interesting and educational, to be watching this. In the very way; how the plastic models, get painted and glued.
You are on another level. No other RUclips model builder even comes close to your attention to detail and patience. Thank you for your indepth videos. Always a pleasure watching
@@sierrafox1779 Just think; the plastic model Tijuana taxi had grabbed, grabbed everybody's attention the most. Especially during the mid and late 1970s.
I built a 1/24 Mercedes-Benz 500K Special Roadster model kit some days ago. If I had seen your video first, it would have been a great help in assembling the model kit.
"I hope I didn't discourage you from this kit; you can simply build it straight out of the box. In my opinion, the difference will be almost negligible." I appreciate the encouragement, although I'm going to respectfully disagree. ;)
Plasmo, I am typically mostly interested in aviation models, but so far this has been my favorite video of yours that I have watched. The modifications you made were absolutely amazing! I'm just getting back into modeling and this video has given me a ton of inspiration with what can be accomplished. Also, great choice of car. The P4 is one of my all time favorite Ferrari designs.
tip. use a blue marker pen to darken down the inside edge of your headlight glass. you have a white edge which is highly visible and it makes the glass look like plastic. stunning model bro. loved your video
A handy tip for polishing is to pre-load the polishing tool with compound before using it. Otherwise, you're essentially just sucking the compound off the surface with that dry cotton ball, which means you'll generally end up using way more compound than you really have to. Use one ball for each compound as well. It's going to pick up compound regardless, and you can't wash that stuff out, so you might as well just have a set of polishing consumables for each grit, especially considering that you do this for a living as far as I can tell. My father was a body-man (collision repair) at a GM dealership for almost 50 years, building hot-rods on the side until it became unprofitable, and he taught me quite a few things. There wasn't a thing going on in that shop that he didn't know every detail about, including PnP (paint and polish). Any time he'd see me painting or sanding/polishing my models as a kid, he'd always show me what I was doing wrong. One of the things he taught me is that you use separate tools for each compound, and you load each up with the compound it's intended for. This also quickens the polishing process, in that you don't have to bother with the futile process of washing compound off, and when you're at the next step, you can just clean the part, throw the next wheel/swab in, put some fresh compound on it and get after it.
Nice touch on levelling the decals. People don't realize that in this era of racing that the numbers were painted on, often on the weekend of the race with a brush you would paint a house with!
Man, these people should be paying you, very well I might add, to assemble their models and shoot pictures of them. You could do the same thing! Video, just like you do now. And have it run in their sales office. That way after people take tours of their plant and go into look at the models and buy them. They can watch you doing your thing. That paint job has got to be the best I’ve ever seen on a models. Kudos to you my man. Way to go!!!!!
I’ve been watching your channel for years and have seen every video. I revisited this today and I have to say this is one of my favourite builds still. Amazing quality
I think I've watched this video 40 times already. I bought the same kit and am in the middle of building it now using your modifications and helpful hints!
The detailed information and coating tips you provide are invaluable to someone like me. I've been away from plastic modeling for a while, and am preparing to build some kits this winter. So, leaving all the items I've collected in the box, while I learn more has been a smart move. Thanks to your videos, I'm sure my results will be better than they would've been otherwise. Thank you!
Amazing! The final presentation almost made me emotional. Are you interested in any of the modern hybrid LMP-1 machines? I'd love to see you build one of those.
Still trying to figure out why this has ANY thumbs down. Maybe some people searched "how to tame and ride a unicorn donkey" and this popped up. This how to build a beautiful and brilliant Ferrari 330 to perfection! Awesome PLASMO!
I bought the same kit a few years back when I was in Japan with the family visiting the in-laws, also bought the GT40 as well. I wasn’t too sure what the Ferrari was like to build till today, thank you for such a fantastic build, didn’t realise there were inaccuracies in the kit, thanks for the heads up! Looking forward to the next vid 😀
Exceptional!!! One of my all time favorite race cars and the finish on this - wow. I know I'm a layman, in regards to this - but still - wow! I don't know when it happened, but model kit building has been turned into some kind of pro level. Modelers creating finish build that are beyond museum pieces.
Hello from Barcelona! I've seen this video like 20 times and I love it. I was wondering to build this car since I saw this tutorial the first time and finally I've bought it with same extra decals. I will follow this video and try to get that exquisite finish. Thanks so much Master!
Absolutely beautiful work. I am too old to get back into this hobby. After watching many of you videos, I was tempted many times. I did buy a few kits, nothing as what you would say are pro kits. They turned out not too bad, but seeing your professionism, you motivated me to do better. If your are not the best... then you are in the top 10. thank you
Thank you. Thank you for FINALLY getting an appropriate air brush to cover larger areas, instead of painstakingly showing us how to struggle with a 0.18mm needle/nozzle on broad areas of flat color... If only other you tubers would catch on... The Mr. Hobby PS-290 is one of the best. Made by Creos, the same factory that make Iwata, the PS-290 compares to the Iwata version in quality, and the nozzle cover is interchangeable, a great air brush.
Very nice! For the decals over complex detals, Please try a hot wet rag, and push it on the decal over the detail. Just take a rag, wet it, ( not soaking wet, wring it out to "Moist") throw it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds, it will be hot, be careful, just apply the decal as usuall, normal setting solution, and just use the hot rag on it after positioning it. Be careful because once you heat it and push it on.. its on. :)
This model has a better paint job than my actual car.
Ferrari race cars were often painted with mops, brooms, and roller brushes
Last minute before going to the docks, back in the day..
You needed to see them in the pits, up close, at Daytona and Sebring....
NOT at the auto shows and later races back in Yurp!
J.C.
Breaks out airbrush, and heads for garage...lol
This model looks great a real work of art your scratch building techniques are top notch also I really enjoyed this one thanks
Dude my black 69 charger is my dream car and I'm 18
@@375GTB those old photos showing the race cars were actually taken from the pit lanes and the cars had a good paint job.
I showed this video to my brother. He builds full size cars both as restorations and drag racing. They are amazing, beautiful machines. He has built some models in the past. He couyld not believe your work. I just wanted to pass on to you what I thought was such high praise.
19:52 when the polishing so good you can look out David's window.
*The polishing is "good" IF you can kook out David's window.
What you see is not sky - that is the heavens... and those hands - the hands of a modelling God!
@@akjoh2540 stupid?
That be crazy
@@angrymario8259 David.... Fabulous...
And again, modelling fans around the world, rise to a standing ovation. Encore Maestro, encore.
I only gave a thumbs up because of the paint did not expect it to be that shinny
I know I’m way late on this but I’ve only recently found your channel but some of your finished model shots could easily be mistaken for the real car, you’re simply that good. I don’t even build models but I find your videos beautifully done and very informative and oddly relaxing.
Your like the Bob Ross of scale models.
Please, not "your". It is "you're" or "you are"!!!!!!!
please don't grammar nazi if ppl understand what he means by it
You mean he's a pretty average painter? Also what's with the butt hurt illiterates in the comments?
I'm only here to declare that your username is the most inventive and unique I have ever seen here on RUclips!
Plasmo: It's not perfect.
Me: Are you kidding me?😂
Maybe the flawless paint is too shiny.
He's too much overconfident of his skills. Imo
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he's right it's not perfect...it's god-like !
CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS BEAUTIFULL MODEL! Many years ago, it was 25 April 1967, I saw the Ferrari 330 P4 race an win the 1000 Km of Monza, driven by Bandini - Amon, with Scarfiotti Parkes on second place. After the victory, as usual a I nvaded the pit lane and I reached the car, smelling the hot engine parfume of oil, burned tire, and smashed mosquitos in the front of the car. The sound of the 12 cilinder, deep, loud and furious is something the I never forgot. Thank you for this beautifull reproduction of the best racing car ever!
David, as my grandmother would say, "you have the patience of a saint". Another stunning build.
The presentation at the end looks like the real thing, not like a model....simply amazing
Plasmo : And now no more modifications...
Everybody watching : Mhmm.....
Love your models and all the modifications. Keep up the good work !!
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OMG! I’ve never seen such a perfect 330 P4 scale model honestly, if you only see the final result, it looks like the 1/1, incredible!
There's only one word I can think of that describes this video: humbling.
Thax for the words i couldnt find, cheers.
Amazing! I went straight to the end to look at the finished model, and compared it to the photograph I took at the LeMans race (I had a photographer's pass for trackside access). It is incredibly accurate, and only after going back to watch the whole video, did I realise what a massive amount of work you did to match the car in the kit to the real-world full-size car. Thank you!
Next video: I realised the whole model is not accurate, so I made a new one from epoxy putty
JabwooK hilarious - like MyMechanics “I make a new one” xD
@@allenmueller and is cheaper too :D
From original model i used only modified rubber tires
From the original model I only used nothing
That's Ebroin Song you're talking about...check out his Tirpitz build series
I could only wish I had the eye for detail and the patience to do this. This is one of the most beautiful cars that ever came from Maranello.
PLASMO always goes the extra mile to make things more detailed
A red sharpie makes great tailights. Just mark on the “inside” of the clear part. Blue works great for airplane lights, again, paint the inside, not outside of the clear lense.
Absolute masterpiece, the finish is amazing. Very neatly filmed too, especially the final presentation. You say "not perfect", what on earth could you do to improve on this build?
These bolts/rivets are SO small, I would struggle to get them off the tree, let alone get them onto the car. A wonderful build and a pleasure to watch.
All the Best from Scotland,
Dougie.
Absolutely breathtaking. A stunning car and the level of effort, detail and the result is something the Maranello team would be proud of I'm sure.
Great work my friend.
I was literally holding my breath watching him handle the small parts
Amazing! Would love to see some weathering/damage on a Le Mans car for something post-race! Incredible work as always, David!
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Your attention to detail is nothing short of awe inspiring! You have single-handedly gotten me back into the hobby and using your techniques the quality of models I can make now is lighyears ahead of what I used to do. Thank you so much! BTW, doing a warhammer 40k video would probably get a ton of views and certainly be an inspiration to all the people in the mini-wargaming hobby!
Anyone else get back to that model they've been procrastinating over when they see a new plasmo vid???...i thought so...stunning as always mate
Problem is mine are not as nice as Plasmo's
l love all the mods, the air ducts look amazing!
Scale modelling perfectionist is back with another unbelievable scale model
I've recently bought this kit and your video is not only a great display of your brilliant modelling talent, but also brilliant reference and research for the car in question.
Many thanks, David. Great video.
Just an amazing build overall. When Plasmo builds a kit, he actually builds stuff for it.
The epoxy fairings for the mirrors,the smoothness of paint and varnish,you sir are a craftsman! Thank you for shairing your technique with us.
The voice together with the dedication to perfection makes this channel unique.
Someone give this person a medal. If that's not perfect I don't know what is.
Nice build - this Ferrari is my favorite car of all time.
A little FYI, in the video there is commentary that the 330 P4 and 412P are different cars, this is not quite correct.
Given they were hand built race cars every chassis varied slightly and cars had multiple body panels as they were crashed and rebuilt. Mirror configuration changes were made car to car and panel to panel.
The 330 P4 and 412P were exactly the same chassis, however, the 412P were sold by Ferrari factory to private teams and ran with carburetors. The P4 ran with mechanical fuel injection by the Ferrari factory team since it was new technology and faster. Mr Ferrari, ever image conscious, held back the fuel injection so the Ferrari factory had an edge (read faster cars) than the private teams he sold his cars to!
It's been many years since I put together my last model. You brought back many memories; Thank you!
I think I will pick up my old hobby again.
Usually I hate music on videos like this, but yours are really relaxing to watch =)
That is a proper Ferrari paintjob. You managed to capture the Ferrari passion in this beautiful model and give it life. Bravo!
"The difference with mine would be negligible.."
Yeah, sure.
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@@ungurdani8346 Like I've said it once before; I find it very interesting and educational, to be watching this. In the very way; how the plastic models, get painted and glued.
The only thing that's missing; in each and every single plastic model kits is, there's no educational document and an aluminum background board.
You are on another level. No other RUclips model builder even comes close to your attention to detail and patience. Thank you for your indepth videos. Always a pleasure watching
The way it catches light is amazing !
I don’t recall seeing a better paint finish in the last 7 years of examining models. Utterly superb!
Me: Hmmm what type of model should I do next.
RUclips: Plasmo uploaded a video
Me: Car model it is.
Thanks for the inspiration :3
Haha same !
@@sierrafox1779 Just think; the plastic model Tijuana taxi had grabbed, grabbed everybody's attention the most. Especially during the mid and late 1970s.
I built a 1/24 Mercedes-Benz 500K Special Roadster model kit some days ago.
If I had seen your video first, it would have been a great help in assembling the model kit.
I really enjoy it when you modify a model. We learn so much.
Is not just that you perform an EXCELLENT job, is that you explaine how to do it,
Thank you Sir.
"I hope I didn't discourage you from this kit; you can simply build it straight out of the box. In my opinion, the difference will be almost negligible."
I appreciate the encouragement, although I'm going to respectfully disagree. ;)
I scoffed loudly when he said that. Bold of him to assume I'd even finish this model.
You make it look so easy my friend. Wonderful work.
After watching the complete video : such a beauty and sooo many realistic details !
This is a beautiful car. I showed the reveal portion of the video to my wife, and she couldn’t believe it was a model. Simply gorgeous. Well done!
Plasmo, I am typically mostly interested in aviation models, but so far this has been my favorite video of yours that I have watched. The modifications you made were absolutely amazing! I'm just getting back into modeling and this video has given me a ton of inspiration with what can be accomplished. Also, great choice of car. The P4 is one of my all time favorite Ferrari designs.
tip. use a blue marker pen to darken down the inside edge of your headlight glass. you have a white edge which is highly visible and it makes the glass look like plastic. stunning model bro. loved your video
A handy tip for polishing is to pre-load the polishing tool with compound before using it. Otherwise, you're essentially just sucking the compound off the surface with that dry cotton ball, which means you'll generally end up using way more compound than you really have to. Use one ball for each compound as well. It's going to pick up compound regardless, and you can't wash that stuff out, so you might as well just have a set of polishing consumables for each grit, especially considering that you do this for a living as far as I can tell. My father was a body-man (collision repair) at a GM dealership for almost 50 years, building hot-rods on the side until it became unprofitable, and he taught me quite a few things. There wasn't a thing going on in that shop that he didn't know every detail about, including PnP (paint and polish). Any time he'd see me painting or sanding/polishing my models as a kid, he'd always show me what I was doing wrong. One of the things he taught me is that you use separate tools for each compound, and you load each up with the compound it's intended for. This also quickens the polishing process, in that you don't have to bother with the futile process of washing compound off, and when you're at the next step, you can just clean the part, throw the next wheel/swab in, put some fresh compound on it and get after it.
Nice touch on levelling the decals. People don't realize that in this era of racing that the numbers were painted on, often on the weekend of the race with a brush you would paint a house with!
If someone told me to choose between having the real thing or your model, I would choose your model. So incredibly awesome!
Well, if you had the real thing you could sell it, and then buy it off him and have millions of dollars left over, but yes, point taken.
Man, these people should be paying you, very well I might add, to assemble their models and shoot pictures of them. You could do the same thing! Video, just like you do now. And have it run in their sales office. That way after people take tours of their plant and go into look at the models and buy them. They can watch you doing your thing. That paint job has got to be the best I’ve ever seen on a models. Kudos to you my man. Way to go!!!!!
The most beautiful car of all time. You've done a perfect job!
I agree,,,and I was a Ford GT fan at the time.
You, sir, are a 10th Dan black belt in model making and accuracy. And much appreciation for narrating in English. Outstanding camera work.
When the paint is so perfect you can see imperfections on your screen
Absolutely impressive level of workmanship. Congratulations on a 1/24 scale masterpiece!
the announcement of the film Ford vs. Ferrari)))
I’ve been watching your channel for years and have seen every video. I revisited this today and I have to say this is one of my favourite builds still. Amazing quality
Looks great mate. I was wondering where you what been! Welcome back! 😉
Your commitment to detail is commendable. You must have the patience of a saint.
So you finally upload a video, I've been crying for weeks dude.
I think I've watched this video 40 times already. I bought the same kit and am in the middle of building it now using your modifications and helpful hints!
Bellissimo!
The detailed information and coating tips you provide are invaluable to someone like me. I've been away from plastic modeling for a while, and am preparing to build some kits this winter. So, leaving all the items I've collected in the box, while I learn more has been a smart move. Thanks to your videos, I'm sure my results will be better than they would've been otherwise. Thank you!
I've been waiting for this for a long time and I clicked this button with lightning speed
Nicely done. If I had not just watched you build it, I could have sworn the finished model was the real car!
Amazing! The final presentation almost made me emotional.
Are you interested in any of the modern hybrid LMP-1 machines? I'd love to see you build one of those.
Good idea
Still trying to figure out why this has ANY thumbs down. Maybe some people searched "how to tame and ride a unicorn donkey" and this popped up. This how to build a beautiful and brilliant Ferrari 330 to perfection! Awesome PLASMO!
Next up: I will be building a Honda Trail 90 in 1/48 scale so I will need to make some modifications to this 1/72 scale Bismark model.
That is by far the prettiest Ferrari that was ever build .......... if they had continued like this I might have become a fan.
I was just wondering: what is perfection for Plasmo ???
Amazing as usual!!
I've enjoyed many of his videos...he's an an artisan and absolute perfectionist. Good things!
Yeah! It's really funny to hear "My model is not perfect" from him)
I have never seen anyone use rubber gloves to build a model. You are a serious guy! :D thank you for the great build/review.
Lol, your showing fujimi how to build a p4 in the right way
Hopefully the Ford versus Ferrari movie convinces them to make a new kit that's actually correct...
Your attention to detail and craftsmanship is so inspiring to watch, well done!
Who’s revisiting this after watching Ford vs. Ferrari?
Omar Sayed me
FAHRT!
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Fantastic film. Matt Damon and Christian Bale at the top of their game.
my favorite line in Ford vs Ferrari is when Ken Miles first sees the 330P3 and says "If this was a beauty contest, we just lost!"
"making the model a *little bit* more detailed.
-proceeds to scratch build parts because the whole model is all wrong.
Watched this twice, It’s still hard to comprehend how incredibly good this is.
You did one of the most beautiful cars ever produced.... And boy you did it proud
This is beyond modeling. It’s beyond art. It is simply amazing.
I bought the same kit a few years back when I was in Japan with the family visiting the in-laws, also bought the GT40 as well. I wasn’t too sure what the Ferrari was like to build till today, thank you for such a fantastic build, didn’t realise there were inaccuracies in the kit, thanks for the heads up! Looking forward to the next vid 😀
Holy balls, what a tremendous amount of patience you got there man. The result is so good. Looks more like a diecast model than a plastic model.
That's beautiful. Very well done. Love the results you got from the clear without having to use toxic 2k paints.
There are so many talented people in this world......sir this is amazing.....congratulations to you.
Exceptional!!!
One of my all time favorite race cars and the finish on this - wow.
I know I'm a layman, in regards to this - but still - wow!
I don't know when it happened, but model kit building has been turned into some kind of pro level. Modelers creating finish build that are beyond museum pieces.
Outstanding craftsmanship of the highest level. Brilliantly modified and finished.
I've never seen such craftsmanship like this in my life
Hello from Barcelona! I've seen this video like 20 times and I love it. I was wondering to build this car since I saw this tutorial the first time and finally I've bought it with same extra decals. I will follow this video and try to get that exquisite finish. Thanks so much Master!
Absolutely beautiful work. I am too old to get back into this hobby. After watching many of you videos, I was
tempted many times. I did buy a few
kits, nothing as what you would say are pro kits. They turned out not too bad, but seeing your professionism,
you motivated me to do better.
If your are not the best... then you
are in the top 10.
thank you
No one is ever to old for this hobby, to bussy maybe but never to old
Thank you. Thank you for FINALLY getting an appropriate air brush to cover larger areas, instead of painstakingly showing us how to struggle with a 0.18mm needle/nozzle on broad areas of flat color... If only other you tubers would catch on... The Mr. Hobby PS-290 is one of the best. Made by Creos, the same factory that make Iwata, the PS-290 compares to the Iwata version in quality, and the nozzle cover is interchangeable, a great air brush.
This is one of the most beautiful model builds I have ever seen... Should be put on display in a hermetically sealed case visible from all sides.
I enjoyed this one because I think the 330 P4 is the most beautiful Ferrari ever made. As usual Plasmo has done a magnificent job.
Yet again another 1st class job. Model companies should hire you as a quality control consultant
I've ran out of words to describe your genius so I'll just say brilliant build and video, thanks for sharing.
The attention to details of that paintjob is INSANE...love it
Who now feels somehow, I don't know, completely inadequate...and I thought I could build scale models? You Sir are one talented chap.
what mymechanics is for tool restauration is david damek for plastic model building. Great job! Thank you for sharing this art with us!
Only PLASMO can make the original model look even better..
Very nice! For the decals over complex detals, Please try a hot wet rag, and push it on the decal over the detail. Just take a rag, wet it, ( not soaking wet, wring it out to "Moist") throw it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds, it will be hot, be careful, just apply the decal as usuall, normal setting solution, and just use the hot rag on it after positioning it. Be careful because once you heat it and push it on.. its on. :)
I think the biggest takeaway from Plasmo's builds is to keep challenging yourself and you improve.
I just hate that he makes it look so easy :)