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  1. Great builds, I've got the buggy in my kit stash. It I thought it would make a good shelf mate for the Revell buggy, from a quick look through the instructions it looks to be a bit more detailed. I'll be leaving the figures out though...
  2. Some serious bench envy going on here! This is my set up. Cheap 'flat pack' desk. Small/frequently used tools in the plastic drawers at the back, larger and less used stuff in the toolbox on the bottom left. Favorite coffee mug on the right! Paint is in the draw and needs to be better organized really. The plastic drawers on the left contain sprues with parts left on them and loose spares, a 'junkyard' of (mainly) bodies that I bought on ebay a while ago and gets picked over fairly regularly, decals and bare metal foil and all the bits and pieces of wire, craft felt, ribbon ect ect that will come in useful one day... I like to keep it tidy, I'll have a few tools out but when I'm done with that 'stage' I'll put them away. Painted sub-assemblies go in a small plastic food box until required. I'm glad I'm not alone in sitting too far from the bench and losing parts on the floor, though I don't have a cat... My other hobby is tinkering with old small engines and small generators ect, and my motto there is 'the bench is for working on, not storage'.
  3. As above, great weathering. Just needs a beat up old bike in the back now....
  4. Thanks for all the positive comments! 😀
  5. I've had this on the bench since Christmas... 2021 that is! I recon it was a record slow build even by my standards. Based on the Joker getaway car version of this much re-issued kit the idea is a backyard mechanic has hotted up an ex-police car for a little Saturday night action. Wheels, front tyres, front seats and hood scoop from the spares box. Homemade exhausts and decals from a 'Days of Thunder' set from eBay.
  6. That is one sharp cat. I've got the kit in my stash but I doubt I could do it justice. I'm toying with idea of weathering it to '1970s' condition and doing a diorama of it parked outside a Soho nightclub...
  7. Very nice, I have had a couple of the Airfix versions, one 'back in the day' that got hot rodded and this one more recently...
  8. I can only echo what others have said, beautiful!
  9. Thanks for the nice comments. The interior is Humbrol No. 131 satin green, I think it's called mid-green. I wanted to do the body in a light metallic green but couldn't find a rattle can I really liked.
  10. Haven't posted on here in a while... this seems like it has been on the bench forever but I'm calling it done. Decided to be a bit different and not go for the Starsky & Hutch paint job (there is actually no reference to S & H on the box). Colour is Ford Highland green. Turned out OK-ish, paint could be be better but at least its done. Some of the pictures were taken with the work light and make the paint look lighter than it is.
  11. This seems to have been on the bench for ever... built from the gasser/custom kit as a mild kustom shop truck. I built it as a kerbside model as I wanted to lower it and also the kit only has the 409 and that didn't fit with the style (in my head it's running a hotted up six, dripping with chrome...). I pancaked the hood, shaved the handles and emblems and added a frenched aerial, fender skirts and custom rear lights. The wheels are from the Monogram '53 Bel Air. The paint is Rover Nordic blue as I had a rattle can on the shelf from when I owned a 1:1 car that colour.
  12. The only model I've built so far this year... converted from the Heller 1/43 scale kit. Not meant to be factory pick up but something farmer Pierre made from a rear ended car.
  13. This is the Round 2 models re-issue of the AMT 'Vantom' kit, and it shows it's age, with sketchy instructions, no part numbering on the sprues and hit and miss parts location. It's my one and only build of 2018, and I actually started it on Christmas day 2017... but sometimes I don't touch a kit for a month at a stretch, and I rarely spend more than half an hour at a time on building. I added the roof spoiler and hood scoop from the spares box, cut the sides to fit the portholes from the inside and carpeted the floor with craft felt. Colours are Ford Tibetan Gold and Roman Bronze, and it's my first time using the Molotow pen for the chrome.
  14. It's the old Airfix 1932 Chrysler Imperial built as a rat rod, the engine is the stock straight eight with home made carbs and header.
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