GeeBee
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Absolutely superb model, your skills are brilliant....
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Getting more parts prepared for the Golf GTi
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8 hours ago, peteski said:This metal kit is made by a small cottage industry type of company. They likely use vulcanized rubber molds, and low-temperature soft-metal alloy (likely pewter). I is probably done using spin-casting technique.
Exactly correct Peter, I haven't spoken or been in touch with Finecast for a few years now, although they specialise more in their locomotive kits.
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Looking great, looking forward to seeing this one progress.
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A work of art Matt....
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A very nice looking model.
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11 minutes ago, milo1303s said:where ya getting the wheels at
Left over from the Cabriolet Golf I'm building
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22 hours ago, Bullybeef said:Dude that’s awesome
I need to get a gti model stat!
The photo i posted wasn't the best, here's an original Scirocco in Viper Green Metallic with the wheels I'll be using, only very early GTI's were available in this colour and only in left hand drive, I don't think I've ever seen one in the UK.
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Very nice model, I'd love some models of cars I've owned, apart from a few available for company cars, non of my cars are available in model form.
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If you've used Tamiya acrylics for the rear lenses, it should be easy enough to remove it, 99% alcohol should work.
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39 minutes ago, Matt Bacon said:Now, the sharp-eyed among you will have noticed that there are two spark plugs per cylinder. One set are wired to the distributor, which sits on that mounting at the front (to the right in the second engine picture), and the other set are wired to the magneto, mounted on the other side of the engine on the shelf in the middle of the crankcase on the first picture. I'm curious what this set up is all about... anyone knowledgeable about 1907-vintage engines able to enlighten me?...
. Basically the twin system gives Reliability and thorough combustion of the cylinders, if one fails you're not going to break down.
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3 hours ago, stitchdup said:If revell cant help you with a new shell, I have one that will be left over when I do my c1 caddy
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On 1/9/2021 at 11:25 PM, Spottedlaurel said:I really like Opel Mantas, especially the original A (I had a rough one in 1991-92) and the early B with chrome bumpers.
I've got a few photos of it, but there on my computer down in London, I'm stuck up in the Midlands due to the lock down, but it was silver with stripes just like this one i found on the 'net
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29 minutes ago, otherunicorn said:For once I can say "Easy".
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What to do when you have a box full of Volkswagen Golf GTi parts, minus the bodyshell??
Sometime ago I bought the Revell Golf GTi kit off eBay, the bodyshell was destroyed in transit, seems a shame to have all these parts sitting idle, so I've been in touch with Revell to see if I can purchase a new body, and I'll be building a very rare GTi, only available for one year in Left hand drive only and never officially available in the UK, and to make it even rarer, it will have the wheels that were popular on the Scirocco, but Available on the GTi for 2 years,which I have left over from the Golf Cabriolet, so this one will be a very early (1978) Golf GTi in Viper Green. -
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5 hours ago, Modeller said:Just saw this modeller from the Netherlands called Ralf Schrooten post his Golf Engin detailing... very impressive stuff.
That's just unreal....
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On 12/28/2020 at 5:30 PM, TransAmMike said:And another beautiful build Alexandr, great job!! 👌
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6 hours ago, doorsovdoon said:and I think the body's were galvanised for rust prevention. Darn good cars these.
Volkswagen didn't galvanise the bodyshells until the mk3 came out,I believe the Later cabriolets had wax injected into the cavities.
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1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:First Belkits model I've bought:
I have no interest in building it as a rally car, it'll be a fast-road toy. Happy to see that the standard grille without spotlights and the single-piece sloping rectangular headlights are included.
Last weekend I also stocked-up on a few clearance automotive paints, decent value at £3 a tin.
Spotted one of these parked up in London not so long ago, and in superb condition
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1 hour ago, stitchdup said:I'm keen to know what the differences are between this version and the 2 previous. It looks to have a jetta rear bumper on the front and if it does I'll have to get one
it's the same kits as the Pirelli kit, although it's moulded in blue with different decals, although the regular Pirelli decals are included.
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Another one on the way to me
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55 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:Look forward to seeing it your progress with your usual attention to detail.
Didn't realise it came with the option of chrome hubcaps.
For the yellow paint, couldn't you have got an aerosol mixed at a car parts shop? That's what I've done for a couple of old Datsun colours.
I tried many places, the smallest I could get mixed was 1 litre, for basecoat, or 100mls of the older cellulose, I know when I was working at V.A.G, we were limited to how many yellow cars we could produce, as back then, yellow was the only colour that needed lead to be added to it, I've got 50mls of basecoat coming from Germany, yes, the cost with the shipping wasn't cheap, but cost really doesn't come into it, since using basecoat for the GTI and Land Rover, I've gotten to like the way it goes on.
The hubcaps are supplied on the gray sprue, in the 🇺🇸 Revell Rabbit kit they are actually chromed.
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Simply stunning....
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Superb build, as usual
Revell Jaguar E type coupe
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One thing I noticed about the bodyshell was the small sink marks on the tailgate, didn't take too long to sort them out, while I was sorting them out I noticed more mould lines on the rear quarters that needed removing.