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    Ismo Penttinen

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  1. Hey this replica is done. 1965 Ford Cortina "Beaver Rocker" was built in the '70ies and then left aside for decades. Now it's fully built again to race and my model is a replica of today's Beaver Rocker Cortina.
  2. The big selfmade decals were quite a challenge this time, as I put the decal film only once on those big ones. I had to mix some paint to fix the small cracks and spots, but that went well enough. The small decals got two coats, and they were easy to handle. Today I painted the roof and the hood, after some serious protect tape applying. All went well, no leaks or hassle.
  3. Thanks Slusher, thanks. Today I painted the body with Tamiya white primer and Tamiya white spray paint ts101. The red stripes are brush painted, and oh man that hand shake. Not much but just enough to make those curves not perfect. I'll try to smoothen them still. The decals are not placed yet, because too fresh paint. The roof needs blue metallic paint.
  4. Here's a stalled build that has a quite good paint on it. I've added twin turbos sticking through the hood with double intercoolers. Fat slicks in the rear needed a narrowed rear axle. I thought the looks of the car was kind of lame, so today I added those stripes. They are from Pontiac GTO. Still need to do the interior and some detailing to the engine bay.
  5. Most of the decals are now edited and printed to the transfer sheet.
  6. Using just the Paint program in my old laptop it takes a long effort to get this much printing done on a piece of paper. The text is from a photo of the real car, but it needed a lot of adjusting to get the mirror reflections out etc.
  7. Now I got the scoop and the dash done. I took some Toyota steering wheel and used it to make a 3-spoke old school type of wheel. I managed to make a wall between the engine and the cockpit, and that needed a lot of adjusting.
  8. Wow that's an awesome kit you got there. 1:16 will be a hand full of work, as you need to put tons of details in it to make it look superb. My project got some progress too, as I moved the engine even further back, about 5mm. Now the other carb is sitting under the wind shield as it should. I cut an opening to the glass and will make a intake box inside the cockpit as I've studied from the pics of the real car. Not quite sure how to get it look good, but I'll figure it out. The scoop is scratch built, and I'm almost satisfied how it turned out. It may look like it's twisted, but that's just in the pic. Then I detached the rear suspension and shortened the springs so the rear of the car now sits lower. I needed to remove some material inside the wheel openings to get more room for the wide rear tires. The stance is level now. I hate that white Vallejo putty, it's so slow to dry and hard to sand smooth. Unfortunately my green putty is out, but I hope the ebay order from Spain will arrive some day. None of the few markets have any green putty in Finland, don't know why.
  9. Blue windows. I put two sheets on top of each other to get more dark blue glass as in the real car has. One sheet wasn't enough. Also I started to make the small flares to the rear wheel openings. I need to get the body more down in the rear, as the car should sit quite level when it's parked.
  10. Hi, you asked for more pics of my  Double Bubble Chevy Impala wagon. If you like you can check it here https://pienoismallit.net/galleria/malli_14217/ 

    It's a Finnish model builders site, safe and interesting.

    There's more pics of the interior, the engine bay etc. All the build thread pics are away somewhere.

    -Ismo

    1. H.A.K

      H.A.K

      Thats great man. Well done on it.

  11. Great looking rides in Australia, back then and now. I took the previous tubes out and made the new ones from 2.5mm styrene rod. Looks more accurate, I think. There's no tubes near the a-posts, as I checked from the videos of Beaver Rocker Cortina.
  12. Yes it is. I bought just the body and the hood.
  13. Thanks everybody. I've made some progress, the front end got some tubes. The engine is supposed to look like a Ford 390cid with a low intake and two 4bbl carbs. It's located waaaay back to give a good balance to the vehicle.
  14. It's time to make a replica of this legendary Finnish race car from the '70-80ies. The real car was put aside for decades, but now it is fully rebuilt to race again by Jyrki Aukio and mates. My model will be a replica of this new version of Beaver Rocker Cortina. I had a great moment a while ago in an American Car Show here in Helsinki Finland, as I had a chance to sit at the drivers bench of this legendary Cortina.
  15. I've got a few Station Wagons, STWs as the are called here in Finland.
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