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Cheers Mark, Merry Christmas.

Cheers Atin, yes I like leftfield very much!

I built this about 3 months ago, but when getting to the last stage, I found windscreen badly distorted and on warming it to correct it, it broke into 3 pieces. So I've had to wait until today when the new screen came from Revell.de to finish the build. I've added seatbelts, scratchbuilt a half rollcage, painted the shell and engine bay with a mixture of gloss yellow and matt green. The decals are from the spares box. I also added the front splitter and a tuner style bootlid mounted rear wing The doors click into the open position and shut quite well, the drivers side better than the other.

It's really good to see you back Bob, and doing some great work, fantastic look on this one!

Thanks Donald, and thanks David , yes I've only bought a couple of Lindberg kits but both have eede a little work, but I'm very pleased with this one. But anybody buying one, just remember when you put the body on the chassis and look through to the firewall there's no floor between the seat and the firewall!

Thank you Stephen and Dan.

Thanks Sam & Steve. We don't see many if any of this type of kit here in the UK, so you have to grab it while you can! The surprise is that when you open the box the sprues are all bright yellow plastic. I didn't pay much for this one, but I saw the same kit on ebay here yesterday at £46! Now what's that in dollars now to what it was when it was first released?

Produced by Lindberg many moons ago, I was lucky to pick one up on ebayUK for a song. The kit decals which were only four were in bits in the box, so off to my stash for replacements. The instructions to me were quite comical as it spoke about preparing chrome parts, none of which were in the kit, not one! I painted the shell Tamiya Metalic Green, the chassis black and various other parts silver. Whilst building up the chassis I found that the two radius rods were too short so made new ones from very small plastic tube. I also opted for the road exhaust of the three available and added alloy tube extensions out back. I also added yellow Dunlop tyre decals to continue a period look. without the engine cover plus alloy tube for the carb intakes...........

Superb build Atmobil and nice to see you back. I've had a few decals falling to bits recently, so having to use other decals from my pile. I did though cure a number of other old decals. I sprayed two coats of auto clear acrylic laquer on the sheets as I got them in the post. These were with old Nascar or 'already started' kits from ebay here in the UK. I also realised when I went to use them that I had the cut them out very close to the image outline, and all of them have laid up really well and not collapsed into dust!

Superb job geetee66!

Thanks Roy, If that had happened to me a few years ago when all we had was enamel paints, it would have been in the bin or paint it all again after I'd calmed down!

Well thank you John. It's not turned out too badly.

Thanks guys. Al as I'm in the UK mineral spirits doesn't ring any bells.

Superb!

Thanks Bruce. Yes after 60 years of modelling you have to be resiliant and think, think and think again to how you can overcome seemingly simple issues to come out on top.

Thanks Bill for your prompt reply. I had a kit from ebay 'already started' and the first owner stuck both the bonnet and bootlid on! I used enamel thinners but had to resort to a craft knife in the end. This model is in the Nascar thread just now. AMT UPS Taurus...... didn't work out too bad!

My spray booth is made from a large box with the lid hung down. I have cut a hole in the top and bought a cooker extractor hood. When spraying I put the alloy sprung pipe out of the door next to it,( it also comes with a through wall vent) a switch on the unit has three fan settings and a light. Total cost £40. Here in the UK I can buy a spray booth half the size from ebay or Amazon for £120!

I buy a large tub of Fruit Yoghurt each week. It has one seal that you tear off made from very thin cooking type film. They also supply a clear acetate clip on lid to seal the top of the carton if you don't eat it all in one go. From that I cut out flat side windows which I attach with brush on clear (no.35 Humrol) or use the complete top to decant paint from a rattle can tin to paint with a brush to touch up small areas.

Although I sometimes use enamel thinners to dissolve plastic cement, I have read in a website Hints and Tips somewhere, that putting the parts into a domestic frezeer sometimes does the trick. Does anyone really know, having tried it themselves?

Living just 6 miles from the Mercedes factory (5 from Force India, 12 from Red Bull, 18 from HAAS) we hear all manner of stuff! Nico didn't want Lewis to take the title from him, he made his decision to retire when he won the F1 title and he has! Advert seen online and in the press here; Mercedes F1 are looking for a new F1 driver to take Nico's seat on the team. The driver (they don't HE) needs to able to do three things 1. to brake 2. To accelerate and 3 To Steer. And the driver needs to have one more thing; A Superlicence! But when you get to the end of the ad there is no contact nmae, no telephone number, no email address and no factory address!

Another of my auction wins from ebayUK. This again was an 'already started', this time the chassis/interior was complete, bar the front suspension (good as I lowered the front end), and not painted. So painting the seat and adding seatbelts and painting the rollcage and various engine parts was interesting! The other problem was that the original owner had stuck on both the bonnet and bootlid, so enamel thinners to the fore to dissolve the glue around the bonnet, which ended up using a craft knife to seperate one from the other, not totally satisfactory. I think I've seen somewhere on 'How Two's' putting bodyshells in the freezer to seperate glued parts. I'll try that next time! Again the decals were 'dodgy' so I added two coats of clear laquer, for safety. Laying up the long side decals was also interesting, around the rear side window, over the rear wheelarch and along to the front wheelarch, using plenty of water to slide it along. Lessons learnt: please recognise the two seperate silver coated Halfords Spray cans of automotive Grey Undercoat and automotive Clear Laquer, why? I heated and sprayed the Grey Undercoat along the drivers side ontop of the decals, then realised as I did it. Put a few drops of Humbrol Acrylic Thinners on a kitchen towel and wiped the grey paint straight off! It's a good job I'd already sprayed the decals with clear laquer when preparing them on the sheet! I then wiped the Acrylic Thinners off with water, dried the shell, warmed the Clear Gloss Laquer and carried on, I must slow down and realise which spray can I'm about to use, and it's consequences!

WOW! Superb!

From ebay UK a few days ago.............. It won't be built quite like that. A Surf Woody with those tyres? Nah! Now this came part built as described, that's the whole floor, seat, rollcage (interesting to paint and set seat belt decals) etc, but not the front suspension, goody! I was soooooooooooo disappointed with my last build, a Nascar Phantom Craftsman Truck because it was too high at the front. so I will lower the front of this onto the deck! I also bought some JDM decals for Liberty Walk or Tuner builds.

As a british person who recently tested a 911 GT3, it's Porsh or Porsha! A Porch is extension of your house outside the front door

Thanks Bruce, the Potenza decals were the largest I have because the kit Goodyears were too damaged to get off the crusty decal sheet. And it's interesting to note that I have aftermarket tyre decals from 3 different sources and none include Goodyear, must a copyright thing!