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A bunch of Merit racecar kit builds... first time photographed


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Seeing Dave Bantoft's cool Merit kit restorations here a few days ago made me realize that I've never photographed my old Merit kit builds that I completed in the mid '70s from some original '50s kits that I'd bought years before I built them.

These were really simple basic kits of British and European racers and the only modifications that I made were scoring clear discs to simulate the wire wheels and finishing the models at their belt-lines where the upper and lower halves typically joined. I painted, back then, with a Binks Wren airbrush using Testors bottle paint thinned with (believe it or not) naptha fuel. Yes, I always painted outside, obviously, but even back then I prided myself in good shiny smooth paint finishes.These have all been kept together, dust free, in one of the original Monogram 'step style' display cases made to hold 6 or 7 smallish 1/25 scale models.  

 

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Early '50s Cooper with J.A.P. 500CC motor

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1955 Connaught Tybe B Grand prix racer

 

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1949/1950 Talbot Lago T26C Grand Prix racer

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1950/51 Alfa Romeo 159 Alfetta  Grand Prix racer

 

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1956 Aston Martin DB 3S

 

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1956-1958 Lotus Eleven

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1957 Vanwall VW5 Formula 1 Racer

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