Funkychiken

And you can see how much pitting there is on the bonnet after using Tamiya 1000 grit paper, it've quite bad!

And I cannot believe this bit of fluff in the paint, hopefully it'll sand out...

this is a view of some of the deep pitting

I've clear coated this body now with Zero 2K. But didn't use Mr color thinner (with a retarder) so its quite bumpy/orange pealy. But annoyingly, it got lots of pitting. I'm assuming its because I've either put too muh thinner in, or I went too heavy too quickly. Either way, my strategy is not to respray, I'm sanding through it. It's not going to be perfect, but perfection is not what I'm looking for...

Yes, I think I'll try to print one of those!

Dann, I've missed a lot of progreso on this, but just caught up, it's looking amazing, but really sorry to hear about your friend's stage 4. All the best!

Thanks, I'll give that a go!

Hi Rick, on ebay many years ago from China, I don't think it was expensive, but it took weeks to arrive!

Super sharp build, perfect paint job too!

It looks great! One of my favourite colours too!

Looks amazing!

You have a production line going! They look fantastic, the one in red really pops...

It came out OK, but a small bit of paint has come off with the tamiya asking tape - which has really hacked me off, i'm going to have to try to touch up with a paint brush?

Masked for spraying the trim - the cowl, front fogs and window edges done

The dials in the dash are certainly not accurate, but they look good from a distance. Any ideas what I could do to make the screen bit look like a screen?

That's a great Idea Joe, I will try that in the future, but not on this kit!

I thinnk the top is more like the carbio closed than an actual hard top. I thought that Fujimi did do a hard top version, but I may be wrong.

Thanks for the interest, it's going to be blue Airbrushed Tamiya X-7 (if I remember correctly). The Chassis is now done! mostly hand painted, and "oiled" with mig panel line.

Chassis is basic with sump built in. but multiple masking events and some hand painting leaves it looking at least slightly interesting Dash is coated in Tamiya dar grey, then masked for a black centre stack interior is almost finished, more masking & black bits to do

Started a new kit, whilst I'm working on some tedious body work, I thought I'd start another kit, the chassis will get done quickly as its quite basic & I'm not going for lots of detail, likely it'll be OOB. Box cover and sprue shots

You like Fords! We have something in common! welcome to the forum

Lots of work here, its fiddly and takes a lot of time, but not much to show for it. Engine is 90% complete, but unfortunately, the Alclad II chrome is rubbing off on my fingers thtough handling ? The Chassis is also fiddly, some of the bits don't fit, so i've had to cut off some pins of connecting pieces. No large contact surfaces, so it's going to be one of those delicate models...

Body is based coated, I've also added some of the decals, next step is to clear coat

I agree with Zero Sonny, it's hit and miss. I also find that sometimes I have to add thinner to zero paints, especially their primer

Started with the engine, not a very well engineered kit, and I could have added HT leads, but decided against it. I'm also starting on the chassis with pre asset, I might have to start sanding and polishing the body parts now, as its required for the chassis build up...