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Nice I have both the 350 scale ones from Polar Lights. The ToS I got as a Christmas present from the wife and then I bought the lighting kit for it. Gonna be a FUN one. This looks great. I'm a big Trekkie

SOB, man, I've got my milling machine now, and I could probably pull of the block, heads and valve covers without too much trouble, no way with the rest of that on there so far without CNC. Though I didn't get a rotary table with it. Oh well.

In my mini research I found the Elf was actually the same car underneath. As was the Welesely. Same platform.

Oh I don't know, I think it'd look cool. You could say the car was made of copper and then the exterior just corroded. I think it'd look cool. It's not like you are mixing up terribly disparate colors or anything. Like pink and green or something. BLECH

The LHD would be VERY nice, but including spark plug wires in a kit is trivial for me. I'm wiring my Tamiya engine, using a bit of leftover detail master wire I had from a distributor kit for my Mustang Cobra. The carbs are ok, but the aircleaners do suck in the Tamiya kit.

Clipping and trimming is the worst part about PE, don't let it intimidate you, the rest of it's easy as pie. Just use a hard surface, and a good sharp hobby blade to remove the parts, but have them inside a plastic bag or on some sticky tape to prevent the parts from flying. Instead of putting straight down which distorts the part a little bit sometimes, I literally edge the blade right up to the part and slice through the connecting point for the parts tree. Then a fine sanding stick to knock down what's left of the nub if anything and voila. Just don't use model cement to put them on. I also recommend against thin CA glue, you tend to attach PE parts to your fingers for a few weeks that way. Ask me how I know. It's odd trying to explain to people who don't build why you have spent 30 bucks on some thin bits of metal and then superglued them to your body.

I've just started on a Tamiya one, and from what I can tell the roof on it looks to be better sofar for the proper 2 color paint job. That lip is super easy to mask. However the interior and firewall leave something to be desired. Seam placement on the Tamiya kinda sucks, looks better on the Revell. Interior on the Tamiya is kinda goofy as well. I'll have to grab some reference as for accuracy but as near as I can tell the differences in size and shape of some items as well as the suspension will vary based upon which exact year from everything I've read, though I know you did not touch on any accuracy issues. Happy to see another Mini being started right after I started mine. I want to build a small fleet of mini's so interested to see how this one goes together. Tamiya is 21 bucks at the LHS, the Revell is close to 50. I'm not quite ready to drop that much extra coin for for it yet.

Ok so I got some tan paint and tan flocking and grabbed some black flocking today. Now tan or black for interior, tough choice, Maybe I'll photoshop both and see how it looks or look at some photo's and see which looks better.

I'm going to do it up like a guy who might compete locally in Ireland with like small local circuits with his daily driver. Like maybe cross country type stuff, so he needs the lights. Like an Irish version of the Cannonball Run. I'm gonna go ahead and make this interesting, when it's done I'm going to post up a backstory of a fictitious owner. I can say after opening this kit this isn't the only one I'm going to do. I wanna end up doing one with a V8 and huge slicks in the back. Maybe one with a rotary. A few different ones. This one I've got the slotted mags from a Corvair that are almost the right size I'm going to see if I can make them work.

Those would be BEAUTIFUL, and PERFECT for the front end of this mini. I was about to PM you my address when I realized you're down under, not stateside.

This is the Tamiya Mini Cooper Racint. 1/24th. I've always thought the lights on the front made them look much better. What kind of leftover bits do you have? Freebies pay forward is something I do alot, since it got taught to me one night when my power steering went out and all I had was a pair of pliars and 50 cents.

Only thing is I don't like using too much of the same stuff on the same projects at the same time, and I've got a custom red/white/blue stars and stripes Silverado that is getting a white interior with cream carpet.

I think I'm gonna leave the flares green. Sad part is I got this green for the interior of a 71 Charger. Still trying to figure out what color for interior. I don't have many flocking colors. Cream, green, and magenta flocking is all I have right now. I really don't want to do a green on green scheme, and magenta would look goofy. So would the cream really as I don't have any cream colors in paint to go with it. HAHA. At the very least the distributor is getting wired, and maybe more then that. Thinking for the orange and green on the roof to just use the transparent Tamiya colors.

Not sure how I'm going to do this one, but I do have it painted with the color it's going to be. Not sure if I'm going to do it as an actual racecar, find and add some extra lights and do that kind of racecar, or just use what's here and do like a souped up street version. I have the flares on it already and I'm going to use the racing wheels. I'm going to try and throw on some Irish license plates and paint the top in the colors of the Irish Flag instead of the British Flag, but then I'm Irish so............

I personally despise VW's but this makes me almost want to go and get one. That looks GREAT.

Some minor updates. Though not glued together yet. I'm going to see about getting the windows in tomorrow and get the interior up in there. Going to try and make some bluckles and seatbelts as well. Oh yeah the plate frame says, "Have you chased a FORD lately?"

Keep in mind I said correct not accurate. LOL

Love the idea of using the 68 body, that ought to work well. Depending on which general lee you are building the MPC pushbar is correct, there were three of them. Source: The guys in charge of building the real deal for the show. Competition Orange is indeed one of the colors they used in the show and is the color that was theoretically on all of them but they used quite a few, but all were called competition orange. Source: Same as above, plus prop house records and build sheets. I'm not sure if there are any resin wheels out there for this. I truly hope so as the MPC wheels are well yeah. Lookin good so far though. Can't wait to see it done. I'm building the big one right now.

AMERICAN GRAFITTI TIME! White Impala, that's what that reminds me of. Great work for an old beatup mold that's been around for ages.

We had one around here go under not due to poor management or anything, but the property owner and the other people around wanted them gone. They'd been there since the 1800's. It got turned into some foreign Wedding Dress shop, that in the last 5 years has been open a total of less then 5 days. It's also now a great meeting spot for all the little drug dealers and the like. Nope can have one of them darn fool hobby shops, the criminal element is much more attractive. We have a train shop right up around the corner from me. A locally owned RC Hobby, where I get my RC Fix. Another LHS that sells online occasionally, but they do pretty much model kits and gaming. The old owners retired, the new one is a bit of a goofball, but he bought it specifically for the purpose of keeping it open and providing to the community, not to make a profit. What's what his other businesses are for. Then we have a Hobby Town. the customer service isn't as good there as it is at the other two places, but they have a good selection of RC stuff and model stuff, including aftermarket for both. Or rather aftermarket for RC and model cars. No aftermarket for other Genres of plastic models. I personally shop at all three places.

Yup and my buddy's was a hatch. Man what a fun car that was, he had it setup kinda goofy but it was cool anyway.

Well the offer to take high res photo's is still open. If you do get this done, and you get it cast in resin I may be interested in a couple. One for the Jeep as it sits, one for how I WANT it to sit. HAHAHA

Yeah this looks WAY better on a CRT monitor which is what I had at the time. In fact LCD monitors of the 15 inch variety at the time were still a thousand bucks. Gives you an idea of how long ago it was, but it's GREAT. I will convert it to a PDF soon, maybe tonight.

This followed me home along with about 1500 in tooling AND the head for it as well. It looks pretty rough but the price was right. FREE. https://www.dropbox.com/s/yprv557ox2a0dx4/20131228_132724.jpg Sure it doesn't look like a model or auto related topic, but it's being used for mostly Radio Control stuff, model stuff, auto stuff, and then some gun stuff on the side. I gotta take the one section apart there, and clean it all up reseal it probably put some gaskets in there so it will stop leaking oil. Can't afford to have it leaking oil in the apartment. i'll toss up another photo once I get the rest of it all sitting over there so it can be seen.

Can't wait to see it. This kit rides a bit low in the rearend or a bit high int he front depending upon your perspective, but other then that it's mostly a good kit. Noticed what happened to your laptop there, what kind is it? I have a couple of dead machines with good screens here.