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Hi all I am so cross(mostly with myself for not testing it first) I received some humbrol acrylic chrome in a spray can today, and, eager to try it out I did it straight on the bentley engine, it clearly says acrylic on the can, and I primed the engine with humbrol enamel so there should have been no problem, anyway I started spraying and thought this smells very much like celloluse paint. now that is exactly the effect I would expect spaying cellulose on enamel not when spraying acrylic. so now its getting the oven cleaner treatment, so take this as a warning.smell your paint first.

Hi all here is the progress so far I've put a 1/32 airfix kit and a 1/12 scale tamiya kit with it just to show how big this beast is.

Heres a little bit more done on the Bentley

Hi all here is where I am on the Bentley.

Hi all I've had a brilliant idea I have the Airfix 1/12 London icon pack and I'm going to hack the life guard about and have him either getting into or driving the Bentley what better than to have 2 British icons together.

Hi all, well I'm making a start on the Bentley today, first thin I notice that I'm a bit disappointed with is, when looking at the box art the front mud guard has not got much detail at all as you can see I have a load of rivets and nuts to scratch.

Looking very nice I can see this is going to be a great build.

Hi all well this is going back in the box and being buried at the very bottom of my stash. as I was warned the decals are awful and do break up but they also dont stick. it must be a draught that moved the decal as I hadnt touched the model when I took these pics. so I have had it with this kit. I was going to do a dio of it on a dereclect street all rusty with weeds growing out of it but with no decals to show what it once was it would be a pointless dio, could be any car with no decals.

Hi all giving up on this paint job its reacted again, so I'm going to do something different with it. Batman is forgotten all his wonderful gizmos and gadgets have fallen into disrepair, including his trusty old batmobile. That's going to be the back story on this model now. So will start tomorrow with a renewed enthusiasm for this build

Hi all anyone heard of waco kits just won a 1/25 1931 cadillac v16 diecast kit off ebay.

Hi all well this is after one sanding and undercoating I think I might be winning

Ok all I know its been a long time since I updated this but its not been forgotten I have tried mr muscle, modelstrip and even nitromors and this is what ive got. I've spent half the cost of the model on stuff to get the paint off. It doesn't show on the pics but there seem to be little holes in the paint that go right into the plastic, I think the paint has bonded with the plastic and actually soaked into it, which is why it wont come off so I think my only option is to sand it and try spraying it again I will just have to live with whatever the results are. its a shame as I was really looking forward to this one.

Thanks for the comments, as I said at thevstart I am considering this finished so I won't be cutting anything, it's in the photos of the car with the monkee's in it that's good enough for me. Apparently there was more than one car built with several differences between them so maybe we are all right.

outstanding just outstanding amazing work I just bulit the tv version and thought it was radical but this is something else. I take my hat off to you sir.

Hi guys well i'm calling this finished.

Hi Guys nearly finished this maybe tomorrow.

Hi all here is todays offering.

I you're saying lee but it's really bad of mpc to get the engine placement that wrong I mean 10mm *24 that's 20mm short of 1/2 a metre it seems mpc don't care at all about accuracy not sure I would buy another of their kits.

I should have put some extra bits there just to confuse you, drum kit it is.

Thanks Carl Hi here is tonights update, been collecting bits for the dio for it can you guess what these will be used for. thought I had got over the engine problems but as you can see the chassis is where it should be but the engine must be at least 10 mm out I have to fit the blower on there, dont know how to get round this one whether to hack the chassis about or try and move the engine forward some how.

Hi all here is an update on yet another kit I seem to be unable to do a decent job of. the decal is too big its supposed to fit inside the door and its supposed to say The Monkees not just Monkees, oh and its supposed to be yellow not gold. none of the engine parts fit correctly there is no radiator or hoses for the engine. if I cant build a decent model soon I think I will give up altogether.

Hi all thanks for the comments I have been using Halfords grey primer and Humbrol enamels, never had this problem before and I would've thought the oven cleaner I stripped the first lot of paint off would have taken care of the release agent.

Hi all started this one but I am having all sorts of problems with the paint Never had this problem before still stripped it all off and tried again still not happy with it there must be a reaction with the plastic or something, might try barrier coat or something.

Hi all thought I would drag this out of my stash and give it a go.

Hi all well no modeling for the next week as I will be sunning myself by the pool in Tunisia