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It was the polo harlequin we got in the UK but there are a few golfs done in the paint now but not real ones. There was one in aberdeen (polo) that was always parked in the graveyard on union street with the number plate A11LSD I'd love to have one but the interiors on them were a bit plain for the outside. I thought briefly about giving it the US spec bumper side lights (indicators?) but it wouldn't have fitted the build theme. Might do that when I get back to the van Thanks, I'm back to my mk1 escort just now since its close to done, and I built a deutz d30 at work last night so I'll weather both of them at the same time, then back to this

A couple of recnt arrivals. The VW crew cab I got since i was unable to find one of the scale prodcution resin versions, and the santana will probably never be done in plastic so I added it to my VW collection. I'll probably lower both and change the wheels at some point before they goes in the cabinet. There is also a version of the bus with surfboards but the paint schemes on them didn't appeal to me so a set of porsche 968 rims will be the only change. The santana engine plate is pretty nice for a toy and I'm sure some careful work with the micromesh polishing pads will do wonders for the paint

Very nicely done, I would also like to know what kit it is from, my dad had one of the road cars in orange when i was a kid

unfortunatally once this situation is over it will be the poor and sick that gets punished again for the goverments incompetancy. It always is and boris and co will blame someone else like (lava)tories always do.

cool, nice to see something different

One of the recent hobby design upgrade sets has the stencils included on the pe fret but I forget which set it is. If you do a search on hlj.com you might find them as they include pics of everything included in the sets. Failing that a_modeller on ebay might have them as they seem to carry a lot of older pe sets

If you hover the cursor over someones name it tells you if they are online or when they last visited. I'm on a pc so it might be different on a phone

That would be good, they make nice parts

Either way, I hope the aftermarket bring out a stock door panels and dash for it

I've been looking forward to this one. Wasn't there pics of the built-up at the suzuka? hobby show late last year?

different can but looks like the same thing we have in the uk, when its goes off does feel slightly sticky?

A lancia delta drove past me on my way to work tonight, It had the martini rally decor but no wide arches and the engine sounded too quiet to be an integralle. Still a nice looking car and not a lump of rust like most were locally. Last night I saw a swiss registered early moggy minor traveller getting on a ferry, Looked to be a clean maintained original rather than a restored one

I needed to do something at work (im nightwatch on a boat) so since I have some 17" teddies and splash paints I'm building a 90s style harlequin. I'm using the fujimi golf cl/gl kit. The first step was to fill the sunroof area as it always sinks when the paint goes on. Next I smoothed out the rear bumper to get rid of the upper bodylines. Around the front the bumper was just too fussy so to go with the late 90s brit look the indicators/fog lights and number plate have been deleted. I'm thinking the rear lights will be tinted green again for the 90s look. The wheels will be white and most of the interior will be black with the 4 exterior colours in the centers of the seats. While the kit has an engine plate if you want to open the hood, this one will be remaining a curbside, but it will be slammed and stanced as all vws should be, lol

I'm guessing you have the custom version of the kit, the original style ribbed ones are in the stock kit

I liked bad chad as something to watch, but some of the work he does just looks bad or unfinished. he almost seems to be trying too hard to build someting that shocks people instead of something you might be able to actually drive. the old car he made into a tanker was cool though, the rest have a few nice features and good ideas just without any quality work behind it, thats close enough, lets just put a foot of filler on to hide the work underneath. I used to enjoy overhaulin until they stopped customising and just added everything from an opg or summit catalogue. It went from actual customising to bolt all this on in the same way pimp my ride did, just with better cars to start with. in the early days of the show they did some actual customising like the 4 dr tri 5 they made into a 2 door roadster, oval window 356 or the lotus they turned into a wide body.

I think his show, along with bitchin rides and texas metal seem to be the most down to earth of the car shows and they show how they do things. fast n loud are more about how much money things are worth and shouting now which is a shame cos the earlier shows were more easy going in a way. I much prefer to watch people that enjoy their work cos it shows through and makes a better show. I still need to see season 3 of full custom garage though. The british one (goblin works garage) just seem to be trying too hard and seems like a shiny version of vegas rat rods. You knoe the type, we're nearly finished this nice car but i found this candelabra in someones dumpster so we just need to find a way to make it work as tail lights and incorporate as many other bits of trash as we can.

1.7 miles so its just a take off and landing really. one of the local distilleries used to sponsor the planes so they were all black then but now they are back to blue and white. I couldn't count how many times I've flown on them, and i was the cleaner in the hanger for a few months, 6 hours of mopping sucked but i got to watch the engineers dismantle them which was kinda cool. always wanted to put one of the aircooled v8s in an old vw. they still use the trilanders in the western isles too

they use them like buses up here, 20 odd flights a day and it has the world record for shortest scheduled flight, less than 2 mins.

I've been thinking about doing the vw hot rod pick up he did in series 2 of full custom garage. I'd probably give it a supercharger though

I guess I'm lucky, where i am is pretty much the test bed for renewable energy so we have too much power locally. They are currently setting up the worlds most powerful water generator on one of the smaller islands that generates power from the movement of the waves, and most farms have their own windmills as well as the boat i work on has a windmill for when shes tied up at night. Our competitor made a big fuss over switching to wind power at night, and when our company owner was asked what he thought he replied they should have done it years ago cos he's been doing it since he started the company. There's still some windmills enron put up working away without any problems. There's loads of solar power too but its mostly just for heating. When the company i work for got their new boat she was specced to be able to switch to hydrogen power to make even more use of the windmill, but i think they'll wait and see how it works for the boat their testing it out on to see if it commercially viable. Even loganair are looking into converting their fleet of britten norman islander aircraft over to electric since all their flights are less than 50 miles each way. Chances are if you get your power from almost any renewable energy, it was tested in orkney first

Cool project. When you clean the clearly scale parts make sure to give them a really good clean, whatever release agent they use can be a pest when it comes to painting, but the parts are really good and worth the extra effort

Got another fujimi vw golf mk3 and the paints to build this, but mine will be on teddy bear wheels

My sister has an 05 plate focus. It has to be one of the worst cars she has owned even though its the newest. If its raining water seeps into the engine through the no1 spark plug and its runs terribly, so I've done a temp fix for that using some old number plates to make the water drip down elsewhere but puddles still make it conk out. Shes lucky to get 2000 miles out of a set of tyres and I've had the alignment checked loads. The door handles inside and out on the passenger front door dont like being attached to the mechanism so I've taken the door card out so she can use the door. On the plus side it a good car to take stuff to the dump with, and the seats are pretty decent

Nice looking caddy, do you know if there are any kits of this body style?

Thanks guys, I'll try the glue first to see how it goes for me. Luckily the kit has an extra lot of the blue ribbon so I'll practice with it to save the black ribbon. Thanks again