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Very cool

If you mix the leftovers with a mk escort kit you build an rs1700t!

x2 on what they said. Its a very pretty colour, especilly with the white walls

Got some paint on the interior today and while it was drying I did some more on the trailer. The pull out cooker took a lot of thinking before I just did a simple slide out version. I tried a few different ways to make it slide out including making a small wheeled trolley but in the end a slotted sheet won. I was overthinking it for the first attempts

Its classed as a public road mate, but if you happen to have a crash you are responsible for paying the tracks lost earnings and armco repairs.

Its open to the public TJ. Anybody can take any car or tour bus on it for around $25 a lap. They still have manufacturer test days too. 8 mins though is fast but there are many faster cars. Here a sub 8 min mk1 golf

Awesome to see a modern style drag pop, nice work

Not yet, I need to finish off a few vws first to make space on the bench, shouldn't be long though as it on top of the pile. I did try the jag engine and its going to work better than the hemi

Hi Folks, I'm hoping someone can point me to a source for sheets of turned gold leaf style decel sheets that would be suitable for cutting names from for a old style bug racer

I sat down to do the foil on the bug but half way through doing it I realised I had everything needed to a custom camper too. So since I have a load more time than I thought I made a start on it. I'm using the c1 models trailer I got last year as the base with sides cut from some styrene sheets. All the interior so far is from the t3 camper I'm making into a pick up. I'm in the middle of making a swing out cooker to be under a hatch at the rear

I'm waiting for the scammell to come back, got a custom idea for it that going to take 2 cabs. It was kfs originally but they sold a lot of their molds last year and this place got it

this place does truck stuff too https://modellersresource.co.uk/

I bought a joblot of the humbrol acrylics a while back, and they are poor quality. They seem to have some grit in them and dont cover very well by brush or spray. I ended up going back to the enamels as at least they are usable. I like the revell acrylics though, they cover well but I've only used the ones you get in the gift sets. Not tried the revell enamels yet

Clear is on, I think I might get away with the finish straight out of the can on this one

Cool, the plymouth looks tough. Should look really tough on the ford

At the front I made it a friction fit on the suspension arms so it will wear out if used too much, and at the rear I'm cutting down some rubber bands to replace the centre of the driveshafts. I will be solid gluing them to the brake drums to make sure the stance does what most slammed vws do for that broken look. I previously tried to do it on my hebmuller using small sewing elastic at the front glued to the suspension arms but it was a little loose once assembled. When you get to your bug you'll need to do some small mods to the rear interior bucket, to get mine to fit I added a small strip of plastic 0.3mm under the upper engine bay part to tilt it ever so slightly back, and the front underhood part needed a little reshaping on the front from just behind the centre of the fenders down both sides but its both very minor mods but needed to get the body on the pan correctly.

Got the lime gold on. It laid down much nicer than the hot pink I used on the datsun. No blotchiness so it only needed a couple of coats unlike the pink that took loads of layers to get even. I'm looking forward to getting all the chrome and foil on but i've got a lot of clear to go on before that. I'm using a hebmuller dash to make the rhd conversion simpler

I used the humbrol enamel thinners and the paint turned to rubber on them. my own fault for not reading the tin but i assumed it was enamel since the tins are the same

The beetle hood looks to be from the imc kit with the stock or gasser options edit just checked and it is, the underside detail is the same

The humbrol clears are celulose paints (as I found out after destroying my paint brush in the humbrol thinners)

Does buying a kit you already have 2 of just for the bumpers I already have count? In my defence the 2 I already have are the esci releases of the escort rally car and my only reason for not raiding them for parts is they seem to sell for a lot on ebay so I'm sorta trying to keep them complete but they will get built. That reminds me, I've run out of tamiya bugs so will need to buy a few more soon

A couple of ebay purchases arrived today. The monogram mercedes was dirt cheap (pic from th internet as my one is too faded to get a decent pic off) cos i was the only bidder and the italeri escort I got so I can use the bumpers on my cannonball car. I also received an amt 49 merc and jimmy flintstone hirohata mers in a trade here.

Got the body and interior parts in the silver base. I'll let them sit a couple of days before the hok lime gold goes on

If I take parts from a kit I just cuss a lot when I go to build it and more bashing happens

Hows about the rarest USA golf/rabbit of them all. One of possibly 2 made by checker to replace the classic taxi. Its now owned Jamie Orr from orchideuro so its in a good home.