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you might have to hang the doors so they are being sprayed from the same angle, sometimes a small difference in angle can change the way the final colour looks. If you have enough of the paint left you could flat down the body and doors again, then mask inside the doors and body and shoot some more paint with the doors on. hopefully then you'll get the same colour

This is the airtrax vw 412 kit. Its pretty nicely done on the body but as you can see the chassis is very simple. Please dont use the chassis i get as a guide to their resin kits, I said when i ordered it that the front and rear chassis didn't matter too much as i would be cutting it up anyway. My plan is to fit the engine from a tamiya porsche 959 as the roof on it got crushed and i never have any luck straightening roof pillars. I am scratching the rear suspension but will be using a revell 1/25 bug front axle for that narrowed bagged aircooled stance at the front and the rear will be heavily cambered. I am using 18 inch steels on the front and 22 inchers at the rear. The interior will be mostly stock but the rear seat will need some trimming and the parcel tray behind the seat will be scratchbuilt. As you can see I only kept the centre from the floorpan. I have also cut open the hood as everything under it will be scratched or robbed from other kits.

Other than some friends unknown bands (one of them is now bassist for cradle of filth) the first band i saw was ac/dc in 94 or 95 ish. I was still at school at the the time, so i asked my parents if i could spend the weekend at my friends house and jumped on the boat to mainland scotland, then spent most of a day train hopping from thurso down to donnington. After this I got in a lot of trouble from my parents as i cant have been more than 14 or 15 at the time. After seeing them i didn't attend another big name concert until 2001 when i attended a festival in glasgow called "gig on the green" I saw the beastie boys play an accoustic set in one of the tents for small bands, eminem, d12, marylin manson, linkin park, blink 182 and loads more that i've forgotten

All 3 shows are being held at the same time in the same place.

they're a quid in tesco mate,

Just the glass and running boards to go now. She should be finished tomorrow. It really needs a set of nice wide whitewalls but with the tamiya tyres being rubber I think they would crack before i got them on the wheels and i'm sure you all know how well tape sticks to rubber. I had some problems getting any paint to stick to the dash and some other small parts so used the stock tamiya parts. If I had been able to paint sooner i would have had time to build a new heb dash as i have a pe set for it. I've lowered the bumpers using a pe set from highlight model studio (all the pe is from them) and added some vintage euro extras to the rear bumpers. I was going to add spot lights to the front but i cane seem to fine them. The steering wheel is also pe, as is the wolfsburg crest on the hood and the trim under the lights. I also used some pe trim on the wheels. The paint is duplicolour cream (was originally pearl white as seen on the engine bay and under the hood but again paint problems forced a change to the plan) with pearl blue over white primer and lots of clear. I decided to use the bumpers and chrome from the donor kit to add some more bling to the car than i would have managed with the resin parts. The suitcases are sratchbuilt and the suspension works front and rear though its better at the front.

Bangshift.com are showing old races most days too

I'll just quietly leave this here

Any household bleach should remove the chrome

I didn't intend to offend anyone, I just thought it was a funny pic related to the thread. If i had known it wasn't allowed i wouldn't have posted it

RIP Sir Stirling Moss, a gentleman among men. Passed away after a long illness aged 90. One of the guys that brought improved safety to motorsport though he'll be remembered mostly as the racer that still wore his vintage helmet

Cool

Cool, i like the hot rod stance on it

I'd look on oe of the chevy truck forums. There will be someone that ahs the duplicolour code, or you might get it from the cuplicolour website, i would expect them to have some way to get the right colour on it

my sister cat got out on its own for the first time this morning. He got his first kill too, i've never seen a cat look so pleased with itself for catching a worm

Very cool, it looks very slick with the trim removed

man, i bet you wish you'd bought it now, these are very strong money now in almost any condition

Its from bestmodelcarparts on ebay mate, it wasn't listed when i ordered it but they were happy to list one for me, well two cos someone beat me to it when they listed the first one

wow!

Thats a cool car, I've been trying to think how i want to build my one and I'll definately take inspiration from yours

I got most of the body parts in primer this morning. I had to use white primer as I'm going to use the same blue pearl I used on the 68 charger a couple of years ago. I'll be doing the sides in pearl white first. I've also decided to use the stock wheels from the tamiya kit so i can use the chrome hubcaps and one of the pe wheel trim sets. This also means i can save the smoothies from the heb kit for another bug or bus. To make the pe parts pop i did the wheels in dark blue as it wouldn't show up so well with the body colours. The convertible top will be black though i did consider doing it tan to match the interior. There isn't a back seat in a heb, instead it has a luggage area so I am going to cover it with a bit of wood which I'll add some chrome strips to similar to what the stock interior has. I've got a few pe parts to fit to the interior but they'll have to wait until the interior is painted. Since the luggage area was going to be empty I made a suitcase to sit in it. I've covered it with superglue to hopefully give it a slightly battered/aged look

If your using paperclips sand them a little before you glue them, some off them dont seem to stay stuck if you dont

If your going to be customising everything, hasegawa have 4 full size curbsides, a caddy, buick, chevy and thunderbird. the bodies are nice but the interiors are very generic with the entire dash being a decal. The chassis is pretty much a flat sheet too

they seem to be working now, but for the first hour it was an error every time

Want to talk about rare vw kits? I really liked the amt scirocco kit but it looked really small copared to my other kits. Then this popped up on the auction site. I'll be mixing it with a revell mk1 and trying to make it into something closer to a stock body using the revell body that will be leftover from a c1 trans kit. I also got this 64 caddy built up/promo that will be getting an ls engine and big rims,