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Very nice

Hi folks, just wondering if theres an easy way to remove superglued resin from styrene without damaging parts? If necessary i can cut it off but before i do that i thought i'd ask for other ways to do it

I've found some pretty close cars but not this one. Pretty sure I know what country its from though, lol

Cool, I first heard of the yellowbird from the gran tourismo games but I thought it was a wider body. It had to be one of the best cars in the game and having it and the suzuki escudo jeep thing in the garage meant being pretty much unbeatable, lol.

I'm not sure mate, the only packaging was the plastic. It came from spain if thats any help

Wow, that a massive improvement over the dated original f40. Will be following

Another bug for the stash. I think it may be the same as the imai kit but will have to compare them. The parts look very simialr from memory. The vette was cheap and I was going to use the engine in my cannonball firebird but half of it is molded to the body. If I can remove it without damaging the rest I'll still use it but if not I have something else lined up. The front and rear independent suspensions are from motobitz and they look very nice with lots of detail so my delaheye build might be back on the bench soon. The spray booth I got for christmas

This one I got to give as a christmas gift to my friend who is restoring one of the last ones (probably the last sold but more research is being done) sold in scotland. His one is red but i wont be repainting this. Its in 1/24 and i got it from spain. It is in 1/24 and looks pretty well scaled to my eyes. None of the doors or stuff open. Appologies for it being in the plastic in the pics, as its a gift i didn't want to remove it from the packaging. I think I'll be hunting out another one of these for myself. For such a maligned car simply finding it in 24 or 25 scale was a pleasant surprise

in mismatched underwear

scale production and acsp have nice tyres, hobby design and 19eightyone can be a bit hit and miss on some with the inner sidewall of the tyres being rough/unfinished looking

ucsp and hobby design do them in staggered fitment. the 1224 motoring might be the brand rather than seller. Have you looked on the scale modeller site? they stock a lot of afteremarlet stuff and are in The Netherlands also

Scale production, hobby design and ucsp both have rotiform wheels in their catalogues and plenty of similar styles too. look for a seller called 1224 motoring on ebay too, i recently got some 21" rotiforms (cant remember the name but the first rims rotiform made, blqs maybe?) from them

This is the mitsuawa golf cab kit. While this one looks like a golf now, there is 24 hours of shaping in the body. If you want a mk1 golf cab, get the revell one. The door panels dont even fit and just look at the dash, lol, but I'm not worried about that as it'll be a scrapper in a dio sometime. After taking this to work to build and seeing how bad it is it became a paint experiment after the body was more golf like. Apart from the body shaping this only took 3 hours to build and most of that was paint drying.

Neat, nice to see one of these built

I got them from ucsp on ebay, but they have their own site too. I would look on both as theres usually some differences between their site and ebay listings. They come with tyres and mounting parts for tamiya and aoshima mounts.

Which version do you mean? I know some guys call the bay window a vanagon and some the t3. If its the t3 you had it shouldn't be too hard to build one out of the magnum/un/politzei vans

Very cool, it has a sorta modern version of the bower bentlet look to it

Where id you get the high top splittie?

still better looking than 2 spokes though

Who can resist teddy bears on their wheels, lol. I forsee a golf harlequin in my future because nothing else would suit them (pick up just for sizing)

I think opel may have been marketed as opalas in south america

cool little rod, beautifully simple but enough details to keep you looking

So the rear end wasn't sitting as low as i wanted it to. I spent an hour or so modifying the hasegawa rails before deciding it would be far easier to just chop them off and build some new ones. I cut 6 of each rail then glued them in batches of 3 then temp glued these together so i could get the 2 sides the same shape. Obviously I made them so it would sit on the floor on slightly smaller wheels but then my brakes wont fit. I'll be doing more work on the suspension next to ensure it will stay this low so all the mounts will be to suit this stance. I have to build a new engine bay but since vws are pretty much all flat surfaces that shouldn't be too hard and I can build it to suit the engine and other parts. Since I have to fit a radiator I might use the vents from the van left overs on the side panels so I can move the radiator under the bed and give me a much cleaner looking engine bay since the suburu engine is pretty ugly. It means I'll have to open them up to show it off but that also gives me somewhere to put the air tank and pumps and using the van vents will keep it original looking too

Well i thought i really should get the saw warmed up since I'm effectivelly got half the time due to work. I'm starting with the rear since it will set the ride height due to the bed floor. Its the reason the big rims dont fit how i want so have been swapped for porsche 5 spokes. I am using the tamiya beetle rear chassis since it has gearbox mounts and is simple enough to narrow. I will be using the hasegawa rear torsion arms though as they allow a little more space than the bug versions. I am using the beetle gearbox as the suburu one is about twice the length so it can go in the spares box for now. I've put together the engine block and gearbox to help with mockups and to give a reference for the suspension. I'll be grafting the beetle rear onto the hasegawa chassis but all that will be staying is the the two rails as the bug parts replace most of the rest. The rails will also give me somewhere to build up the engine bay around the engine as neither the revell nor hasegawa offer much in this area and building from scratch will be simpler than modifying the kits. There's really not much to one of these bays anyway and doing it this way will allow me to fit the rads in a space designed for them instead of where theres a gap. I'll get the suspension built up and engine complete before starting this as the engine has a lot of bits still to fit.