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Nice repair work

I just got a notification from hannants that the revell vw t1 camper is now on sale. I'll be ordering a couple tomorrow and will post a review when I recieve them. Looks like it will be popular among us vw guys. It looks pretty nice in the pics (from hannants website)

I'm sure many of you have seen the new styling on the BMW m3. I've been wracking my brain trying to think where I'd seen it before and I finally realised where it was

Cool, I once heard someone say poor countries dont buy tanks, they buy volvos

that expired yesterday

Mostly stock apart from lowering and a set of messer wheels from USCP. I got this kit from ebay during lockdown and it arrived in a damaged state so the screen posts and cowl panel needed a bit of work to let the glass (almost) fit. The colour was left over from the mk3 golf wagon and I did a lighter interior and top. Unfortunately due to the damaged posts the top had be glued on or the window would fall out

Built from the fujimi kit mostly stock but i did a different coloured interior. This is the second of these I've built and I had problems with the bumpers again, especially at the rear. I dont know if the paint warped them or what because before painting there was no fit problems. I have the gti and another of the r32s to build but I'm thinking to try and convert the r32 to a mk6 version since the mk6 was a reskinned mk5

This was started this time last years but ended up buried on the bench. I recently pulled it out of the mess and got her finished. It is built using the USCP trans kit but since it only had a cover for the trunk area I cut down a volvo wagon part to fit. The front seats are from a revell ferrari and I used the fujimi vr6 kit for the rest. The paint is tamiya dark blue mica. The wheels are from scale production and are 17" ronals. I also tinted the headlights and did the rear lights all red. It was a good feeling to finally get it off the bench after almost a year (My work hours went from 56 a month to 84 every2 weeks so time disappeared on me) I thought about opening the hood so I could use the engine plate from the kit but the resin was pretty thick there and some extra material needed to be removed to get the bumper on but all in all it went together fairly well. One of my next vw projects will be a USA spec mk3 jetta trek edition in pearl white as we didn't get them over here

cool link, i'll be referencing some of the vws, especially the trek edition jetta

sweet build

I play it safe and put a masking tape seal over those when they've been opened

if you cant find it I can easily get some to send to you, it does seem to be pretty hard to find them even in the uk though, but my local record shop is happy to order it in for me so I get them 6 at a time

thanks, I tried as many different searches as i could but i never thought to add kit at the end

Ah well, I dont do facebook but you'd think they would have something on the hobby design website or something. Seems like a poor business decision on their part given how many people are ditching facebook

Do alpha model have a website? I've been searching and all I'm getting in the results are places that stock them, a korean brass train manufacturer and a british modelling agency.

Humbrol do a couple of aluminum shades in their metalcote range, the matt finish is pretty close to what the pics shows

Very nice, I think i need to find a 57 now

Nice and slick

Very sorry for your loss Carl, I hope you and your brother can take some solace from the good memories

heres a better pic of the seats, i removed the rear and used the seats from a studebaker in mine. the fronts are smooth but the rears have a button in the centre of each side in a round depression (i highlighted the buttons with pencil)

Italeri do a curbside 1303 ragtop, its the same as the imai kit and the ragtop parts will fita tamiya body. Also bestmodelcarparts on ebay do a hebmuller ragtop which is very nice

Very subtle and cool

I can second the c1 powder, it gives a different finish depending on the base colour used so if you use it you may have to experiment to get the metal colour you want but its good stuff and not toxic like the other one (cant remember its name but i think it sounded japanese)

Nice work, unimogs are great fun off road

use the report post in the top right corner and the moderators will fix it mate