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after building the convertible i had enough parts left to build another fujimi mini. i styled this after my sisters old mini but used some japanese rims. i wanted to give the new mini a more old school look and a spent a fair bit of time getting the tyre to arch gap even for a different take on a stanced car. they dont ave to be slammed, its all about the tyre gap, lol

i built this the weekend before the vintage rally in august because my aunt (cars owner) was feeling forgotten while everybody was rushing about getting ready. i didn't tell anybody it was in my display and i dont think she even noticed until i pointed it out to her, lol. its a fujimi kit with the top from an academy kit. i would have built the academy kit but it had the wrong body shape so i got a couple fujimi kits. why 2 you ask? the bumpers were in one kit and the wheels in another. swapping the tops wasn't easy either as remember the bodies were different shapes so i very carefully removed the glass mount area from the academy body and grafted it into the fujimi body. this part was 4mm at its widest so it was slow going. the interior uses the fujimi dash and tub with the rear and sides from the academy kit. i started this on the monday with a friday show deadline so some corners were cut

they were getting 500+ from the 1.3 turbo versions of this engine in the 70s. not sure they would last the race though

theres a few differences. the engine induction set up and suspension are change. now i think about it the 4 pot would be a better engine choice

pj's can lead to some comedic typos

i tink i'll be in with a italeri ford escort mk2. it will have a heavy engine set back to improve the handling which should fit within the rules as german touring cars did it around that time. i've got a ford v6 around here somewhere but i'll have to check if its a cologne or essex engine.

the old tool is 1/25 while this is 1/24

new minis, mazda mx5/eunos/etc, vw golf, fwd vw transporters, japanese 4x4s, civics, imprezas, evos, gtrs, supras and many more. i know of 2 early new minis being restored and multiple vw vans. the old stuff just costs too much for younger folk. one new mini is only getting restored because they couldn't find an old one that didn't need a new shell

much of the time flying pigs turn out to be distant aircraft's landing lights

so with that it was onto the coupe. all along my intent was to paint it black but i might change my mind and use a nice bmw green/blue colour that should make the lines pop. since i learned some stuff with the roadster the first job was to get those body lines right. at the rear i ran a trip of fairly fine quarter round were i wanted the peaks. i used stopper to fill this and will be giving it a couple more goes as this filler sinks a lot. i would have built it up with resin but i'm out of it just now. for te front fenders i felt they were too square in the side profile and transition to the running boards so to fix this i cut the outer edges from the first coupe and glued them to the ones being used. this gives me a better widt and allows me to get the shape closer.

well i built up the weathering again, this time using tamya powders and crayons along with some citadel washes. the comvertible is pretty much finished apart from the glass bits. i need to order some clear resin for those as the only quote i got was for over a hundred quid for 4 24 scale lenses so i'll just get a bottle myself. this means no more work on it til mid jan but its mostly togeter. the interior needs dirtied up and the seat painted along with some other parts like the running boards but they will be last as its my grip points if i need extra hands, lol.

bugs often get taken on holiday so i can prove i important

what about since its 50 years of the cannonball, each entrant picks a year from the last 50 years and has to build either a production, race, record setting or cannonball vehicle from that year but to keep things interesting once someone has picked that year, nobody else can build that year.

theres been drones over us bases in england too. i think it will turn out to be an ai based security drone system being tested for military bases. they seem a lot more worried about the drones over here and yours started in greater numbers not long after ours made the news. adding two and two gets me to testing a system that was already close to ready because the need for it got greater. or it might just be josh gates filming another ghost show....

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the english are back, quick, paint the whitehouse blue and they'll never find it

yeah, its pretty bad. thats the downside to the turbo cans, it was a fresh filter when i started primer and its only 3 coats, lol.

i gotta say i'm liking these turbocans of primer, ready to sand or paint over in 15 mins which is really fastfor the high build. i normally leave primer at least 12 hours before risking paint. i've found my prints primer for sure. anyway, back to the paint. i randomy dusted some red primer and various tamiya browns/reds over the body parts. next a gave it a very light patchy primer coat followed by a patchy pale white top coat. the white actually looks better in the pics so sometimes the camera does lie, lol

i've been working on the fenders for a few hours and the line seems to be a little better now. its not perfect and prob not even close to stock but it looks better than the double line that was there before. i've also tried to make the outer fenders more round and will spend more time on both of these on the coupe as its going black. ad i'm going for an art deco pale white for the colour. i did a quick colour test on the door and i think it will work, and also make the weathering work better being a lighter colour. I might also have worked out how to get the frenzel under the hood which honestly has me more excited as its a cool looking engine imo.

i dont print for a living but if i'm not using my printers i'm happy to rent out time on them to help folk out. i find most folk that are paying to get stuff printed buy ready to use files from cults or similar. folk that draw their own files tend to have their own printers but i have a couple of friends that get me to do their final prints as my machine is better than theirs. i just cant ship to america now as theres a thief in the chicago usps custom/arrivals centre. 3 out of 5 parcels have gone missing there and i just cant afford the losses again.

printing for someone isn't commercial use if its print on demand. the first party bought the file from the second party and paid the third party to print it. it only becones a problem if the first or third party sell the prints. until then the first party can pay the third party to print as many as they want from the file. the third party isn't charging for the file, just the actual print. its how print on demand works or else nobody would print for other people

there are places that do this. most of the sites that sell files seem to a have printer they work with. i've done this for a few folk but i'm in scotland so shipping would be expensive. is there a wargaming shop near you? a lot highr percentage of them seem to have printers than traditional modellers so might be worth an ask (and some pretty good metal paint shades). are you in a club? if any members have a printer they might print for you or if not it might be worth a few of you grouping together to get one used.

if you can find the ral number for the colour you should be able to get it from any manufacturer. the ral code is not the code from the car, but the code that colour of paint has in manufacuring. these codes are standardised across makers whether its house paint, car paint or make up. duplicolour also have a range of non manufacturer colours that might have what your looking for. these usually have a code that starts h for metallics or hd if its a mica colour.

perfect exposure used to be a site filled with fantastic car pics of all styles in beautiful locations

do you sell the files? and do 4, 6, as well?