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Has anyone tried using bondic on a painted surface?

After looking at it again, I should have moved the front wheels forward a little as well

The original version looks like it should be a 4 door to me, but with the size of the trunk lid it probably wouldn't lose too much of the practicality, it wouls be a struggle to get the spare in and out

Well I'm very much a newbie at photoshop but I gave the marlin a shot. I moved the rear wheels back and shortened the back of the car. You can see by the white gaps how much. I suppose I made it what you guys would call a compact

That pontiac would be a great starting point for a modern version, similar to what they did with the mustang and challenger. If your going to be restyling others can post the challenge of doing a G-wiz,

This is the revell street burner version. I swapped out the engine for a big block from a 60's camaro but kept the monte's induction. The suspension has been lowered as far as possible without cutting the chassis or arches. The paint on this one fought ma all the way to the end, and just when I thought I had it beat the screen snapped. The interior is stock but I did it in white and tan. The wheels are from aoshima.

I did this one with duplicolour cans. The roof was done with red and gold dust coats, followed by the black which was sprayed on the sides of the body to get the fade effect then a piece of lace was laid on the roof and a further dust coat of black was sprayed over and the lace removed immediately after that.

I guess you could say I'm old enough to know better but young enough that it doesn't matter

Finished this up a few weeks ago. It's a aoshima datsun skyline with most of the chassis from a ut models opel calibra dtm racer. I had to chop off the front of the calibra chassis and replaced it with the front from a beretta pro street chassis after the calibra was too wide to fit the tyres inside the wings. The engine is from the calibra but I added a pair of hobby design turbos with scratch built pipework which all connects to the intercooler, and converted it to twin spark. The radiator is from my parts box. The turbos have individual oil coolers and are plumbed in. The interior is mostly stock apart from a pair of seats from a fujimi ferrari and a couple of mods to the door panels to fit it in, and is flocked to give a sorta singer porsche look to it. The wheels and tyres are hobby design 19" ssr's. I really need to go back and paint the badges and fuel fillers on the side but I don't want to make a mess of the paint.

I've done a few, and have some more in progress. First up, a new bug converted to a pick up with a 911 engine in the back Next up is a hasegawa kubelwagen (the bugs wartime version) with a type4 turbo engine And finally a 66 panel van, box stock other than paint and a slight lowering of the front to level it out

Hobby design do engines and parts for tuners. Clearly scale have some 1/24 v8 engines that look nice

Hiroboy in the uk sell grey wire. Or if you have an old x-box controller with a cord it has a lighter grey and a sort of tan colour wire in the cord

Revell AG use a different method for the skill level. For example their version of the 48 ford woody is a skill 5 but exactly the same as the US version at skill 3.

Cool, I've been waiting for this so I can build my version of the ardbeg tractor.

Seem's good timing for a mk2 transit with a mk1 or 2 escort rally car on the trailer.

Nice work, is this the same kit as the imax one? I ask as I just won one off ebay

Cool idea

For making airbags for suspension, have a look in the hardware store for tap washers. Usually about a buck for 3 sizes in a multi pack and can be stretched over the kit springs if your feeling lazy. The larger size in the pack might even work for large trucks. Another bonus with these is being black rubber they wont need painting. They may work for aircraft tyres too

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Revell germany do a camper version, and there are bus versions out there

Wild, but very cool

Very cool, I've enjoyed watching the build on the French forum

Cool builds, now to turn up the music....

Cool build,

Cool, I like the thinking outside the box.