Bumblebi

Hahahah awesome Okej, en bit upp i landet då!

Sorry for asking, but what do mean with that?

Tackar, den börjar likna något nu

Tjena Robin, detsamma!

Really nice build, I'm thinking about getting one of these myself, I've heard a lot of nice things about the kits.

That looks very interesting.. Will be fun to see the car finished!

Nice Vart bodde du innan du flyttade till USA då?

Thanks! I'll have to look into that, sounds very interesting!

Hahah Andra engelsktalande forum jag varit på brukar inte gilla om man pratar annat än just engelska!

Kul att se lite svenska, finns inte så många härifrån verkar det som! / Nice to see some Swedish here, it doesn't seem to be many from around here! (For you not speaking Swedish, Erik was born in Sweden but is living in the US now since he was two )

Thanks! Speedfreak: Well I think I've got some knowledge at least But that's for sure, there are a lot of stuff that I still need to learn

More pics... After test fitting the painting can start... I've used a combination of Faskolor and Humbrol colours, and the body will be painted in Tamiya TS42. The front subframe has been repainted after this pic was taken, bad paint... The interior is a bit less glossy now than at the time of the pic. And the chassis has been completed. This is where I stand right now, waiting to paint the body since I'll have to get some practice when using spray paint as I haven't spray painted a 1/24 body in years, and that last one didn't turn out as nice as I wanted it to I'll do some more updates and add some more progress pics this weekend, hopefully I'll get some more small stuff done! //Bumblebi

I bought a Fujimi Mini Cooper this past Christmas, with the idea of building a replica of a stanced out Mini from here in Sweden! It's not going to be a perfect replica, more my own interpretation of it, but most of it will be the same. (These are not my pics, they are borrowed!) Already from the beginning I wanted to keep the front wheels' steering mechanism intact but get a lot of negative camber at the same time, which meant that I couldn't change the geometry in the front easily. So, I decided to go the simple way and make a small piece that would push the wheels out, give me the right camber angles, but keep the rest of the geometry and steering mechanism intact. And since the real car had a set of BBS RS styled rims, I obviously went through my spare parts and found a nice set of rims that where the right size and roughly the same design as the original. Compared o the stock Mini wheels, the new ones are slightly smaller, which is good actually! Here's just a quick mock up of the wheels, angles and fitment. And the steering is still working. The rear has more negative camber than the front. Yup, a lot of weird tire wear going on here...

Thanks

Thanks, it helps alot! It's probably something similar to this that I'll use on mine, seems to be the simplest way to get it to look good.

A pic would be great! Did you modify the chassis rails too? I'm asking since some of the stock suspension parts are moulded in the chassis plate and are kind of in the way and not in the right shape!

Awesome gasser, love the details! Do you have any pics of the front suspension? I'm building a gasser out of this kit too, (though not anywhere near this good) and I'm not sure how I'm going to modify the chassis to suit the leaf spring suspension!

Thank you all

Hi, my name's Johan, I'm a 19 year old design student from Sweden. I've been into cars basically my entire life, (I got my first car whatsoever when I was a week old) and I've been building modelcars since I was about four years old, of course back then I got some help from my dad, but I did build most stuff by myself back then too. I'm building in a few different scales, my smallest so far has been in 1/87th scale, and I'm also into R/C cars in 1/10th scale, but right now it's mostly 1/24th scale. I'm currently building four completely different cars, and I'll share some pics and such about them all soon. Besides that, I'm here to get and give tips and just have a nice time! //Bumblebi