GeeBee

Yes some of those old Heller kits were a bit fiddly to build, but looks like you did a good job on this one, looks very realistic to me ..

I have only ever seen photo's of this car in the classic car magazine's I have, but you have the shape of it spot on, brilliant work, and to scratch build it in such a short time, I take more time just building a kit out of the box, and the scratch build the engine and getting it to look spot on, well your talent is amazing ....

Well got a bit more done today, bit of a mistake really painting the dash black, as it needed to be done dark blue to match the interior, Iris blue Sprites were only available with a blue interior, so it had to re-painted, also the seats got the same treatment, and the interior tub got masked off and painted dark blue, the dash has already had a coat of satin varnish, the seats will get a coat as well, but I will leave the carpets matt, as they don't really have a shine like the seats and dash would, as these would have been vinyl trim on the real thing.

Simply, the paint needs to be polished out, and it will be easier to do without the headlamp pods in the way.

Did a little work on the dashboard today, I had airbrushed it satin black, today I covered the dial rims in BMF, then gave the dash another coat of satin black, I let it to dry out for a few min's, then I got some cotton buds dampened in lacquer thinners, which uncovered the BMF underneath.

Ordered the paint from paint4u yesterday afternoon, great service as usual, as it arrived first thing this morning, so I thought I had better get the body into top coat, I also did the interior panels and the headlamp bowls,

Absolutely stunning work, that colour of the paint, and the detail makes this one superb build ...

Did a bit more on this today, managed to get all the chrome done in Alclad, but it's very hard to photograph and to show the shine, but they are, also gave the wheels a few coats of cellulose wheel silver

I bought this as a part built kit,the main chassis had been built, all the chrome parts had been stripped of there shiney stuff, and the bodyshell had been painted in a dark green. I popped the bodyshell and a few other parts that had been painted into a plastic tub and given a good coating of Fairy Power spray, and then another which I left on overnight, cleaned it off the next day, this is the first time I had tried this way of stripping off paint, but it certainly the best, and there's no smell to it. I'm going to painting in BMC Iris Blue with a dark blue interior I was thinking over the weekend how to fit the windshield frame to the body after it had been painted, and looking at it, I wasn't happy to just hold it on with a few dabs of epoxy, and as the real thing is held in place by 2 screws each side, I have tried to replicate that by drilling small holes and using cut down brass pins, these will be painted in Alclad along with the frame, also as all the chrome parts had previously been stripped of there shiney stuff, I thought it would be easier to fix them to the body before painted, as they can be pick out using BMF afterwards, they were tricky to fit before, so how tricky they would have been afterwards without getting glue onto the bodyshell I really don't know. Did a bit of sorting out parts and getting them primered, I will sort them into parts to be painted black, bodycolour and Alclad.

I wish we had a local model shop, but the nearest on is the other side of Solihull, and to be honest they just don't make you feel welcome, pretty strange but other people I know feel the same way, we have a decent model shop in Birmingham, but they basically sell kits, diecast, but no detail stuff, so I really have no other choice but to shop online.

Is there anywhere in England you can pick up a copy ??? I would really like to take a look before I take out a sub', I used to subscribe to the other mag', but that's just ran out,

Very nice, love the colour, Typical Beach Buggy colour

Done a bit more this morning, how I was going to do the rear screen surround was driving me nuts, but was pretty simple to do in the end, masked off with Tamiya tape, then the body was covered in clear food wrap to stop any overspray, and was then sprayed in satin black lacquer, the roof was sprayed in the same paint, here's a photo with the roof attached (Only temporary) as tamiya give you the option of open and closed roof, I'm not sure which one I'm going with at the moment.

Well, I've been busy this afternoon, got most of the small parts painted, seats dried up o.k, I'm pretty pleased with the colour, I think I've mixed up enough to do the door panels !!!

Front & rear seats painted, I couldn't find a pre-mixed shade, so I had to have a go at mixing it myself, I was aiming at the colour in the photo below, I took the photo just after I had painted them, hopefully they will dull down after they have dried out, as I used satin gloss paints to mix the shade ....

Got round to painting the wheels, bumper and front grill in Citroen Gris Rose cellulose

I've been working on this for the last few days, I wanted to do it in Citroen Jaune Primevere (Primula Yellow)I ordered the paint from paints4u.com, hopefully it will look like the one in the photo below when it's finished !! while I was ordering the paint I also had a small amount of Gris Rose mixed up for the wheels and bumpers, the interior is a brown/orange colour, which I will more than likely have to mix up myself. Yesterday I started work on the bodyshell and body parts, there were a few mold lines to remove from the bodyshell, two that run on both sides of the 'shell from the front windshield to the boot, didn't take too long to remove with a medium grit sanding stick, the bodyshell and all body colour parts were cleaned up,and then given a good soak in warm water with dishwasher detergent added, followed by a scrub using a toothbrush and some smokers tooth powder and then a rince in cool water, all parts were then left to dry on paper towels.I have started building up the the engine and gearbox which needs to be painted in aluminium, small parts need to be picked out in semi glass black, apart from a few ejector pin marks there wasn't too much to clean up, care had to be taken to fix on the front inboard brake drums withour glueing the driveshafts, as they need to move to line up with the wheels when finished, Finally block sanded the primer and put on it's gloss coat, I put a few thin coats on to start with, there were a few dust spots to deal with, those were sanded out, then i changed the needle set up in the airbrush and put on a couple of wet coats, I will leave it to dry for a week or so, then it will be time to polish.

I'm just starting to build Tamiya's 2cv, the Revell version looks like a later model than the Tamiya version, so I've got to get one of these, thanks for the post.

I have the very same compressor here in England, I can do nothing but recommend it, it's pretty quite and cuts in and out when needed, for the price I don't think you can do better.

Yes those AMT instructions were a bit off, but you made a good job of it in the end,

That's one nice looking truck,

Yes, I still have that one to do, I managed to buy another 2 of them on eBay, but sold them on.

Not sure if the filter is washable, the front one is a 2 part as it's blue on the outside, but has another white layer on the inside, then there's another white filter under that, you can buy new filters for it over here in the U.K for about £6.00 ($10)but as I bought this spraybooth last christmas, and I have used it a lot, the filters don't need replacing just yet, I reckon they should last another 6 months at least. Yes, I do use the unit indoors, I have it upstairs in my hobby room, and simply pop the window open and put out the extraction hose, you only have to open the window about an inch, because of the shape of the end of the hose.

I've got one of these, had if since the beginning of the year, and use it with the ventilation extra hose that fits onto the back, I've used acrylic's, enamel and cellulose lacquer in it, I've just cleaned out the filters this weekend, and while I got out quite a bit of paint dust out of the filters, non had got through to the back part of the filter, so I don't know why they say "Please do not use this spray booth with hazardous materials, flammable or explosive paints or materials" I line the inside of the booth with greaseproof baking paper, saves the plastic parts getting all messed up with overspray. I've got nothing but praise for this unit, and for the price, can't be beaten.