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Looking great, looking forward to seeing this one progress.

A work of art Matt....

A very nice looking model.

Left over from the Cabriolet Golf I'm building

The photo i posted wasn't the best, here's an original Scirocco in Viper Green Metallic with the wheels I'll be using, only very early GTI's were available in this colour and only in left hand drive, I don't think I've ever seen one in the UK.

Very nice model, I'd love some models of cars I've owned, apart from a few available for company cars, non of my cars are available in model form.

If you've used Tamiya acrylics for the rear lenses, it should be easy enough to remove it, 99% alcohol should work.

. Basically the twin system gives Reliability and thorough combustion of the cylinders, if one fails you're not going to break down.

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I've got a few photos of it, but there on my computer down in London, I'm stuck up in the Midlands due to the lock down, but it was silver with stripes just like this one i found on the 'net

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What to do when you have a box full of Volkswagen Golf GTi parts, minus the bodyshell?? Sometime ago I bought the Revell Golf GTi kit off eBay, the bodyshell was destroyed in transit, seems a shame to have all these parts sitting idle, so I've been in touch with Revell to see if I can purchase a new body, and I'll be building a very rare GTi, only available for one year in Left hand drive only and never officially available in the UK, and to make it even rarer, it will have the wheels that were popular on the Scirocco, but Available on the GTi for 2 years,which I have left over from the Golf Cabriolet, so this one will be a very early (1978) Golf GTi in Viper Green.

That That's just unreal....

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Volkswagen didn't galvanise the bodyshells until the mk3 came out,I believe the Later cabriolets had wax injected into the cavities.

Spotted one of these parked up in London not so long ago, and in superb condition

it's the same kits as the Pirelli kit, although it's moulded in blue with different decals, although the regular Pirelli decals are included.

Another one on the way to me

I tried many places, the smallest I could get mixed was 1 litre, for basecoat, or 100mls of the older cellulose, I know when I was working at V.A.G, we were limited to how many yellow cars we could produce, as back then, yellow was the only colour that needed lead to be added to it, I've got 50mls of basecoat coming from Germany, yes, the cost with the shipping wasn't cheap, but cost really doesn't come into it, since using basecoat for the GTI and Land Rover, I've gotten to like the way it goes on. The hubcaps are supplied on the gray sprue, in the ?? Revell Rabbit kit they are actually chromed.

Simply stunning....

Superb build, as usual

Two hubcaps done, two more to do, I had thought about doing them using Alclad, ended up using my favourite Bare Metal foil

After looking at the previous few photos, I noticed the dashboard looked a little rough around the edges, and the roof down part looked like it needed cleaning up a little more, after a quick session with a foam sanding pad they look a lot better, got the interior dry fitted into place, I'm looking forward to getting this one painted, I've ordered the Lemon Yellow basecoat from Germany. The seat backs need filling and sanding smooth before they get painted, I've just ordered the filler, as the one I have, the hardner has gone off.

I'll be pinching this idea for when I build the few Italeri Range Rovers I've got, looks so much better than how Italeri do the front grille.

Welcome back, sorry to hear you've been having a tough time, hopefully things can only get better, I was supposed to be in Brazil this year, in Manaus, I was there a few years ago, hopefully things will get back to normal very soon and can get back to travelling again.