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Rear bumper chromed using K Colours chrome paint Rear shock absorbers fitted, the pins were airbrushed in Testors Steel Wheels finished, the whitewall inserts were airbrushed using acrylic white primer Rocker covers masked up so the black can be airbrushed

While waiting for the paint and the photo etch detail sheet to arrive, I've been busy airbrushing all of the other parts Engine parts painted gold Bumper painted gloss black basecoat ready for the chrome Body in primer Chassis built up and primered Dash top painted in satin black Seats and interior side panels airbrushed

The place I get my resin supplies from sell tinting products for doing just what you need, for clear resin parts I've used food colouring without any problems, I'll find their details when ii get home

I keep telling the other half the same, still doesn't go down well !!

I had to shut down their website, as i was starting to spend a little too much, they seem to have some nice stuff for sale at the moment

it was the nationals @ Telford

I bought a Monogram Pro modeller 40 Ford convertible for £20 off them at the ipms show, the cheapest I'd seen online and eBay was at least double that

I might have some of the paint left if your having trouble getting some

Kits for Cash ??

Stock is all I do ....

Parts organised into the colours they needed to be painted, I've got a busy day tomorrow with some primer

they do, I was talking to the owner, Michael Guest last week, and he is now able to ship his paints overseas.

Picked up a couple of kits the other day, the Talbot lago I've been after for a number of years, after loosing the one I built up back in the 90's in a house move, I lost a box of built up models that have never been seen again, it was the first model I ever tried BMF on, the Jo-Han Desoto I bought off eBay a few years ago, apparently mint and box, and when it arrived, was boxed, I'll give the seeler that, but it was built up, and very badly at that, but I decided to give it a go, stripped the paint and repaired a few parts, and the once it was painted, a shelf in the hobby room fell off, complete with it's contents, and of course the Desoto took the hit, I've never seen plastic disintegrate so quickly, I've been looking a few places in the States have them, but they were listed at around $100, I want to built it, so no way, unless I want to be single, could pay that kind of money on one model, this one coat me £35.00 And this one is as listed, in box and un-built

One of the shock absorber mounts was broken off the chassis, it might be in the box floating around, but instead of looking for it, I cut the small piece that was left on the chassis flush with the crossmember, drilled a hole and used a dressmakers pin, once it was through the crossmember, the excess was cut off, with one side done, the other one looked odd, so I did the same to that side, it will all be assembled once the shock absorbers have been primed and painted blue,

Thank for the info' I've had trouble in the past with the primer showing around the edges, so I've took it off and will give it a try your way

Thanks for the information, Is it just the gearbox or the gearbox and bellhousing that are cast iron ?

Agree, I'm building up the chassis first, the floorboards will be added after everythibng on the chassis has been installed

Parts ready for primer Chassis finished and waiting for primer More parts ready for primer The 300 lettering on the inner door panels were covered in aluminium bmf, it will be sanded flush after paint to let the numbers show through

For sometime niw I've been putting off building the small amount of American cars I have in my stash, solely because I've been unable to get the original colours matched up at my local paint store, but now I can get matched paints sent over from MCW, http://mcwfinishes.com/ I can now build all the models I have been waiting to build. So the first one I'm building is the Amt 57 Chrysler 300C, this one is going to be done in Copper bronze metallic, mainly because I haven't got anything in that colour in my display cabinet, so should stand out when it's finished. I've deviated slightly from the instructions, as they tell you to install in the exhaust before putting in the rear axle and spring and also before the front torsion bars go in, but after dry fitting the parts, it's possible to fit the exhaust afterwards, For some reason, unknown to me, when I bought the kit, many years ago, it came with the rear bumper stripped of it's chrome and a light coat of grey primer, it will be done using the K Colors chrome paint I bought last year A few, very light mold lines were removed from the body and panel lines were deepened slightly, as I didn't want the disappearing under a few coats of paint and clearcoat It's almost a shame to install the rocker cover and hide the detail inside Interior dry fitted, everything lines up nicely Front Suspension A few minutes with a fine file and some flatting paper removes all the mold lines and just makes the exhaust look a little more realistic Rear axle and springs installed, checking first that the exhaust can be fitted afterwards Bonnet (Sorry, Hood) had some bmf put over the lettering, after painting these will be wet sanded and polished to make the lettering show through the paint

Superb buiilds .....

yes, but funily enough they fitted perfectly if they were put in back to front !

i had it mixed up at my usual auto paint store,

I'm not into custom cars, but you did a fine job as usual on this one .....

thank you, luckily photography is my job ....