GeeBee

Thanks to a good friend in Kentucky, who found this one in Hobby Villa, I've been after one for sometime now, hopefully I'll have it very soon.

It's a 1961-64 3.8

Looking good, I've driven many early Range Rovers, including many from West Midlands police, the police versions had no power steering, and two 12 volt batteries with a twin charging system fitted.

I'm not sure if the Met have any still in service, but if you go to the police garage in West Molesey in London, there's a few they have in storage.

A little more progress, again everything is just dry fitted in place.

I was looking into this a few days ago, from what I gather, you won't pay the VAT in the UK, but you'll pay it in your country of residence, (25% in Sweden) plus import duty of anything over €22.

I'm thinking of going with Volkswagen lemon yellow, although I'm struggling to get it mixed up in the UK, (unless I want a litre of the stuff mixed) looks like I'm going to have it sent over from Germany

If it turns out as nice as the GTI version I built last year, I'll be more than happy

It's the same as the GTI i built some time ago, but with a carburettor instead of the injection parts.

Superb builds, I'll build another truck one day.

a little more progress today

For all the customers that have ordered this Transkit that drives on the wrong side of the world, Chris from C1 models is including the Left hand drive dashboard free of charge.

With any window surround that needs to be black i use Tamiya rubber black TS-82 decanted and applied with the airbrush, mask the parts with regular Tamiya masking tape, apply the rubber black in light coats.

Made a start on this yesterday, I'll be building it with steel wheels with chrome hubcaps

I tend to build the engine up with parts that need to be painted the same colour, all the other parts I prime at the same time, then airbrush in the colour they need to be painted, plastic cement doesn't work well on painted parts, I use epoxy resin.

Superb work Matt, I've often thought about giving one of these kits a go...

Not a great deal happening with this one, I need to spend a little time getting all the parts mounted ready for primer and paint, but j still haven't sorted out the workshop, so airbrushing is on hold, I did get the rear axle parts prepared and dry fitted them in place, the parts fit on this one so far is superb

Here's a few of my "Go To" online model stores based in the UK https://fromemodelcentre.com/ https://www.emodels.co.uk/latest-products https://www.hiroboy.com/ https://www.jacksonsmodels.co.uk/ https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/

Thank you for the link Richard, I've bookmarked it for future use, I've got a few Model T's to build.

Tamiya's Morgan 4/4 has a Ford crossflow 4 cylinder engine, the Tamiya Jaguar Mk2 has a nice straight 6 engine in it, as so does the latest Jaguar E Type coupe from Revell.

The Lindberg and the later AMT 64 Plymouth belvedere has a slant 6 included in the kit

Looks superb, black is one colour i shy away from, it shows up way too many imperfections, but yours look perfect.....

Steve @ Star Models let me know a few days ago that the 57 Chevrolet Bel Air Sports Sedan was available again, I've been after one for a while, as I've another AMT 57 Bel Air that I didn't want to build OOB, as I've already built one (it's 99.9% finished) Ordered one this morning, looking forward to getting it.....

Yes, I've been there 3 times, luckily I was good friends with the staff at Hobby Haven in Des Moines who saved me some of the big shipping boxes, I was sending big boxes of models back home, shipping via the "Surface mail " took around 6 weeks to arrive, Oh the good ole days...... When you had the tour around the ERTL factory you got an ERTL dollar coin that you could spend in the outlet store, but I've kept all mine. I've still got the keyring i bought from the outlet store in 1993, it's got the keys to my office on it, so it gets used every day.

Have a look here to see if there's anything suitable, I know Chris is working on a conversion for the Lotus Super 7 to turn it into a Caterham. https://motobitz.uk/accessories.html