GeeBee

I know what people are thinking, Another Trabant ?? Well after painting the Van version, I had plenty of the Glacier blue left, and working on the premiss that this paint doesn't keep well, both the Champagne beige and the Capri green both started to cure when decanted into a sealed glass jar, this time while painting the van I wasn't going to decant the complete can of Glacier blue, but sadly the valve was faulty on the can and the only way to remove the contents was the empty the propellant and cut off the top of the can, I still had 120 mls of paint left after painting the van, and the fact that I still had three Trabant 601 saloon models in the stash, the plan was just to paint the bodyshell and body parts and put them away for another day, and get on with other models, but all the models I plan to build this year I need to put in a decent order for more paint, so I just carried on with this one, I've heard it said the Blue Trabant were the most popular in East Germany because they considered blue to be a lucky colour, if that's true or not, I don't know, but a little blue Trabant in the display cabinet would certainly look good, while I carry on building the rest of the model, the bodyshell and other body coloured parts have been put away in sealed plastic containers for the paint to go rock hard, this paint doesn't cure in five minutes

I've used their super resin Polish on models before, it has a slight abrasive cut to it, these days I used poorboys SSR2 and meguires gold class, most automotive polishes work just fine on models

I use their products on my PT Cruiser, what do you need to know ?

only too pleased to help out ....

I knew they would look after you ...

Nice build ...

Welcome to the forum, and back to world of model making

not unless you count the Vauxhall Cresta PA series https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Vauxhall_Cresta_PA_1961_-_Flickr_-_mick_-_Lumix.jpg/946px-Vauxhall_Cresta_PA_1961_-_Flickr_-_mick_-_Lumix.jpg

Very nice build ....

Superb build, I'll get to build mine one day .....

Very nice clean build ...

Looking real nice, loving the paintwork ...

I don't usually get started kits, but this one was free, so I thought I'd give it a go, not that I need anymore Trabant's, at the moment the painted parts are sitting in a plastic tub after being sprayed with Fairy power spray, I've not yet found a paint this stuff won't strip, although the body is putting up a good fight, although it has that much paint on it, the panel lines have all been filled in.

A couple of these ...

Very nice, that's the Porsche I'm after in Zenith blue, just trying to find the right one ...

Welcome aboard, those are some real nice models you've built ....

Another stunning build ....

A little progress ....

Welcome aboard ..

Superb build, and stunning paintwork ...

Those look real nice, I'll be getting a few of these ...

Superb build, looks very realistic ...

I've got a few of these to build, so I'll probably use your build as reference material, looking forward to seeing this build progress