Pete75

Absolutely beautiful job. Congrats

Awesome job. Great looking car 👍

Thanks Sonny, that's kind of you. Been busy building my first diorama, but have been slowly ploughing on and got the interior finished. This section of the build ought to have been fun, but it wasn’t really. First, I blemished the rear seat somehow & had to re-spray it. However, it became Groundhog Day because I’d start work without letting paint harden properly, then out of nowhere a new blemish... Less haste, more speed, and all that. Anyway, it never did get back to where it was, plus the extra paint reduced the definition on the SB seat padding, but in the end I’m just happy to be done with it. After all, it’s an all black interior that will never be seen! For carpets I used self-adhesive felt for horizontal areas, and flocking for everything else. I remember now why I don’t do the latter very often, although by the end I think I have sorted my technique such that next time should be much more efficient. Other details: - I scratched the seat belt anchors purely for the relief of having a dot of colour in the sea of black! - Reshaped the gear knob to be more accurate, then snapped it off twice & lost it on the carpet once... - Fashioned the scuff pad/mat/thing that you only really see when you take the foot mats out to vacuum, but I wanted some textural difference. It’ll never been seen but it is accurate to the real thing! Just the chassis & engine bay left. I really want to be done with this build now, but I'm determined not to rush & screw up!

TS-82 actually does look like rubber. In the picture below, the rubber mallet has the head sprayed in TS-82 and the handle is brush painted in Revell matt black:

Great job!

Super-clean & unusual build. Looks fantastic. Making a note of the Halfords paint - I can already think of two possible uses

Looks great. Those are some small fixings!!

Cool!

Cool project. Does the balsa come with that pronounced grain on it?

Mind-blowing work. Quite brilliant. I'll be coming back to these photos for some time to reference/study!

Amazing work. So realistic! I'm only just starting to build dioramas/backdrops, and there is so much to study in these photos. How did you create your concrete road and ramp?

Beautiful work. Kinda makes me hungry - apple, cream and chocolate! I like your carpet. Is it a blend of different coloured flock/embossing powders?

Progress continues. The end wall is essentially done: The wall adverts/notices were left over from my temporary dio. They all have self-adhesive backing but I’ve learned from experience it’s easier to position them when they are mounted onto something first - I like using 0.25mm plasticard & double-sided tape. I’m weathering stuff as the mood grabs me, so I’ll probably be tinkering with pastels until the end. In this regard, I’m really glad the floor paint worked out as it turns out that water-based washes & pastels simply wipe off when I get a bit heavy handed! For the side wall, I’ve been trying to fill-up the workbench with stuff. I knew when I built it I’d have to come up with things to put on it, and that it would likely end up needing more than I had imagined - and so it has proved. To this point I I had my water bucket, a Jerry can, plus I got some resin oil/lubricant bottles which I painted up. (I was annoyed that I lost the tiny high-resolution labels that were supplied. I had to get creative with the decals in my parts bin to make something which will hopefully suffice, from a distance at least). The new additions are a scratch built aerosol lubricant (see bottom), torque wrench and a rubber mallet: (The bucket is 3DP, but I wanted to show my first homemade waterslide decal! It would’ve been easier had I read the instructions, however, as I learnt the hard way that DIY decals require acrylic clear-coating to stop the ink running…) I've got other plans for the torque wrench, and I feel the bench is still a bit sparsely populated. Now searching for stocking-fillers in PB and eBay...

Cool. Like that a lot!

Hi Scott & welcome!