Pete75

Highly realistic. Great job!

Nice one. Will enjoy following. Personally, I love the pepper pot wheels - they sort of feel like a signature element - but I look forward to seeing your vision realised. I'm hoping the red pinstripe will be staying?

Beautiful build - looks awesome. Love the diorama too!

Love it. That's a heck of a lot of work there, and going the extra mile (or two!) really paid off. Well done!

Nice. Will keep an eye on this, as it's in the stash!

Very nice indeed!

Beautiful subject. Looking great!

Amazing detailed work. Will enjoy watching!

Excellent tip. Thanks!

Nice work. I really love that interior detailing. Is that painted-over embossing powder painted for the carpet? Great effect!

Excellent work. First rate. Must confess, the subject is new one on me - good to broaden one's horizons! The front end reminds me of a Fiat X19 and a Toyota MR2. Don't know what "influenced" what?!

Looks great!

Beautiful work. Love it!

Nice looking kit this. My favourite era of Range Rover too. Interior detailing looking sweet. I think you chose the right colour in the end. I'm no expert, but I do have a fair amount of experience with Tamiya TS-13 clear coat... and fixing problems with it! My vote - if you have the time and/or energy - would be to sand the bulk of the orange peel out with, say 800/1500 grit. You'd probably touch the colour coat here and there, but be slow & careful. Finish off with, say, 2000 and clean-up well. Then do the clear again - 3 light coats (TS-13 loves to run if applied to heavily). I normally wait a week, then sand & polish starting at 1500 grit. Of course, you may just be sick of the sight of it and just wanna have done with it!

OK. Got the primer on, and was very pleased with the contours until I noticed the bolster cushion was several scale inches short! It should come to the line of the seat, so it was back to the putty... I am now a devotee of Green Stuff. As long as your not in a hurry it is almost idiot proof... luckily! Considering this is the back seat of a closed door coupe with an all black interior, I'm saying good enough! Scale modelling, when I do it, often feels like firefighting a string of mishaps. While the styrene gods can often seem angry, I just wanted to share a moment of serendipity. It goes like this... First, in the year since I painted the tele-dial wheels, I've been bugged by the fact that the ancient, tiny, centre cap decals fell to pieces. Additionally, the dashboard decal looked like it had faded beyond all recognition, and the options for finding replacements weren't only marginally more appealing than omitting the decals altogether. Finally, the kit-supplied, slick, track tyres were not only not road legal, but looked lame on account of being too narrow... Then, in a matter of minutes the other night, I discovered (in my pretty modest parts bin) I have a set of tyres from a BMW that fit nicely, plus a four mint condition hubcap decals leftover. Furthermore, it turns out that the dashboard instrument decal looked faded because it was the reverse side showing, and that the kit requires sticking it to the back of a supplied binnacle lens. This part was is not wholly clear in the instructions, so it was a pleasant surprise, but the miraculous part is that, despite it falling to pieces and having the texture of wet sand, I just about manged to piece it together for a save! Sometimes it's the small things that make us happiest!!

Nice! A Milliput seat, cool. How did you do the piping & strap?

Looking great. Nice to know I'm not alone in touching up decals with paint!

Great setup there, Anton. It's given me an idea for my own project. I must say, your figure painting is brilliant!

Lovely stuff. Liking the shine on the Impreza!

Nice work. Well done!

Fantastic work. Simply excellent. A Martini livery would normally be the biggest part of the battle but, with this kit, it's kind of just one more aspect of an unbelievable level of detail. I've got a picture somewhere of Auriol, sat in a Toyota Corolla in a queue for a Super Special Stage at Silverstone ('99 maybe: he looks cheesed off at being a goldfish while people stick their camera flashes next to his window! Anyway, congrats on a great job.

Beautiful, super-clean work. Congrats. Will have to check out the WIP thread to see how it was done!

Some progress made on the interior. Made the centre bolster and shaped the side areas out of Green Stuff/Green Stuff Putty (there's a reference pic on the first page for comparison). It's a first for me using GS this extensively, and I must say it's been a real eye-opener; a totally different experience to using Milliput. I love how forgiving it is & that you can carve it with a blade after drying. Time to get some primer on and see if my positive feeling is actually justified!

Holy moly!! That's awesome. Love the photo-etch grill. Not Italeri, I'm guessing?

A head-turner, for sure. Nice job!