Pete75

Beautiful job!

Relentless progress! I'm sure your toggle switch installation technique is more efficient than mine - I ended up losing most of the packet and turned the air blue ? That steering wheel is awesome and the pin shift lever looks better than the ones I bought!

Cheers Tom. Much appreciated ?

Thank you friend! ?

Thanks Anders! Only just saw your post ? Cheers Carl, you're very kind! ?

Great job!?

Thanks very much, Nigel. That's a well looked after example with nice wax job! @Mattilacken posted a picture of one he lives near in Sweden on my WIP thread the day. It seems the majority of surviving examples have the smoked rear lights & it's my intention to do this too. It may not be the most discreet look, but I've decided it's a must have!?

Wow! Fun to watch such great scratch building skill in action. Safe to say Cooter's ol' truck never received so much scrutiny ?

Fascinating work, Anton, and very impressive. I love how brave you are in trying things out and being prepared to adapt your approach as required. Look forward to seeing & learning more!

#5 Audi Quattro Gone quiet here - nothing but the sound of Anthony screwing down his hobby room floor! ? Got the body painted & clear coated the other day: Really pleased with the colour, which is Tamiya light gunmetal. Not so pleased that I didn't put enough undercoat on the roof after re-scribing the panel line & now have the dreaded "white line" that reveals itself after you finish the clear coar and take a flash photo! ☹️ Not the first time it's happened & I've developed a hack where I mask it off & touch up with a brush before the panel wash. Also started assembling the interior: Installed the scratch built gear shifter, plus the PE pedals & co-driver footplate together with some foot scuff marks. Decided to run the wiring loom into a SB junction box so I don't have to think about where it all goes after that! Thanks for looking & get Cannonballing, y'all! ?

I've done it a couple of times using Micro Set (the blue one) and either a lolly stick or toothpick, bevelled to make a "soft blade". It takes a LONG time & you needn't expect the Micro Set to magically lift the decal, but with patience & care it can be done... eventually! Once done I refinished the acrylic laquer surface with fine sanding & polishing compound. Good luck!?

Hi Gary & welcome! ?

Very interesting, thanks for sharing that. Any thoughts on paint colour yet?

#5 Audi Quattro Got the running gear assembled. Had a bit of an unexpected battle to get everything sitting right in the body but I think I won in the end. Quite pleased with my first attempt at a custom exhaust system ?

Got the chassis underside & wheels finished ?. Added a some carbon fibre decal to (what I assume is) the trunking, plus the prop shaft. The exhaust tips were nice & easy to cut with the multitool then tidy with a file. Started experimenting with the Tamiya weathering kit on the exhaust system & will finish later: After gluing the suspension I discovered something wasn't right when I came to fit the body ?. A front corner was sitting too high, and it took me a while to solve. After studying the problem, I discounted the actual suspension & alighted upon the body itself: more specifically, the locator tabs and their slots. I found the body slot on the problem corner was misaligned and needed to allow the chassis tab to sit higher up. I solved it by shaving the top side of the slot with a #11 blade (not really visble in the photo, but I did remove a fair bit of material) and gluing in a 0.25mm styrene shim. I also found that the corresponding tab on the chassis was too tall, so I pared it down: This did the trick, although I now noticed that the rear end was sitting fractionally lower than the dry fitting ?. Thankfully this was quickly sorted by adding another shim in the rear slot (on the top edge this time) and now shes finally on her feet ?: I wanted to show how much better the tail pipes looked against the stock ones but I must've chucked them so you'll have to take my word for it!

She's gonna be cool! Fascinated by this vacuum forming business - detailed photos much appreciated ?

? There speaks a man with an abundance of parts! All coming together sweetly - just looks like one kit ?

#5 Audi Quattro Paint is finally going on things! ? The body mods are completed, everything sanded & scribed and the primer has erased all traces of tinkering: The resin alloys are finally done: I've never spent so long tidying wheels, but I'm happy enough with the result. The rest of the running gear is all painted, washed & weathered ready for assembly...

Salut et bienvenue Arnaud!?

Great work, as ever. Really interesting to see your carbon decal technique & all the planning that goes into it. Awesome wheels - where did the chalk pen decals for the tyres come from?

Easy to lose your car in Sweden!? It has the blacked rear lights which I'm planning to do - I can't resist it because it looks too cool! Thanks for sharing ?

Hi Rick & welcome!?

Thanks for looking JC ? Thanks Anton. Don't remember when I last saw one - they're getting old! ?

Thank you both, Bruce & Steve - I did take a disproportionate amount of pride in the dash!!?

Hi Josh. I avoided the Tamiya line scriber until recently because I didn't like the look of it, but my preconceptions were wrong: it's brilliant! Depending on which point you use, you get a different depth or width of groove. And yes, it's also designed to score/snap styrene, which it does equally well! I have two other scribers, a needle scriber and a fatter tipped one (looks like a short pencil nib) and find them all useful for different sitiations, but the Tamiya one is the best for panel lines. Cheers ?