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Post-Christmas arrivals:
Seen one or two nice builds of the Charger on here, would be difficult to make it look any worse than the box art....
Caprice is one I've been after for a while - do love a land yacht, and I'm sure the trailer will come in handy someday.
Airfix rebox of the MPC kit, surely the perfect companion build to that Charger? It's been brush-painted a rather bright green but is otherwise pretty much unstarted.
These should all suit larger Japanese cars pretty well, or perhaps even something American with a pro-touring slant?
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I've always done it afterwards. Never tried it the other way around, it just seemed to me that the slightly different texture and sheen of BMF compared to the clearcoat on the surrounding paintwork would better replicate the 1:1 appearance of chrome and brightwork.
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Inspirational! So clean and subtle, but purposeful - excellent work Roger!
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Hope all is now OK for you Gareth, good to see you back at it although a shame you've had to strip the paintwork. I reckon a metallic would really bring out the curvey shape, like that green 1:1 I saw.
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On 12/29/2022 at 10:17 PM, W-409 said:
Since 1:1 cars take the biggest amount of my free time, here are the cars I'm driving...
Wow, what a collection!
Just the one V8 for me:
After being out of use for most of 2022 I got a fresh MoT pass on it just before Christmas, with a bit of welding plus attention to the rear brakes, then I'm going to start using it again from tomorrow- can't wait. Such a smooth thing to cruise around in.
It needs some jobs doing, but I'm going to try and work through them and keep it going as long as possible. I paid very little for it, but that was with the promise that it gave me more to spend on keeping it going and that's what I'm now doing. The early ones in particular are pretty rare here now and nice examples are more than I can afford, so I've got work with what I've got.
My 1980 Datsun Laurel just keeps working. Should click over 100,000 miles in 2023.
I don't own this one, but I do get the occasional drive and I was the one who found it for my daughter and her boyfriend. They bought it for a charity banger rally, driving from the UK down to Dubrovnik. Unlike some they brought it home again and it's now their daily winter transport (with his Mk2 MR2 for fun/summer use). I don't think it's a model that reached North America, it's a UK-built car that sits between the Corolla and Camry and this particular one has the 2-litre MR2/Camry-type engine. It's probably for this reason that it is now up 275,000 miles, and we're hoping to get it to 300k.
The little 2004 Yaris (Vitz) in the background is now my son's as his first car, passed-down from his sister.
With my 2014 RX450h daily driver and wife's 2010 Auris (AKA Corolla?) the theme is pretty obvious here.....
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I haven't yet built any accurate replicas of my own cars - done several that were inspired by the real thing, but mixing things up a bit so it combined elements of several 1:1 cars - however I did this one a few years ago for my stepdad of the MGB he had at the time:
Using the Revell-boxed version of the Aoshima/Airfix kit:
In hindsight I should have lowered the suspension (OOB I think it suits the height of the rubber-bumper cars), but I did get a can of the correct Mineral Blue paint mixed-up.
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For those who don't want to sit through a video they're shown on Heller's website: https://www.heller.fr/en/category/only_coming_soon
The standouts for me are the 1:24 Renault 4 van, two trailers and MF 135 tractor - as a '70s child living in the countryside whose dad worked on a farm (and later selling tractors) they were something I saw all over the place.
Heller's kits seem to be a decent price in the shops so hopefully I'll be able to pick those up at some point, perhaps even on our 2023 French holiday.
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Last purchase of 2022 that I will have in my hands. There are others but they'll start coming through in 2023....
On the way to the coast for a walk and some fresh air managed to swing by the big Hannant's wholesale/mail order warehouse. It's rather odd being in this building with thousands and thousands of kits, even just the Hasegawa section I was in had plenty that I would have loved to get. I restrained myself to just this Starlet, which was on special offer, and the Tamiya TS aerosols which were being cleared out. A lotof them were just £1.99 each and even with a few more expensive ones they averaged out at well under £3 a can which is less than half most retailers sell them for. The chap said they're going to stop doing them, whether he meant Hannants selling them or Tamiya producing them I don't know, but it was well worth getting these. Never used the Pearl Clear before, could be an interesting way of adding some interest to the solid colours in this selection.
The Halfords automotive primer and clearcoat work nicely in my experience, they seem to be happily compatible with the TS colours (and of course their own spray cans which I get whenever I see any older colours on clearance).
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12 hours ago, keyser said:
A310 cool cars. Airfix 1/24 is simple as well, but looks great. It may be a reboxed motorized kit iirc, haven’t seen one in ages.
I've been lucky to see a few 1:1 examples in France when we've been on holiday there.
I have the 1:24 kit as well, but it has widened rear arches to approximate the look of a competition car. I'd prefer to convert it back to standard, but that's a project that's beyond me at present....
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Another great build Matt, those wheels are amazing and really enhance the good basic proportions Heller managed here.
I'm doing a quick 1/43 build myself at the moment, the Alpine A310 which I think you've done previously.
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I think you've done a really nice job, looks pretty good from here.
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Very good. I know pretty much nothing about the 1:1 car but the look of yours gives no clue that it came from various sources, it's come together very well.
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Very nicely done. The kit looks to be well detailed and you're really doing it justice (I fear that I won't when I do mine).
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1 hour ago, Mattilacken said:
Sweet! Please keep at it, would love to see it Finish!
From experience I know it’s hard to finish them in time even though it’s a year!I'll do my best Anton! Hopefully I've got the right balance between keeping it interesting and achievable.
It would helpif I made a decent start on it this time, unlike last year's attempt. My 2021 entry was a rush on the last day or two.
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I had this idea several weeks ago when there was a possibility it could have been a wagon or mid-engined theme, and a quick bit of measuring and comparing today shows it to be a viable option so I'm going to make good use of the RWYB theme to declare this as my entry:
It's going to be the NSX's mid-mounted V6 in the loadbay of the Accord, complete with its rear suspension and the majority of the floorpan. A bit of work is required as the Accord is unsurprisingly longer than the NSX, but the width is close.
Looking to keep the bodywork as subtle as possible, with the odd discreet intake. The Aoshima kit helpfully includes tinted glass, so I'll use that to hide the rollcage and engine. Hoping it will look like a lightly modified, clean road car that shouldn't arouse suspicion. Will probably add a LHD dashboard (the NSX has one as an option).
Still want to to do the Viper-engined '70 Challenger I had in mind for last year's CBR, but keeping it clean without a cage so I decided against declaring it as my RWYB entry this year.
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It doesn't warrant starting a WIP thread as it's such a simple little kit and I'm hoping it will be under glass very soon:
Most recent arrival and I made a start on it just before Christmas, knowing I'd have a bit of time to hopefully get something very simple on and off the bench.
Status as of this evening.
Sadly it appears the bodyshell got squashed at some point. I need to do a bit of strategic bending and perhaps reinforcement before the foil trim goes on.
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That brought a smile to my face, nice work.
Got to say though that it looks somewhat unstable.....
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/\ What were we doing in the 1980s?!
This week's arrivals:
I think this is the original of an Airfix-boxed version that I already have, it's moulded in purple. My daughter wants one as a 1:1 so might build it with the funky colour (metallic pink,perhaps?) and chunky tyres that she's mentioned. Also discovered recently that it's possible to drop a Camry V6 in, like they do with MR2s.
Going to get boring to say this every time one of these arrives, but this will probably be an engine donor.
Most recent kit to arrive and I've already started to build it for a Christmas group build on another forum. Despite some roof pillar damage I think it should go together OK, would be a good to get a quick, simple build knocked-off over the festive holiday period.
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Well done Anton!
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Wonderful work Sonny, it looks fantastic. Excellent detailing and the colour looks right for a '70s car.
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A couple of recent arrivals:
Looks like a nice kit.
Late '80s issue? Pleasing amount of extra parts with it.
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I really like what you've done with this one, great work on the subtle upgrades and mod's.
By coincidence I have one sitting in my auction site watchlist, it's a bit of an oddball from the era I really like. Having seen yours I'm tempted to give it a go.
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Great to see it done this way, and your skills are clearly still there.
I've had five of these as 1:1s, none of them looked like yours.....
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That is fantastic, the build quality and overall look are spot-on.
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Thanks for the advice Steve, I'll watch out for that. I don't have any immediate plans for it, apart from maybe pilfering some of the extra parts for other builds. It was fairly cheap (by UK standards) with minimal shipping cost when purchased with the Caprice and Shelby Charger.