Spottedlaurel

Looks excellent, a good reminder to us all just to crack on, get them built and enjoy the process. Great that your original build has survived the years so well. Coming from a place where stock Ts aren't at all common and almost all those we see are rods it's really interesting to see the starting point.

Looks excellent Steve, a great "What if......?" build.

That looks excellent, very nicely done.

Thanks all! Progress has been a bit slow on this recently for various reasons, but by chipping away at the tedious window trim painting I'm hoping to get it finished this weekend. 1:24 Tamiya Nissan Silvia K's kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr One of the male pins on the back of the ex-BMW M635 wheels had snapped-off. 1:24 Tamiya Nissan Silvia K's kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Drilled a hole and glued-in an offcut of spare Tamiya axle. 1:24 Tamiya Nissan Silvia K's kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Interior pretty much out of the box, but with an accessory steering wheel from an Aoshima Nissan Cedric kit just for the sake of making it a little different to the first time around. 1:24 Tamiya Nissan Silvia K's kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Everything ready for final assembly. External window trims need a tiny bit of tidying-up and the panel lines need a quick wash of something darker (probably brown in this case).

This week's arrivals: 1:24 Hasegawa Nissan Sunny Truck (Early) kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr I built the later version of this kit a few months ago. If I was sufficiently good at scratchbuilding I'd use it as the basis for recreating my 1:1 2-door saloon - maybe something to consider if I can find something else with roughly the right shape of rear bodywork? 1:24 Aoshima Nissan Cedric/Gloria Hardtop kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr I've had pillared saloon and estate version of this car at 1:1 before, they're amusing things with a smooth V6 but dated styling. Already got a couple of other issues of this Aoshima kit so must get one onto the bench next year.

Very nice, I love the subtle look of it in that colour with all the chrome trim still present and on the older style wheels.

Ah, that's interesting to see. That's how I'd like to get mine sitting.

Nicely done. I like your use of the word ambiguous for the glass fitment, one to remember.....

Great to see another one built. It's a basic kit with minimal parts count but the overall look of it is good and you've done a nice job with it. More than 10 years elapsed between starting and finishing mine.......

Stunning, it's a joy to see. Fantastic scratchbuilding and the finished result looks very attractive.

Looking very good Gareth. Quite a lot of detail work to get through on this one! With all that masking being required inside aren't you tempted to do a bit of brush painting?

Really effective clean, simple look to it, nicely built and detailed.

A very red interior! Really interesting to read the stories and memories of the Nova, it's not one I know much about. I look forward to seeing this build progress. Still got mine lurking at the edge of the bench.....

I dipped in and out of your build thread and liked what I saw as you were getting through it, the finished result is fantastic. What an excellent conversion, and I love how you've kept it so plain-looking. If I was at a show and saw this as a 1:1 I'd spend far longer enjoying it than the more obvious stuff.

Great to see one of these built, it looks really good. I've got a Toyota in the same series to do at some point - maybe now I have new glasses it may be more feasible......

Got one or two things on their way to me at present, but post is starting to slow up. I handed one kit over to be wrapped-up as a present (they never know what to get me otherwise) so I've had to forget what that was..... In the meantime, these arrived: 1:25 MPC GMC El Diablo kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr No immediate plans for it, need to get a few other things done first. 1:24 Tamiya Nissan 180SX kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr This was fairly cheap compared to what they usually go for, as it had been started. I bought it to build and I have some spare parts leftover from my current Silvia build so I'm not bothered. As a bonus it came with a set of Fujimi Volk accessory wheels which will be handy for something else, they usually fetch a little bit on their own. Contemplating doing a SilEighty conversion to it, as the front end of my sun-damaged Silvia looks OK (it was only the middle portion that got warped).

Aurora/Monogram Maserati 3500 GT?

What a beast, it looks fantastic!

It's coming together very nicely, I really like the overall look.

Nicely done Spence. I'd like to find myself one of these, but they're not so common here. I did manage to recently get hold of an old release of the Monogram stepside version.

I'm sure you'll be fine, but let me know if you have any issues. I have a Hasegawa rally Impreza of some sort and it won't get built that way, so I might be able to help out if need be.

Just enjoyed reading this through from start to finish. It's looking great Roger, and I like your considered, methodical approach to working through the modifications required. I prefer those spoked wheels and tyres to the Foose set-up, with Steve H's smoked suggestion rather than going too dark.

Another great build from you. I like the look of it without decals, a bit more discreet.

The colour is perfect, I remember some in magazines from around 40 years ago that had a similar look. Yours looks as clean as any that I remember.

Nice one. Is this the Fujimi kit?