Spottedlaurel

That's cool! Looks really good, and I love the old photos and your history with this car.

That's really nice, great work. I like this shape and your build has brought out the best of it.

Either option will look fantastic, amazing attention to detail. Same with all your great work on the dashboard and steering wheel, almost seems a shame to hide it inside the car....

Looks great. I presume not a standard model, nor even a prototype? If so it looks like something they should have offered!

Thanks for the kind words! This should be the last WIP update on this one, will hopefully get it finished tonight...... 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Panel lines done without too much hassle - it's never something I look forward to. Everything else pretty much ready for final assembly. 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr El Camino bucket seats from Tim, steering wheel unknown from the parts box, everything else basically stock. 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon + Wolf F1 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Progress got slightly delayed when I put this old build back together, after my son was rooting around in various parts boxes and found most of its parts. 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr As it's now sitting waiting for me to get off the computer and back out to the shed!

Good progress! Don't worry about making it too shiny, they rarely are. Or straight and undented for that matter.....

Wow, you've got a lot going on here with this one! You've made a great start. The trim line running around the box looks good.

Looks like a very cool thing!

I built the Revell version 10-odd years ago, I don't have any photos of the parts before assembly but I don't remember it having alternative dashboards or rubber bumpers. Built up nicely, although I should have reduced the ride height - as standard it's correct for the rubber-bumper models but looks a bit off-road for an earlier chrome-bumper version..... I don't know why I opened up the bonnet when it doesn't have en engine.

David has summed it up perfectly, it's worked-out very nicely.

Good for all of us to step outside of our comfort zone every so ften, it's worked out very nicely here for you. You've also given me a potential source for a colour I need on one of my projects.....

Excellent. Those big black sides are a perfect canvas for your paint skills. When I think about building the van I have in my stash this is how it should be, but I know I could never dream to achieve it.....

It looks to convert to a hi-po road car/trackday toy very nicely, nice work!

Great to see some WIP photos behind one of your fantastic builds. End result looks really good.

Your descriptions make it sound so easy, but it's another great-looking peice of work.

Stunning! Amazing quality of work and the styling is fantastic.

Does this kit differ from the current Escort Mk2 that's available? Arches look different if nothing else. 1:24 Hasegawa Toyota Corolla AE102 Fujitsu Ten Tom's kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr This one came in today's post. Had some minor damage to the slender roof pillars but looks like it should be OK. Will probably end up as a fast road/trackday toy. Also, I got these early on in lockdown in exhange for some diecasts: 1:25 Revell and MPC Dragster kits by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Decals useless with both, but otherwise they appear to be complete and undamaged despite the boxes being in a bit of a state. Revellution has been partly started, basically the bodyshell assembled. Other one includes the body parts from the Jawbreaker version. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them yet.

Little bits of progress in the evenings after work have got me to this point: 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:25 Revell 1966 Chevelle Wagon kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr BMF applied, glass smoked (doesn't look quite as dark as the photos suggest) and various bits and bobs put together so I should be ready to finish it over the weekend. Panel line wash the main job still to do. For some reason I forgot to attach the exhausts before I installed the rear axle - there might have been room to wriggle them through if I hadn't lowered it, but there was no way they'd go in so I had to cut each one behind the rear silencer and rejoin them. Even then it was like one of those Chinese puzzles with the two bent bits of metal....

Thanks! It's a nice kit, if you can get hold of one it's a good model with a lot of opportunities. See what Luke did with his for a more radical example! What I like about it is that the main bodyshell comes as one piece, with the loadbay sittiig inside it. It doesn't rely on a loose assembly of separate pieces. The paint is a genuine Datsun colour which I had mixed-up to use on my real car, 931 Ochre from memory. I went to a local car parts shop where they make up aerosols to any colour reference.

Amazing work! Having just built one of these myself I can see how many changes you've made, it's interesting to see how two different builds can go when starting with exactly the same kit. For anyone who doesn't appreciate how much effort has gone into this, it would be worth looking at my much more standard example: Then doing a bit of compare and contrast. Look at the work on the rear chassis for example, to give it IRS and fit those wide rear tyres, and an air tank? In real life these things are very light, I think my saloon weighs around 700kg. The thought of a modern twin-turbo 3.8-litre engine powering it is a bit of an eye-opener.....

Thanks Roger. The colour is very much of its time......

Yet another stunner from you! Looks fantastic.

Looks forward to seeing it progress. I built the Ferrai Mythos (similar underneath I believe) in the early-mid '90s, it went together nicely as I recall and it's still in my cabinet now.

More BMF on the Chevelle, and finished spraying Tamiya Smoke on its side and rear windows.

Great to see them together, they do make for a fine collection.