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doorsovdoon

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  1. Nice bit of surgery going on with this. The engine looks great, nice work.
  2. It's an outrage I tell you, outrage! xD
  3. Cheers mate, I'll probably have this one in underglass by tomorrow.
  4. Beautiful colour choice. I'd like to see this kit produced again, very nice lines to it.
  5. Nice filling and bodywork.
  6. wow, she shines! Reminds me of a cast metal trophy. That would look awesome on a wooden plinth.
  7. Nice engine swap. I really like the '57 AMT kit.
  8. Gorgeous colour, the roof colour works good with it too. I never thought brown and blue would work together but look great from here, I like it.
  9. Got all my paint coats on today, just need to wait a few days for it to cure properly and I can polish it and add the decals. One small mod I did before paint was to open the intake vents up on the hood.
  10. This kit has instructions in six different languages because it's important we all understand what looks like a piece of the sprue tree is actually a part for the build! xD "Part number 22 will look like sprue tree due to ridiculous amounts of flash, Don't Throw It Out!" Lol
  11. Thanks guys. Yeah, the interior is actually pretty darn nice for such an old kit. The front seats actually look like seats and not a block of styrene with just the seat pattern on top. The dash is nicely detailed too, though I chose to put sticky back wood over it to look more real than just painting it brown. The steering wheel looks to be from the '69 to '71 model though.
  12. ah, thanks Steve, I never noticed that! I wasn't planning on foiling the rubbing strips, now I see they never had them to start with! Thanks for the heads up, I'll sand them off completely, the kit is moulded in white.
  13. Tell me about it! I spent a good hour or two re-shaping the front panel to fit the grill and bumper. The exhausts/prop shaft/suspension legs unit are so badly worn and full of flash I had a hard time working out what was part and what was sprue! Yeah, one thing that does bug me on older kits like this is the automatic setup interior with manual box, and the convertible tub in a hardtop. Yep, those old MPC '69 Charger kits are basically a box of parts for other kits, lol! The engine and box are probably the worst I've ever come across in a kit, basic doesn't come close, it's like Lego but someone shaved off the locking studs, Lol!
  14. Thank guys.
  15. Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Steve.
  16. Thanks, Dominik. It's definitely a kit that's on my "to get again" list for that reason, well, one of the reasons, it's an awesome kit to build. I almost did this one all in red but I had just enough gold to do one more kit so I used it up on this. The next one I do will be Flame Red.
  17. Man, that looks so good! Loving all the little details in there, very nice build.
  18. Beautiful work on both. Very nice interior detailing.
  19. That looks absolutely beautiful, what a gorgeous colour. Very nice work.
  20. Very basic kit this one so couldn't help doing some changes to it. I cut out the old screw bottom radiator support and found a better one in my spares, the radiator that comes with this kit is paper thin. The grill and bumper wasn't a great fit so I had to trim and clean up the front of the car to get it fitting nice. Being a one piece interior tub I've already got that painted up and finished. The clocks are decals I had in my spares stash which I stuck to some wood effect sticky back Fablon, and I've added some redlines to the tyres which came from the Revell '68 Charger, they were a nightmare to work with and almost got destroyed when applying them. Colour will be white with the blue decal stripes that come with the kit.
  21. Yeah, I always wanted a mk1 Cortina but they were hard to find even then. I had a mk4 Cortina for a short time which were everywhere in the 90's, it was brown with a brown vinyl roof and full of filler. It got written off by some idiot who had his blinker on to turn into the road I was coming out of but he kept going straight and caved the side of my car in as I pulled out.
  22. Looks perfect. I love the colours, very rich. That paint really shouts!
  23. Thanks Atin. Yeah I've always liked old Fords. My dad had a few in the 80's and my first car was a mk1 Escort.
  24. Very nice. Colour looks great for that car. I remember these being everywhere, then like that they just disappeared.
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