Cuba_13

This is a self-adhesive PU leather, bought on Aliexpress.

Good afternoon, friends, I present to you my latest model.

Good afternoon, friends, here is the last update. A few photos for seed and wait in the Under the glass topic, I will take a photo on the street soon. Not everything went good, the first made hood with homemade piano hinges did not come out at all as we would like, but, in general, I am satisfied with this gorgeous car. Especially the roof.

The engine is ready Well, the assembled undercarriage

Good afternoon friends. Big update. A lot has been done. Slightly refined the firewall. Before. After. I decided to cut holes. Wherever possible. But, as it turned out, this is a completely thankless job. I do not know how to be friends with etched files at all. I don't know how everyone uses them, but they are very thin and soft. To bend and break is godless. Dismembered the hood and made the piano hinges. More openings. My kitties-assistants decided to try the body on a tooth and had to restore part of the windshield pillar And then the most interesting part. I had an idea to make a working folding roof. We take the basis. And voila. A mechanism came to the rescue from a broken umbrella and a paper clip. But, to my regret, the idea was not destined to happen. The self-adhesive leather that I ordered on Aliexpress turned out to be thick for this case and not at all plastic. So the roof will only be unfolded. But this is a hundred times better than a plastic from box. That's all for now. Parts washed and ready to paint. Thank you for the attention.

Did I understand you correctly? Do you offer me to send set of your wheels?

Maybe.

I don't like the Star of India color scheme. I chose this reference for the build.?

Good afternoon friends. I decided to start my 20th anniversary build of a retro car. My choice fell on another box from Italeri. Namely: The most luxurious car in all aspects. Real luxury, the brand is a legend. The box itself is a 2011 reissue. Well, let's start by reviewing the content. A huge manual in A2 format. Glazing. Here, of course, such a thing. It was in a sealed film. But there are scratches. Will be polished. Rubber...arrrrrr, I hate this plastic one that fits together from 2 halves. Revell, AMT and MPC got me used to normal rubber. The first sprue is black. Detailing is even good. The second sprue is beige. Third sprue - chrome The fourth is orange. And the last one is gray. Details is very, very good. Spokes are great! The impressions from the kit are extremely pleasant. Of the improvements, there will be traditionally an engine compartment: wiring, possibly a couple of hoses, etc. And also - the wife suggested to make a folding roof. In principle, nothing complicated, you will need to find some thin and at the same time flexible and strong wire, as well as the roof material itself. For now, I will collect photo references and start processing the details. I processed all the engine parts, there are not very many of them, but I had to tinker. This is what the default Italeri gives us on the right. A lot of things are missing. I like, at least, to make wires, then we take sprues and leftovers from previous sets and build from scratch. We look at the left. Some hell of a pornography, moving on to plastic surgery. Much better this way. That's all for now, thanks for your attention.

Good afternoon, friends, I present to you my 19th finished car model. Tamiya paints LP series, 2k zero paints clear, pigments and washes. Everything is traditional.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, finally it's calling - done. See the full photoset on the street in the Under The Glass topic.

I'ts not right. Cuba_13 it's important.

Polishing - done.✔️

Small update. Wheels are done.?

Friends, the heat has come. The brain is melting, but the hands are doing. It's time for the interior. Door cards in all their glory, until they are closed by seats. And dashboard. Well, assembled. Yes, I know, the flock is big. Let me down this time with a nail flock with Aliexpress. But now you can clearly see it on a bare bath, and in the assemble it will be practically invisible. That's all for now. ?

Aaaaaaaaaand...undercarriage done.

It's simple, bro. I use Tamiya Lacquer Thinner 250 ml with yellow cap.?

Good afternoon friends. My long-awaited paints came and I was able to paint everything. The engine is assembled and ready for installation

Well, guys, the plastic work is over. And now about everything in order. I prepared a dashboard and all attachments. Big plastic things, cast with a steering column, sawed down to nowhere, from the found wire he made what looks more like the original. Further, the body, then of course Revell put a pig on it. The front and rear bumpers were wider than the body itself. I had to get out of the situation with improvised means. Processed and assembled the interior, made door lock spindles. Well, everything is assembled. Then I remembered that the salon brake light is painted in the interior color. I processed more details. I made (I do not know how they are called correctly) things that include seat belts. The taillight, where the brake lights were molded in red plastic. At first I decided to make holes using the drilling method, but this method, even with the thinnest drill, does not work here. Unfortunately. There is a little beaten right. It's okay, I'm not building a salon car. Then I remembered how many grilles are made and decided to do the same. We just grind from the back. It turns out great. Well, the feet themselves were made from this wonderful gel, bought in the store for everything for a hobby. It turns out great. By the way, it is much better for this purpose than Microscale Kristal Klear. Microscale Kristal Klear on the left, gel on the right. Unlike Klear, it is much more transparent and stronger, almost like resin. I originally took this gel for casting rectangular headlights for my Shelby Chargers. Further the hood, again Revell is weird.: Facepalm: Well, there is no such hole between the hood and the body. Not. I glued on a strip of plastic. And processed the last details. The rear window will be polished because it had huge scratches on it. Well, I primed everything today. I'm waiting for the ordered paints to come. Primer from Gunze is the best primer I've tried Evar. I plan to purchase the entire line of colors, because working with him is a pleasure. That's all for now.

Why engine on '67 not wired??

Thanks a lot, bro!

Good evening friends. Time to start new build. We take out the already opened rare boxes from the stash. 10th generation T-Bird, aka Thunderbird. Slightly modified, modernized for the needs of the very beginning of the 90s, similar to the 1987 I just finished. The box is exactly the same size as the last one from Monogram. But here the 25th scale already appears. Although, for me, the same thing, it is not clear at all why all these Revellogram games should be produced under different companies, essentially similar whales, possibly cast on the same molds. Anyway. Go ahead. Again we are offered to build a runoff and aero. Again, the stock in this case looks more attractive to me. A little more information. It's nice, after all, to hold a 1990 whale in your hands. Manual, almost A3 size in full spread. By the way, both in terms of filling and addition - 1 in 1, like the monogram had, except that this time they got smarter and started assembling, like all normal people from the engine. Decals. Chrome. The rubber is exactly 1: 1, like the version on the 24th scale from Monogram. I'll have to compare later when I build both. I am sure the size will be the same. Back lights and stop light from the back of interior. Here, of course, the guys who make molds of this kit make pissed me off. Reverse (these gills are closer to the license plate) should be in transparent plastic. I don’t know yet what I’ll do about it, but I’ll definitely do something. If laziness doesn't prevail. Glass. First sprue. Here we have a bumpers for the stock. And aero version. Body. This time, everything is much more ordinary. In the engine bay, almost everything is again cast with a body. The next sprue. And one more. From all this I can note the steering wheel. It's very good! Sprue with undercarriage and suspension parts. And the last big sprue. The front seats are very cool. So are the door cards. And the dashboard too. Iterior. Hood. Traditionally started with a favorite - the engine). I cut everything off the sprues. Where is the chrome needed. By the way, in this particular box the chrome was washed off in a couple of minutes. I love it when it turns out that way, you don't have to wait for hours. This is what we have. Everything was processed and prepared for priming and subsequent painting work. I drilled holes for wires and hoses where needed. Of the improvements, I replaced the ignition coil, because what was given in the set is not very similar to it both in size and shape. On the left - it was, on the right - it was. And EGR for connecting the exhaust to the carburetor system. By the way, my beloved wife is actively involved in my modeling life and often offers very good and non-standard artistic options. We discussed with her what color scheme the future T-Bird will be. I said that I want to paint it in white pearl from Tamia, because just pure white, as according to the canon, it is boring for me, but I really like white mother-of-pearl itself, I have long wanted to collect it in this color. My wife and I thought about the body and came to the conclusion that such a interior would go well with white. And my wife offered to make a small revision on the body, taking the 35th anniversary edishon paint scheme as a sample. But adapt it to our wishes. I figured it out quickly in Photoshop. It looks interesting. And we agreed. Naturally, I just roughly figured it out, but it will work to understand the image. The thresholds will be in the interior color, but under the 2к clear. I made one more detail in addition to everything attached to the engine. I do not know what this detail is called, I will be grateful if you can tell me. Well, I processed the undercarriage and suspension parts. In general, so far the impressions of working with this set are twofold. The white plastic itself is soft and pliable, it is easy to work with it, but the amount of flash and displacement infuriates. In the past, the bird from Monogram did not have this. That's all for now.?

don't worry, all right?. I am always happy to answer questions.

It just slid off as I rotated the model for photography.

I don't quite understand what you mean)