I’m so impressed with the finished model of your Cortina!
I found your model cars mag.com page while looking for information about Frog’s 1/16 model of the Vauxhall Victor Estate.
My model car was rediscovered while clearing my parents’ home after mum died. It had been bought by my dad in the early 1960s as at the time, my dad owned a black Vauxhall Victor saloon with a red leather interior. I still remember the registration number to this day although sadly I have no photos of the car XCS 350. The car was a 1964 model. Up here in Ayrshire they still issued old three letter, three number registrations until 1965, so there were no A or B suffix year letters issued until the year letter C, which I think was 1965.
Anyway, the model was never started by dad and I began it back in 1975 or thereabouts when I was 15. I painted the car body using a Holts car touch up aerosol, which if memory is correct was Vauxhall Starfire Blue, which was the colour of a 1975 Viva that we owned. I never completed the kit at the time which is possibly how it has come to survive(and thankfully escape my sister’s purge of all things deemed as ‘rubbish’ during the house clearance. I am hoping to resume work on the model, some 49 years or so later as I’m now 64!
I have found your Ford Cortina project exceedingly interesting and hopefully I am now sufficiently motivated to start work on some of my model ‘stash’ that I have accumulated in the past few years, but which I’ve not had time to start.
From Douglas Kearney, email ‘toorollingstoned4me@yahoo.co.uk