Technics

Thanks alot everyone. Really motivating to read. There´s more fox goodness in the pipeline. Dirty mockup below

Great thread to an awesome chassis and generation of mustangs. Here’s my recent build. 1990 Mustang LX 5.0 Revell. Under the Glass Thread

@Musclecarbuilder @Andrew McD No motor work at all, after decades of building, taking a breaks and returning I learnt it’s not really my thing - mechanical accuracy. There’s photos of the undercarriage in the wip thread that no longer marches the exterior paint 😀 I built the motor for my Lancia Stratos and Blasphemi WIP projects.. Lancia Stratos Blasphemi Thread Thank you everyone for your kind words!

Project has been concluded. Thank you everyone!

Model - 1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0 - Revell Box stock, a clean as possible showroom condition build ( I stripped the paint 3 times on the hood and twice on the body to get here. HUGE effort to get to this stage, I’m really proud and Can’t believe I pulled through 😀) Notes - Paint is a 2025 Mustang GTD Polymatic Grey by Firescale Polished with a dspiae rotary tool with Menzerna #2500, #3800 polishing compounds Autoglym “super resin finish” polish Colour matched flocking and interior paint Diluted the inner amber turn signal lenses to have them differ to the outer as per references. Sanded and Tamiya cement painted tires Deliberately left the door handle in paint colour Also leaving out using the rear plate felt best visually for me. Can’t bring myself to paint the 5.0 badge with an alcohol pen. Attempted dry brushing 4 times, no chance. One day maybe. Pros First polishing success First clean panel accent line and lamp success Cons Few assembly errors Few paint errors Build Thread - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/scale_technics

Spent a few nights getting the lamps finished and into the model. Took a few tries as I missed that the rear lamps should be inserted from the inside as most kits.. but the headlamps and all windows go in from the outside on this one. Thankfully tweezers, patience and CA glue on sewing needles make everything possible. The visual detail of the kit is very high especially for a revell in my opinion. I had the idea of remaking a dealership twist to the final model but I can’t bring myself to do more for this one. It’s by far the cleanest built kit. I’m at the end of the line here. 😀 Experiment

@beeRS I don’t believe they re released the 356 coupe.. Hence their current value. Here’s a nice a4 included in the box which shows an array of kits they had in the period. Some have been re released.

Porsche 356 B/C Carrera 2 Fujimi Enthusiast kit Loose plan that comes to mind is picking up where I left off using techniques from on my Land Rover III build. Letting the mind wander. Looking into Rod Emory’s outlaw projects as my main inspiration. Likely not using the bumpers, use of leather hood straps. A absolute pleasure to build. What a kit. Slow assembly sessions have begun. It might look like not much but there´s dozens of parts assembled here to make up the frame already.

Stance has been worked on and now sits fused to the chassis, body, etc. I really like how the tire sidewall look! Overall feeling of this Mustang makes me very content. Removed chrome from the wheels, painted them bright silver, and gave it a simple wash. Tires were sanded down and painted with cement.

Project has been concluded. Thanks for following along for the ride!

@BK9300 Thank you! I absolutely love the rotary tool polisher. I went ahead and bought another to have as a spare.. 20-25$ shipped!? Absolutely can not go wrong. I polished before any black trim was applied. Still, I was very conscious and careful not to blow through any raised edges or corners. I worked one panel at a time and cloth dried it, closely checking ( hoping ) I’m still in clear. It will be a challenge to polish complex surfacing. I will be doing a Ford GT GT3 soon enough. @espo@Musclecarbuilder Thanks guys! This is by far my cleanest finish yet. Now to follow through with the application of lamps, windows and decals….

Model - 1973 Chevelle Nascar - MPC Experiment with surface rust, a simple model build that’s interesting to look at. Neither a non functioning junkyard find nor a showroom car. Something inbetween. Modifications - An out of the box build with minor exceptions - Created a drivers racing net using bandage tape. Used a metal tube for the exposed fuel filler. Pros My first rust attempt, everything has been “added” onto the body I did not chip away material. Brush painted the bumpers and window trim. Cons Could’ve been cool with a faded livery in places but that’s a task for another model as this was plenty of learning with this one. Build Thread -

Flocked the interior carpet areas, I managed to match the hue of the exterior paint I used for the interior by mixing four colours of Vallejo. I irregularly sponged it on. Super excited on the shine of this exterior, it’s my first near perfect finish, a mirror. Working on the tires and stance next. Also carefully brushed the interior of the body with two coats of black.

@rickcaps55 @av405 @Ranger166 thank you! I had a two tone 5spd GT during college 20 years ago. Such fun cars! I went ahead and redid the windows using a second kits set clear parts. The first set can likely be cleaned off carefully with a toothbrush and fingernail as it’s water based vallejo just wanted to give it a shot with near perfect no imperfection set, apart from the remaining badly placed tree stubs. I went the no return route here and sprayed lacquer for rapid and durable drying. Which I think is key for me. I did one window at a time. Mask, spray, flash dry, spray again, flash dry and remove mask. It worked really well I’m pleased. Almost perfect. The cleanness of windows is so critical to a build after the body one should almost start with the windows. As crazy as it sounds.

@meechum68 @Volzfan59 Wow thanks guys. It’s quite inspiring right now with experimenting. I’ve been admiring weathering across all genres for 30 years but never dared to try. I find it was tougher with information and less forgiving materials in earlier decades.. Certainly a long time coming. 😊