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Thanks Greg, I know it's not accurate for Range Rover but nothing I do is actually "accurate", LOL I'm just in it for the fun! Cheers, and Happy New Year!

1: I had opened up the grille before, but the flat headlights bugged me. 2: I cut out the flat part and modified these Subaru headlight buckets, had to remove the outer lips. 3: Glued to the back of the grille they look way better than the flat kit ones, to me anyway. 4: Just a light spray of Tamiya fine white primer, I like how it's looking, of course those buckets will be foiled and kit lenses installed.

1: I had to thin the wheelback edges so they set into the tires how I wanted. (before and after) 2: After primer and Alclad "dull aluminum", and Tamiya "sparkling silver" for the nuts and around the hub rings, flat red and flat black finished hubs and wheels! 3: I made up wheel mounts from styrene tubing, 3 sizes on each wheel, but now I have them spaced where I want.

Getting back to my Range Rover build. 1: Here's my wheel/tire choice, for the inside of the rims I carved the brake detail out of '41 Woody kit wheelbacks and just used the outer rings. 2: I cut the centers off and drilled out larger holes in the resin wheels. 3: Here's the wheels, drilled for valve stems and the wheelbacks and free wheeling front hubs.

Off to a great start!

That foil looks great, the tinted windshield and your vent window treatment, very nicely done!

Those headlights are a huge improvement, nice work!

I do have that kit, missing a few things, but it might have what you need? Shoot me an e-mail! Dennis Ezmerlian

Love the colour! What wheel choice have you made?

Just another shot in the early morning sunrise!

I did one in white, highly modified and made up some fake magazine covers to display with it!

Great colour choice!

Love the blue you've chosen for that F-Bird!

I'll be biting the big bucks bullet on this kit soon, waiting to get the FULL kit, probably available in January! I love what you've done to it so far! Is it as great a kit as it looks to be? I have the Pocher Aventador also, which I started but after my father-in-laws passing, it got burried under his stuff, and my wife isn't quite ready to let it go yet, so it's not accessible. However, someday I'll have both of these Lambos built to display together, I LOVE the Miura! Here's what's under the front of the Aventador, so far! Cheers, or should I say CIAO!

Amazing fab work man, I love it! I also modified one of those 'Birds, I'll be bringing it to our annual show this month! I LOVE the kind of work you do, thank you for taking the time to share photos with easy to understand explanations Very nice!

Interior is beautifully and realistically built and detailed, nice work!

I hope you don't submerge it, probably just needed more time for the paint to gas out, maybe, hopefully? Do the light sanding and a good washing, then let it sit for a few days before more clear. Or use the dehydrator. I'm sure it'll turn out looking great!

I did a lot more, but here it is basically finished, I'm keeping it simple! I'll post more pictures eventually, cheers!

2wipers, 2 wiper motors, 2 wiper motor backs, 2 folding mechanisms, and 2 clamps at the dashboard, plus the 2 part mirror! And there's a few little pieces added to the dashboard, that's a lot of little pieces, I love that Takom made it so detailed! I added these cool 1/24th tail lights I got from Spot Model, to comply with local requirements for street use!

I masked the "glass", both sides, then airbrushed it, both sides. Carefully, I removed the tape, that "glass" is very thin and possibly breakable! So here it is! Ya think it's finished but no, there's still TEN more parts to the windshield and I'm not even using the 2 part rifle case!

Headlights are straight from the box, foiled inside and semi-gloss black out. Parking lights are modified for street use, but they had a notch in them for the kit faces, so that had to be filled, very little tiny wee bits of styrene! LOL Too small to foil so I brushed some Tamiya LP-48 "Sparkling Silver" into the buckets, then cowl light lenses from a 1/25th Revell '32 Ford kit, painted clear orange were applied. Had to comply with local ordinances to make it street legal! I made up some wiring by twisting thin speaker wire strands and brush painting them in various acrylics, then flat black. Paint beads on wire so constant back and forth evens it out, be patient.

Because I had the Warn hubs 3D printed to 1/4" diameter, I punched some .010 styrene sheet into circles with a 1/4" hole punch, these will simulate the ribbed look of the hubs on the axle ends. Because I brush painted the turning piece of the hubs with Alclad II Lacquer, ALC 118 "Gold Titanium" it took several coats, it's NOT made for brush painting! BUT......... it turned out okay!

Because I added plug wires, and I didn't put them through the bracket on the head, my air filter couldn't connect to the carb without interfering with the hood. So I cut off the kit part and made a new one to go around the wires, solder wrapped with wire then painted rubber black. Here's the battery and that air filter "hose" installed. Note the ground wire bolted to the frame!

I drilled out the tabs on the voltage regulator and added more Grandt Line bolts to wire it, most go to the generator. Ignore the white glue on the gauges, it dried clear. I started making battery cable ends from styrene. I flattened some 1/24th braided line to get the old style ground cable and made clamps for both from a beer can and more Grandt Line fake nuts and bolts. I used a 1/24th Subaru driveshaft for the caps, perfect size and it's a scrap parts kit, so why not? Here is the battery ready for installation.

I started to detail the firewall and dashboard as I was getting excited to put it all together! That's an oil can on the firewall, 2 part, painted with Tamiya XF-6 "Copper" and the decal on the air filter is from my 1/25th spares. Seats are multi piece and I airbrushed the frames in semi-gloss black, the cushions in Tamiya XF-63 "German Grey". As always, mixed 50/50 at 20 psi Shifters are rubber black, semi-gloss black, and gloss black from bottom to top. There's even a separate floor starter button!