mrmike

Looks nice! Good job! The chassis is done until I can paint the body and install it onto the chassis. The body is ready for primer and paint. More Land Rover to come...

I have completed the interior. I added the steering wheel, passenger grab handle, touchup the shift knob and steering wheel and added a coat of gloss clear to the floor mats. More Impala to come...

Thanks Dennis and Tom! Dennis, thanks for the suggestion! The wheels and tires are permenantly on as far as they will go on. They look fine to me.

Thanks Bill! Weird is right as I have never had a problem like that before. A friend of mine had the same prolblem when he was building a Lindberg '66 Chevelle SS 396 years ago, so we must have had the same plastic in our kits.

Assembly of the interior is almost done. I need to touchup the white and install the steering wheel. More Impala to come...

I got the chassis almost completed this morning before taking off for NH's Lakes Region. More Land Rover to come...

My sentiments exactly! I got the 2.25 Ltr. 4 cylinder engine wired and mostly assembled, I just need add the oil filler tube. Then I discovered what the second smaller hole was for in the engine block...there are two nubs on the back of the base of the oil filler tube! I guess I'll have to move the distributor over towards the center of the block and drill a hole for it. I must have been tired last night when I painted the exhaust system before I painted the frame. Well, I'll paint the frame and then paint the exhaust system...again! More Land Rover to come...

Keep hoping, it'll never happen now that they have the 109 version coming out.

Revell is releasing a Land Rover 109 Station Wagon kit at some point. I prefer the shorter wheelbase 88 as this is what I think of when the name is mentioned.

That is a better picture than what I have been able to find lately. Most of the pictures I have found are in engine bays or are surrounded by junk. Thank you for posting that picture Geoff!

I have been rethinking my paint choice for the body. In my mind, the British Green is ultra glossy and I don't really want that. It needs to be a bit more subdued. I decided on changing from Tamiya British Green to Polly Scale GN Big Sky Blue with a Tamiya Gloss Clear coat. This color shouldn't be that glossy. I have been researching what engine is in this Land Rover and I have come to the conclusion that it is a 2.25 Ltr. Petrol (gasoline) engine. But, what is the second smaller hole in the engine block? Most of the pictures I have looked at don't show the side of the engine clearly. The larger front hole is for a oil tube which is in the kit, but the smaller hole is for a distributor that is not included in the kit or listed on the instructions. I can find a distributor and mount in my parts box and drill it for four plug wires and an ignition coil wire. More Land Rover to come...

Thanks Carl! When this is done, I'll have two color matching Impala SS on the shelf and a third '63 Impala to be built with the same color combo.

Thank you Geoff!

I foiled the Superbird this afternoon. Not exactly my best job, but it is done. I'll have to go back and clean it up some and touchup the vinyl roof. Decals are next! More Superbird to come...

Now that the primer is nice and dry from sitting for a day in the dehydrator, I painted the '61 Impala this morning with Dupli-Color Light Blue Metallic and it looks pretty nice! More Impala to come...

Thank you Daniel!

I primered the '61 Impala this morning with Dupli-Color White Sandable Primer and then I tossed everything into the dehydrator for the next 8+ hours. I had painted the wheel cover edges with a red Sharpie and the blue Impalas had black rims. I repainted the edges in black. More Impala to come...

The plastic on this kit has gotten brittle over time. I was holding the body in my right hand and using a pinvise in my left hand trying to open up the holes for the rear wing when I heard "snap" and the lower right rear fender broke. My heart just sank since I just painted the body several days prior. This Superbird wasn't a show contender to begin with and I had decided to let it sit on the shelf unfinished. But, I just had to finish it and I glued the lower fender back on and added a strip of styrene to the back for support and repainted the body. I added several coats of Model Master Ultra Gloss Clearcoat to the hood. Looks pretty good, but it will look much better when it is polished! More Superbird to come...

Thank you Larry! A Modified Sport drag car would be a different kind of build for sure.

Revell made the changes hoping that this would appeal to more people with little to no experience in model building. I think its a waste of time and effort on Revell's behalf. The more ratings or levels, the more it might confuse someone looking for a kit to build and not being able to find something they might want to build in their skill level.

Thank you guys for the nice words! As usual, I spotted a couple of errors that I corrected afterwards. The left directional light was cockeyed and ready to fall off and the right headlight was off center. Both have been corrected.

Remember me?!!! The '61 Impala SS409 was put away after I decided to strip the Flame Red paint since it had remained tacky to the touch. It has been out of sight, but not out of my mind. Tonight, I pulled the Impala off the shelf and started sanding and removing red paint from wherever I could...and I still have a long way to go. I am going to use Dupli-Color Light Blue Metallic for the body and interior. My goal is to have matching '61 and '62 Impalas. I have a '63 Impala SS in the stash and that will get the same color paint as the '61 and '62 Impalas. More Impala to come...

I sat down this morning and looked over the various parts of the Superbird that I painted and discovered that the rear wing didn't have much paint on the bottom of the wing. I repainted the rear wing top and bottom. The hood is looking good especially after I had detailed the hood pins and lanyards. The rear bumper is ready for some Alclad II Gloss Black and Chrome paint. More Superbird to come...

I have finished my MG-TC and it is posted in Under Glass. I would like to thank all those who have taken the time to view and to comment on my WIP.

This is my Monogram MG-TC. It is painted with Tamiya TS-9 British Green with a Model Master Flame Red interior. It is built box stock with the addition of my license plate.