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Turned out great Bob. Tidy looking ute. Liking the blacked out bumpers and grill against the coral blue. Cool trick you used with the scripts, looks to have worked very well. Going to be interesting to see what you build next after seeing the recent completions.

Forgive me if this has already been posted by someone else. But I only came across the video today. Impressive to see all the different processes involved to achieve the build.

Cant go wrong with Tamiya spray can black, excellent paint job and foil work.

Indeed a very cool build, great idea well executed. Can see why your lad loves it.

Great looking T-Bird Steve. Excellent colour selection, all the mods and kit bash parts all come together to make a very unique custom. Such a cool looking car. Well done.

Good job on the foil work Bob, most definitely worth the effort. Chrome go's so well with that colour.

As mentioned the Hakosuka 4 door is up on the bench first. I dont not take the building of these kits seriously at all, just fun builds to maintain skills, try new techniques and can be great quick build slump busters. And they are something different This is the kit that it is being built from. Has a few options for parts, which is good fun picking a combo of parts to use and build up my own version. Kinda like the 3n1 kits by other the manufacturers. Picked out the interior parts. Although I did change my mind with the steering wheel after taking this pic. Very basic, easy to work with and detail paint. I like the stock seats, they work out good for bucket style seats with the head rest removed. All parts were cleaned up and prepared. Applied the usual 1500 grey and black finishing surfacer's. Nice warm day tomorrow 38'C/100'F, should dry/cure these parts in no time.

Tri fives look great in that colour combo.

I have so many idea's for burn out cars, need to get these couple out the way to start some new ones. It will be a journey to complete them all. Holden made the best ute's, so many cool style's and shapes.

Thanks for the interest Bob. The paint on the Nissan Cedric is done with wet wipes that are dried out and stretched out over the surface. Undecided on how I want to finish the paint work, possibly some fading and pearl over coat. So not much to finish it really, just a small amount of paint work. These were some test pieces I was trying out the paint technique.

Done well Bob. Really like the way this one turned out, tuff. Looks great with that white and black combo.

Should have said a yard sale as none are finished or running LOL! The sedan is an Australian Holden HK Premier. It is from The Parts Box an Aussie business that sell resin kits and parts. When it makes it back to the bench I will explain more about the build. Inspired by our burnt out cars. Wont be going green with it though. The coupe is an odd ball for sure, its a custom 77 Nissan Skyline 210. Inspiration came from Dom's Charger from Fast and Furious, also Aussie burn out cars. Again when it gets back to the bench I will show what I done to the front and engine bay. Yeah the ute does stand out a bit from the rest being so different. Its an Australian Holden VE Commodore Ute. It was 3D designed and printed by a very talented Aussie bloke. As with all I will explain more detail of the build when I drag it out onto the bench.

So like many of us I have a lot of stalled builds that have not been shared in build topic's. Most are just basic oob builds and would be very short thread's, so I figured I would start this topic as a place to share all my updates and on going progress with the builds. Here is the parking lot I would like to get completed. Wide variety of subjects and style's Im going to make a deal with myself, no new builds until two stalled get completed. Thats the plan for 2022. Think il start with this one to get the ball rolling. Already has the body painted just need to paint and detail interior parts, BMF and finalize exterior details.

Done well. Nice persuader you used to get the body glued to the chassis plate. Can tell you are a tradesman when you use tools like that. ?

Very clever solution with the headlight trim rings.

Going by the inspiration pics that sounds like a great plan, cool to see something different. Dont see many Euro Stanced.

Dug out all my stalled wip that dont have a thread to asses which ones I might be interested and motivated to bring to the work bench and maybe put the time in to get completed. Thinking I will work on this one first.

Great build of simple kit, you have a very clean build style. Well done.

Good to see some of your new builds, simple clean build and very well detailed.

As always super clean build, cant say ive seen a yellow R34 before. Its different for sure, I like it.

Thanks Chris. Good to know you have found some information that might be helpful with your build. I need to get back to this one day and get it completed.

Started this kit back in 2013 but it stalled out and I lost interest. But decided earlier this year it will get completed. For more details. Here is the WIP thread This build is a tribute to Richard Manson, aka Ramfins59 for his love of cars from the 50's.

Teaser pic to show its complete, photo shoot and under glass tomorrow.

The colour will go well with all the chrome and trim.

Paint looks good from where im sitting Bob, I can see the pearl effect on the top of the wheel tubs in the lighting reflection.