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  1. Very nice , are you doing these on a scrollsaw or a bandsaw or both ?
  2. Or RWD , with a massive drag slick at the back filling almost the full width of the boot area ....
  3. Looks great , you've done a fnatastic job with the weathering .
  4. Barbie had a hot pink mini moke actually ... but it had to be renamed a summer buggy or something as the US market didn't know what a moke was ....
  5. Looks up to your usual high standard Krishna , nice clean build . Where do you find all these obscure models though ?
  6. Ok , I'll throw my 2 cents in here as well , I have had to shelve all hobbies at various times due to various reasons (work , non hobby friendly partners , lack of time , (now ex) wife wanting to destroy anything I enjoyed , frustration with one model or full sized car etc) but have always only reduced the collection to the core elements and packed them away for a while . Frustration eases , situations change , you get more time , whatever . Life is in constant evolution so it doesn't matter where you are and how much time you can get for your hobby , or how much something pisses you off , it's good to have it on standby to get back to when you can . I have owned the mini my username comes from (1963 Morris Sports 850) since 1992 , it will be the last mini item I will EVER sell and it's always been the core of my collection . Even at the darkest of my marriage , when mini was a forbidden thought let alone anything to spend time on (my ex wife suffered severe post natal depression and an anxiety disorder that she blamed entirely on me , it's always struck me as odd that they say one person suffers from depression or mental illness , yes the person diagnosed suffers but everyone around them suffers too) I knew it was downstairs and safe and I knew I would get the time to get back to it one day . Now I have a fantastic girlfriend who doesn't care what I spend my time on and understands my passion for mini's (her brother has 7 GPZ1100 Kawasaki road bikes so she understands obsession) . Whatever is going on in your life that is burning you out from this hobby will probably pass and 12 months , 2 years , 5 years from now you'll get the itch again and have to start again from scratch . There are countless people in the mini community who have told me they wished they had kept their special cars or other parts of their collections when they sold them for whatever reason that seemed final at the time . Hmmm , I'm drifting off course a bit here now ... WhatI would say is , box everything up and put it in the garage/spare room/parents place/mates place/wherever so it's out of sight and you aren't tripping over it daily and leave it there for 6 months or a year , see if in that time you want to sit down and build something or want to fidle with something . If there is no interest after 12 months or so then have a think about it again and see if you really want to sell up and try something else . Just don't do something you might regret later .
  7. Looks great , a little different but great all the same . So what are your plans for engine and running gear ?
  8. Looks good
  9. Managed a little bit of time to play with this one , got some step's styrene strip from a localish hobby shop and put 4 sections into the base of the boot lid , now have to get some 1/4 round strip tp make a new top edge of the boot lid (why do I never remember to get all the bits I need when I'm at the hobby shop....) .
  10. Have you got a link to it , I can only find a model cars mag page that has 361 likes so far ???
  11. I don't know about any of the ones you mention but I found the Italeri Volvo VN780 a pretty straight forward build , some minor hassles lining the parts of the bonnet and body up but that may also have been my lack of experience with building a truck as this was my first attempt at a truck . Just a shame it is essentially a kerbside kit and doesn't have an engine to build/detail .
  12. I've learnt a LOT of lessons with this one actually , it was my first attempt and chopping a plastic body but what I found by , to be honest , stuffing up has helped with other projects since Still , it's the easiest way to learn , not to mention getting good practice at fixing the problems my overeagerness caused Thank's for the tip , I'll give that a try . Manuel , that wouldn't surprise me as this engine is huge (it's an 8 , not a 6 so longer again) , I emailed one of the resin suppliers down here asking for something oddball in the way of an engine , preferably a straight 6 or 8 , flathead if possible and this is what he found me (came from the US somewhere) . I'm just glad it fitted , albeit with the firewall cut and radiator moved to the boot/trunk .
  13. Excellent little combo
  14. This is a very long term build , I started it a couple of years ago now as an experiment and to see what i could do , plus I was a little bored with seeing the same thing done enginewise so started looking for a different engine to shoehorn in it . It seems to spend more time sitting on the top shelf of the cupboard than the workbench but it has made it back onto the workbench at the moment . The general idea behind the build was a car built from the dead vehicles left at the back of a sawmill (down here , country sawmills have a "rotten row" of discarded cars and trucks down the back ) and other scrounged parts more than expensive hot rod bits , more bush engineering than anything else . The body was sectioned by a scale 4" after looking at the box art while some paper was partially blocking it and I got the impression of a low slung torpedo shaped car . When I first sectioned the body the roofline looked way too high so took the roof off (backyard guy looking for speed on a tight budget wouldn't be able to spend that much on a roof chop ) , The engine is a resin straight 8 flathead Pontiac truck engine with a crank driven blower (inspired by post war MG's) with twin sidedraft webber carbs . I fiddled with wheel and brake combo's until I got the look of oversized brake drums taken from some bigger car or truck . I tried to make some aero wheel flairs , they just didn't look right so have since ditched them ... The latest addition to the styling is aero nacelles (how do you spell those things ...) to cover roll bars but also duct air into the boot mounted radiator (still got to put vents in the boot lid) . They still have to be thinned a bit (and cleaned up a lot , they aren't stuck down yet , still fiddling) , have a roll bar fitted in front and mesh covering the opening . I have made the drivers side (right hand drive here) nacelle longer than the passenger side as the passenger side will have a toneau cover over it and the nacelle won't have to be as high to catch as much air without a head in front of it Before anyone says it , yes I know I am weird and come up with strange ideas .....
  15. If you (or anyone else) want any more of the "rolls of steel" to display it I have the ones from my trailer that I'm not using , they're no use to me (and free )
  16. I'm saying partially completed but real , the number plate doesn't look like a miniature among other things , all tiny details that don't look to be in small scale ... unless it's 1/4 scale of course .
  17. sports850

    Lakester

    Thank's for the extra info Ron , that's definitely a cool little vehicle , I'm going to have to search for one now
  18. My username comes from one of my mini's , a 1963 mini sports 850 , there are a handful of genuine ones left (5 that can be verified) and a similar number of copies . They were an Australian only model and released by a dealer with BMC (British Motor Corporation) approval . The dealer (Peter Manton) also raced mini's and wanted BMC to release the mini cooper in Aust but BMC decided that Australia was too small for such an advanced and expensive performance model . Manton argued so they challenged him to make a performance model and prove there was a market for it . Manton upgraded the 850 with twin carbs , special badging and sold more than 100 so BMC bought in the cooper . My avatar is a picture of the Mini-Trac which was a tracked mini built by Terry O'hare near Melbourne and trialed in Antarctica , it came back to Australia after that and was sold to a private concern , I found Terry while researching it and had a 4 page article published on the Mini-Trac but so far can't find it's final resting place .
  19. sports850

    Lakester

    That's cool , any details on what it is (I saw the remains of a similar body at a mates place but he didn't know what it was or who made it) ? What are the engines in it ?
  20. Just remember that different people build for different reasons too . Some people enjoy making something as close to perfect and as detailed as possible whereas others like to push their own boundaries and see what they can build with what they have . Or its just a hobby to spend some time fiddling by themselves . Constructive criticism is fine but remember you are viewing someone's project , not judging it for a show so don't expect perfection . I just build for fun , I know I have a long way to go to be of the same standard as others on here but I don't mind . Check out my car carrier build in the truck section , it started as a long term project to occupy my hands and mind after separating from my now ex wife . I know its not accurate and has paint and fit issues but considering where my mind was I like the way it came out and it served its purpose
  21. Nice big mini and very nice mini mini
  22. Went and visited a mate this morning and picked up the gluebomb truck he had for me to use as the support vehicle for Holly's mini . Now to armour the truck and box to hold the mini (and detail the gun on the roof , ok , to fit it with a straight barrel and stop it looking like a toy and fit it into an armoured turret) and have some fun with it . The back of the truck will be an armoured box/workshop with hinge down rear door so the mini can board on the run like the original Italian Job for a faster escape from the Zombies out for revenge after there mates were devastated by the stealthy attack of the mini
  23. Looks magic Shawn , how does it feel to look at a freshly cast body of something that's entirely your own work ?
  24. Cool , Thank's for that , I was wondering the same thing myself .
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