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Built box stock, just needed a new set of decals from Jim Heller. Of the original set I salvaged the white Zerex decal for the back. I like the tools included where I used some of the old kit decals.

Superb, one of my favourite kits too, well done Sixties Sam!

Great job so far! Well done, I look forward to the rest of the build.

Fantastic build of a true British Sports Saloon car, converted to a racer from day one by the John Cooper works.

Superb colours and decals!

Superb decaling well done!

Interesting car, seen them race, whose buying and building one then?

Thanks guys.

Cheers Chris. This was built from broken bits ( 3 bits of body and 2 bits of chassis) in the 'already started' box/kit when I bought it, after finishing this one. Finding some BBS rims/tyres in the spares lowers the car from a standard 15" to 13" rims.

Superb take on the Aluma, it comes together nicely with the different parts and graphics, well done!

Thanks for your story Tom. Coming home to a model shop full of kits must be amazing! We don't have many shops like that anymore here in the UK. It can be a difficult kit to build because of having to leave the rear bumper body work to the last minute and trying to stretch the sides to get the body over the edge of the chassis and then stretching it again to get the engine cover and rear lid hinges into place, very tense for both the kit and the builder. But I have one of the new releases being delivered today anyway!

Thanks Dann, yes a popular car here since the 70's. The first mid-engined Porsche, but because it was mainly Beetle parts, the factory named it the 'VW-Porsche 914' the sales were dismal although when you see a Porsche Owners Club meeting there are stacks of them and Porsche 911 owners gravitate towards them!

Cheers Donald.

Cheers JC, yes quite difficult in places, I originally tried to build a rally car with the roof on but I just couldn't get the windscreen to reach the roof or was it the other way round! So I used the race car /speedster style screen.

Well thanks guys! I like to do a bit of rescue now and then, very satisfying, with these as inspiration........... and................... This is a model featured on youtube of the 914 kit being built!

Bought from ebay UK as an 'already started' in a fancy box! A shade worn! plus other trashed parts of another 914 with the ordinary windscreen,and roof which I'll try and piece together. This one needed quite a bit of refurb, funny brushed paint of different colours,two piece tyres with hard glue residue but still in pieces. Any way this is the result, decals from the spares box and homemade rollbar set up made from sprue and shaped with a tea light candle. I'll park it at the Backstreet Garage and put in Dioramas.

Build it! I never buy a kit I'm not going to build. I started the original Pocher 1930's Merecedes Cabrio still not quite finished abd bought by my wife in 1988!

Going to a small garden centre near us, one miniature steam tractor and a 1940's tractor and trailer following it with the owners family riding on haybales on the trailer, superb sight and sound on a backroad!

Fantastic work Wesley, the decalling is exceptional! Super all round. I remember these as a rally marshall in the day, completely mad machines loud and super fast!

Cheers Steve.

Cheers Dan, now I'm looking forward to building the Belkits VW Polo WRC kit!

Thanks guys, yes as an ex race and rally marshall I'm still keen to watch the rallies on TV and try and find the kits to build.

Thanks afx, nice build except as above twisted rollcage.