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Hi Dann thanks for your comments. I certainly think that the buttercup yellow i've used on this better than the pink that is suggested! I have 3 left........... a Trantula dragster, the Monogram Garbage truck with the surfboards, and a model T rod with trailer. The rest (60) are boring production saloons and sportscars and a few trucks/vans and rally/race cars. Nothing really that I can modify, I can perhaps camo some. I looked at an old kit of a Ford GT40 Le Mans car. It's supposed to be a light coloured body plus period decals and it's been moulded in gloss black plastic!! I was thinking of putting it on 20" and 21" Centrelines and making it a road car? Anyway I've got the Trantula kit out today in yucky green, de-chromed it, painted some of it Satin Black and I'm looking at my stash of my self printed decals,(Camo/Surf/Race) as far as that I don't know! But I may wake up around 4 or 5 in the morning with some thoughts/ideas! So I better take a pencil and paper to bed tonight. I was also lookig at one of our race series here called Time Attack where the car does just one sprint lap against the clock, interesting as most of them are production cars but are heavily modified with big wings front and back, like some they use on Pikes Peak, so that's another idea, swimming around in there.

Thanks Tony.

Thanks guys, it took a lot of time to get each piece right, chassis, engine,interior, body, bubble top and boot flap. All needed work to get to fit square and level.

Cheers Wayne! I seem to be going with these loopy kits at present!

Whoa, that's great!

Just completed this over the last week or so, built box stock other than paint and home grown decals. Found the chassis/frame to be a bit flimsy so de-chromed it and laid it up on a sheet of plasticard for strength and painted it Plasti-Kote metalic Red. and then finished the build-up.

Yes Dann they appear to have more detail than Tamiya, Fujimi, Hasegawa etc!

Cheers Tony!

I look forward to seeing it Jim.

Thanks Jim, is it on here yet?

Mine is the Belkits 2015 version of the VW Polo WRC.

Cheers Carl.

Having built 6 or 7 of these Manxes I've seen a few methods of masking, one was using what we have in the UK called Blu-Tack, it's a putty that kids use to stick posters to the bedroom wall. It's easy to mold round things and once the paint has dried just peel it off. At least you can stop bleed through. For my 4X4 Manx I bought a Jimmy Flintstone resin body with windsheild and scratchbuilt the chassis from plasticard. If your using a Beetle kit you have to shorten the chassis pan as they do with 1:1 kits.

Cheers Gator thanks.

Thanks Ray. Yes but these have a twin edge and it's dificult to get the black marker, and I have three thicknesses of pen, to get into the middle, without actually painting them, allowing the paint to run in.

As soon as I tried to place the two dashboard decals I realised that the date on the plans (1983) meant that the other decals were shot. I dived into my decal reserves and found a recent buy of Cartoon Characters by Hobby Design would take their place. I also fitted some Cibie (headlights) , tuner and tyre decals I also found that the inside doors between the driver and goods had no glass supplied so I found and cut and fitted some frosted plastic windows in place. Apologies for the state of my window seals as I still can't get that right!

That looks just superb Jonathan! That's definitely on my 'to buy' list for this year. I still have the Citroen HY Van to get on with.

Superb! I love everything about the LB Performance look!

Yes Kai, I buy all matter of 'Evergreen' made plasticard/plastic sheet, round stock rod,square,tubes all of these in different sizes from Fred Aldous in Manchester. Just Google search on that name. Good to see you back and enjoy yourself!

Thanks Dann, yes the original shots on the deck outside my cabin workshop weren't really a finished scene so I did these yesterday.

Purely for my education, staging a scene relating to a build has been a problem for me. I had a quick search on Google for beach scenes, came up with two and printed them off. I then found a piece of sandpaper I use for woodwork and took two pics on the mantlepiece over the fireplace..... I then went into the garage to play with the sand and came up with............ Then added Ed to the scenes................................... Now I think I've got a rough idea of what to do next time!

Thanks guys, all of a sudden I like quirky, loopy cars!

Cheers Derick.

Yes I learn't that lesson, 'strip the chrome before painting' I use (in the UK) a liquid oven cleaner. It doesn't damage the plastic, but use carefully, and well rinse the parts afterwards. I did paint some chrome parts on the Manx's I built (7), I used acrylic clear colours, red, orange (rear light lens paints) and blue. It gives a beautiful coloured shine.

Thanks Chris.