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Finished, laid up a few more decals mainly home printed jobs..... See the rest of the pics on 'Under Glass'.

Thanks Tom. Well I hope so when it's done! I'm using all manner of bikes from google search to combine all the parts to hopefully build an interesting one.

Yes what a good idea, another colour scheme! Today I've added wipers, aerials, mirrors and a few more decals (but still looking for some more!). More pics tomorrow.

I started with this kit......... Shor tened the front forks using alloy tube and painted the frame rattle can Humbrol Candy Apple Green........ I hope to do some more tomorrow.

I bought this for a low price as 'used' off of ebay, and it was delivered on Wednesday. When it came the underside of the chassis had been painted (I don't know what with but it flaked off when touched) and the front and rear suspension, brakes and wheels were fixed on. Unfortunately the rear wheel/tyre and suspension fell off one side and the front suspension frame was further forward on the other side. I took the enamel thinners to the front frame and dissolved the glue and set it all straight. The rear I did similar on the other side and re-attached the parts there. The body had been compressed, so both the windscreen posts were bent forward and one was broken at the roof. Both 'A' posts were straightened and broken one re-attached. On checking the chassis all four wheels were level on the ground. I started attaching bits to the chassis, painted the seats added belts, the dash with decals, steering and the roll cage. Next I attached the front light pod and rear wing and painted the body, not the standard boring Subaru blue but my own take. Added number square and number decals and printed off and added some 7Up decals on white decal paper. I then added the light pod and headlight lenses with Revell Clear White glue, and painted the front indicators and rear light lenses and attached to the body when dry. I masked and painted the windscreen unit and painted the wheels and today took off the masks attached the glass area to the body and when dry clipped the chassis unit to the body, that's the build so far I may find more decals to add, and wipers, aerials and door mirrors.

Thanks Zachary, yes I like the classic 911's best.

Cheers darthsideous.

WOW Superb!

Beautiful British Sports Car well done John!

Yes Brian, that's the way it went where the wing fits near the bonnet, plasticard to the rescue. But you couldn't put too much in as there wasn't a great deal of room, and no room at the back as the chassis mounting point was there, which caused it to come away when test fitting to the chassis.

Oh well I guess we'll just have to wait!

Super job Alan well done.

Well done Marcos, superb quality build and paint!

Yet another superb fun build, well done Bob!

Thanks guys to start with, secondly the build up. Well I made a mistake by spraying the body at the beginning, on saying that the body come in three parts. That is the shell with the door cut outs, but the rear section of the front wings(fenders) is joined to the bottom of the door openings to the rear wings and the contact areas are extremely small. The first photo shows the shell out of the box (painted) and the second photo shows the bottom part of the front wings attached to the rear wings. These detached themselves, as they are very thin and flexi, at least three times so I ended up using super glue to ensure that it didn't happen again. The next thing was I test fitted the body to the chassis, so two pins each side of the chassis to two mounting points on the bottom section of the doors! But I didn't fit it with the wheels, only to find the front and rear wheel arches not large enough for the wheels to turn, so all four wheels are touching the arches, the front arches do not allow the wheels to turn with the steering provided. Also for some unknown reason the rear track is too wide and the wheel tyre combo's stick out beyond the body. So lesson 1 fit the front wing sections before painting, attaching with very strong super glue or similar. Lesson two just offer up the tyres to the arch openings and file away to clear the tyres so they can rotate at the rear and rotate and steer at the front. Lesson three test fit all side glass as I had the shave quite a bit out of the rear side window openings as the hole was too small to fit correctly. The door glass is very thin at the top as is the top of the door frame, so they may not touch or the door frame wants to be a different curved shape than the window. Just a few probs I came across.

Superb Barry, a mate of mine from school had one in the day. That's the 70's!

Yes Frank I think there is a car underneath although it seems to be 'lost' under all of the decals! Yes again it was a feat and with plenty of micro-sol used!

I've just finished the 'plethora' of Colorado decals. The kit allows one or both doors open on 'fixed' hinges. I used alloy pipe for the exhaust tailpipe and rubber tubing for the rollcage padding.

Superb! As a dune buggy fan you've made a really good job of that. Superb paint and finish.

Looking good, I use thin plastic packaging from the clear Yogurt carton tops, shirts, clear plastic chocolate boxes etc for screens, easy to cut to any shape with scissors.

OK Mattias, make sure to test fit most everything before fitting together. There may be parts that you can put together out of sequence, because the instructions aren't clear enough. Just one of the fit problems was the silencer, it didn't specify where it was to be fitted onto (the bracket that hangs the engine in the chassis) so that when I put the body on the silencer hung below the rear bodywork, when it should have been tucked up inside the rear bumper. I put a few drops of enamel thinners on the pipe into the silencer to dissolve the glue, took it off, tucked it behind the bumper glued it back onto the engine hanger and re-connected the exhaust pipes. Also read the window section, as the front windscreen has to have the quarter lights cut off and the rear screen has to have the side windows cut off, both of which I did with a razor saw. Then fit both front and rear screens in place and and fit the separate side windows. Otherwise as per the first sentence test fit each part more than once, to ensure their correct placing.

Cheers Dann, yes they are my favourite sports car as well!

After reading your text and looking at your pics all I can say is WOW! What a trooper you are Jeff and you've built something that I've thought about as a VW fan and not got around to, well done!

Thanks Walter but the Enthusiast kits can be fiddly as the instructions sometimes don't show the fitment areas well enough.

Cheers Jim.