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Hi Alan, the wheels and tyres came in a pack from Hobby Link Japan, they are made by Aoshima and the product code on the box is 1800 000106.............. This is the picture of the box and you get a 1/24 scale motor scooter as well! I've just looked on the hlj site and they are back order on the first page of car detailing parts-1/24-Aoshima.

Well here we are with the first few pics of each car....Firstly the painted shell of the Fiesta.............. And then the Mini, the roof has been painted matt White and masked off for the first two coats of red on the rest of the body............ I will now give that a few days to dry, in the mean time i'm hand painting some of the smaller items, eg. the shocks, steering wheel . Then I will start to build up the chassis on the Mini first.

Thanks all! Yes I've always wanted a real one., so I'm trying different looks, paints, parts and engine just incase the lotto comes up! We have a firm in East Anglia called Flatlands Engineering who both sell the kits and build turnkey cars in both short and standard length chassis, with various aircooled and Subaru watercooled engines. But mine would have to be aircooled. I bought the resin bomber seats from Jim at Crazy Scale Auto Parts.

I've just finished this to add to my green pearl painted version............. I partly scratchbuilt the standard flat four and added a turbocharger. I moved the headlights onto the top of the wings, added resin bomber seats with foam saet pads, used wooden coffee stirers in the rear seat/cargo area and used Humbrol rattle can Crimson topped off with Plasti-Kote metalflake and clear gloss. Also after market big and little wheels and tyres with rear brake discs.

After finishing my turbocharged Meyers Manx I thought I'd have a go a couple of new Airfix kits. Smaller in scale but with plenty of detail.. I've painted the shell of the Fiesta, and started the Mini shell with paint today. Pics to come!

Well done Tamas, super looking Toyota, thanks for sharing.

http://www.rodauthority.com/videos/on-the-dyno/video-a-six-cubic-inch-supercharged-v-8-engine-in-action/ There we are guys. It's just right to put into a child's pedal car!

Super build ShawnS. We had two, my brothers 1963 850 van and my mums 1968 850 countryman (woody) Such fantastic fun, tearing around, fantastic handling but with crossply tyres not much grip in the wet. Out in the sticks flying round country lanes in the wet the tyres wouldn't grip much, so hard over with the steering on the tight corners and off into a hedge or field and as long as the ditch wasn't too deep having front wheel drive would drag you back out onto the road!.

Hi CadillacPat, There's no fixings to put the hood on the back in the vertical and it would be difficult to vent as it would be too close to the outer wall. It's working just fine from the point of view of fan power, so there's no need to change anything just yet. As I said before the pipe is fed out through the cabin door to vent the extractor and would be virtually straight, so seeing the pipe in the pictures is just stored between jobs

After about three years in my model cabin I was getting a bit fed up with the paint fumes during and after spraying. I looked at buying a spray booth with extractor, but aren't they small and expensive. So of I went to my local DIT- Kitchen store and bought a kitchen cooker extractor unit and fitting kit. After about an hour of cutting a hole in the top of my spray booth, wiring up a plug and finding an extension lead I ended up with this........................... As my wife doesn't want me to cut a hole in the side of the cabin, I just open the door and put the end of the pipe outside. Switch the light on and switch the fan to it's top speed (no3) and hey presto. All of the fumes disappear very quickly! And all for a fraction of the cost of a shop bought spray booth.

Superb Falcon, the colour and finish are just ace! It reminds me of going to Silverstone race circuit in the 60's and seeing these race alongside Ford Lotus Cortina's Mini Coopers, Ford Anglias and the new Ford Escorts. Brilliant build well done.

I've also got a pearl Green version on page 17, but I'm looking at building another with the minimum of paint. Firstly I've just had delivered a package from the partsbox in Australia, with various size turbochargers (up to truck size!). So with photos from a VW engine builder, I shall be bending a few pipes soon to fit one turbocharger to the aircooled motor. I shall be fitting the bomber seats I've bought from Crazy Jim above........... and I'm covering the whole body with carbon fibre decal from Scale Motorsport! I have also obtained big and small front and rear wheels and tyres from Hobby Link Japan. But come on Crazy Jim get that kit out of the box and give it some!

My brother bought his first Mini from the Oxford factory in 1963 through a local dealer (he saved the delivery charge by spending £2 on a bus fare to the plant). But when he got it home he took the wheels off and the backs were rusty. After a few days he found it jumped out of second gear. On speaking to a friend at the local dealership, using the chassis number, they found it was a 1961 model which had the habit of jumping out of gear, so they changed the car for a new one. But further to that there was a guy just outside town who had started tuning the first Coopers and set a up racing team with his brother. What cars they were, they tuned cars for other teams as well, in all engine sizes 997, 999 and 1275 and later bored out to 1293cc. With Silverstone only 20 miles away we were up there on a regular basis watching the Mini's waging war against Ford Anglia 105E's, NSU 1000, later Mk 1 Ford Escorts (broadspeed team) and the big Jaguar's and American Ford Falcons etc. What great days they were.

Thanks guys! I hope you all had an interesting Christmas. My wife of 45 years next month (Aka Father Christmas) bought me the new Lego VW Camper, so I might do a build on the workbench thread!... And my two sons, one home from his work on oil rigs in Canada, bought me a Revel Porsche Carrera and a Fujimi GC110 Nissan Skyline GT-X (both 1972 versions) so I shall be busy again for a while.............. I don't think they are police car material though! Happy New Year to you all.

Thanks Slusher. Yes it's the worldwide smart answer to police force austerity the SMART CAR. I'm now awaiting orders from across the globe! Included with the build will be a part full can of petrol for the odd sniff to keep it going!

And now here are those pics................................ and in the cabinet!

I bought this kit about 12 months ago. I thought of what to do with it over a long period and came up with this............ Well that's the first few pics and now some more.....................

Wayne, many thanks for sharing your pics.

Hey cruz, thanks for sharing these super pics. It's nice to see what's going on in the model car shows over the pond in the US of A.

Did anyone get any photo's?

These are pictures taken during my time as an Airtraffic Control marshal at Silverstone circuit, it includes cars and planes..... http://s149.photobuc...assic Festival/ http://s149.photobuc...ing since 1968/ http://s149.photobuc...tone 1991-1992/ http://s149.photobuc...m/Le Mans 1999/ Enjoy

Well I've bought stuff from Dennis. He's always helpful although very far away! I must look at the site before we loose it altogether. All the best Dennis in your new venture whatever it may be!

When is this? There's no date only opening times. If it's this weekend is anyone taking a camera?

That is just superb! Is the windscreen surround painted or BMF chrome?

Very smart! Well done.