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    Model kit instructions

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

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    Shelved! Too many parts missing. The body washed is still sticky as it was when delivered! The parts for the lowered suspension all gone, and as before the one piece window unit is broken down it's rear window. I don't now what adhesive they used but I can't part anything. The box shows, lowered suspension with wheels that fill the arches. In the box chrome multi spoke wheels but scale 15 inch rims, too small! I tried to get the body on the chassis plate and using various flat screwdrivers down each side the body was too stiff to fit over the chassis!

     

    Monogram Lumina

    in NASCAR

    Posted · Edited by PatW

    Thanks Mark. Yes I have built numerous models over many, many years from bits and pieces to achieve a vehicle that I wouldn't have been able to buy, just by using my imagination. Many years ago I built a kit car, having the steel chassis with a glassfibre body already bolted on, and an MOT fail Mk2 Ford Escort van for the parts, it took me three months in a lock up garage, working in the evenings to finish it. At weekends we were delivering our two sons to BMX race meetings all over the country using a VW Beetle with a roof rack! Those were the days!

     

    Monogram Lumina

    in NASCAR

    Posted · Edited by PatW

    Having used the majority of the kit to build a Tradesman's Truck last year, leaving the Lumina body, I cobbled this together. I couldn't find No 46 decal set in the UK so I used 'stickers'.

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    Model kit instructions

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

    Posted · Edited by PatW

    Thanks Matt. I'm trying to build the suspension, brakes to mount the wheels. The kit body is dull black and it looks like someone had a go with some kitchen cleaning object, perhaps a scourer on both the body and windows, breaking the back window and it has no decals either.

    Model kit instructions

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

    Posted · Edited by PatW

    Now, another problem. I have bought online an already started kit, I buy a few as a pensioner new kits are expensive. The kit has no instructions! It is an Aoshima Nissan Cima Y32, I have tried almost all avenues/websites to obtain a copy of the instructions but to no avail. This is the kit, as you will see there is no English text on the box! Only that it is kit no. 040577, there are other kits by Aoshima and for the Nissan Cima Y32 in standard form. It's also known as an Aoshima Bunka Kyozai. Or Shakotan Boogie Mizutani's

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    I'm hoping that the other kits have a standard chassis as that is what I'm trying to build.

     

    Lumina

    in WIP: NASCAR

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    Thanks Mark I would like to double up the white over red decals, but they are very thin glossy plastic stickers. Test fitted onto the chassis while I think about adding dash, steering and making a roll-cage.

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    Lumina

    in WIP: NASCAR

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    Cheers Mark, now the stickers are on!

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    A bit opaque on the 46 over the red but all right otherwise, but as stickers very, very fiddly with tweezers! 

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    Lumina

    in WIP: NASCAR

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    Scratchbuilt chassis, painted wheels and body, fitted a difficult rear window, later a front window but both seem to be too big! Most of the Lumina kit was used in a Tradesman truck build last year.

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