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Another model I got with my gift card this past Christmas. I saw a few of these on eBay and decided I wanted one for the collection. It's not a bad kit as far as detail, however, assembly was kinda hard. The windshield plastic was a little too wide for the frame. I actually ended up trimming some of it off. The interior is not a tub and the doors attach to the body interior. It's tricky getting the interior in and getting the doors in the correct position. Getting the dash to fit right with the doors and all was a nightmare. Getting the chassis to fit right was also a nightmare. Lots of repositioning and using a knife to pull the body apart to adjust the ride height. To start the front was higher than the rear and it had the Carolina squat look. It took forever to get it to go in the right spot. SAM_1957 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr SAM_1958 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr SAM_1959 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

I built this a while ago and decided it’s time to share it. I wanted to build the standard colour MS-14 Gelgoog but could only find the MS-14S kit so I decided I would build it as a test or prototype Mobile Suit before being used to its pilot Char. I picked a simple colour scheme for the frame and sourced the Mr Hobby Gundam colours to match the standard colour I wanted to use. Air brushed everything and then tried my hand at weathering. Only light damage/wear as it’s a prototype and then a lot of dirty/dust to suggest it’s been sitting around for a while. Inner frame Painted Chipped and Weathered

Been looking for something different to keep me in the hobby and was shown the Gunpla stuff a while ago. After a couple of year I have a bit of a collection and have started building Master Grades. Here is my 2nd MG build and everything has been painted with the air brush except the glass and pilot. When I decided to build Master Grade this is the standard I wanted to build to. Since then I’ve started trying to weather stuff so I’ll probably go back to this and weather it later on. Showing what inner frame it has The pilot Finished and with my first MG

I am going to attempt to complete this car. There are really no kits available so it will be entirely scratch built like the Tatra was. This is going to take more time then some of those I did in a few days so be patient with me. I will be including history of the car as I go along with a lot of prototype photos and progress photos. The first installment of the history is following on this post, This will be detailed along with the motor as before. I will show all the parts of the build so you can follow along. I will include pattern making from pictures and try to explain each part as I go. Be sure to ask questions if something is not clear to you. You can refer to my older builds for some of the techniques that I will be using. I have downloaded and marked over 100 photos of the car to work from and will be including this information as I go. First some basic information, The plastic sheet comes in 40x72 sheets from US Plastics out of Ohio, I have linked it before. You can also get 4 foot x 8 foot sheets from your local sign shop for about $20. It is,40 thick and will be used for all parts of the build with the exception of some tube stock that I will call out when I get there. The prototype used an Ash wood frame as all MG's did until the early 50's with the advant of the MGA. The metal skin was nailed to the wood frame. Then interior was all leather and mohr hair, like the early cars in the US. The MG SA was launched at the 1935 Motor Show and this elegant saloon was the first all new model to be introduced since the merger with Morris Motors in July 1935. It was launched alongside another new model, the PB Midget and a revised version of the N type Magnette, but everyone's attention was turned to the SA. This brand new car was a shock to the MG fraternity as it was a car of such huge proportions compared to the previous Abingdon offerings and was to be the largest MG to date. Many enthusiasts refused to recognise the SA as a genuine MG choosing to forget the fact that some of the earlier Magnettes were not exactly small cars. To understand the reasoning behind the launch of this luxury sports saloon, we need to look back to early 1935 and the revolution that swept through Abingdon. Leonard Lord was appointed as the new managing director of the MG Car Company when Nuffield sold the concern to Morris Motors in July 1935. Virtually overnight all racing activities and developments were ceased and although Cecil Kimber remained at Abingdon, there was little that he could do without the consent of Lord. Initially Lord said that he did not want to produce any more MG sports cars as they interfered with his plans to streamline the organisation. However Cecil Kimber still retained a lot of influence and he managed to gain enough support to eventually change Lord's mind. The end result of this disagreement between Kimber and Lord was the production of the MG Two Litre SA Saloon first announced in October 1935. The following is the Jaguar SS Saloon they wanted to compete with. Mecerdes had an SS along with several other manufacturers of the time period. I will be posting as I get to each part so sit back and enjoy. For those interested in the time something like this takes, I have over 20 hours just in the research and designing of the build so far. Very similar to the Tatra build. Research is a lot of time if you want to get everything down, photos play a critical roll in scratch building so research,research, and research. Kennb