Missing part: How can I replace it?

[conchan]

With the latest kit I am building, 1995 Tamiya Ford Mustang Cobra R kit (1/24), the shifter is missing. 
The kit was bought used and this is the only part missing. As it is an old kit Tamiya no longer stocks replacement parts. 
How can I get a replacement shifter? 

My spare parts box didn’t have one. 

[stitchdup]

You could make on if you have small files. Just take a bit of the sprue and start shaping the end into a shifter. I find it simpler to leave it on a decent length of the sprue while shaping it and just remove the section of sprue last. Leaving the section of sprue on gives you something to hold on to

[bobss396]

  On 10/28/2023 at 8:44 AM, stitchdup said:

You could make on if you have small files. Just take a bit of the sprue and start shaping the end into a shifter. I find it simpler to leave it on a decent length of the sprue while shaping it and just remove the section of sprue last. Leaving the section of sprue on gives you something to hold on to

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Good idea, hold it in a pin vise and remove anything that doesn't look like a shifter. I make them all the time for stock cars, using a shirt pin as the shift knob and of course the pin only shortened and sleeved with shrink tube. 

[NOBLNG]

The boot would be the hardest part. Maybe crinkle up a piece of tin foil? Or tissue and a bit of CA to stiffen it up?

[Dpate]

There’s actually quite a few aftermarket shifters you can get. Here’s a example.

[Mark]

I'd file the grip from a piece of sprue, leaving a "stalk" to form a boot.  As for the boot, that looks like a job for epoxy putty.

[Deathgoblin]

What about using Green Stuff or Miliput to make the boot?  Both are two component materials that remain pliable before hardening.  

[Can-Con]

How about just asking in the wanted section if anyone has a shifter from an AMT or Revell '85 Mustang? 

AMT,,

[Bills72sj]

I made my shifters from hat pins. If you dip the head in thickened black paint, you could simulate the vertically extended knob. As for the boot, I would use silly putty or an equivalent and paint it too.