MGB Mk 1

[cortinanut]

My second completed kit after a 10-year hiatus, this is the Aoshima chrome-bumper MGB which came with an American SATCO resin LHD dash. It's box stock but for interior flocking, a license plate decal and a slightly lowered suspension. I wish it were not a curbside, but my skills are frankly not up to building an engine compartment. The paint is Dupli-Color GM 353 Dark Red Metallic and MM High Gloss Clear; the interior is Polly Scale Old Concrete. Although I still need to come up with an appropriate rear view mirror for the driver's door, for now I'm calling it done.

Edited February 25, 2012 by cortinanut

[Chris M]

Cool little model! And you seem to still have your skills after that long of a break! Great job! I also like the instruction sheet for the picture "floor" very clever.

[rmvw guy]

Yours came out great! My wife has a 1:1 80 1/2 MGB and I need this kit. Do you know if they make a rubber bumoer version?

[catpack68]

that turned out nice!!! very clean work.

[GeeBee]

Very nice job, love the interior, I have the very same kit to build one day .....

Yours came out great! My wife has a 1:1 80 1/2 MGB and I need this kit. Do you know if they make a rubber bumoer version?

Yes they did, but it still has the earlier MK1 Dash and seats.

[rmvw guy]

Very nice job, love the interior, I have the very same kit to build one day .....

Yes they did, but it still has the earlier MK1 Dash and seats.

Thanks, I'll be on the look out for one of these kits. I wasn't aware they still made a MGB kit. Thanks very much!

[Sam Cates]

Killer, the paint looks amazing, and the detail is quite nice! All around beautiful build!

[jaymcminn]

Very sharp. I love early MGBs.

[cortinanut]

Thanks, guys! This is nowhere near the level of so many builds I see on this forum, but it felt good to finish. The Aoshima kit is amazing in terms of fit and molding quality. The ride height struck me as closer to the rubber-bumper generation of MGBs; otherwise the whole kit was one pleasant surprise after another.

[jbwelda]

thats a very nice job and i wouldnt underrate your skills too much, looks pretty great from the pics. i have built a couple of those kits and yours rides about right looks like; as you mentioned in your build thread it sits high out of the box. the first one i built i had the rally version kit and took extreme pains to lower it correctly visually. the second i converted to an MGBGT using an all american resins body and i didnt bother with the suspension. it sits high still. looks good though because as noted the real cars, with still new suspensions, tended to sit high especially here in the states.

if you feel like doing another and want to do an engine in the engine compartment, Southeast Finecast makes a white metal Rover/MG/Morgan V8 from the old Buick design. i built one and display it on a stand next to the GT which would be the most common (and maybe only?) use of it in the MG family.

[ChrisR]

Great looking model!