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Going to try my hand a a little simple diorama. I have the garage kit and bought a Monogram 1/43 Cobra to replace the Vette that comes with the garage kit. Going to try and make it look like someone is building a kit Cobra at home.

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OK,this ain't gonna work. Probably due to age the stick on walls and floor does not stick. Not wanting to glue them down I am going to replace the walls with wood and the floor with something undecided at the moment.

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I am working on making new walls and a floor to replace the stick one ones that don't. I have assembled some of the bits for the dio and painted and detailed them.

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Really did not like the stick on walls and floor so I replaced them. I used painted cardboard for the floor and balsa wood for the walls. I think it looks better but may be out of scale.

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Looks great Ray. As far as being out of scale I don't think so. Those older garages looked kind of like that. put some items in it and lets check it out...

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Making some progress on this thing. This is a mock up only but pretty much the way it will be. Need to start working on the car now. I converted a Micro Machines Cobra into a kids riding toy by adding a seat and a steering wheel and foot pegs. Looks kinda crowded to me. Thoughts ??

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nice tools an cabinets but you where right to replace the foor and walls , looks great ..

if you would really look good its like you said the beams on the boards are a bit thick ... scale wise but with everything in it looks good

nice job !!!

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Got this little diorama all finished up. I learned one thing, I don't think I will any time soon or ever build another 1/43 kit. This is a very nice little Cobra with some nice pe parts but tough on these old eyes. This dio is meant to depict a guy working on a kit Cobra in his home garage. As mentioned before the wood I used to make the walls is out of scale but I think still better than the stick on stuff. Also I feel I maybe made it a little to crowded but wanted to squeeze some detail in to it. Comments good or bad are always welcome. Thanks for looking.

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