M1ks Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Most recently completed build for a friend who has 2 Capris and an unhealthy obsession with vehicles generally. This was a terrible kit needing a LOT of work to get things to fit but that doesn't alter the fact that the scale is all over the place, that said, it looks like a Capri and i'm reasonably pleased with it. Videos here 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Nice! Brought back some good memories of a misspent youth messing around in a various Capris owned by buddies! (I never progressed beyond a MkIV Cortina 2.0S!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1ks Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Thanks, they are very evocative vehicles, the Fords of the 70's and 80's. I was never a Ford fan though I've had an Escort and worked on plenty while I was a mechanic, they're easier to work on than that kit was to make fit properly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 That's very nice. I remember my Capri, 1.6 laser. Thought I was the dogs when I was driving it. Sat low down with the bonnet stretching out and the sunroof open blasting the radio 1 top 40......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1ks Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 Radio 1 top 40 on a sunday, remember trying to record the songs on cassette and attempting cutting the dj off who always spoke just as the song started and before it ended completely. So annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 I do, my mom moved house last year and I found a pile of the cassettes I'd done! I brought a tape player to listen to them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1ks Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 Todays kids will never know the struggle, nor the use of a pencil to manually wind a cassette reel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 aye; thats where you were going wrong. A pencil didn't fit tight enough, best was a Bic biro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Auto reverse cassette player, the height of in car technology! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Ah! In car cassette players. Something you don't see anymore: Streams of chewed up cassette tape strewn along the roadside and tangled in bushes. Obviously thrown out of car windows by frustrated motorists who had just had their copy of "Brothers in Arms" chewed up by their Binatone radio cassette player! Magic. I've still got 400 cassettes from the early 80s and still have my Sharp GF-6060 boom box that I got for my 13th birthday in 1982. All still works a treat. Sad or what? Love the Capri build. I've always wanted a go at the AMT kit. They just don't seem to turn up that often for a sensible price. But I'm probably just looking in the wrong places! Best regards; Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1ks Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 To be fair, I've no idea what they go for, but I wouldn't be surprised knowing how kits can go. I've never actually searched for one, this one just happened to be on a swaps group and I happened to have some aircraft, (if I recall), that I'd never build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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