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It's definitely a Tamiya rebox. The instructions are slightly zoomed photocopies of the tamiya instructions. I bought it direct from them (it's really a small shop about 10 miles from ypres). It was €60 delivered. A bit high, but easier to get a hold of than some of the tamiya ones on ebay.

I had this 1/24 Escort Cosworth deivered from Dominomodel yesterday.

After a few weeks off thanks to life, I've managed to do a bit more. Looking at a photo I took at Beaulieu motor museum of their full size Mr. Bean Mini, it has a gloss black bonnet and a clasp and hasp lock on the door. While on the TV show, it has a matt black bonnet and a brenton bolt lock on the door. I've decided to follow the TV show for the bonnet, so I painted it in enamel matt black. I may give it another coat tomorrow depending on how it dries. I'll decide what style lock to do later. I've also made a start on the interior. On the TV show, the interior is black, so I've kept that. I've used a dark grey, rather than a black carpet, if only for some contrast Lastly I've mostly done the engine. I've ignored most of the engine painting instructions as it's supposed to be a much later car anyway. I'm on nights next week, so I should hopefully have a few quiet hours each day to get it finished, apart from the gloss coat on the body.

Did you have any luck with the paint?

I bought it under their custom paint mixing service a few years ago. They say they can mix almost any paint since 1970 All you need is the car, paint code and year. They give you access to the paint company they use to search for it. The paint bottle is labelled up as CITRON YELLOW/GREEN BLMC BLVC 73 (I think this is the paint code) I tried finding it on their supplier site, but with no luck for some reason. If you still have no luck there is always getting a touch up pen and thinning, or an aerosol can made up from a car paint supplier.

It makes sense and that is what I was aiming to do, but unfortunately that was not the problem. My problem is that it is spraying paint when the lever part of the double action airbrush is at rest, but the button is down, so it should it should be spraying just air. I guess it is a set up issue but I've not used it for a while so I'm quite rusty with it all.

After far too little sleep thanks to a night shift, I thought I'd quickly airbrush the zero paints Citroen Yellow that I had ordered for this a long time ago, back when my kids liked Mr Bean. Once all the body colour panels were painted and was dry enough, I noticed a few problems with the body that I did not see before. There were a few scratch marks that must have been caused by going to hard keying the plastic with a too course micromesh cloth, and the other problem being that parts of the external door hinges are still showing where I must not have cut enough of them out. Due to life, I am not going to have a lot of time to strip the paint and sort it all out, so I am going to this build as a learning curve to improve my techniques and see where I go wrong. If I fancy to try and build Mr Bean's Mini again at a later time, I have more than enough paint left over and a Tamiya mini kit to use (which is a far nicer kit than the Revell version anyway). I'm not sure how I am going to clear coat it, as I'm not going to be able to use 2k for a while, so it's either aerosol enamel/acrylic, Halfords car clear coat, or Humbrol clear eithe lr through an airbrush or hairy stick. I also had a problem with the airbrush where the paint would start coming out as soon as the button was pressed, instead of when pulling the lever back so I need to sort that out too.

I've had this kit in the stash for a few years now, along with the paint that I wanted to use with it, and I've finally got around to start building it. So I am going to paint the car as Mr Bean's Mini. The paint for the body is British Leyland Citroen Yellow from Zero Paints and the bonnet will be a gloss black. I've started with the body. There was a small amount of flash, so that was tidied up. As Mr Bean's car was a later model I removed the external door hinges The engine bay had some ejector marks, so I filled those in with some liquid green stuff. Lastly for now, I've primed all the parts ready for painting in body colour, which will hopefully be tomorrow. Jeff.

They have just come through the door, so I can't fault the service. I ordered it at 1445 on Monday and it was delivered around 0920 on Thursday. I don't know if I'd regularly use them as zero paints has a far wider selections, but I'd happily buy from them again. I didn't get any customs charges. I've had a look and I'm not sure what they'd come under but it looks like it's 20% vat and 6% tariff, but as its under the duty free amount it may be that there is no charge.

It's one of those things. It's different to look at (why I thought I'd have a go at painting it) , but to own one is another matter. Outside of 'wacky' children's entertainers I can't see a market for it. The polo version in europe sold around 4,500, where the golf in the US only sold 264, and some of those had their panels swapped back so they were one solid colour. There is one guy who had four of the golfs, one of each combination (surprisingly it was not done at random).

Yep. Zero paints do a harlequin set, so I'm doing them both in the colours. The Golf was released as a harlequin in the states anyway, even if no one bought them, so thats legit. I'll just have to improve my non existant masking skills.

More or less, yes. (shift work and half term helped too) 😛🤫

I've just taken the plunge and made a small test order from gravity Spain. I chose 2 colours that I can't get from zero paints (well, the Nissan midnight purple is a stupid money ltd edition) So I'd have to suck up any other costs anyway. I meant to get their 2k clear as I've heard good things about it, but I forgot until it was too late

No photos as they're all hidden in the loft... 1/24 Belkits metro 6R4 Rothmans 1/24 Belkits vw polo (white one) 1/24 Fujimi Mk3 VW Golf VR6 1/24 Tamiya Ferrari LaFerrari yellow 1/24 Tamiya full view lexus LFA 1/24 Tamiya R34 Nissan skyline GTR 1/24 Tamiya R35 Nissan GT-R 1/24 Tamiya Toyota Supra (modern) 1/24 Tamiya Mclaren Senna 1/16 Revell VW Samba bus The lexus is not staying clear, I just could not find a normal one at a reasonable price. Also I have a plan for a paint job on the Golf and the Polo. (I'd prefer a Mk3 polo, but I don't think there is a kit of it)

If you don't mind me asking, how much was the order for? I was looking into ordering a few colours from gravity Spain and I'm worried it will trip the customs charges and not be worthwhile. Jeff.