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    What CAR/BIKE kits have you recently bought 2?

    in Vehicle Discussion

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    On 3/4/2024 at 9:07 PM, triumphfan said:

    Nice little kit this. It will look great parked next to the Frogeye 👍

     

    Atb, Steve.

    Yeah, I have the MGB and E-Type too should be a nice display once I have built them all. I used to own the latest reissue of the TR4A but it had so much flash I sold it. This one looks a lot better.

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    Airfix Austin Healey Sprite Mk1 1/32

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

    Posted · Edited by dbostream

    Made some more parts since the last update. I decided to make a new mold for the seats these turned out better. Some of these parts need to be cleaned up more but I did a quick test fit and they seem alright. Also I need to buy some more drills because the ones I have are the wrong sizes (seems like that is always the case).

     

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    I think it is great the detail this Blue stuff can capture.

     

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    Only parts left to do now are the front license plate holder, gear stick, rear bumpers and the chrome part that goes above the rear license plate don't know what it is.

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    Airfix Austin Healey Sprite Mk1 1/32

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    Second copy of the dashboard turned out better. Fits well without glue too.

     

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    Also first seat is done. It doesn't recline as much as the original though but I think I can live with that. Will fix the imperfections later. Turns out it is difficult to get the Milliput to get perfect contact with the Blue stuff everywhere resulting in small cavities. Adding water helps but at the same time the Milliput gets very slippery causing new problems.

     

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    Tamiya 1/24 Renault 5 Turbo

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

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    On 11/26/2023 at 6:53 AM, rx79guntank said:

    Reading up on the Renault 5 turbo, its a real crazy thing, a real crazy product of the Group B era. I'd really like to build its other French counterpart too, the Peugeot 205 turbo if there was ever a kit of it road version, lol.

    You and me are not the only ones who would love to see a full detail road version of the 205 GTi. Also a full detail version of this Renault would be great I like this car very much.

     

    Anyway great build.

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    Airfix Austin Healey Sprite Mk1 1/32

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

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    While I wait for the paint to dry on the Mini I thought I would start working on this.

     

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    I bought this kit last year and to my surprise the box contained almost two kits. First thing to do is make copies of the parts that are missing from one of the kits. I will use Blue stuff and Milliput. Luckily the parts that would be the most challenging to copy are not missing. But I expect the seat backs will give me some trouble. The photo below shows the parts I need to copy. Please excuse my terrible photo skills.

     

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    I decided to start with the front part of the body. A frame was 3d-printed to help make the two-part molds.

     

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    My experience using Blue stuff and Milliput is pretty limited but even with some imperfections I am pleased with the result. There is some flash but most of it was easy to remove using just my fingers; the rest will be cleaned up later.

     

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    And finally a quick test fit. The original part is not a perfect fit either but I think I can work with this.

     

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    I am going to have to use a file/knife and remove some material on the right side where the grille sits. As you can see Blue stuff did not have perfect contact with the part there. Before reusing the mold I think I will make another copy, good to have spares just in case. 😊

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    Heller Austin Mini 1/43

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    Time for a long overdue update.

     

    I have painted the interior and chassis not much to see really just all black.

     

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    The plan was to paint the body yellow like in the photo in an earlier post but I had mixed way too much orange airbrush paint for another kit I am working on so instead of letting it go to waste I used it on the Mini as well. The body is wet sanded in the photo below unfortunately I sanded through the paint on a couple of places.

     

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    Wheels are done and so are most of the chrome parts. The grille is unfortunately attached to the body I am not looking forward to painting it chrome.

     

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    I dry fitted the chassis/interior to the body and it looks like this kit will be fighting me to the end.

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    What CAR/BIKE kits have you recently bought 2?

    in Vehicle Discussion

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    2 hours ago, rs2man said:

    I got one a few months back . It's a rather simplistic kit , having the same amount of detail as a normal 1/25 kit , just 3 times bigger . With a few details added though , it should look pretty impressive when built .

    Yes I had done my research so the lack of details did not come as a surprise. As you say adding the missing details you want shouldn't be too difficult at this scale.

     

    I was mostly worried about the bonnet. I have seen other people get a pretty badly warped one but mine was not that bad. 

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