Rob Sutto

Very zen

It will be interesting to see how this one goes together. I'm still holding out for the Tamiya kit being reissued (supposedly this month).

Better luck second time around, AW

Those nozzles look sweet

That's the maddest one yet!

Thanks for you kind words, chaps. I enjoyed this one so much I've taken the plunge and bought this one...

Fujinomiya Yakisoba street food van Aoshima | 1/24 Ramen get it! Build thread:

It's only taken me two months

What followed was really satisfying session or two adding all the parts that I'd painted, decaled and clear coated weeks ago. The van has got his hat on... Now, the kitchen roof has this skylight that the instructions call for painting it in the body colour... ...however I was compelled to make things more complicated by going for an opaque bleached plastic look and having it posed open. Tamiya semi-gloss varnish with a drop of buff and thinly sprayed: A rudimentary opening mechanism was fashioned out of styrene strips: And then very carefully put into position: With hindsight and looking at the pictures, I think it would have been better to mimic a rubber seal around the edges and the frame in the roof. If it falls off - which it has already - I might be tempted to risk that with a marker pen. Anyway, on with the rest of the roof decorations, serving shelves and wipers: On with the flags: @SnøMotion, never mind sitting down to order, I think you might have to crouch now the drapes have been added... Final decals applied to the windows and mirrors fixed into position: And I think that just about wraps it up: The eagled-eyed amongst you will have noted I've completely missed painting the cab side indicators. They're something I've frankly pondered far too much time on but in the end decided it would have been too much of a faff to mask and paint at this stage. If was doing this again I'd probably sand them off and then fashion some new ones out of some wing tip lights in the spares box to add at a later stage. Another thing that's occurred to me after taking the gallery shots is that it's crying out for a weedy little exhaust poking out the back. More pictures will soon be winging their way over to the gallery. This has been a fun build (glazing debacle notwithstanding) and a wonderful GB with a diverse and colourful range of subjects. Thanks to our leader @bianfuxia and for everyone who has stopped by with words of encouragement and patiently queueing in line This noodle van's in business, who's first? 🍜

Excellent, I see my comment has been adopted into the GB's name

It's a travesty if we haven't had this yet:

I'd say the absolute earliest that Airfix would start showing us some ankle on a twin sticker would be Telford. Though January would be more likely.

Just wrapping up my Give Peace a Chance build before focusing on this one. I've made a tentative start, update to follow soon

The mods are looking good, Ragtag

If they do, expect it to be F and -35 shaped