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I'm going to attempt a retro paint job in keeping with the whole 1960s vibe, starting with metaliic gold at the front end morphing into metallic bronze towards the rear. I hope I can pull it off, it's decades since I last achieved something like that but if it doesn't work I'll simply rub down, re-prime and start all over again. (Someone ought to write a song about that...)

After considerable surgery with a miniature drum sanding bit and a router attachment for my mini-drill, the bodyshell has been wrangled into position on the chassis and I finally have something resembling a car-like thing to exhibit... A long way to go yet but at least the quart now fits the pint pot! (Metric equivalents are available - work them out for yourselves!)

Really? Petrol or Diesel? (Well, you started it...)

...and finally we have a rolling chassis. Still pondering the final design of the exhaust system, I may leave that until the body is fitted which is the next stage. It'll be a bit like squeezing a quart into a pint pot and I foresee some further drastic surgery being needed but hey, it's still fun - so far...

Bravely as well as skillfully done. Glad it turned out OK!

Me too! 40 years plus and I still play around with Linux as an alternative hobby. I gave up on Micro$oft products (to preserve my sanity) years ago though.

I reckon that's a pretty good attempt at flocking personally. If it helps, I used Deluxe Materials Glue n'Glaze, simply because I had some, undiluted and a fine-mesh tea-strainer nicked from Management's cupboard (she'll notice it's gone one day - you'll know when by the sudden and lengthy hiatus in build reports!). If that happens, no flowers by request...

Wot he said - paintwork beautiful, dash ditto. Amazing detailing.

Great advice from you all, I really appreciate it! @mikevillena, that's a beautiful piece of work with those headers.

Slow but steady progress on the chassis and running gear. Front and rear suspension, steering linkage and back axle/diff installed. Propshaft shortened and ready to go in when the engine and gearbox are fitted. I've started work on the exhaust system but the lairy headers I wanted to use foul the chassis so I'll have to go with the stock ones and modify the exhaust further back. Anybody got any ideas as to how much heat and from what source would enable the plastic pipes to be softened enough to gently bend without them either melting or igniting? Available options are:- 1. Hair dryer. (Proved ineffective at straightening a warped chassis on a previous model). 2. Boiling water immersion (possible but a bit deadly on the fingers). 3. Naked flame - match, cigarette lighter or similar (see 2 for side-effects). Other possibilities occur to me - Leaving in the oven, under a Harrier jumpjet or in a nuclear reactor - but these may not be practical solutions...

Nope, too big for a tax disc holder. The Mini has its tax disc top centre of the 'screen in front of the mirror mount, I think. As it's on the passenger side in both cases I suspect it's for the co-driver's use - possibly a lamp suction-cupped to the 'screen? In both cases there appears to be a cable running from the underside of it, possibly a power feed.

Excellent job. Well put together and beautifully finished. As others have said, from the photos it actually looks real.

Oooooh, Heaven...

They're right, same problem here with both my Linux machines. At a guess I'd say it's a hosting problem, not the forum software, as it varies with the time of day. Late afternoon/early evening it's at it's worst.

Isn't everything these days! Nice looking 'Vette, though. I love '60s American iron, cars had soul then!

Welcome aboard from another local, this one hailing from Canterbury. There seems to be a lot of us about around here! Your situation pretty much mirrors mine except for modelling cars instead of aircraft. I do what my limited skills, age and eyesight permit and just enjoy what I achieve. Please don't be afraid to post pictures of your models, no-one's laughed at mine - yet....

Agreed in all respects. That's a great finish, well detailed and executed. I can't see any of the problems you mention either and if I could produce a finish that good I'd be proud of it. Really good model, well done.

Well, slight setback today. I finally got round to digging out my old Humbrol airbrush which I'd kept carefully packed away in a cupboard. I opened the case, picked it up... ...and it quite literally crumbled away in my hand. 50-year old plastic degrades and I was reminded of it the hard way. No worries, I still have a full - and viable - propellant can so while I decide which way to go long-term I've simply ordered a new Humbrol airbrush as for my purposes - simply spraying primer and laying down topcoats on body panels - it will be fine for re-learning and only cost £16.99. Once I'm familiar with spraying acrylics I'll look at something more ambitious but it'll do me until then.

It's about as good as brush-painted silver can be expected to be, i.e. not brilliant. This plus the realisation that the next time I'll be able to spray anything will be late March 2023 has finally led me to accept I need to go the airbrush route. A portable spray-booth has been acquired (courtesy of Mrs N for my Xmas present, bless her!) and I'll be digging out my 50-year-old Humbrol airbrush kit to use as a starter/learning tool prior to getting a new one. Currently looking at - and thoroughly confusing myself with - various acrylic airbrush-ready paints, primers, thinners, cleaners and the like.

Work now proceeding, mainly painting small parts and building sub-assemblies. Engine now pretty much complete - a bit blingy but that's the intended style of the 'rod, Interior further on, dashboard lowered, foot pedals shortened, steering column ditto. The donor kit yielded an ideal set of wheels and tyres. Getting closer to some major assembly work but progress is inevitably slow due to each component needing modification as it's built. Fun though - so far...

Lovely neat job. I'm always agonising over underside colour schemes, trying various shades of black, gunmetal and silver to get a realistic look. That looks just right.

@stevehnz The JBA Falcon is indeed a kitcar, a very popular one back in the day. It even featured prominently in a popular TV drama series called "Chancer" back in the 1990s IIRC, about a low-colume specialist car manufacturer - the JBA Falcon Owners Club did pretty well out of it, I believe twenty-plus Falcons were used in the filming. Great car though, quality design and build quality, it was still in production up to two or three years ago and there are still a large number around.

You've made two valid points I failed to mention - the use of a tea-strainer to sprinkle the flock or embossing powder and using a matt fairly close match to the powder as an undercoat before applying the PVA. Sorry, I should have included those details.

Rubbish "aluminium" paint rubbed down and recoated silver - good enough for the interior as it won't be seen that much (no opening doors) but I'm sure I don't need to tell you what a b*tch it is brush-painting silver! Today I've been painting various components (chassis, interior, dashboard, seat etc.) and building the engine. I've kept it stock from the donor so far but I'm planning on fitting custom side-exit exhaust headers and different air cleaners from the spares box.

In all honesty I'd recommend staying well clear of OneDrive. Too unreliable, too poorly implemented, too "Microsoft". For image posting go with the sites recommended by this site's admins. I use imgbox which is simple, slick and reliable as well as being free. Other members recommend other hosting services but I have no experience of them and therefore cannot comment.