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Just a thought on the colour - if you're thinking light blue, how about Gulf blue as used on the famous Le Mans Porsches?

I got lucky with the weather over the weekend - mild, dry and hardly a breath of wind - ideal for spraying. Four plus coats of Tamiya TS-53 dark metallic blue later... ...it's not looking quite so boring now.

Looking good so far! The exhaust systems definitely look like separate items, well done there, and I like the rear bumper fitment too. The cup holder's a great touch - if you miniaturise a to-go coffee cup PLEASE make it a decent one - Caffe Nero or Lavazza perhaps? None of your Starbucks or Costa please, this is a quality model!

I was a bit puzzled too. I Czeched everywhere but couldn't find any references either!

That makes two of us! You only have to look at my profile to understand that.

Just a quick update, production having been held up by the vagaries of Hermes/Evri/Whatever-they're-called-this-week delivering much-needed paint supplies. Having read Matt's superbly informative article on vehicle spraying I decided to throw off some of my 20th Century habits and instead of spending the best part of a week painstakingly rubbing down the body panels with wet 2000 grit I opted for Tamiya Fine Surface Primer, which arrived today. Grabbing the opportunity of mild relatively calm weather I applied two very light coats and the result is probably the most boring photo ever posted on these hallowed portals... Sorry about the shadow, it was taken after dark and I couldn't avoid it. At least it looks a little better than the native coloured plastic! More when the weather allows...

I used to drive one of these back in the day. It was a diesel, too. One of the other drivers was so heavy-footed he could use the low-speed torque of the diesel engine to get wheelspin in the first three gears! I'll tag along if I may, just for the nostalgia of it.

Yup, all present and correct now. I can also say that the pics are well worth seeing! Great work @Dimitris Vasilopoulos, really high standard.

Photos not visible for me either. I' guessing it's a problem with the photo hosting site. The error message says "picture not found or was removed".

Me too in all respects! Welcome to the forum.

Speaking as a Mod on another forum I feel your pain. Like the sick and needy it's a problem that's always with us.

Apart from a slightly different colour scheme it'll be OOB, the original is such a beautiful piece of automotive art I could never bring myself to alter anything about it. The only example was painted quite a cold silver but such a light silver it was hard to tell from white, so I've ordered Tamiya TS-45 Pearl White which I think will be a slightly more suitable colour. As regards the interior, the upholstery was originally silver but they very quickly discovered the disadvantages of it (basically the silver wore off rapidly, often depositing itself on the clothing of the VIPs it carried!) and re-upholstered it in either white or a very light grey, one of which I'll settle for. Dashboard will be dark blue as per most of the photos I can find and the carpets and lower panels will be dark blue or grey. I'm not going for a rivet-counted accurate repro, just want to present it in the best light possible.

It'll be a little while yet - I need to finish the Mustang and tackle the Isetta first - but I'm looking forward to it as much as you are.

...and here it is, having arrived today... From the looks of the box it's been in storage for a very long time but inside it looks to be perfect - complete, all internal packaging intact. Well worth the effort (and the cost!) to get it here.

I feel like a big kid today. Not only was this gifted by Mrs N for my birthday (courtesy of KingKit) a week or so ago... ...but the long-awaited Lamborghini Marzal kit has just arrived from Tenerife! As far as I can see it's complete, unstarted and undamaged. The box is open but all internal packaging is intact.

So's mine, I reckon I'm about a year and a half away from a cataract operation but that, unfortunately, is Life and we just have to deal with it. You have my sympathies!

This isn't model-making, it's micro-engineering at it's best.

"Possibly"? A rather nice understated custom job though.

Great looking model so far, I love the unusual paint (for an E-Type) job and the under-bonnet detail work is top-notch!

Yup, it's a Ford Model 48, circa 1935 vintage. It superceded the Model 40 and ran from '35 to '41, I think. The precise year of this one is 1936 but it's often hard to pin down as they had a cosmetic refresh most years which changed the grille style fairly drastically each time.

Had a bit of a "Duh!" moment this afternoon. One thing I've hitherto found difficult is hanging doors. No matter how hard I struggle, test-fit, shape and sand I can't seem to get the doors of a model car to hang correctly when finally assembling them. Determined not to have this problem with the Mustang I trial-fitted them as usual and then it occurred to me that I was going about it in the wrong way, faithfully following the instructions and painting the door frame/inner panels, spraying the outer door skins, then assembling them and lastly adding them to the car. This time I've trial-fitted them while still in bare plastic, then glued the outer and inner parts together and fitted them again while the plastic weld was still tacky, adjusting them until a really good fit was achieved then clamping them firmly before removing the assembly from the car to dry. It's the little things... ....it also means I'll have to spray the doors once assembled but again this is a Good Thing - the door shuts, hinges etc. need to be the body colour anyway and the interiors will be hand-painted once spraying is completed. I'm sure this is obvious to most of you but I felt quite chuffed I'd worked it out.

That really is superb. You've achieved a better result than I did with a 1/16th scale AMT T-bird kit last year. Well done!

Thanks @HOUSTON for your kind comments. I'm gradually improving and pleased with what I've done to date. Several of the improvements have been entirely down to helpful comments and tips from other members for which I'm really grateful.

"But...but...where would I park it?" Anywhere you like!

It is as far as I'm concerned! Currently it's coming down hard, bouncing up six feet (1.82 metres) and coming down a second time...