Neddy

'60s Mustangs - can't get enough of 'em. This'll be good to watch.

Coming together well. VERY neat and detailed engine bay.

Greetings from about as far south as you can get before falling off the edge.

Good set of photos! I agree though, the better the photos the more imperfections they show up - so much so that I often take pics to inspect mine closely sooner than relying on the naked eye.

You have my sympathies. I've only ever built one Fujimi kit (the Miura in my avatar) and I found the fit and finish to be supremely awful.Still, these things are sent to try us and it looks like you're fighting it every inch (2.4cm) of the way. Good luck with the rest of it.

Thanks! I'm actually quite pleased with the finish. I took my time over it and used nearly the whole can but it was worth it.

Excellent start, especially the ignition wiring. Very neat job.

As I was saying many weeks ago, the sprayed 'shell has now had plenty of time to harden while I was otherwise occupied with the lunatic project you may have noticed elsewhere in these hallowed portals. I'm now back working on this one and have started populating the engine bay - battery, heater, brake master/servo and bracing struts added so far.

As mentioned earlier, Revell Aqua and Mr Hobby Aqueous acrylics are both water-based and excellent in my view. They each provide thinners for them - Revell Aqua Color Mix and Mr Hobby Aqueous Color Thinner - which will each work perfectly well with either brand paints. As regards spraying I was lucky enough to be gifted one of these for Christmas and I can't praise it too highly. For it's money it's an excellent solution, well made, efficient and easily foldaway to save space.

Expensive maybe but it provided you with two years' worth of pleasure and satisfaction building it. With the cost of kits these days you could easily have spent a considerable percentage of that on smaller kits that might each have occupied you for a few weeks or months at a time. It has also left you with one heck of a talking point!

That really is a magnificent project! The interior in particular is really impressive and the improvements you've made add a lot to the finish and realism of the model. The lighting is amazing!

I wouldn't presume to give any advice on airbrushing as I've only just got back to it myself and use a Humbrol airbrush which is more like a miniature spraygun than an airbrush! I would say however (for what it's worth!) that I've discovered that Revell Aqua acrylics are great to use, Mr. Hobby Aqueous acrylics are even better, they're both water-based acrylics which makes cleaning the airbrush (and everything else!) a doddle and lastly that Revell Aqua Color Mix thinner works wonderfully with both the aforementioned paint ranges. These tips may be of no use whatsoever but anything is worth passing on.

Oh yes! A project after my own heart, a restomod of '60s US iron. Love the wheels, the finish is authentic, not over-glossy as seems to be the current fashion and beautifully executed. The custom front and rear ends are excellent, especially the T-Bird rearlight cluster, and suit the model well - this is what a spares box is for, innit? Super job.

I know what you mean! When I first came across this forum I was bowled over by the standard some of the modellers here achieve and was hesitant to place any of mine on here, but all abilities (from them down to mine!) are equally welcome here and I find that there's a lot to be learned simply by following their projects and a huge amount of pleasure to be had from seeing what they achieve. Their support and friendly encouragement spurs me on to achieve more and I've improved no end as a result.

Nicely built and beautifully finished. I too love that colour, I used it on a Toyota 2000GT model last year to good effect, although the finish I achieved was nowhere near as good as yours. Nicely scratched exhaust, too.

Excellent idea, it will also enable you to recreate the black sealant strip inside the rear window. That's the trouble with rum, the more different brands you taste at once, the less difference you can detect!

Bienvenue Hubert, from just across the Channel.

Really good pipework and wiring!

Hi Lee, welcome to the forum! You've come to the right place - I joined several months ago for the same reason and have both enjoyed and benefited by it. I look forward to seeing your models.

Superb work so far, fascinating to watch it come together.

Yup, it took plenty of both!

I have to admit I'm finding this build totally absorbing. The build quality and attention to detail is fantastic, the results stunning. I can only dream about producing something this good.

Thanks for your kind words and encouragement during the build, people. Back to OOB for the time being but who knows? Another maniac idea might crop up somewhen...

Back to OOB building, the 1/16th scale '64 Mustang coupe which by now will have hardened off a treat following spray-painting.

For those of you who haven't been following the build thread, here it is... There's not much to add that hasn't been said in the build thread. Thanks to everyone who followed it's progress from a casual challenge from a younger brother, via the mankiest resin bare bodyshell I've ever seen, accompanied by an incomplete donor kit and a LOT of bad language. During it's progress I re-learned how to handle a (VERY) basic airbrush, how to use acrylic paints, what a royal pain in the knickers resin bodies are to carve about and how good it is to have some folks following the build, offering encouragement and not publicly laughing at my efforts to wrangle the damn' thing into some semblance of a plausible vehicle!