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I'm in a little bit of a doldrums at the moment with my "Schools Class" steam locomotive, and a change of scenery is required. I'll get back to that shortly. But I've got several options for this group, and some for the "less than a tenner" group - just unfortunate that these two are running concurrently 😶 Well, next up is this little item - A German Staff car..... ⁉️😲 I DON'T THINK SO....... This is the very essence of French motor car making! And I'm making a civilian saloon that could well find itself parked beside a 1.48 scale Lockheed Lodestar or similar. It's a simple kit that won't be long in the making, which is just what I need right now. I've looked at a few colour schemes for consideration but really the only way to go with this is gloss black, I think. I've made a start and the seats are in, with some kind of leather effect being worked on, and a wooden veneer dashboard. The other thing I'm trying is to get a bit of steering into the front wheel assembly The axle sitting on the framework there is trapped in position by the subframe and could be left to roll with the wheels attached. What I've done instead is just put a bit of turn on the stub ends. The Tamiya plastic is good stuff and seems happy to take the abuse. Plan B was to use a length of brass rod for the axle to take the bending, but the plastic original seems OK so far 👍 Obviously the rolling wheels aspect is out of the question but that's OK. This one is for posing sedately, not for trundling around the floor. 😇 I haven't done much in the way of Tamiya kits but their reputation goes before them and so far, everything is spot on and a breeze to build.
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Thought I will make the Volvo I used to own out of the Tamiya model kit. The saloon body was from a partly assembled model bought on ebay. The interior is bought as spares also on ebay. The major work including modifying the bumper donated from another preciously assembled estate version, scratch build the rear spoiler and head lamp wash wipe, manual gear knob, cut out the sun roof, cut and stick a right hand drive dashboard and modify the wipers to right hand drive version. The paint is automotive spray paint in 604 Midnight Blue. Please excuse the quality of the model, I'm still a novice so the paint work isn't perfect as you can see. Thanks for watching.
