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19 hours ago, keefr22 said:

I just googled that Puma - hard to believe they could make it more ugly than the Fiesta - but they've succeeded brilliantly....!! 🤣

 

Keith

The new Puma looks too big to be a rally car , but hopefully Malcoms men will turn it into a winner . 

  Gary  . 

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12 minutes ago, Windy37 said:

The new Puma looks too big to be a rally car ,

 

Size reminds me of the MINI WRC. That didn't work very well....

 

TBH I've about lost all interest in anything other than historic rallying now.

 

Keith

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1 hour ago, keefr22 said:

TBH I've about lost all interest in anything other than historic rallying now.

Aw c'mon now Keith, that's just the age thing kicking in :wicked:

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The Fiesta is nearly done now . When I started this build is was always going to be wrong in so much as it is a tarmac spec . car on a gravel rally . Not to worry though as I like to think of it as a “ tribute “ car . 
Here’s my garage sale shot of the wheels , cocktail stick used for the centres and nuts . 

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And how it looks on those wheels 

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Also on the above picture you can see I have added door mirrors , bonnet fasteners and roof aerial mounts and GPS senders . There’s 9 of these altogether and , although provided , I don’t think I’m going to add the metal wire that makes up the aerials . Just for easier display and cleaning really with there being so many !  And of course at the back the huge wing that was so delicate to make and , as can be seen on this next photo , not easy to mount . So I am propping it up with the jack of all trades cocktail stick , while the glue sets as all it wanted to do was droop . There’s only 2 mounting holes at the top of the rear window to secure it . Hope it sets in the correct position …..


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There’s just some under body protection plates to fit and that will be about it , 

thanks for looking 

Gary . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Good work there, and loving the cocktail stick support while the glue dries.

 

Using the cocktail stick for painting looks to have worked pretty well too - have to admit that my preference is for extremely fine brushes (Tamiya Ultra Fine or Army Painter Psycho) but you've done a good job with the stick there. The only time I've used cocktails sticks for painting is scraping off where I've gone wrong!

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