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  1. Glad you like em! Get that Capri stripped and painted!! Got to start somewhere… besides, it’s not that hard to do and you can’t really ruin anything. If it goes wrong just strip it again and start over!
  2. I would if I were you. The regular wheels are nicer than superfast’s imho. If you’ve had the other one so long, it’s not like your destroying it, just fixing it.
  3. Must admit, I love the E30 Bimmer. I love the E21 before it even more. They’re such nice cars to drive and really solidly built too. Imho they’re the best of BMW. I had an E36 too which was the polar opposite imho. Absolute shit compared to the E30. I used to occasionally work on an A reg 320 that had a ridiculous amount of mileage on it. Lovely car still though, and the only way you knew it was a mega miler was the state of the drivers seat. It was still tight as a drum to drive.
  4. Glue on the Sierra estate has cured. I’ll leave it another day before starting to mess with it though. Last thing I want is snap the nose off! Did some spraying while I was in the shed! Bond partwork first gen Dodge RAM pickup. These come in white originally so I stripped this one, primed, wet flatted and now paint. The plastic grill unit is painted white on the 007 version but I’ll do mine in chrome with the Molotow pen after. Weirdly, the cab back is a separate piece, done in plastic rather than part of the metal casting, so I’ll mask that up (window!) later and spray it while the truck itself dries. Did some wheel swaps. Capri 2.8i lost its pepperpots to the Cortina mk4 (beige car). So I took a set of steel dartboard style wheels from a Cortina mk5 and used them on the Capri. This Capri will eventually become a low spec car in different colour. Then the Cortina mk5 received the Ghia alloys that came off the mk4. The chrome finish is a bit crap so I’ll paint them silver. Ill repaint the mk5 at some point too. Dinky Volvo estate has been sat around while I dithered over what wheels to use on it. This one came with a set of very old spun style wheels that didn’t really suit it, after someone painted it red. I’ve finally found some wheels for it I’m happy with! Dinky Transit wheels leftover from a spares van. Correct 5 stud hubs too! Just need some tyres for it.
  5. Sorry, I was meaning the Sierra alloy wheels on the last page. The Escort in my pic, has the standard sports alloys our ones got, but I posted it referring to production dates. In Europe our Escort was at the mk5 by 1992. In South America they were still making the mk4 like that model. Love the Mini btw! Nowt wrong with a scale model! The two Camaro’s look superb too, great colour choices. That Saab looks odd with those lumps. It doesn’t look like zinc pest or corrosion though, more like a slight casting flaw? File it down and ignore it. I found some similar marks on a few of my newer 1:43’s.
  6. I’m not sure we got that style alloy over here then!? I know the South American Fords were a bit different in their production run to ours. The Sierra mk1 was built some time after ours became the mk2. And the Escorts were similar, their mk4 Escort went on longer than ours. Maybe they had their own items like alloys and bits of trim we didn’t get? I certainly can’t recall that style alloy here.
  7. Also, what type alloy are these? These are from the estate originally but not really suitable for a low spec estate. I think they are Sierra Ghia wheels but what else used them?
  8. Made a start on the Sierra estate today. First thing to do was the usual strip down, then get the old paint off. After a good wash in soapy water and a scrub with cream cleaner, it was time to mark up where to make the cuts on the front ends. Once happy, razor saw slicin’ time! Got the cut just behind the bonnet front corners but missed the chassis mounting pillar, which is ideal! Some Evostick impact Contact adhesive seemed the best choice for a strong joint so a skim of that went on both parts then line up and stick. I’ll have to leave it to cure for 24hrs now, but it looks fine so far. Once it’s dry I’ll dress it back in a few places with a file, then give the joint a skim of filler then rub down. Then I’ll have to fill the dip in the centre of the bumper flush, as per the red hatchback I did before to get rid of the extra cooling vent slot European cars didn’t have. Then paint, to become something like… Pic from Flickr. I was going to use the base model steel wheels from the hatchback car for this, but I really do love those vented hub caps. I do have some, but they’re the Ghia trims with three vents not two. What do you think? Leftovers!
  9. That looks fantastic. Really nice job👍
  10. That’s fantastic! I’m surprised, as you say, Vanguards didn’t do a battered Escort. Funnily enough Ive just filled and sanded the roof on this one today. It’ll not be in banger condition though. I dug a few partwork Sierra’s out today. All from the Argentina collection. Mk1 Ghia estate with South American spec front end/US spec big front bumper. Mk1 Ghia hatchback. Mk1 L hatchback. You can see that big horrible US spec bumper here! So the yellow L spec car is actually a damaged one. The screen pillar has been hit by something and bent it in forcing the glazing to pop out. Since I’ve got a few of these Sierra’s I’m going to use the damaged yellow car as a donor. I’ll chop off the nasty US front end from the estate then chop off the L front end from the yellow car in the same place. Fill the bumper top so it’s flush as per euro Sierra’s then attach the two together, to give me a European spec Sierra estate in a low trim level. The roof bars will be removed too. Then a repaint into Ford ceramic blue. That’s the plan anyway!
  11. Here’s another little project I’ve been working on! Based on the 007 partwork Ford Taunus. Now a Cortina mk4 in 90’s old banger state. Stripped to bare metal, re sprayed beige. Odd panels re sprayed to look like they’ve been replaced from scrap cars. Chrome window trims all done in silver. Wheels from a Capri 2.8i, 7jx13 pepperpot alloys, added as these things were at the time! The Capri they came from will become a basic spec Capri so a wheel swap seemed obvious. Just needs dirtying up next with some black patches on the sills as welding repairs from MOT’s, maybe some primer splodges here and there and some rusty bits. Side trims need doing in black too. Then swap the dash around to make it rhd.
  12. Love that Minor! I’ve painted one of the silver 70 year ones in blue pretty similar. Possibly a shade or two darker. I guess that blue is a multipack only colour?
  13. I used to occasionally work on an Astra 3 door estate, mk2, in that nice pale metallic green they did. I can’t even remember what reg it was. One of the guys I used to work with at the time used to love them too because he’d use them as a van. Which I suppose they are really! The Astramax van with windows instead of panels. But most of them hadn’t had as hard a life as the vans had!
  14. Just been going through a few things I’ve got squirrelled away under the bed! Did Brown really have one of these!? Remember back in the days when 3 door estate cars were a thing! I always liked these and the 3 door Escort estates. Not seen either in years. And a lovely Renault 21. I’m not much of a French car fan but some of these models of them really capture the look of them well. Another car from the 80’s that seemed reasonably common but you don’t see much now. They do a 21 Savannah estate in the same series too but it’s proving difficult to find.
  15. That’s exactly why I’ve been enjoying myself so much doing the customs and other projects I’ve been up to lately. Getting stuck into making or just repainting stuff is about the closest you can get as an adult to escaping the shit involved with adult life these days. You can almost completely focus on the models and not the other crap! Even if it’s just for an hour or so. I like to think it’s a good way to keep your mind going too. A bit of problem solving and constructive stuff to do is good for you. Have you seen the premium those purple Pontiac’s are on eBay!? I know they’re rarer than the red ones but Jesus!! Ive got one here somewhere, not bad but certainly not perfect. Found in a job lot! I love the colour of the purple ish pinkish paint!
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