The Fates have conspired to get me to join Joel in delving into the dark arts of car modelling! I found this sorry specimen in our Oxfam book bank (you'd be surprised what else we find in there beyond books!...).

It's not fit for sale in our shop, but I can never bear to a kit go in the bin - plus, someone's donated it to Oxfam to try to raise money to help people, so I decided to see if I could make something of it and I reached for my wallet.
A few pieces are ripped off the sprues, but I think everything's there.

I haven't built a car model in many years, so this should make for an interesting busman's holiday from my usual diet of military aircraft, as well as offering a test-bed to try some finishing techniques I don't normally use.
The wonderful deep shine that auto modellers achieve has always fascinated me, so it'll be fun to try get something approaching it. Plus, this is a re-box of a classic Airfix 1960s car kit (1966, I think), so there are no metal plated parts - so I want to see if I can produce some passable chrome trim.
I'm not promising a quick build, or even regular updates; this will be a back-burner project while I work on the aircraft book I'm signed up for. In fact, this could be something of a "sanity-saver" project!

All the best
Rowan
