Hi all this just arrived today, what a lot of plastic you get for 27 quid including postage

That's a lot of plastic, alright. Looking forward to your build.

Jim

Not only a lot of plastic, but it looks darned good when it's finished too.

I've seen some great builds from this kit, and have considered picking one up a couple of times. I will be following your progress here Ken, you might just convince me to add one to the stash.

Cheers, D

Cool. Looking forward to seeing more.

Well I know I shouldn't since we are off on hols in a couple of days but here is a start.
I've cut one of the doors out, just the boot, the other door and the inners to go.

Wish Revell did a 1:12 Viper, now that would be something. This one doesn't look bad either.

Hi all last update for a week as on hols in the morning

Uprated the door hinges, no sag now
thought I better check clearances with the internals, as you can see only about 1/2 a mill clearance, that's a lucky one.


given her a coat of primer so she will have a week for that to fully cure

Very nice work on the doors.

Hi all here is an update on this, only a quickie as we got in at 2 last night from our hols and I will be off to bed soon
Base colour on


Marbeling colour



Top colour





just got to give it a coat of varnish then let it dry before masking up.

Hi all well got the masking done.

So far so good. Eagerly waiting.

Cheers,
Gabriel

Hi all here is tonights update

Hi all, well ive had to change the hinge as it interferes with the inner panel, then guess what the inner panel dosent even fit (opened a whole bag of worms here) the inner panel is so far out I have loads of scratching to do ( I think revell didnt worry too much about the interior since the door are supposed to be shut so no one will see much of the interior, the rear door pillar sits at a diffrent angle to the door, ti dosnt reach the roof ( there is a gap of at least 1/8 of an inch) the front part where it joins the root of the window is about the same amount of gap, wont be doing this again in a hurry.

Hi all here is todays update

Did some more work on the engine for this

Very nice work on the powerplant, and that paintwork looks great. Unique concept, is it from a real car or just your own idea?

Cheers, D

Hi D my own design.
Here is possibly the last update not one of my better efforts TBH I'm thinking bin time.

Hi all well after a lot of retouching and smoothing I've got the dash on the Shelby satisfactory, its not great but it will have to do, I've made some break pipes from the sevo and added the vacuum pipe (not sure where it fits on this car but its usually on the inlet manifold somewhere)

The dash looks great Ken, those touch ups really cleaned it up nicely. Great work in the engine bay as well, the extra detail sets it off really well.

Cheers, D

well whilst doing some weathering on the engine bay I started to think all this work on the engine and engine bay and you wont see any of it when its finished so, I thought, what about an engine hoist and doing it with the engine being removed, now my question is would it be possible to remove the engine and gearbox complete or would I have to separate them (which would then mean making a flywheel and bell housing and the splined shaft for the gearbox, also what else would be removed to get the engine out, I assume the injection system?

Hi all well my son has given me the motivation to finish this, its going to look radically different though.
My daughter has been touring the USofA in one of these



So I'm going to convert this and give it to her for christmas, I've made a start

Hi all just to let you know I've not given up on this it is just almost impossible to get the paint off, this is after 3 days of mister muscle




not sure what to do now spray over this or try a new can of mr muscle.

hi all this is fighting me all the way, I bought some barrier coat and sprayed it with that then gave it a coat of gloss white and its reacted with the barrier coat, you cant really see from the pics but there are little wrinkles in the paint so Im hoping sanding back where the wrinkles are down to bare plastic and re spraying will solve it.

Hi all lots done on this, although it dosn't look like it (mostly taking apart what I did before and repainting in new colours,think I've sorted the body
paintwork out.