Not much that have happened on this build lately. I did paint the body parts though.

Left to do is painting it with some kind of clear cote. I had planned to do some tests with 2k but before I was done my compressor started behaving strange.

I painted the trunks in the same red as the interior and then painted the rims with antracite. All the locks and fittings was painted with chrome. I gave edges around trim and fittings a wash with Agrax earthshade and the chrome got a a few drops of Tamiya black panel liner.

I then used masking tape to make the straps that holds the trunks in place.

I had an idea of how I wanted it to look but still managed to do it wrong.

I also played around with the figure a bit.

I do stuff like that when things are drying. The parts to the buckle was made with thin parts of plastic rod.

I changed the direction of the belt ends and painted the buckles with chrome.

Just recently I added the chromed metal decal and the MB star on the steering wheel.

Maybe a little hard to see in that pic, but it’s there. It was a bit tricky to get both in place.
I’ll give it a touch of clear cote later and then, once dry, I’ll glue it in place.

I painted chrome on some details and painted the hub caps black.

The inside of the doors was painted black and then masked of for the off white interior colour. Here I’ve added the lower door sides to see how it would look.

The gloss black was rubbed off around the edges and on the MB star on the hub caps.

Not entirely easy and I accidently rubbed of too much on some places.

In the rear of the interior there’s a bar going round the sides, that is used to secure trunks and whatnot you might load there.

I had to glue that a bit at the time. Meanwhile I put on the instrument decals.

It was a bit tricky to get them centered but it turned out looking okey after some work.

What I haden’t considered was the fact that the glue might deform plastic, at least if thin enough.

I wasn’t happy with that so I remade it with a fresh piece of plastic and superglue.

I added seat belts and used plastic sheet to cut belt fasteners.

For some reason I had turned one seat upside down when taking the pic! 🙂

Time for a little work with Claire.

I glued the upper body parts and the head. Then I used blue tac to hold her legs together.
Time for some testing!

Having her sit in the seat didn’t look alright so I tried putting her on the door threshold instead.

Maybe a little better, but with the frame and wheels in place it gets up a bit higher. I feel unsure about using her at all for this build.

I started glueing interior parts in place and then painted chrome where needed.

More details and chrome painted.

I bought Stl files for the trunks in the back and a friend printed them for me.

Looks like they fit nicely!

The trunks are held by straps and in order to make that work I had to add another bar in the front.

I’ll sort the chrome and straps later as well as painting the trunks probably red with details in black and chrome.

I did quite a lot of painting of small parts on this kit. The engine got painted in aluminium.

Many parts was painted semi gloss black.

Then the frame and some other parts was painted gloss black.

More semi gloss black.

The interior parts was painted red.

Rim trim was painted with chrome.

The masking tape was removed from the interior tub.

After all painting it was nice to do some assembly. First the engine.

The engine was put in the frame and som details was added to the firewall.

A few more parts like the radiator and hoses was added and that finished that part of the build. The only parts missing are the tires, but I’m not done with them yet.

I started assembling parts of the interior.

I decided to re-paint the steering wheel and the other parts with the same colour.

I’m also working on the instrument panel. I guess the hardest part will be to paint the bezel rims and other small details with chrome.