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Ford 32 Street Rod – Revell 1/24 – old continued build

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I’ve started this kit many years ago, but it seems like the pics I took then are lost.
So I took a pic of what I had done with interior, engine and other small stuff.

I’ve already had started painting it with Humbrol gloss black, but it didn’t go as well as I had hoped. So I sanded it slightly to get an even surface and painted it again. This time with Kaleido gloss black. Starting with the underside of the chassie and hood parts and the body.

It turned out looking pretty okey. After letting it dry over night I sanded it slightly and then turned over the parts that needed paint on the other side. I also gave the body one more cote.

Everything except for the 2 hood panels turned out looking very nice.

I’ll sort them and re-paint them again. Once everything is dry and looks okey I’ll put on the decals before I put on a few cotes of clear varnish.

Plymoth Roadrunner 68/69 – part 3

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While checking the body again I noticed something was a bit off. So I cut loose the tail lights and tried to put them in place. They didn’t fit very well.

There’s quite a gap in both the top and the bottom. Turns out, after checking the net, that the body I have is for a 1969 Plymoth and the tail lights is for a 1968 one.

I added some plastic sheet to the inside and a few strips on the top and bottom as well.
I looks better but maybe not perfect!

I glued together the engine room, added the engine and radiator.

I also continued with the underside of the chassie.

In order to have those intakes I had to cut open the hood, which I so carefully had filled on the underside.

Test fit of the body and hood on the chassie.

Next I’ll go over the body with a new layer of primer and if it checks out okey I’ll start painting the body.

Ford V8 G81A – part 2

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The engine was built.

The engine, muffler and radiator was painted with stainless steel, and the frame and a few others parts was painted black.

This is just a short update. I’ve taken care of some ejector pin marks that might not be seen in the end, but anyway! 🙂

I also painted a few parts like the seats, tires and rear transmission.

Time to finish the assembly of the chassie.

Ford V8-G81A Funkkraftwagen – Roden 1/35 – part 1

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I got this kit from a friend at an build weekend some time ago.

Then last sunday I was at a build meeting with a few other friends. Just a few hours of building and no means to airbrush. So I had to build what I could without painting.

This is the first time I’m building a Roden kit. The first thing that I built was the frame and then the engine and a few other parts. I think it was a bit of unneccessary breakdown of the frame which made it very wobbly and a bit warped.

I finished assembling the engine. Soon time to paint before further assembly.

1970 Dodge Charger – part 2

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The colours I was missing arrived so I could continue with this build.
Several parts was painted black, and I also repainted the engine and air filter.

Some parts like the seats and other interior parts is supposed to have a semi-gloss look. It turns out I had no clear satin colour, so instead I used Vallejo’s gloss for metal finishes and painted a thin layer, thus achieving a satin look.

I gave the engine a little more paint to get a glossier look.

I need to mask the mid console and paint that semi gloss later as well.
Once everything is dry, I’ll mask the interior roof and paint white primer before painting it pink.
That way I can check for imperfections as well.

B-25J Mitchell “The Strafer” – part 8

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With nice seams sprue glue is good enough even if you have to go over some parts more than one time. Sprue glue dries gloss and after sanding it’s easy to see if any of still is gloss.
The nacelles got a little more sprue glue.

Then after sanding the body I had to sort a few more spots.

The tires was assembled and wings and nacelles are ready for some paint.

Done sanding the body.

The canopies and turret was masked.

Next will be painting the area above the IP before glueing the clear parts.

B-25J Mitchell “The Strafer” – part 7

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I did a bit of dry brushing and the glued the weights in place.

The mid section guns.

The landing gears got painted.

Once that was done I started glueing interior parts in place.

The front landing gear was glued in place and then the cockpit floor and turret was glued before joining the fuselage halves.

While handling the plane I accidently broke part of the front gear. Hopefully I can get it in place later.

I also did a bit of dry fitting of the wings a tail assembly.

It’s quite a large beast! Luckily I don’t have to glue the wings until when it’s time for final assembly.

B-25J Mitchell “The Strafer” – part 6

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I struggled a bit with the metal parts to the landing gears, especially the smaller ones. So I took a break and built a few (quite a few rather) dwarfs for my Warhammer army.

I decided to have a go at it again and after checking both instructions I realised that the small parts I needed also was provided with the kit.

That made things a lot easier for me, and after some work they looked like this.

And sometime later they got black primer.

It was first after taking the pic that I noticed that one cable had moved a bit. I’ll correct that asap.

B-25J Mitchell “the Strafer” – part 5

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After sorting the instrument dekal, the IP was glued in place.

A little weathering and it’s done!

Some push rods was cut off!

The engine parts was painted.

Then I started assembling the engines.

I used Tamiyas panel wash on the back row cylinders.

I then decided to use the wash on the whole engine and the fuel lines was glued in place.

It wasn’t easy to get all the fuel lines right, and even worse was the exhaust pipes that had to go inbetween push rods and the other pipes.

Some more parts was painted interior green.

With the engines done, I did a little test fitting.

A little touching up to do, then I can glue them in place and start adding the exhaust pipes.

B-25J Mitchell “the Strafer” – part 4

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I assembled the wings.

Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.

Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.

I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.

I’ll sort that next time a the desk!