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DavyCookie
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So I'm 70% done, but I managed to take a picture after every instruction stage, I plan on throwing these into a video when I'm done
I'm fairly enjoying the kit, fits together perfectly, dry fitting helped a lot, my main regret was not painting as I went along, this mistake has made me decide to glue the bonnet down instead of allowing it to be lifted open or closed like the kit allows, silly me ):
So the first few stages involved assembling the engine and the start of the axle
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At this point, the axle etc was added and then fitted to the chassis , at this point the kit allows you to set the angle of the wheels, so I turned mine to the right slightly in an attempt to make the kit look more dynamic in the end, I don't believe you have to glue these parts but once they were in place I decided to
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At this point I couldn't resit fitting the body onto it to see what it was starting to look like, being my first proper kit, I was personally impressed with how realistic the parts look
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More parts were added to the engine bay, along with the rear axle and exhaust
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I then decided to use the racing style wheels that come in the kit over the standard Mini wheels
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I then started on the interior, with pedals, gear stick and handbrake, dash, seats and steering wheel, which I glued in place rotated to the right a little to match the wheels. The roll cage and some further parts were added to the engine before another test fit before I realised it would actually need painted :P
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So I sprayed a fey layers of red on with the airbrush, attempting to highlight in a few places like the edges of the bucket seat and the centres on the underside, unfortunately it didn't work out that well for me, but after the glass I was pretty happy with the tone of the red in the end, but unfortunately adding the windows I smeared the glue with my finger by accident on the driver door ): Also when I was glueing the window in, it slipped on me and using plastic glue of course the paint had melted into the window... D:
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After a few more assembly stages mainly the bonnet hinge and the door cards, but afterwards these were removed alongside the windows again, disaster move on my part, but I just wasn't confident enough to paint the window frames without getting it on the window
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So that's where is it is now, I'm fairly enjoying it so far and has definitely been a learning experience for me, C&C will be definately appreciated, and any tips for the windows for future projects will be really appreciated :P
Cheers everyne
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I'm fairly enjoying the kit, fits together perfectly, dry fitting helped a lot, my main regret was not painting as I went along, this mistake has made me decide to glue the bonnet down instead of allowing it to be lifted open or closed like the kit allows, silly me ):
So the first few stages involved assembling the engine and the start of the axle
View attachment 56241View attachment 56242View attachment 56243View attachment 56244
At this point, the axle etc was added and then fitted to the chassis , at this point the kit allows you to set the angle of the wheels, so I turned mine to the right slightly in an attempt to make the kit look more dynamic in the end, I don't believe you have to glue these parts but once they were in place I decided to
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At this point I couldn't resit fitting the body onto it to see what it was starting to look like, being my first proper kit, I was personally impressed with how realistic the parts look
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More parts were added to the engine bay, along with the rear axle and exhaust
View attachment 56257View attachment 56258View attachment 56259View attachment 56260
View attachment 56261View attachment 56262
I then decided to use the racing style wheels that come in the kit over the standard Mini wheels
View attachment 56263
I then started on the interior, with pedals, gear stick and handbrake, dash, seats and steering wheel, which I glued in place rotated to the right a little to match the wheels. The roll cage and some further parts were added to the engine before another test fit before I realised it would actually need painted :P
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So I sprayed a fey layers of red on with the airbrush, attempting to highlight in a few places like the edges of the bucket seat and the centres on the underside, unfortunately it didn't work out that well for me, but after the glass I was pretty happy with the tone of the red in the end, but unfortunately adding the windows I smeared the glue with my finger by accident on the driver door ): Also when I was glueing the window in, it slipped on me and using plastic glue of course the paint had melted into the window... D:
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After a few more assembly stages mainly the bonnet hinge and the door cards, but afterwards these were removed alongside the windows again, disaster move on my part, but I just wasn't confident enough to paint the window frames without getting it on the window
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So that's where is it is now, I'm fairly enjoying it so far and has definitely been a learning experience for me, C&C will be definately appreciated, and any tips for the windows for future projects will be really appreciated :P
Cheers everyne
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