I need to share your trolley, Peter!
Looking good.
Ron
Looking good.
Ron
What's on the Bench 2025
- Thread starter Graeme C.
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madness - it's all curved surfaces as well !
Well from here its fun watching you push your trolly lol
Looking good
Looking good
Whilst waiting for the flocking to arrive for the Porsche build and letting paint dry on the Apollo recovery chopper interior I decided to look at the seats from the Magnifier/Trumpeter Ford GT40 kit.
To be charitable they looked like seats but were wrong. This car had a tubular frame with the material slung over it a la Citroen 2CV and hollow rivets to aid the cooling for the driver. Photos of Ken Miles car showed less rows of these than moulded so I shaved them off, drilled all the rivet holes and gave them some texture.
Primed and coated with Tamiya X18, now to paint the rivets. This is going to be a looooooong build.
The 1/72 helicopter seats are for a size comparison.
To be charitable they looked like seats but were wrong. This car had a tubular frame with the material slung over it a la Citroen 2CV and hollow rivets to aid the cooling for the driver. Photos of Ken Miles car showed less rows of these than moulded so I shaved them off, drilled all the rivet holes and gave them some texture.
Primed and coated with Tamiya X18, now to paint the rivets. This is going to be a looooooong build.
The 1/72 helicopter seats are for a size comparison.
The seat rivets are painted, everything varnished with satin clear and seat belts fitted (kit parts).
Strange rules for 1966 Le Mans race mandated 2 seats to be fitted (passenger never used hence lap belt only), provision for 2 suitcases to be carried! and a spare wheel carried which had to be removed and touch the ground and refitted at every pit stop.
Strange rules for 1966 Le Mans race mandated 2 seats to be fitted (passenger never used hence lap belt only), provision for 2 suitcases to be carried! and a spare wheel carried which had to be removed and touch the ground and refitted at every pit stop.
That looks stunning.
Lovely work Stefan
Whilst the paint is drying on the Venom i need something to keep me going til the Paint it Black GB starts next week
So another wood kit cos these dont take long to do
How about a drum kit?
So another wood kit cos these dont take long to do
How about a drum kit?
Been doing a bit whilst Glasto is on the tellybox
Getting there......slowly but surely.......and dont call me shirley 
And finished....that was fun
That's great. Never seen a model drum kit.
Whilst the seemingly never ending ritual of filling and sanding on the Sea King build continues I started Revells 1/25 Shelby Cobra 289.
During the 90s I built 5 fibreglass replica kit cars for a customer, 2 x 289s and 3 x 427s, using Jaguar XJ6 suspension front and rear and, sacrilegiously, Chevy 351 engines - the customers always right!?.
The only modifications to the body was to open up the front lower air intake. All paints used were from Proscale, black primer, 4 coats Deep Black, 4 coats of polychromatic Black Soul Green Envy and 2K clearcoat. The "ghost" stripes were the colour coat with 1 drop of silver added.
Very chuffed with end result and love the various green/purple/ black colour shifts as you change viewing position. Looks better in real life.
Thanks for looking and now for photo overload.
During the 90s I built 5 fibreglass replica kit cars for a customer, 2 x 289s and 3 x 427s, using Jaguar XJ6 suspension front and rear and, sacrilegiously, Chevy 351 engines - the customers always right!?.
The only modifications to the body was to open up the front lower air intake. All paints used were from Proscale, black primer, 4 coats Deep Black, 4 coats of polychromatic Black Soul Green Envy and 2K clearcoat. The "ghost" stripes were the colour coat with 1 drop of silver added.
Very chuffed with end result and love the various green/purple/ black colour shifts as you change viewing position. Looks better in real life.
Thanks for looking and now for photo overload.
Amazing finish.
Seconded. That looks fabulous....
Nick
Nick
The one that got away, Aston Martin DB5 (1/24 by Revell).
Many moons ago a customer commissioned us to completely restore his 1964 DB5 Superleggera. After sending the engine, gearbox and differential back to Newport Pagnell for overhauling and receiving it back in RSA it transpired that he was financially embarrassed and called a halt to proceedings. I offered him a fair deal to purchase the car and thought I had it until the last minute when he sold some property to finish the car. Serendipity took over when his grandson married my niece and I drove it as the wedding car.
This kit is the 2023 tooling to be built as 007s car but I am de- gadgetising it, interestingly it is a snap together kit which is a first for me.
The original film car was finished in Dubbonet Red but painted Silver Birch as the books described JB as driving a grey Bentley.
First jobs were to eradicate the oily smoke ejectotion pipe opening, bullet proof screen ( why that was fitted I don't know as in Goldfinger Q describes the car as having "bullet proof glass all round")and the famous offset ejector seat sunroof opening. The front lower vallance was also attached, vent openings made and blended in. The front bumper needs to be remodelled as there was no rotating no. plates on standard cars.
will be painted Dubbonet Red with Ivory interior as per the original nearly mine car.
Now photo overload.
Many moons ago a customer commissioned us to completely restore his 1964 DB5 Superleggera. After sending the engine, gearbox and differential back to Newport Pagnell for overhauling and receiving it back in RSA it transpired that he was financially embarrassed and called a halt to proceedings. I offered him a fair deal to purchase the car and thought I had it until the last minute when he sold some property to finish the car. Serendipity took over when his grandson married my niece and I drove it as the wedding car.
This kit is the 2023 tooling to be built as 007s car but I am de- gadgetising it, interestingly it is a snap together kit which is a first for me.
The original film car was finished in Dubbonet Red but painted Silver Birch as the books described JB as driving a grey Bentley.
First jobs were to eradicate the oily smoke ejectotion pipe opening, bullet proof screen ( why that was fitted I don't know as in Goldfinger Q describes the car as having "bullet proof glass all round")and the famous offset ejector seat sunroof opening. The front lower vallance was also attached, vent openings made and blended in. The front bumper needs to be remodelled as there was no rotating no. plates on standard cars.
will be painted Dubbonet Red with Ivory interior as per the original nearly mine car.
Now photo overload.
Fantastic, one of my cherished possessions is a 1960's Corgi 007 Aston, with all the toys, revolving no' plate, bullet proof rear screen, ejector seat. etc and still in its original box, with original instructions, etc. Yours looks good..... 
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Can't wait to see how you finish it.
Proper motor!!
Look forward to seeing this progress
Look forward to seeing this progress
interior is looking superb.
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