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  1. kpnuts
    Hi all well I'm quite pleased with the cast effect on the half of the engine I'm painting (did it with the shot blaster at work)
  2. kpnuts
    Hi all I got this today its actually a Franzis kit released under licence at a 3/4 the price of a Franzis kit, yes the instructions are not as glossy and there are no beautiful pics of the engine, and yes the box is not all luxury and flashy but the rest of the kit is exactly what you get from Franzis. First thing I will have to deal with are those god awful carburettors. I intend to show exactly how I do each bit of this, painting and such. I have masked the engine in half (as I intend to do it half see through and half not) we have a machine at work which will add a cast effect to the half that is not going to be see through. The metalizing technique I use need the parts to have a metallic appearance so to get that on the top of the pistons I use my mini lathe and just hold a file over the part whilst it's on (you could do the same with a dremel)
  3. kpnuts
    Hi thanks Yves I do like a big kit. Dan I use cheap paint from cheapo shops like b and m or q d I decant it into my airbrush and spray from there ( I sometime use a shading colour underneath to enhance the shape or add age)
  4. kpnuts
    Sorry I didn't finish this build log. It's finished now.
  5. kpnuts
    Thanks dan
  6. kpnuts
    This won model of the month on de agostini when I posted it there.
  7. kpnuts
    Hi all recently finished this. It's a great kit (I wish I hadn't added the lock wire detail drilling the 0.3 mill hole was easy, threading the wire through not so)
  8. kpnuts
    Hi all I was given this by someone I thought a friend (came from America) Decals fell apart so I bought some new ones hence the colour change.
  9. kpnuts
    Hi all built this a while ago.
  10. kpnuts
    Hi all I work at a porsche classic racing car restorers and I managed to win this on ebay so I decided to build it to our customers car ( unfortunately we will never see it again as he sold it to someone in the USA.
  11. kpnuts
    Hi all sorry I haven't been on here for a while here iscan update on this.
  12. kpnuts
    Hi all this is back on the bench.
  13. kpnuts
    Nuts by name, nuts by nature.
  14. kpnuts
    Hi all I completed this a while ago and decided to get it back out of the garden shed and give it another My plan is to do it as a wreck and then restore it to showroom condition again. Here is progress so far
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    Hi Bill I forgot about this build (its probably in a bin somewhere) I used clear bathroom sealant for the sea, its actually a very accurate kit for its time (ok they got the colours completely wrong) that said i really like the blue and gold colour scheme. There are a couple of things wrong with the kit (its missing a couple of cannon placements and if I remember correctly some of the transom detail is wrong. As a kit it goes together quite well the detail is not that clear on the moldings but for kit of its age and price at the time I think airfix did a Stirling job.
  16. kpnuts
    Hi all next victim is the italari 1/16 Mercedes 300 SL, first thing I don't like is the distributor and plug leads are molded as part of the rocker cover (I don't even know why they would do that at this scale)
  17. kpnuts
    Here is one of the cars it usually carries (it also carries a 904 a 910 and another rsr cafe mexicano)
  18. kpnuts
    Tried making the louvers out of quartered cocktail sticks, not very successful I measured the louvers and they are 20mm wide the quarterd cocktail sticks are 1 1/4 mm so way out of scale. I have another idea up my sleeve let's see how that works.
  19. kpnuts
    Hi all this is what I'm aiming for, it has a very unusuall way of loading cars (which i am ambitiously aiming to depict)
  20. kpnuts
    More work done to this, that is the basic shape of the vehicle a few doors to add and lots of details to the bed to add.
  21. kpnuts
    Thanks Mark its an interesting conversion.
  22. kpnuts
    Yep you should see the real thing, there will be a surprise in the end if I manage to pull it off
  23. kpnuts
    Sorry title is wrong should be 1/16
  24. kpnuts
    Hi all this was donated to me by a friend(he was doing it as a van) I have other plans for it, it will be a very rare custom made version (the guys at work will know where I'm going with it as we have the actual vehicle in the workshop)
  25. kpnuts
    Someone said the control box at the front spoilt the look a bit so I've painted it black and moved it behind the barrier.

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