A Tale of Two Minis

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July 26, 2016
Washing the sprues, Douglas to the rescue as usual.
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July 26, 2016
998 Cooper engine
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July 26, 2016
Rust and metal undercoat, prior to MIG Scratches coat
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July 26, 2016
Some Maskol for some very bare bits of bodywork
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July 26, 2016
Trying the salt technique on the bonnet
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July 26, 2016
Rinse and blow dry...
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July 26, 2016
Bonnet balanced in place (still on a bit of sprue!) to check wear makes sense.
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July 26, 2016
Fairly clean seats - just beginning to scuz them up a bit (technical term)
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July 26, 2016
Scuzzed seats, with junk and protruding seat spring on rear, mud and rust on the floor.
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July 26, 2016
The rare convertible Mini Cooper 🙂
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July 26, 2016
Coat of dust applied. Number plate home made - HT is for Bristol, B is 1964, when this model first came out.
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July 26, 2016
Bit of Plastic Padding on the front wheel arch. Windscreen wiper sweep marks too.
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July 26, 2016
Peek-a-boo engine
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July 26, 2016
Brrm, brrm...
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July 27, 2016
Meanwhile... my daughter's R50 Cooper. Funky interior (Alclad Candy!)
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July 27, 2016
My daughter's R50 Cooper: chassis ready to go. Ironically, my more complicated "old" Mini has been a much smoother build.
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July 27, 2016
Main bodywork Vallejo Sand-yellow, currently masked up for Alclad Candy Blue stripes on the bonnet to match the roof panel shown.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 28, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 29, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 29, 2016
Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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July 29, 2016
A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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July 29, 2016
A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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July 29, 2016
A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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July 29, 2016
A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)

Kommentare

1 26 July 2016, 08:40

uncle chop chop
Cool weathering nice job

26 July 2016, 10:18

Choppa Nutta
nice work 🙂
washing dishes never looked like so much fun before 😄

26 July 2016, 11:14

playtime 222
Hmmm. I looked at putting a sink into my basement workshop for this and wet sanding and airbrush cleaning but it's 500EUR for the damned pump 🙁

26 July 2016, 12:03

Choppa Nutta
Get a bucket Eric 😄

26 July 2016, 12:24

Łukasz Gliński
amazing weathering

26 July 2016, 12:50

Russ Haines
Thanks everyone - really enjoyed that build!
(And no disasters, which is rare - I usually get at least one catastrophe!)

27 July 2016, 09:35

Taarna Eckart
Excellent builds. I love the smiley face, nice touch. 🙂

30 July 2016, 12:03

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My daughter Martha and I got a pair of Revell Mini Coopers at the IPMS Gloucester model show - her's a new (BMW) model Mini (but an older kit, ironically), and mine is the original Mk1 Cooper 998 from the early 60's.

Pair Of Minis

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Mini Cooper 998 Mk.I

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