A Tale of Two Minis
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Washing the sprues, Douglas to the rescue as usual.
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998 Cooper engine
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Rust and metal undercoat, prior to MIG Scratches coat
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Some Maskol for some very bare bits of bodywork
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Trying the salt technique on the bonnet
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Rinse and blow dry...
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Bonnet balanced in place (still on a bit of sprue!) to check wear makes sense.
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Fairly clean seats - just beginning to scuz them up a bit (technical term)
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Scuzzed seats, with junk and protruding seat spring on rear, mud and rust on the floor.
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The rare convertible Mini Cooper 🙂
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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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Bit of Plastic Padding on the front wheel arch. Windscreen wiper sweep marks too.
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Peek-a-boo engine
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Brrm, brrm...
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Meanwhile... my daughter's R50 Cooper. Funky interior (Alclad Candy!)
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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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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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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Coo, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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Martha's finished her R50 Mini Cooper, her own colour scheme as usual.
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A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
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A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)
Comentários
1 26 July 2016, 08:40
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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
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Thanks everyone - really enjoyed that build!
(And no disasters, which is rare - I usually get at least one catastrophe!)
27 July 2016, 09:35
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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.