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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 02:38 PM
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Default My Other Ongoing Project - 1:24 ERTL American Estate

Started out as a 1:24 ERTL estate car, but when I started working on it, it had a horribly painted bonnet and horribly painted wheels.
I'm not sure what else to say really, i'll just let the pictures do the talking...
As it looked when I started :

Engine stripped down (will be getting painted) :

Empty engine bay - may have to add some 'one off' components in here... :

Inner wings and arches will be getting repainted :

The nasty wheels.... :

And some MUCH better replacements, courtesy of ebay, from a 1:18 Norev Capri - with a set of low profile 1:24 scale tyres :

With plenty of camber!

I was getting some wacky ideas from these two...


so I did a (very) quick crappy mock up on ms paint....and i'm not sure whether to go ahead with it or not.... your ideas?

and finally, a sneaky peak of another project i'm currently working on ...


...looks good so far i think, but i snapped one of the capri pepperpots
has anyone got a spare i could buy off them?
Thanks for looking, and comments welcome!
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 02:52 PM
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Love the pepperpots on it
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 03:37 PM
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bloody hell mate you are into your models ill send you a link of mine that ive put on facebook later mate
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 04:12 PM
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sorry about quality but here you go http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/a...08&aid=2108178
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 04:12 PM
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and another album http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...&id=1443630408
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 05:08 PM
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I love it fella.Ive got one of those recovery trucks in my attic.Mine is from snap on.Ive got 3 other recovery trucks too,they are all different.
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 05:16 PM
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glenn do you know where there there is any sapphire cosworth models going cheap ?
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