oh erm maybe i want minilite now,u are spoiling us now
oh & the cortina please lol

 

dave,can we play the guess game, we all try to guess ur secret project?

 

well i got the estate in colour
going to give it another cote maybe tomorrow then can build it up

 

That's very cool fella, what are the wheels?

 

cheers mate.i dont kno as swoped them on here,can get them on ebay but are Ł20 im sure escortnutter will be making some or similer & will be far better quility.

 

Iv uploaded the blue escort using photobucket & if that's not working for me...

 

yeah it worked,were did you get ur wheel from?

 

got them from 6880green on ebay, there's other sets the same on there justnow
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ht_1767wt_1165
im gona buy some more soon, might get a set for my mk3 bronze capri once its painted in its new colour, thinking about Sunburst Red

 

cutting a long story very short, here's what my bronze escort GL now looks like its gona take a long time uploading to photobuck one photo at a time as it wont upload a few at once, then copy the photo's here

 

yeah i got a set just wondered were you got urs from lol,were u get ur capri's from? i like them.
wot other models you got
photobucket can be slow if the size of ur pics are big,change the options on ur camra

 

I hate photobucket its to dam slow. I use Imageshack now, I find it a lot better.

 

i buy most of my models on ebay, i just got the 1/43 blue capri a few days ago for a really low price on ebay, they're being sold for Ł40/Ł50 & i got that one for Ł25!, iv got 2 1/18 scale norev ones & hope to paint the bronze one red, was wanting black but norev are bringing out a black mk3 around summer

 

im on wireless broadband & that make's it worse! the page's keep freezing or taking for ever to load only site that doesn't freeze on me is ebay!

 

yeah i rarely buy of ebay,its has to be from ebay shop,the others are never as good as they say,
ive seen them 1/18 capri's,can be bloody exspensive,ill wait til they drop in price lol,ur lucky if u get a cheap 1 of them.
yeah im sure they all be getting modded soon

 

i made & fitted a k&n



also fitted front splitter/spoiler

 

mine is slow sometimes but that cuz i get the conection from the house behind me which is about 25m away,its ok tho thats my mum & dads house & they dont mind

 

the pre-order for the black 1/18 mk3 norev is only like Ł45 on a uk website, i'll look it up & post a link

 

i have the same escort as that but ive put rs1600i bits on

 

1/18 scale black mk3 Norev capri pre-order Ł44.99!(don't know the postage)
http://www.grandprixlegends.com/diec...model-car.html

 

cheers for that

 

sweet! im waiting for a yellow xr3 from www.modelenium.co.uk & gona put the rs1600i 7spokes on it, i remember seeing a yellow one like it abandoned on farm land when i was about 12 & i always wanted it!

 

the blue capri with bronze capri's alloys, looks much better!



the bronze capri with blue capri's pepper pots which also looks better


my 1/18 collection(the bronze escort isn't bronze!)

 

Does anyone have any spare Sunstar Ford engines which will fit my Norev capri??? im looking for anything suitable & not like a 1.6 from a GL escort, i got out bid on a good ford engine on ebay like what im really wanting now. im taking the norev capri apart to paint it & after taking the fake engine out, i found loads of room to put another better detailed engine in, im not bothered if iv got to cut out the bit for the steering because i notice the steering is totally wrong anyway, turn the steering wheel left & the wheels turn right!, i know the problem but it looks hard to fix(the bent bit of rod on the steering wheel is up side down & when you turn it the correct way, it works but doesn't connect very well).
im finding the capri much easy'er to take apart than the escort & im starting to think could Norev & Sunstar be sister company's?, i see alot of things that look or done the same way, the wheels are screwed on from the inside on the capri, the screws to take the bottom off the car is almost same place as escort, the screws are the same, the bit holding the bonnet is exact same, the seats are made in the same way & both also has the carpet on the floor, alot in common!

 

sorry i cant help frank but would you sell me the standard capri engine?

 

Norev capri door cards are brittle, mine just cracked with a tiny bit pressure!(door card's are connected to 2 bits just below the window at each end & 1 bit at the very bottom in middle, also window & door card are one piece) rear door cards bits want to break at the top of the window. wing mirrors are hard to remove. thats really all the problems iv found while taking it apart, only thing im not happy about is the boot will only stay connected with the roof trim attached to car so boot will need painted on its own

Hope this info helps anyone who wants to paint a 1/18 Norev mk3 capri

 

have you got any ford mod's or standard ford alloys you might want to swap for the capri engine?, its only the top half just like on the ut model escort cosworth, i'll upload a photo of it in a wee while. do you have any 7spokes escort rs1600i alloys?

 

i havent mate sorry, ive got some very basic escort gl spares such as the steel wheels etc but nothing of much use, sorry.
do have some oz/compomotive rally 5 spokes though if theyre any use

 

have you go any pic's of them? once i finally get this door mirror off the capri, i'll take pic of engine & upload it, my laptop's sooooo slow

 

One capri engine


and one engineless capri! loads of room in there!


I feel really bad justnow, iv just nitromorsed a Ł90 norev capri! but i'll feel really good when she's got her new coat of paint!

 

Norev Capri ready for paint



http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/a...tedcapri02.jpg

 

Norev Capri ready for paint

 

the capri just after i painted it



& Here's what we've all been waiting for!


i think this photo below is great



Could this be one of the 1st Norev Capri's to be re-painted???

 

Very nice,i'd like to see someone do a silver Capri 2.0/3.0 s from The Professionalls or the one in Minder

 

i was very tempted to do it silver because iv still got silver paint left from my old nova, the original plan was to paint it white & i bought the white paint, then i really wanted it sunburst red so i thought i'd use the white as a base coat after the primer & think it looks very good in white so it'll stay white i think, looks like im gona save & buy a 3rd 1/18 mk3 to paint red!

 

shit me frank,you dont mess around,ave you been to bed??

 

got my stuff steve,superb job mate

 

im still awake! once i start a job, i like to keep at it till its finished or if i get very tired! to be honest about the capri, it was much easy'er to paint than the escort, the bits came of easy'er except the bloody wing mirrors, they wer proper stuck on & i split one of the door cards when i didn't put much pressure on & it cracked, its not noticeable so im not bothered. im after another engine for the capri coz there's tonn's of room in the engine bay when the dummy engine's out & i think it would be much better because there'll be a whole engine instead of half

 

Fuck me, It takes me about 2 months to finish a car. You get one done in 1 night .

 

its easy, i start taking the car apart about 11pm(i work better at night), have it stripped by 2am, normally i paint over the old paint but now iv started to nitromorse the cars, takes about 2 hours to clean paint off, then i scrubbed it with a toothbrush & fairy liquid to get the rest of the nitromorse off, rinse fairy liquid off, quick dry with good kitchen roll, then sit it on radiator for 5/10mins to dry(not letting the car get too hot) then prime the car, stick it under a fan heater while turning it now and again so it don't burn or get too hot, then give it some more primer & more heat, then when thats dry, put 1st coat of paint on then heat then do it a couple more times till it look right, then leave car for about 20mins, then i normally put the lights, bumpers & wipers in 1st, by then the car will be more dryer but paint still soft, hold car in place's that didnt get much paint e.g under the roof, gently put all the bits back in & one complete car! its easy once explained+practice!, iv done alot of models, not just cars, i made a huge model of the QM2 by revell(all was spray painted)
the escort & capri are the 1st cars iv fully painted since well over a year ago!

Have you got the right tools?, i find jewler screwdriver's very important for pushing out bits like bumpers, lights etc(its a pain when the whole bits superglued in place), i also use the screwdrivers to wright car reg's

 

so thats what the rs1600i graphics are going on. looks smart in that colour , i might have to get 1 myself. the wheels are smart too.