14 July 2005:
I painted the
car to light green (VW code L4SM), with acrylic paint.
I painted the
door panels too. The loudspeaker and the tweeter were just some convex
cast plastic, with no patterns so I went for adding some detail there.
I countersunk the grilles inside the bezels, and added Bare Metal Foil.
The tweeter was
too small to add any detail, so I applied a drop of silver paint inside
the bezel. But for the speaker below, I painted a piece of cloth with
silver
and trimmed it to fit inside the bezel. I also applied flocking to the
armrest.
16 July 2005:
Meanwhile, I
trimmed the windshield of the New Beetle from the outsides of the sun
visors.
I applied
gray flocking to the floor.
17 July 2005:
I painted the
dashboard. The decals of the kit were missing, so I created the
speedometer
on the computer, printed it on plain paper and covered with 6 clear
coats.
As previously
written, I had cut the pedals off from the skirt of the dashboard. I
added
a piece of styrene behind the lower dashboard and glued the pedals on
that
styrene slab. Now the pedals look like they are hung from behind the
dashboard.
18 July 2005:
I finished the
dashboard assembly. The tachometer was also drawn on the computer and
printed,
with 6 coats of clear.
24 July 2005:
I carved the
seat belt locks from styrene sheet and finished the central console
assembly.
25 July 2005:
I put the dashboard
assembly in and finished with the internal.
26 July 2005:
I printed the
Mini emblem on paper, had 6 clear coats and then glued it on a piece of
styrene to make a massive emblem in the front grille.
I scratched a
radiator-like pattern on a piece of styrene, painted it black and glued
it behind the front grille to prevent the "engineless bay" inside to be
seen.
I had sanded
off the windshield washer nozzles and drilled holes. I painted headed
pins
flat black and pushed them inside to depict the nozzles.
.............................
.............................
