Started: 21 January
2007
Finished: 07
February 2007
.
The kit is
MPC Lamborghini Miura. In fact, it is the Jota version.
The kit is very
bad at the inside, the center console being lower than the seats, no
footwells
and rough cast. The body had bad mold marks and sinks too.
21 January
2007:
Here is an example
photo of the mold marks..
I trimmed the
roof openings that had flashings with #11 blade tip.
28 January
2007:
I painted the
body with my real car's paint that I had it prepared. Acrylic paint
with
hardener, plus clear coat with hardener. Before the clear coat, I
applied
BMF.
I gave up rebuilding
the interior to visually scale, left it as it is, and painted all in
flat
black.
The wheels were
solid-cast wire imitations which are also no good.
30 January
2007:
I replaced the
wheels from a diecast New Mini, kept the kit's tyres.
I applied screenings
to the openings in the hood and front fenders..
The headlamp
clusters were unbelievably unrealistic and mis-fitting. So I decided to
scratchbuild the headlamp assemblies.
02 February
2007:
I made new
headlamp covers from acetate.
03 February
2007:
I cut the headlamp
housings from a plastic tubing.
I fabricated
reflectors from aluminum sheet. The kit had 2 options for the
headlamps;
one set of clear and another full cast with chrome plating! Simply
weird!
Surely I chose the clears to use...
04 February
2007:
The rear lamps
were solid-cast and
chromed. I painted them with clear orange and red, and applied a
generous
drop of clear nail polish over the lenses; so when dry, they looked
more
lens-like than simply painted.
The
front grille was a single piece
cast in black. I covered the fog lamps with BMF and added the clear
nail
polish drop on them. I painted the signal lamps white as base, then
applied
clear orange.
05 February
2007:
I did not like
the front grille mold
pusher marks, so I cut the grille part and inserted a piece mesh frm
Detail
Master.
The
lower rear part was ugly and
illogical too, with the shock absorbers protruding out from the rear
panel!
I
sanded those elements and put
another piece of mesh from Detail Master...
And
finally the finished photos...
I had some orange peel effect with the clear cote.
