My very first car LITERALLY!

[CJSomerset]

This is a Revell 1/24 MK 1 Mini.

I decided to make it as MY FIRST CAR. But not as it looked when I bought it for £50 (in blue). But as it looked 12 years later when I pushed it out of the garage and gave it away for free. By then, it had been (very badly) sprayed red using a spray gun that attached to a vacuum cleaner and crunched in the drivers side wing and repaired newspaper and body filler.







And here it is with the only known picture of the original car. That's a 19 year old me in the pic! By the time I got rid of the mini, the spot lights in the picture were adorning the front of my MK4 Cortina

[Icemannique]

Nicely weathered little car and looks good too !

[Smiffy]

Great Mini, love the coat hanger aerial

[Twokidsnosleep]

Great car, I like the weathering
That was some serious hair you had back then, wow

[SergioSolo]

Great looking model. It surely tells a story

[OneSmallStep1966]

That's brilliant. A combination of superb weathering and attention to detail like the coat hanger aerial and pools of oil underneath. Well done

[CJSomerset]

That's brilliant. A combination of superb weathering and attention to detail like the coat hanger aerial and pools of oil underneath. Well done

Thanks a lot, but if I wanted to be 100% accurate I'd have to scratch build the rats nest under neath it

[shortCummins]

if you'd painted it Old English white it could have been my car

nice job

[AdamLuscombe]

That look awesome, that weathering is great

[Topcat]

Do it up now worth more!