1/24 Revell Mini - First complete model
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:59 pm
Sorry for the lousy pictures. I either need a better camera or learn how to use one properly (maybe both... 
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Anyways, after a long struggle, I finally managed to complete my first model. She's not as perfect as I had imagined when I started, but considering this is my first build in over 25 years, I'm not all to dissatisfied with the result.
This has been a long journey, one with a steep learning curve and a lot of mistakes. Just to give you an idea, the body work has been stripped of all it's paint three times (yes, 3...) by means of putting the whole thing in a bath of brake fluid for about 48 hours. At one stage, the body was actually orange, then it went to silver before I settled on the current Alpine Renault A110 blue. I did mock up the white paint stripes the first time around so that had to be completely redone as well.
The headlights mounted on the front bumper are not original. Those are leftovers from another Revell mini kit that I'm currently building. The wheels are from a Tamiya Mini Cooper rally kit. Those were spray painted with Alclad semi matt aluminium. All the other metal effects were done with Alclad chrome, although they lost a little of their shine after I coated them with Alclad aqua gloss. The window sills and chrome band at the bottom of the body work are BMF chrome.
)Anyways, after a long struggle, I finally managed to complete my first model. She's not as perfect as I had imagined when I started, but considering this is my first build in over 25 years, I'm not all to dissatisfied with the result.
This has been a long journey, one with a steep learning curve and a lot of mistakes. Just to give you an idea, the body work has been stripped of all it's paint three times (yes, 3...) by means of putting the whole thing in a bath of brake fluid for about 48 hours. At one stage, the body was actually orange, then it went to silver before I settled on the current Alpine Renault A110 blue. I did mock up the white paint stripes the first time around so that had to be completely redone as well.
The headlights mounted on the front bumper are not original. Those are leftovers from another Revell mini kit that I'm currently building. The wheels are from a Tamiya Mini Cooper rally kit. Those were spray painted with Alclad semi matt aluminium. All the other metal effects were done with Alclad chrome, although they lost a little of their shine after I coated them with Alclad aqua gloss. The window sills and chrome band at the bottom of the body work are BMF chrome.
