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  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: McLean, VA
SE Finecast MG TF finished
Posted by DeskJockey on Thursday, December 24, 2015 9:46 AM

This one took me 10 months to build.  It was my first white metal kit, and it nearly defeated me.  I'll be giving it to my dad as his Christmas present.  I wanted to detail it more, but as it is, I finished in the nick of time--last night!  The kit is from Finecast in the UK, as are the wire wheels.

 

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: East Bethel, MN
Posted by midnightprowler on Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:23 AM

That's beautiful. What scale? Full detail?

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  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: McLean, VA
Posted by DeskJockey on Thursday, December 24, 2015 12:23 PM

It's 1/24.  The kit is a fairly basic curbside model.  The wire wheels are sold separately, but are a lot better than the stock steel wheels that come with the kit.  Oddly enough, the wheels were the easiest part of the kit to build.  There was a lot of sanding, cutting, and shaping of the various white metal parts involved in putting the model together.  I primed it with Alclad gray primer and used automotive paint for the British Racing Green paint.  My first coat was with a rattle can, and that went horribly--I got runs and bubbles in the paint and many hard-to-reach areas were still devoid of paint.  I then decanted the paint and used a mini spray gun (an Iwata LPH-50) and that was a far better experience.  Many of the chrome details you see are polished white metal parts--I think I used of a box of sanding sticks on this project. 

I would have liked to detail the interior some more, but ran out of time.  As it is, I made the side pockets from lead foil.  I also got the MG logos from leftover decals and photoetch from a Fujimi MGB kit.  The headlight lenses came from a Monogram MG TC kit--they were a near-perfect match and looked far better than the flat plastic disks the kit came with.

  • Member since
    November 2015
Posted by The Migrant on Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:03 PM

It's a tribute to your modelling skills that it doesn't look as if it was a struggle. Beautiful, clean work.

Mike G

Western Canada

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, December 25, 2015 10:00 AM

Beautiful!

I was familiar with their wire wheels- did not know they made complete car kits.  Their wheels have always been fantastic. I wish some US company would pick up their line of wheels.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    August 2008
Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, December 25, 2015 10:15 AM

Now;

 That's a ding -dang fine automobile . I do especially love those wheels !   T.B.

  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: McLean, VA
Posted by DeskJockey on Friday, December 25, 2015 8:32 PM
Thanks, guys! I agree--the wheels look great. Finecast has done a good job with them. I guess they've put more effort into those because they sell more of them than the kits.
  • Member since
    June 2015
  • From: UK
Posted by djjeavons on Saturday, December 26, 2015 1:36 AM

Very nice, great job.

  

  • Member since
    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Monday, December 28, 2015 3:54 PM

That's gorgeous! It actually looks like a diecast car!

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