bmd's projects....or attempts should i say!

ok, so i took one of these...



took her apart, removed the dash for swapping over to r/h drive... plus floor ancilliaries...





stripped her, repainted the shell in white, with a couple of gold panels...





rebuilt her, taking away the round auxiliary lamps and replacing them with a plain panel...



and decalled her up....



and with her wee cousin...



havent glued the wipers in place, in the hope that i can get a pair of r/h ones, but no big deal if i dont....like most of my attempts, not 100% perfect, but happy enough, first one i've seen in 1:18 so not bad...

WOW, excellent work there Billy

Excellent work billy that's class. Would love that.

so, having finished the fisher manta for the meantime, today i took one of these....



stripped her, removed extra aerials and camera box, repainted roof.....one of the choices with this conversion is either use a sunstar focus with correct door mirrors and wrong wheels, or solido one with correct wheels but wrong mirrors....having already done a trial on a sunstar one, and not at all happy with the finished wheels/axle set-up, i am now going for a soldo base and i will attempt to use sunstar mirrors, hence small black mark on each door at the moment... the wheels, ride height and stance are so much better...

Manta looks great Billy. May be in touch if i can find another manta. Great to see something different.

For the focus, a sunstar with wheels from a sunstar xsara will fit, although you will need to mod them a bit as they are a bit narrow if you just do a straight swop

That Fisher Manta is Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Nice work Billy.

That Manta looks superb Billy, you've done a great build there

many thanks lads for the comments, appreciated! thanks brian re the xsara, i used them before and they would do, but i've settled on this route for this time anyway, saves a bit of work on the undercarriage lol...... we'll see how it pans out m8

class work on the manta.
looking forward to watching the focus come alive now

ah cheers paul, who knows what she'l end up like, but sure its not as if the whole web can see us is it?...............................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bmd wrote:ah cheers paul, who knows what she'l end up like, but sure its not as if the whole web can see us is it?...............................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sure just keep thinking its only me and you looking at her!

i do m8...................i do!! lol!!!

bmd wrote:i do m8...................i do!! lol!!!

it'll be perfect!

thanks m8!

I must have missed your photos of the finished Pug, Billy - that really does look class mate. I bet you're well pleased with how it turned out aren't you?

Loving that Manta too mate, nice to see it in the bigger scale for a change.

hi david, thanks m8, yeah got to admit to be chuffed with the pug and the manta both.....nice to have some different models in my two 'special' cabinets, sitting beside the main rally display.....they've come out not too bad...
cheers m8

how I missed the Manta Billy, I love the way it turned out. beautiful model comes up to life! congrat with your new boy.

and I am also very excited to see the Focus. One of my favorite motors which I would like to see in my collection one day. but I believe this car should have done from a proper producer such as AA or may be Kyosho
anyway, looking forward to your project

thanks omer........

Billy

how did you like the Solido quality? easy to work with? compared to Sun star which has better details and quality?
any suggestion for me?

thanks in advance

both much of a muchness m8 (sorry, over here that means theres not much difference ); as i said above, one has the wrong wheels, one has the wrong mirrors, so you will have to adapt one of them.............

as well as the kpl focus which i've recently started, i today got stuck into this.....now no shouting at me you cossie-boys , i just love this livery and have to have a go...

this is what i'm aiming for...


base...


stripped...


new interior to be adapted to replace the road-going set-up...




thats it for now, as well as adapting the interior, i have to adjust a rally dash to fit, then a respray, and hope to have sourced a set of rims, not exact replicas but not far away...

brilliant so far!

ah cheers paul.......... aye its brilliant 'cos all i'm doing is wrecking lol!!!!! hard bit is when i try to rebuild, then we see..... trying to make a focus rollcage fit into an escort..hhhmmm.....
cheers m8

Nice work so Billy. Just take ya time and it will be spot on at the end.