Mini Cooper Innocente replica

For a friend of my father I build this Imai 1/20 Mini Cooper Innocente. It was orginally a Rally version but I made it look like his real oval racer back in the 80's.

First I removed the rear en headlights and smoothed these areas.

After that I made my own decals for the first time. I never did it before so I thought it was very difficult but in the end it was easier as I thought. I made the decals in Microsoft Paint and Word.

Next I did was paint the model in white and mask off the areas that need the white decals. After that I made a mixture of blue and black to get it as close to the original paint.

I clearcoated it and added the decals. After that I added two more layers of Zero 2K Clear and finished the other small parts.

http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/bouw%20(1)%20(Custom).jpg

http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/bouw%20(2)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/bouw%20(3)%20(Custom).jpg

and the finished product:

http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(1)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(2)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(3)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(4)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(5)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(6)%20(Custom).jpg
http://modelbrouwers.nl/media/albums/245/9234/af%20(7)%20(Custom).jpg

He was very happy when I brought is to him. It brings back the memories and it stands in a nice cabinet in the middle of his living room! Job done :wink:

Kris.

Cool project, nicely done.

Very nice Mini. :-)