Tamiya Lamborghini Countach

Lamborghini Countach replica. Complete, just needs a bit of "freshening".

http://images19.fotki.com/v193/photos/6/11686/8906957/corbettvwcountach3-vi.jpg

Ok, really more of a 'barn find'. Originally built about 20 years ago. I painted it with the original formula of Tamiya acrylic paint. Gloss red over Model master chrome, a great candy red finish. About 2 weeks after i'd finished it the paint cracked. I wish i had pictures of it, totaled i thought. I moved shortly after and it went into a box.
A few years later i decided to refinish it. When i tried sanding and repainting it the cracks just showed up under the new paint. My Local hobby shop had just gotten a new product, Polly S "ELO". A brush on and let sit paint remover. It worked pretty well, and I had a bare canvas to work with again.
This time i painted it the color you see now, Testors dark red with a Model master enamel clear coat. I also refreshed the interior paint and added scratch built seat belts and Detail Master fuzzy paper carpet. A cracked corner window was replaced with clear sheet plastic and i made new front light covers to replace lost ones. Missing mirrors were replaced with Fujimi EM Countach ones too. The engine insert got some attention as well, with rather a lot of wiring stuffed into its small space.
Maybe it wasn't worth all of the effort it took, but i did learn a lot and i had a nice shelf model too.
Later though, more than a few newer, more detailed models had moved the Lambo to back shelf. Sadly, later still, a dark dusty closet shelf, crowded in with a bunch of its old buddys, become its home.

Flash forward to earlier this week.

Into the light! Looking like a scale version of a 'Barn find'.
http://images110.fotki.com/v571/photos/6/11686/8906957/Countachdusty1-vi.jpg

A lot of dusting, scrubing, and polishing later, including taking the body off, windows out, refitting the engine cover so it would open properly and touching up some paint chips. TA-DA!
http://images56.fotki.com/v713/photos/6/11686/8906957/Rightfront-vi.jpg
http://images46.fotki.com/v1491/photos/6/11686/8906957/rightrear-vi.jpg
http://images54.fotki.com/v242/photos/6/11686/8906957/leftside-vi.jpg
http://images12.fotki.com/v240/photos/6/11686/8906957/Rightfronthigh-vi.jpg
http://images54.fotki.com/v459/photos/6/11686/8906957/leftfront-vi.jpg
http://images112.fotki.com/v600/photos/6/11686/8906957/front-vi.jpg

This one really needs a clever caption, feel free to quote the pix with your own caption. I simply titled it 'we meet again'.
http://images21.fotki.com/v631/photos/6/11686/8906957/Wemeetagain-vi.jpg

Another poster shot from 'that' company.
http://images112.fotki.com/v589/photos/6/11686/8906957/Topdown-vi.jpg

Finally, some detail.
http://images110.fotki.com/v571/photos/6/11686/8906957/Interior1c-vi.jpg
http://images9.fotki.com/v212/photos/6/11686/8906957/Interior2c-vi.jpg
http://images112.fotki.com/v599/photos/6/11686/8906957/Engineinsertc1-vi.jpg

i love it!!

Oo my thats one sweet makeover, but if you hadnt cleand it it would have looked awsome in a barn dio. But never the less its one sweet ride