[Scuderia.]

This is the Austin Healy Sprite mk1 (otherwise known as the ‘bug eye’) released by Gunze. It is a basic curbside with not a lot of detail, but it builds up nice. This is the first model that I have finished, but not the first I started (that honour belongs to my mp4/5b). I finished it a little while ago but didn’t get round to posting any pics. I stuffed the paint job the first time I did it, and then stuffed the body when I stripped the paint work, so I bought a new kit.
It was painted with TS58 pearl light blue and cleared with TS13, and then polished with micromesh and tamiya compounds. All the chrome was stripped and redone with alclad so I could get rid of the mould lines. I used some sakatsu rivets for the dash details and windshield spray nozzles. I am very happy with how it turned out, although at some points it was quite frustrating.
The pics aren’t that great as they lost a lot of detail when I resized them, and it looks better in person. Also the panel lines look a bit strong, but in reality they are ok. However, the panel gaps are quite large and probably the worst part of the kit. I hope to print some custom plates to go on it at some point in the future.