Here's a model I actually finished couple of weeks ago, but haven't put a WIP thread here and I don't have good photos of the finished model as my camera was stolen, but it has been seen in 2 modelling contests here in Finland already.
This is a resin kit made by BS Design Automodelle / Rückspiegel from Germany. The kit comes with several different decals and is not very detailed in any way and it doesn't also have an engine, nor a detailed chassis. So it was a quick build for me, finished in 2 weeks.
The packaging looked like this:
The resin body:
Then I primered the body after some cleaning the casting of the body and washing and sanding it. Testing some wheels on the model (Fujimi Blitz):
In this phase I hadn't decided if I put these wheels on the car or the steel "festival" rims which came with the kit as resin casts, which wheels I also would have had chromed from the AMT Opel GT kits.
Painted some Tamiya gloss white on the car:
This kit is not very detailed, as ai wrote earlier. Some detail parts in the kit are cast from white metal, some are resin. The windows are vacuformed and tires are cast from rubber. The kit also comes with no instructions whatsoever... but it comes with some styrene sheet bits and foil for the window trims, if the car would be built as the picture on the box. I decided to build it as the GT/E model which has black window trim and the kit also had the GT/E decals.
The chassis I just painted semi gloss black with spray paint.
I masked the areas which would come yellow and painted it with Tamiya yellow acrylic. Masked the window trim and the Tamiya masking tape leaked the black paint, but I changed the masking later, it didn't look very good in this phase.
In this phase the car is just a mock-up, not assembled yet, so the wheels are not in correct position.
Some more painting and building:
And more:
In this phase the Kadett starts to be close to ready, as in this phase I only had 1 day before the car show where the car was supposed to be in the modelling contest... the front bumper (metal cast) is being glued and the decals are on.
Here are two photos of the finished model, not taken by me in the show:
The metal transfer Opel logo in the grille is from the Tamiya Opel Astra DTM kit. The car has also Finnish license plates from the 1970's which have been in a car like this back then. Of course the front license plate is partially fallen off in the finished photo in the show...
The interior is painted with different blacks (matt, semigloss, gloss) and the interior roof + c-pillars matt white from the inside like the real car, the instruments have some white and orange in them representing numbers and the "red zone" and dials, which maybe can be seen in some of the pictures.
This was a "quickie build" about a car which I really adore. It didn't win any trophies in the shows in Helsinki and Tampere in Finland, but I wasn't really even expecting any for this kind of simple engineless and detail-less model, but to give something else to see also which many people haven't seen as a model car in 1:25.
When I get better photos of the finished model I will do a finished thread also...
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