Hello everyone, I'm new here, I'm 20 an engineering student at the University of Central Lancashire. I've just begun this build, my first attempt at creating a model. I bought it over a year ago as part of a promise to myself after passing my driving test. The Mk1 Golf is probably my favourite road car and was my short lived first car that I sold on as I quickly needed a well running reliable car to make a daily commute to university. I regret the decision but ultimately it needed to be done.
This is my second attempt at posting this thread, I think something went wrong with my first attempt as it isn't appearing, if two threads appear I apologise!
So there's the why for the build covered lets get into the actualy build, remember this is my first attempt so go easy.
When I bought the model I knew very little about modelling, after reading around here I've gained more knowledge so its time to put it into practise.
I bought the kit and a set of after market wheels which I belive where Aoshima I can't remember for certain.
Please ignore the terrible photography a friend has my Telephoto macro lens.
Here are the original wheels along side the much wider (too wide) Aoshima wheels. I liked the faces on the original wheels but the tires are terrible and far too narrow.
So I removed the faces of the Aoshima's and sanded down the original wheels to fit inside to be glued and puttied later. This also solved the issue of mounting the wheels to the chassis.
3 of 4 facces have been sanded and inserted.
Sorting out the width a bit
Moving away from the wheels I cut the petrol cap away from its circular backing to leave just the star cap.
It has now been fully cut away.
Here is the car itself. The roof has been milliputied as well as the grill surround edges as there were pretty large gaps. I've also puttied the two front suspension struts that I had drastically shortened, as well as puttying (sp?) the wheel face edges.
The roof and grill have now been sanded as have the suspension struts. I've also started work lowering the rear suspension and painting some parts.
The body along with sprues were originally primered when I knew very little about modelling so now I'm going back and sorting the body properly which will obviously be reprimered and painted.
Photos to come soon when I can take some in daylight. I still need to find fixes for the front wishbones and exhaust which I will explain with photos later.
Here's some photos I took from Edition 38 the UKs biggest VW show these serve as my inspiration.
That is a low mileage LHD Belgian Series 1 Mk1 Golf owned by the person who bought my Mk1, he sold my Golf on to help fund the Magnesium BBS that it sits on.
Another photo of mine from Edition 38, it runs a new (I believe MK4) Tdi engine.
For those interested click the Flickr link in my signature for much more VW and general photograpy stuff.
Hope you like and thanks for reading
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