My GF has become interested in the Abarth 500, so I thought i'd secretly build her a model of one. She goes to bed earlier than me, so i've been sneakily working on it after she's asleep.
It'll be mostly stock, I just plan to add some seatbelts and some small PE bits from a hobby design set, plus some aftermarket wheels, also from hobby design. You can see why it needs new wheels in the pics below.
Here's the kit i'm using.
Overall shot of my progress so far. I have some other parts that have been primered, but not worth showing really.
The wheels in the kit are supposed to be the optional 17" wheels, but they're horribly tiny and narrow. They make the car look like a sissy car.. so I got the proper wheels from ebay. They are slightly too wide to fit into the chassis without some modification though. The tires are from an old wheel set from another kit that I didn't use.
