Heaven Help Me! ... Cars!

[Old Wombat]

Yup, cars!

These 2 kits d@mn' near killed my modelling mojo but I survived!

They aren't "good", I think they're barely "passable", & I hope you don't mind me putting them here.

'Coz I promised kpnuts over on BtS that I'd show them on the site & I can't do that & not inflict them on here, here they are:

1966 Ford Mustang (built for my 17 year old daughter);




















New Mini (built for my 19 year old daughter);





















Note that I couldn't get decent interior shots of the Mini because I over-did the tinting on the windows (but it looks cool).


Compare the pair;








They were given to my daughters as Christmas presents & were well-received, which was heartening.


One thing I have learned ... I really can't get my head around building "stock" car models.

[zenrat]

They look pretty good to me.
Love the interior in the 'stang.

Only thing I might pick you up on is you didn't scuff up the tyre treads.

[Old Wombat]

I was shattered after trying (& failing) to get the paintwork smooth. (Where's the dribbling, shuddering, tic-inflicted, psychological mess emoticon? )

[zenrat]

Shiny paint is my biggest problem.
Which is why I build a lot of cars with a satin clearcoat.  

[Old Wombat]

As a builder who appreciates the philosophy of "near-enough is good-enough" I'm pretty happy with how my 1st car building efforts turned out.

I have a couple more cars to finish/build in the same scale (1/24) & I hope to do better with them but they'll probably be the last, in that scale, anyway.

I have some 1/32 scalers which will be whiffed into 1/35th & a post-apocalyptic scenario or 2.

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice! I know why I only built 3 or 4 cars in my whole modeler career. It's SO hard to achieve a satisfatory finish or overall result, no wonder that you (almost) ran out of mojo. 

[Captain Canada]

Great job on both ! Love the Mini, a very cool shelf addition that !