Matt Bacon Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 Definitely outside my comfort zone, but I'm very pleased with how it's turned out. The kit is exquisitely cast and detailed, and remarkably designed and engineered, considering it was all done on paper in the early 70s... Probably time for something a little simpler now! best, M.
GeeBee Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 Absolutely superb build Matt, might have been out of your comfort zone, but you pulled it off, stunning......
gseeds Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 Excellent, looks like a museum piece, very nice build!
bbowser Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 Outstanding work! You nailed it. Where did you source the kit?
peteski Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 Looks great! How did you paint the fabric pattern on the drivers outfit?
Matt Bacon Posted March 2, 2021 Author Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) Thanks, all! The WIP is here in case anyone wants all the gory details: (no idea why that picture is on the link!) @bbowser the kit came from eBay, sold by a charity shop as “possibly incomplete” for only £25 including postage. I figured at that price I could make anything that was missing. In the end I was short one hood side, half the rear muffler and one door handle. The nice guys at Finecast sold me all three as “spares” for another £10, so the whole thing cost me £35 instead of £135 with postage! It was really only intended as a cheap(ish) “mule” to practice on before tackling any of the other Finecast kits I have... @peteski I painted the suit with an overall neutral grey acrylic, then used very dilute transparent AK “black ink” to paint wide vertical stripes followed by horizontal ones when it had dried, leaving a check pattern, darker where the stripes cross. Finally I used a lighter blue-grey in thin lines between the wide stripes, for the last criss-cross effect... best, M. Edited March 2, 2021 by Matt Bacon
David G. Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 Beautiful work! Excellent painting of the figures too. David G.
peteski Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 7 hours ago, Matt Bacon said: ave... @peteski I painted the suit with an overall neutral grey acrylic, then used very dilute transparent AK “black ink” to paint wide vertical stripes followed by horizontal ones when it had dried, leaving a check pattern, darker where the stripes cross. Finally I used a lighter blue-grey in thin lines between the wide stripes, for the last criss-cross effect... You did a great job on hand-painting the stripes on the suit! I'm really sorry that the forum used the photo of my Cobra model in that link to your build thread. I just wanted to show that spark plug wires are doable, even in 1:43 scale, when you were on the fence about adding them to your model. I would gladly go back and delete that photo, but I can't edit that post. I really don't know why that single photo was chosen, when dozen's of your photos dominate the thread. Weird!
Spottedlaurel Posted March 2, 2021 Posted March 2, 2021 Fantastic work Matt, it looks great. Must have been satisfying to try some different building techniques and see them work out.
ChrisR Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 Looks great! I took a short cut and got the Franklin Mint one ?
Matt Bacon Posted March 7, 2021 Author Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, ChrisR said: Looks great! I took a short cut and got the Franklin Mint one ? Thanks, guys! @ChrisR I have to say was using pictures of the 1/12 Franklin Mint version as reference during this build... it was famously well researched! Interestingly, Airfix planned to follow up their 1/12 Bentley with the Silver Ghost. I remember a bunch of drawings and perhaps even a prototype model being sold off a decade and a half ago when Airfix’s archive was auctioned when Hornby took over. That would have been quite the kit if the mid-70s oil shock hadn’t got in the way! https://www.vectis.co.uk/lot/2953-airfix-archive_149132 best, M. Edited March 7, 2021 by Matt Bacon
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