Morgan 4/4

[harti20]

Hi all

Some years ago, soon after my restart in this hobby, I saw this kit and knew I had to have it. Since then I always wanted to build it, but somehow always some other kit slipped in between. But when I was working on my Lambo Veneno and needed some kind of distraction I decided that it was time to finally start it. I was working on it for some weeks now already, so don't be surprised by the quite extensive first post  

First I started with the engine. It is not yet finished, so far I just did what I was in the mood for.

The chassis has been assembled and painted as far as it was already possible

The brake discs have been completed

Dashboard and steering wheel got their base color for some further wood application. I tried to do the dashboard with some self-printed wood decals. I don't know whether I never sealed them (they were sitting on my shelf for months if not even for years now) or whether the Micro Liquid Decal Film has some kind of half-life. When I wanted to apply them I took some clean white decal film out of a slightly brownish colored water... I don't know yet whether I'll give it a second try or whether I shall paint it by brush as I will do with the steering wheel.

The seats have been painted in their base color before I will apply some very thin genuine leather

And last but not least the body got its primer and color. On the engine hood I tried to emphasize the louvres by adding some black paint in between them. Currently I'm not really sure whether I should  like it the way it turnd out or if I should remove the black paint...

That's how far I am at the moment. From now on the updates will significantly decrease in their extent. I hope you like this build and am looking forward to your plaudits, criticism, questions and suggestions.  
Urs

[mrmike]

So far, so good!  Keep moving forward and show what you have done on your Morgan.  I built one myself and I noticed the excellent engraving of the wire wheels.  Nobody seems to do that kind of work anymore!  

[Justin Porter]

This is one of my bucket list kits for sure. I'm very eager to see how your build turns out!

[Anglia105E]

This is a very good kit by Tamiya, Urs...... Interesting that you have chosen yellow for your body paint colour...... I painted my Morgan in Ferrari Giallo Modena Yellow, which was mixed especially for airbrush application. I agree that these chrome wire spoked wheels are the best that you can find. The Tamiya Jaguar Mk 2 also has the same wheels, and they are really good. I enjoyed building this kit, and the Jaguar is even more enjoyable, with both finished models looking very nice indeed.

You are doing a fine job, and you are off to a good start with your build.

Here is a photo of my completed Morgan.

David

[harti20]

Hi all

Thank you for your kind comments and pics of your own Morgans. I have to agree that these wire wheels are really excellent. I brushed on some Alclad Smoke to make them even more pop and am just excited by their look

The seats have got some very thin leather. In reality they look much better than on the picture. I'll still have to add some piping, but so far I couldn't really decide on a color and on how to make it. Also the edges will have to be reworked to clean them up a little.

The engine has been completed and attached to the undercarriage

And finally the motor compartment has been painted black and the body got waxed

That's all for the moment. The next few steps will be to thin some more leather pieces, cut them out and apply them. Then do some wood painting on the dashboard and steering wheel.
Urs

[John Goschke]

Love these cars!  I'm anxious to see more of this build!

[harti20]

Hi all

After a long break because I concentrated more on my Mercedes Leon CVSTOS (and because I kind of lost motivation on this build) I'm back with a small update. As already mentioned, I lack of motivation to continue at the moment because of the fact that quite a few things didn't turn out the way I would have liked them to and also because there are still some points where I don't have any real plan on how to go on. That's why I decided to put the Morgan back into the box and start with something completely different. But first I'll show you the current build progress.

The seats have been finished. That's one of the points where I'm not really happy with the outcome. But I'll have to go on with them because I don't have enough of this leather to start over and I can't just remove the leather and go on without because I doubt that it would be possible to remove all of the glue used. And even if that would be possible, I'd have the problem that I had to widen and deepen the recesses to make them show through the leather. Without any coating on top of it I think they would look much exaggerated.

Then one thing I'm quite happy with: the steering wheel, even if it may not look that convincing in this picture because of the enormous magnification by the macro lens. I know the transition between the kit part and the photo etched part could be smoother, but for the first time ever trying this, I'm quite happy anyway.

That's it for the moment. I will continue somewhen in the future, but I have absolutely no idea, when this will be. Thank you very much for your kind comments so far
Urs

[harti20]

Hi all

Long time no progress on this build... To be honest, after my last posting I was just too frustrated by the results achieved so far that I put the box back on my stash and started new projects. There also was one problem I didn't really know how to solve, I only knew that I wouldn't use the black rubbery folding top provided in the kit. As I came to a halt with the build on my Ferrari Roma because I had to wait for an opportunity to clear coat the body, I decided to pull this box out of the stash and finally finish this car. But most of the time I forgot to take pictures of the current progress, so I can only show you how it looked like two years ago when I put it back to the stash

Then it progressed to this state, about one week ago

And yesterday it was finally the time to attach the last few parts and calling it done ? I'm not really happy with the final result, but I tried to at least bring it to an more or less satisfying end.

More and better pics will follow as soon as I went to the studio for the next time ?
Urs

[Anglia105E]

Nice shade of yellow Urs . . . What is it about this build that you are not happy with, may I ask ?

Looks good to me . . .

David

[Duddly01]

Turned out very nice IMHO, the seats look amazing. 

[harti20]

19 minutes ago, Anglia105E said:

Nice shade of yellow Urs . . . What is it about this build that you are not happy with, may I ask ?

Looks good to me . . .

David

Thank you David  Happily it can't be seen that well in the pictures. I had to repaint the engine hood and the yellow turned out much lighter than on the rest of the body. Also the look of the seats is something I'm not really happy with. And in general most of the leather work is way too thick. but this time I wasn't able to skim it even more without damaging the leather... ? 

2 minutes ago, Duddly01 said:

Turned out very nice IMHO, the seats look amazing. 

Thank you too, Donald. But as I said, the seats are one of the points I'm not really happy with. Maybe I'll get used to it over time, but as I wasn't happy with them already two years ago, I doubt it ?

Urs

[Duddly01]

I actually thought the roughness gave them some great patina look.  

[slusher]

Very nice clean work!  She is a beauty!

[cifenet]

It came out fantastic!!  Great work on this.  

[David G.]

That turned out quite well.

It must be great having it done.

David G.

[harti20]

Thank you very much for all your kind comments ?