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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:42 pm Post subject: Tamiya Mini Cooper Monte Carlo '67 |
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I've had this kit for around 25 years, building it off and on. I guess I wanted the building pleasure to last. It is a gem of a kit with incredible parts fit. As good as a kit gets. I had airbrushed tamiya acrylics, and maybe I wasn't pleased with the lack of gloss I would get from a can of lacquer, which made me put it aside for a while. I polished it fairly well more recently, and might give it a Future coat. The only real anxiety was with the fragile decals. Maybe the age did something, but they cracked apart quite easily. I'll need to do some touch-ups with paint in a few spots.
_________________ Bill Jobson is my real name. |
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spooker
Joined: 11 Feb 2018 Posts: 437
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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That's a neat little bugger, Bill! I remember when the "mini-stocks" class first started around here, a local guy used one of those at a local paved track, he cleaned up! All the rear drive cars couldn't keep up. |
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TN Vols fan
Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 274 Location: Crossett, AR
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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I like it just how it is. Great model! _________________ "Many men fish all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" quote from The Compleat Angler, lzzak Walton 1654 |
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TonyK
Joined: 21 Feb 2018 Posts: 115
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:07 am Post subject: |
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Very nice job on this kit. I think it looks fine just the way it is. Remember, it shouldn't look like it's sitting in a showroom.
I remember building this model many years ago and it was very enjoyable as any Tamiya kit usually is. |
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Racer14
Joined: 13 Feb 2018 Posts: 282 Location: Rockford, IL
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Very neat little build! |
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Henryjint
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 1972 Location: NY State's Hudson Valley
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Very neat build!!! _________________ Forum member since 10/25/2010 |
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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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TonyK wrote: | Very nice job on this kit. I think it looks fine just the way it is. Remember, it shouldn't look like it's sitting in a showroom.
I remember building this model many years ago and it was very enjoyable as any Tamiya kit usually is. |
Thanks. I had actually considered weathering it - spattering some road dust to mask the flaws. Might do that yet! _________________ Bill Jobson is my real name. |
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Pierre Rivard
Joined: 25 Feb 2021 Posts: 378 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Really nice Bill. I like the finish, it looks like a race car. Definitely one I'd want to build if I can find a kit. _________________ "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra |
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Firefly
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 810 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Pierre Rivard wrote: | Really nice Bill. I like the finish, it looks like a race car. Definitely one I'd want to build if I can find a kit. |
I see they are way more costly currently - probably out of production, but wondering if they will reissue it. _________________ Bill Jobson is my real name. |
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