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I took the screws out while the resin was still a little tacky; the resin raised the pile of the cloth giving a very "rough canvas" look that I wasn't too keen on ...






... so I added a layer of fine glassfibre cloth:







I will trim the edges of the tonneau cover back a little, but even so it really compromises the placement of lights ... best place for them I think is the wing mirror holes ... which then means there's really nowhere to fit mirrors, ho hum

Frog type light on the roof is proportionately much bigger than the 1:1, but at least it's smaller than the Holiday Buggy type round ones.

I want to trim the front wheelarch liners to expose the front dampers more, after that I'll be reinforcing the insides, then using epoxy putty & filler to blend bits on the outside. Rear cage tops I'm planning to make part of a separate interior.

this looks bloody great jonny good work you have done there m8

JR, top job there! This is turning into a brilliant build with so little reference to go by. Truly inspirational as usual.
Marius

A real hard work Jonny. A real creation. Not a custom. You are a crazyman LOL.

Definitely inspiring.

"DINGUE"!!!!!!!!!!!!! UN truc de OUF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice work JR , I noticed that in each of the images the "Budget Bug" has a different race number? Surprisingly small number of pic's for a car entered in 3 separate races

andyaus wrote:

Nice work JR , I noticed that in each of the images the "Budget Bug" has a different race number? Surprisingly small number of pic's for a car entered in 3 separate races

Here's another number - 92 this time - to add to the others (64, 49, 110). I know there were more pictures of this car taken, scanned & published on t'internet - I found links but they were dead

The decal sheet seem to have been developed from the one side on pic, and even then has several errors & omissions:
- Missing "110", "64" & "92" numbers
- should be 5 racing numbers, not 4 - an extra one is needed for the nose
- Missing "Parker Race Cars" decal for the sun visor
- "Western Auto Batteries" is usually correct, but in this case should be "Western Auto Tires"
- Missing 2x "Auto Haus" decals
- "KC Daylighter" decals should be the darker yellow large angled "KC" ones
- Missing (presumably 2x) KC decals with borders
- Missing further 6 decals, 2 each of 3 designs (2 of them I kind of recognise - shield, red & white stripey one - and 1 other - which to be fair is almost unreadable - harold's?)
- Should be two varieties of k&N decals (one pair without the filter)
- Rapid Cool, Bel-Ray, Bell & Champion decals are not used on the car
- 1/18 (I think) versions of the door panels & some of the sponsor logos are no use as the set isn't complete

That's a bit disappointing as it only took me 10 minutes to find the other pictures & spot the flaws in the decal sheet

We continue ...

Interior "floor" card template & styrene copy loose fitted ... "floor level" is the same height as the bracket on the driver figure:







Driver figure (with bracket cut off) in place ... angle of steering wheel is completely wrong:






I was lazy at first & tried a lighter for adjustments ... hair dryer also didn't work ... hot air gun worked a bit too well ...







It's not up to the standards of a Rogue Element dash kit, but with paint & speedo/fuel gauge/clock decals it'll do ...







Working on the rollcage, including "bars" running from the rear cage to the interior...






I cheated a bit - the roll cage won't have the bits hidden by the curve of the roof:






I still need to fix/glue the rollcage, and I also want to fit seat backs, a small fuel cell & gearstick top ... possible also a plumbed in fire extinguisher (aka a Wild Willy NOS bottle painted red ).

Jonny you are definitively a top repro man
How do you make??????????????