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Nice to see a build on a chassis that I'm not familar with.

Only chassis of M chassis I own so far is the M02 and M04.


Is the blue shine we see on some of the parts a reflection of your xmas lights?

caprinut wrote:

Nice as always!

Will those lights be painted brass color as early cars had brass lights?

They're based on Welch patent railway lamps, which were zinc (or possibly tin) plated steel with some copper and brass parts, some were overpainted in grey ... Any you see now are iron oxide / phosphate coloured, or badly repainted.

Tl;Dr - no, more like old bare steel

Aha

caprinut wrote:

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Is the blue shine we see on some of the parts a reflection of your xmas lights?

There's red, green & yellow in there too

Day 9, visually a lot of progress ... I really don't like the blend of plastic on some of these parts - I don't think I should have to saw them off the sprue

Paint update - much happier with the colour once backed with blue

Have peeled the extra masking off, some of the 3M plastic stuff had peeled/bled, but a bit of localised scraping with a scalpel has already fixed that. Also an inexplicable chip right through both layers, but a little of the Cobalt Green sprayed in the cap & dabbed on with a small brush has sorted that too

Really nice color Jonny.

Day 10, rear upper arms & diff outdrives. Meh.

Made bigger skis (4x the area)

I hope it will see some snow when its finihed

We have not seen a single flake here so far, just typical UK weather lol, cold and wet.
And from the reports, we may not see any snow at all for a while..