Tamiya 1/24 Morris Mini Cooper S with a twist.

[yambam26]

Ah sounds good to me be nice to see some pics with the paint on

Oh btw just out of curiosity do you have the minilite style wheels from the morris mini cooper racing kit?

Im after some really and can't find them in the right scale except for those that come in that kit

[Guest]

Yeah but im going to be using them now since nobody has the correct size minilites i actually want.

The kits aren't that expensive though i don't think (£14.50)

This is where i got mine from.

Allways Hobies

[yambam26]

Ah that's cool mate

Yeah that's a good price ill add that shop to my favourites always handy to have!

Thanks,

Ben

[Guest]

Good stuff

Done loads of stuff lol.

V-tec engine hasn't arrived but the front is prepped ready for it. made the exhausts & roll cage for it.

Supercharged mini has seats, some paint, exhaust & intake pipe. I got some new drill bits too so i could make the wholes for the wires on the engine. the smallest drill was 0.3mm & it looks like a hair. I used fishing wire for the cables instead of cotton like i did last time lol.

The red one was sitting on the wheels for the V-tec just to see how it looked.

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[Guest]

Adam thats some great scratch skills going on, there looking forward to seeing more!

[Guest]

Haha thanks

[yambam26]

Nice work there adam, These mini's are going to come out great with all this scratch building!

[Guest]

They should do haha

[Guest]

Still no engine

[Guest]

Finally got the K20

Bit of a mess though. Lots of cutting neede & cleaning needed

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[Guest]

rather you than me mate,i had a 1275 gt in orange(real one not model)and it was lovely so i`m quietly watching this from afar lol

mobear

[Guest]

Engine is bigger than expected. Gearbox is also huge.

Bonnet will need 1 hell of a bulge to make it fit & part of the passenger foot well has been lost to the gearbox.

Thinking this was a bad idea now lol

:bigmistake:

Still got to start on the subframe but i will do that tomorrow when i have some proper tools.

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[aaron]

This is definatly proving to be a challenge, If it means anything the engine looks fricken wicked dominating the engine bay.

Could you not take some from the bottom of the engine for better fit?

[Guest]

I could but i want it to be realistic lol. looking at the real one the engine is allmost sat on the floor i have to have the engine sat higher to have the intake manifold to fit

[Guest]

Some brilliant models have come from the builder thinking it was a bad idea at some time in the build....... you keep with it Adam, you'll come up with a solution , i'm enjoying the updates on this so keep 'em comin'