Finally have an exact model of my car.

[Composite Guru]

After all the years of owning various cars I've never be able to get an exact replica of the car due to facelifts etc.
I've just got this in the post today after waiting 5 weeks.
Happy bunny.

[MorganP104]

Me too!





(Front numberplate removed in this picture, as I was re-painting the plate surround/holder.)

[kiethton]

Very jealous - where from?

Want one of mine but can't seem to find it:

[Guiddy]

Hey, Nice one!

I'll add my two considering we are starting an Elise theme!

[Composite Guru]

MorganP104 said:

Me too!





(Front numberplate removed in this picture, as I was re-painting the plate surround/holder.)

Nice one!!

[Composite Guru]

kiethton said:

Very jealous - where from?

Want one of mine but can't seem to find it:

I got it from here.
http://www.grandprixmodels.co.uk/searchdetail.php?...
Exige and Elise models seem to be quite hard to find. This model is actually officially licensed by Lotus and sold in their showrooms.

[Composite Guru]

Guiddy said:

Hey, Nice one!

I'll add my two considering we are starting an Elise theme!

Nice colour!!

[kiethton]

Composite Guru said:

kiethton said:

Very jealous - where from?

Want one of mine but can't seem to find it:

I got it from here.
http://www.grandprixmodels.co.uk/searchdetail.php?...
Exige and Elise models seem to be quite hard to find. This model is actually officially licensed by Lotus and sold in their showrooms.

Indeed, a quick browse has found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matchbox-1-64-2006-Lotus...

Although the quality/model doesn't seem quite right to mine!

[Guiddy]

kiethton said:

Very jealous - where from?

Want one of mine but can't seem to find it:

Autoart 1/43rd is just a shade too light I think!

[kiethton]

Guiddy said:

Autoart 1/43rd is just a shade too light I think!

That's interesting but as you say looks like the lighter Laser Blue - How easy are models to re-paint?

[Composite Guru]

kiethton said:

Guiddy said:

Autoart 1/43rd is just a shade too light I think!

That's interesting but as you say looks like the lighter Laser Blue - How easy are models to re-paint?

Not very as most parts are glued.

Best you could do is get some liquid latex that modellers use on aircraft windscreens and paint that on all the bits you don't want to spray. Peel off afterwards.

The main problem you will have is finding scale paint. If you painted it with standard car paint then the metallic flakes will be too large.

[kuro]

Nothing exotic but minichamps made some time to turn out a model of my daily hack.

[Guiddy]

kiethton said:

That's interesting but as you say looks like the lighter Laser Blue - How easy are models to re-paint?

Easy...if you know how! Really hard if you don't! Could ask around if someone has the know how and wanted to take it on?

[wibble cb]

couldn't find one, so resprayed one....!

[Simes205]

I have a corgi one of my 205.
It literally is a model of my car as corgi/Hornby cane round and took the measurements of my car to produce the model!

[Composite Guru]

wibble cb said:

couldn't find one, so resprayed one....!

Nice. Sometimes they can be a bit hard to disassemble so good masking skills are required.

[Guiddy]

wibble cb said:

couldn't find one, so resprayed one....!

Buy the model, respray the car to match! ;-)

[thebigmacmoomin]

I had to make an exact model of my real car, Mk2.5 Focus ST 3dr. Bought a red model & painted it myself Performance Blue.

[lucido grigio]

Orange ones are much more common than silver grey 1\18th scale but the opposite for full size cars.

[SAB888]

Simes205 said:

I have a corgi one of my 205.
It literally is a model of my car as corgi/Hornby cane round and took the measurements of my car to produce the model!

Any pics of the model? I used to have a 1.9GTI and managed to find a very good model of it a few years ago by some obscure manufacturer, but it's a very good likeness of the real car. I miss my 1.9GTI!!