Lamborghini Miura - Hasegawa 1/24

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A great kit of probably the best-looking, if not best-driving, supercar ever...

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It's very green... Tamiya Lime Green from a can, polished with Novus. Interior just getting started...

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Have you got a license for that green!? :mrgreen:
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very nice....look forward to seeing that progress :grin:
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Thanks, you two...

It seems like a million years since I did anything on this: building Box Art dioramas has kept me busy :roll:

Anyway, there HAS been progress:
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...a Symphony In Black. This is all OOB, including metal "transfers", and painted with a variety of different textures of "black" including Halfords Satin auto spray, Plastikote "Velvet" for the carpets, Vallejo German Grey for leather dash and console, and Citadel "Chaos Black" for seats etc... The decals are excellent, although the carrier film is too big and misaligned, so the dials need trimming so they'll fit.

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The "engine" clicked into place (it needs to pop out again to fit the rear suspension). It's very well thought out - it looks great where you can see it (behind the wheels, through the window behind the seats) but isn't over engineered, given that the engine bay cover doesn't open. It's not exactly "kerbside", as you can see, but it's not loads of hidden, wasted, detail... either.

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I gotta agree about the E-type - supercar or no, it's the best looking car EVER (IMHO, obviously). Series 1.5 Coupe for me, but YMMV. The 507 is gorgeous as well, and there's one in the stash to be build in a double-header with the XK120. I must admit, I never quite _got_ the Countach... eye-catching, for sure, but weird looking to begin with and steadily more out there as they glued on more wings and scoops and cut out more vents. Whereas the Miura drapes a classic long-bonnet, rear cabin curvy sportscar body over a mid-engined chassis... and gets away with it!

Eye of the beholder, I guess...

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It needs to be black to provide an oasis of calm after all that colour. Nice work with all the shades of black.
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Great interior colour, the different blacks work really well.

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Nice color. Fantastic interior
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Great job on the interior and the body colour is just the sort of in your face colour I'd expect on a Lamborghini.
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Thanks for the support, gentlemen...

The chassis is now completed:
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It all fits together very well indeed. I followed the numbered sequence so that everything fits around and through everything else, except that I added the poly caps and brake discs to the wheel bearings right at the end.

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The back end looks the part - it's exactly detailed enough, and no more. What a contrast to that Fujimi "Enthusiast" 288 GTO...

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The eagle-eyed among you will note that I've highlighted the panel gaps a little. I happen to have a full set of Citadel coloured washes that are intended for wargaming figures, so I thought I'd try the transparent dark green to wash the lines with. I think it looks OK... not too stark a contrast, but clearly there...

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Hi Matt

That's looking super! The Miura was my favourite car when I was a kid, and I've got about 8 different colour variants in Matchbox die-casts.

I think the lime green suits it perfectly: it's one of those cars that needs an 'In Your Face' colour.

You've done a great job on the interior: your pics & description are just the help I need for my 1/12 scale Nichimo Lotus Europa JPS, which is blessed with a completely black interior. I was wondering how to 'lift' the sea of blackness, but you've done yours in a way that doesn't look at all monotonous.

Looking forward to seeing her complete.

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Thanks, Zane... marching onward:

I've completed window trims using BMF.

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...and oh, look! There's a bit that needs touching up... grrrr.

...and started to add the grilles and lights

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I need to decide whether this one is going to have external rear view mirrors or not...

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Ah so that's what those chrome rectangles were for.
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Thanks, James. I think I'm definitely on the home straight now:

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The chassis ready to go in. Take a good look, especially at that engine, because this is the last time it'll be visible!

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And together... in the end I did it three times (forgot the mirror the first time, doh!) but it snaps in really precisely, with only a little bit of "springing" the bodyshell sides to clear the cockpit. I only fixed the transparent window shell at the roof, so that it was free to flex away from the body at the lower edges, to minimise the risk of cracking the windows as I flexed the shell to get the chassis in. NB... you DO need to fit the wheels to the chassis before putting it in! By a quirk of lighting, the last two images are the most accurate representation of the true colour that I've managed to post yet.

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I like this one because it does give a sense of peering into a real car, somehow...

Metal badges and decals now, then the final breakable details!

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Probably the only car ever made that can get away with being painted that colour.
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