An Aston Martin Ulster as SE5a - ** FINISHED **

[TimJ]

Looks WWI to me. Aluminium bonnet and RFC roundels, perhaps?

[JohnRatzenberger]

SE5A??

Looks awesome, John!

YES, a winner emerges !!!

[Sissel]

SE5A??

Looks awesome, John!

YES, a winner emerges !!!

I knew it!! I am so good sometimes!
Was the first thing that entered my mind seeing those colors.
Now I can get to bed a happy one. Almost 3 am.

What do I win? I golden engraved trophy??

[ShaunW]

A WWI SE5A scheme is a great choice for this car. Looking good so far.

[mattbacon]

Looks like one of those super-cool new Morgan three-wheelers to me!



bestest,
M.

[Zee28]

SE5A, super choice John! I wasn't a million miles away with my Bristol F2B punt a while back, but Prisca nailed it.

It's looking superb!

Zee28

[JohnRatzenberger]

Actually an F2B was a candidate, even thought about a Scarff mount for the passenger seat ....

[splash]

All I can say is Brilliant

Regards Splash

[JohnRatzenberger]

Here we are, waiting on paint to dry again, Hu155 being the culprit .... It's the "standard" PC-10, but I like a better color and so am overpainting with Mr Kit's PC-10 -- it just take Hu155 2 days to dry.





Plenty of time. The remaining parts are more or less ready. I have decals all picked out but they are from Roden and if they disintegrate I'll need a plan B.

[fredk]

Cracker. How'd you do that, er, um, 'stitching' along the bodyside?

[Zee28]

Brilliant work John, this is really coming together nicely. Love your rear-end! (Well, not your rear end exactly, you know what I mean!), the red, white and blue looks super.

Zee28

[JohnRatzenberger]

Cracker. How'd you do that, er, um, 'stitching' along the bodyside?

By hand, of course

Actually, compliments of an Eduard photo-etch set ....

[Migrant]

Perfect choice for that scheme John, it already looks like a fuselage with wheels.

[JohnRatzenberger]

Here we are, winding down with some detail painting & highlighting on the body.





Next up will be a glossy coat so I can start decaling.

The few bits & pieces I have left are all chrome and I need to decide if that is appropriate for the scheme.
-- gas caps, radiator caps, some little bits up front - that seems OK
-- the wire wheels are OK
-- how about the windscreen ?
-- how about the exhaust ?
-- how about the headlights ?

Any thoughts would be appreciated ....

[Migrant]

The few bits & pieces I have left are all chrome and I need to decide if that is appropriate for the scheme.
-- gas caps, radiator caps, some little bits up front - that seems OK
-- the wire wheels are OK
-- how about the windscreen ?
-- how about the exhaust ?
-- how about the headlights ?

If it was mine, I'd do the headlights the same colour as the body, the exhaust in a burnt metal colour and leave the other bits chrome/silver.

It's looking great, love the stitching.