Ford 3 litre GT

[Mickc1440]

One of our ASDA stores had been clearing out their small model stock, this was the last kit and priced at £5. I’ve not built a car since school and couldn’t leave it sat on the shelf

 

[stillp]

I've never seen any kits in Asda.

Pete

 

[Mickc1440]

This was the store on a retail park in Chesterfield. They used to have about a dozen mixed starter sets. The shop isn’t a food supermarket.

 

[PaulTRose]

our local huge asda has airfix kits in the kids section

 

[papa 695]

Nice one Mick, I picked up the rally car for a fiver in my Asda

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Good find Mick. It seems that quite a few companies are letting go of Airfix. Our local Fenwicks had a concession in it's toy section, stocking the full range, that has now gone.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Mick
That's a real bargain. An iconic car from the 60s/70s.
Jim

 

[stillp]

Looked in our local (Rugby) Asda today, but no kits.

Pete

 

[Steve Jones]

Well this is out of your comfort zone. Great to see you branching out with something different. Good luck mate

 

[Si Benson]

A classic sports car if ever there was....are you blogging Mick?
Si

 

[JR]

Nice . sorry to say we don't have an Asda.
John .

 

[PWick]

We have a few Asda stores north/central Bucks but no kits. I built one of these when they first produced them donkey's years ago!

 

[Mickc1440]

A classic sports car if ever there was....are you blogging Mick?
Si

I will put on some pics, looks like being purely oob as interior pics are somewhat lacking

 

[Mickc1440]

Work is still slowing proceedings but I have made a start, ordered some Vallejo Air paint but its completely the wrong red so Tamiya rattle can on order. Its a very basic kit but does look the part. The dashboard has decals for all the gauges but they don't fit the holes without some modification, they were sealed in place with pva as glass but you can hardly see them anyway. You will see from the pics that there is very little interior but I'm making up some seatbelts for the drivers seat. The silver parts need another coat as I'm actually brush painting

I've fitted the single piece glass to the upper body which will be masked off for eventual spray painting of this.



Next up is parts for the suspension which attach to the lower body, I noticed that the instructions for these four parts are printed incorrectly as the part numbers are wrong, easily spotted but one to look for if anyone else builds this kit

That's all for now folks.

 

[Si Benson]

Good start Mick, the part numbering made me laugh...not even close is it
Si

 

[papa 695]

Nice start Mick

 

[JR]

Mick.
Looks good, that glass looks very clean and nice in one part.
Nice to see quality control on the instructions is up to standard !
John.

 

[Mickc1440]

Thanks for looking in Gents. The quality control does continue on with the parts for the wheels and tyres, it's almost as though the people producing the sprues and the ones doing the instrucyions never actually got together at any point . A bit more progress made during rest breaks from removing a bathroom, I really dislike 1:1 scale remodelling. This was supposed to be a straight oob construction, then on a bit of old film I noticed that the wheels on the model had been printed solid but on the real ones you could see through to the brake disc and calliper. Well it's only ten holes, shouldn't take too long here's when I'd done two of them before clean up. all now done.

 

[JR]

Nice Mick.
No doubt designed by a committee then. Should have had a few more meetings !

John.

 

[Mickc1440]

I agree John, not something I've ever come across before with Airfix but since coming back to modelling I haven't built many.