Retrocosm wrote:

OMG, you officially win, everything.

Lol thank you 😃 It really is a lot easier than you think. It just takes patience.

mikef350 wrote:

Jesus Christ 😮 you sir are a true artist,that’s superb that pal 👌

Thank you 😃

The body is pretty much done now (body, floor, hood, roof and doors) so I can start on the fun stuff – the details 😎 That’s real fake leather right there!

Retrocosm wrote:

Beautiful, are they working windows I see?

Thank you and no they are not. I’d intended for them to be but it’s a time sink. I can do it with a long servo arm but with half a turn to wind completely up or down it’s not realistic. The FJ (like pretty much all cars in the 60’s) uses a cable mechanism which I modelled 4 years ago but kinda didn’t get it to work. Well technically it worked, but it was jerky and kept getting stuck.

I think I’ll do this as a side project some day… For now that door with the missing door card is simply part of the beaten-up look of the build. Like it broke, and the owner started dismanteling the thing to fix it but just never got round to finishing the repair. Like many of my own DIY endeavours 😉

mark wrote:

If we start telling you how nice those bobbejaanspaner is will we get one in the post?

Of course. If it doesn’t arrive in a couple days… wait longer 🤣

Retrocosm wrote:

Man that is some fiddly arsed detail, brilliant work.

It is that, but I enjoy tiny details immensely and wish I had eternal time for more of them!

Update: Back from France (coffee is still astonishingly bad) and working on interior panels, windows and window rubbers.

Doubt I’ll update tomorrow so all the best for 2020.

Transmission tunnel.