During the series there were several versions of Mr. Bean’s Mini.
In the episode, “The Exam” Mr. Bean drives an Orange Mini!
the mini he has in the first episode (the exam, church, etc) gets destroyed.
At the end, during the credits, it shows him drive the Orange Mini onto a dead end street. You hear a crash and one of the tires bounces across the screen! It is too funny! [(-D] [(-D] [(-D]
The episode where the Yellow Mini is crushed by the tank is hillarious! After he gets over the shock of seeing his crushed car, he walks over and removes the padlock, and puts it in his pocket. Mr. Bean then walks away like nothing happened! [:D]
Rowan Atkinson is one of the best British comedic actors ever!
Great Idea! I never woulda thought of building that in a million years! Really cool. Now you need to do the part when his bike gets run over with a tank! (That’s a stug, right?)
I started in, not as hard as I thought.
Here is the damage I did to the fender, melted the inside and then hit it to make dents, alittle bit poped through at the top and made a hole, I gota fix that with putty, so I gota get some soon.
I painted the inside black, and the hood. (ala my referenceS)
well, I’m making alot of progress on this little guy but I have come accross a quandry of an issue. I need to paint one of the doors a different color then the rest of the kit, BUT the car body is one piece. How do I get that shiny nice car finish hand brushing?
Spray the body the color you want first, let it dry, then polish it as much as you want. After it has dryed thoroughly, mask off around the door and paint the door a different color.
I dont know how to get that really smooth glossy finish hand brushing though. I have no extra bottles, my AB isnt a gravity feed, so I cant do custom mixes for it right now (mixing bottles are all in use)
Oooo, I see. Well I don’t have a lot of experience brushing gloss finishes by hand, so i’m going off the cuff here and spewing out ideas that I think sound like they would work…
Try painting the color with a soft, wide brush and thin the paint slightly. You don’t want it to run, but you don’t want it to show brush strokes either. You may need to practice this on some spare plastic. After that is completely dry, try several light ( and I mean very light) coats of Future. it dries with a high gloss and is pretty easy to brush on without leaving brush marks.
Very intresting project…I just completed one myself…as the missus is huge Mr.Bean fan. the biggest problem I had was making the lock on the door. I ended up using strip styrene and part of a paper clip for the lock. Color wise for the greenish color Tamiya yellowgreen XF-4 was the closest I could find. I have a pic on SAE’s webpage. I too would have put in a figure of Mr. Bean if I could have found something even remotely close. Yours is Looking good so far. I’m looking forward to seeing your done…Gary
I’m scrapping mine, to many problems I have run into. Plus, the more I work on it, and look at my reference shots, the more and more I see how different this model car is compared to the one his mini was.
Why scrap it? Just throw some paint on there, and see how it come out. If you don’t like it in the end, save it for the 4th of July! [}:)]