I thought I’d do something different while I’m waiting for money to get the paints I need for my Galactica Viper kit. This kit I was given as my uncle found it for 50p in a charity shop somewhat built. I plan to build the interior with plasticard with wire seat frames and such, but that’s at home and I’m at uni, so that’ll have to wait till next week before I can go home and get it. I want to cover most of the drivers side of the car with shrubs and plants, but I need to find a decent way of doing this with what I can find, I was thinking of some dried grass and small branches. The back wall will either be brick or a fence, I’m leaning towards brick as I think It could look much better. I could make this with getting a flat board and coating it with milliput and carving the brick pattern into it.
It was just idea I had in the early hours of the morning The burned effect was mostly a lucky guess, I started with a basecoat of black, and airbrushed white over it, as it was only my 2nd time using an airbrush the flow was quite uneven, and this created the ashy white areas, after that I went over the darker areas with a grey mixture, and brushed on the rust colour. I also peeled of a few sections of the black paint as it reacted (luckily)
It’s an XR3i, It’s a 1/25 kit by AMT, I’ve not actually ever seen another one, so in hindsight I maybe should have kept it in one piece! Though it wasn’t in the best condition when I got it. I do have the rear spoiler here, it’s also got an optional biplane spoiler like the one from the Sierra XR4.
I take it from this & your avatar picture that you’re a Ford fan?
I had an XR4i a long while back - loved that car! Considered throwing a 24v Granada Cosworth lump in it, but at the time they were hard to get hold of & a bit on the expensive side…
It was just the same cologne V6 but bored out to 2.9 with better internals wasn’t it? It’s probably a more common conversion now, either that or the XB
Thats the standard 2.9 12v. The 2.8 was push-rod OHV with siamesed exhaust ports & as such was difficult to tune to any extent without doing something radical like adding a turbo or supercharger, all the regular tuning routes like big valve heads, exhaust & inlet tweaking weren’t really worth the bother.
The 2.9 12v did away with the siamesed exhaust ports, but wasn’t really a huge improvement, the 2.9 24V Cosworth unit on the other hand really only retained the 2.9 block, which was strengthened & had a pair of Cosworth developed twin OHC 4 valve per cylinder heads put on it & was a huge improvement.
The back end of the 2.9 Cosworth block was designed for the Granada auto box, which made a straight swap for the 2.8 or 2.9 12v pretty difficult & it was a while before anything became readily available to join the two…
The burned effect was mostly a lucky guess, I started with a basecoat of black, and airbrushed white over it, as it was only my 2nd time using an airbrush the flow was quite uneven, and this created the ashy white areas, after that I went over the darker areas with a grey mixture, and brushed on the rust colour. I also peeled of a few sections of the black paint as it reacted (luckily)