Hello James.

A good start by the looks of it. Looking forward to seeing it progress.

Cheers.

Sean.

Hi James

Can i suggest, if you have gone to the trouble of flattening the nose, you replace the windscreen surround too? It appears from your photos that you are still a way off getting the nose to the right profile and the window etch will help you sort this. Plus it does look very good when fitted!

Keep up the good work.

Rob

James, hi... good start... but I agree with Rob that you need to look athe bonnet top profile which is actually near-flat (not quite).... so whilst you need to remove alot of material from the w/s end, the nose end is hardly touched. When I did mine, I took just enough off from the front to remove the bonnet door mounldings.. but not much else. Don't worry though as toy can always add some filler to the front and build it back up and then file/smooth down again. A trick Brian taught me was to hold the model up to the light and look from underneath at the bonnet area, the plastic should be thinned so that the lighter blue area (of the thinner plastic) is uniform... this way you can see whether you need to remove more from either side... or whether you're getting closer.

It's all a bit hit and miss to be honest... and one of the trickier bits; let's face it, Heljan can't get it right can they, so don't expect to get it right first time! The curve around the edges is subtle and the top in elevation isn't quite flat - there is still some curve to the doors. I hope my blog photos will help.. if not, drop me a pm and I'll see if I've any I didn't post online to better show it.. and I'll try and add them here.

Go to Brain Hanson's Extreme Etchings blog site and the picture references, and there is all his photos - which also might help; I mentioned this site in my BRM article too - just can't recall it right now.

It's a start... ... don't rush it... and keep the faith ;-) Thrum thrum

Jon

cheers chaps, its still very early days and ill be back on with the files and sand paper.....

Cheers for the tips Jon last night was just about getting most of the raised detail ground down, tonight ill be looking at the bonnet tops and curves and getting the front window frames sorted, and maybe the grilles, about time i unpacked all the etchings they make such a difference couldnt believe the improvement when i did the on Paddy last time. Just got to fing me CD of pics Brian has sent me now...

If you can find some more pics Jone please add them, ill be taking my laptop modelling with me tonight.

Thanks all for looking and the encouragement

James

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James,

Hope these upload ok

Hmm, can't recall how to put images in replies; sure it changes each time. Oh well. Look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nimbus20/sets/72157628459113635/with/6527315435/

Excelent stuff thanks very much Jon