Hi!
One main piece missing for a Heller 1/24 Delahaye 135 (got a price for the missing piece + shipping costs with Heller's Spare Parts department, piece should be shipped this next week to a friend's address in France as they only ship within France, which then he will ship to me) that I started many moons ago, and had started trying to restore/repaint/rebuild and finish recently but had to interrupt because of the fundamental piece #1, plus two diecast metal 1/24 scale from the now defunct Gabriel (later Hubley) that I can't build because I somehow lost or misplaced the assembling instructions (and without them I'm definitely no good in mechanics, nor cars, nor any others... 🙁 ) .
I know for others here it would be a piece of cake, I wish I could...
With these three on a hold, my 120mm US Navy pilot (WWII Pacific) between drying oil paints, or waiting for a couple of Humbrol enamel paints I ordered for the main uniform, it's going slowly, hence I have plenty of time for other projects while this one has its phases down/off.
I decided to start this 2nd motorcycle I had on my old stash, made by Protar, same manufacturer as the Montesa cota 247 recently finished (here, finished : https://imodeler.com/2018/10/1-24-montesa-cota-247/ and here the WiP: https://imodeler.com/groups/motorcycles/forum/topic/montesa-cota-247-1-9/ ) .
This one is a Greeves 360 Challenger, also at 1/9 scale, as the Montesa.
It's if not mistaken, from the online research I've done, a 1967 cross motorcycle.
Funny because being the same manufacturer for both, the instructions manuals are quite different.
This one is as shown on the following photos:
(I'm almost finished with Part 2 now)
The parts:
The tyres, the chain (which is in rubber), and two small spues. Mainly the seat, a couple of the engine parts, the gas tank, other smaller parts :
Two more sprues, one mainly engine parts, on the other the two parts exaust pipe, parts of the chassis, others:
Two sprues with only chrome parts:
And as usual, one sprue only for rubber parts:
Started tonigh, done so far (painted some Humbrol enamel Gloss Black - mixed with some flatting agent - parts and a green part, for this one I used Humbrol enamel Matt Uniform Green, #76) :
Some of the other non yet painted pieces visible on the pics, some will be Grey, others Black. And then others chrome (which I'll maintain the one from the original kit) . But now most of those pieces have been painted.
Cheers!
Dolfo
