| The home stretch! At this point, I was starting to get tired of working on this kit. As mentioned previously, the grill was a solid peice of chrome, and not very well defined. I stripped the kit chrome, cut out the center of the grill, and replaced it with a photoetched part from The Model Car Garage - it was a part originally intended for the Revell Willy's kit, but I adapted it to fit into the grill opening on the Healey. Then sprayed the whole thing with Allclad II Chrome.
Next I started on the interior. I couldn't find any decent photos of the interior of a 100-6, so I used a lot of license based on what I knew about cars from this period. |
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| The seats were sprayed with Model Master tan and then several washes of red-brown were applied to give it a well-used leather look. I was very pleased with the end-result.
The kit dash was set aside and I decided to scratch-build one out of real wood veneer. I used an oak veneer and cut a small brass plate for the instrument panel. I used PE bezels from an aftermarket 1/48 airplane parts set, along with some Detail Master PE parts. I even added a tiny PE key! The steering wheel is a kit part, sprayed with Model Master silver, with the rim being tan with several washes to give it the look of wood. I considered using the R&MofMD wooden steering wheel, but honestly at this point I just wanted to be DONE with this thing! :-) It's not visible in the picture but the shifter is made from a straight pin with a small ball of CA painted gloss black. |
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The headlights were redone using a Model Railroad lens. The original kit part is on the left, and the new headlight is on the right. The black goop is clay to hold the part steady. The rest of the lenses I just used as-is from the kit, using the Tamiya clear red and yellow to imitate the tail lights and marker lamps. | ||||||||||
| I used the kit chrome parts for the front and rear bumpers, and the windshield was sprayed with Allclad II Chrome, masked, and the posts were sprayed blue.
Well, there you have it. I'd not take on this kit again, but the final result isn't too bad. Thanks! |
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| References: | Austin Healey 100 Restoration Site Austin-Healey.com The Magical Mystical Weber DCOE |
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