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Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/24/2012 11:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		So, here is my new project! First i start off with the body (as usual with my two other cars), and then later i will make a new chassi. I think. It does fits my FG, but i guess the creativity takes me and of course i have to make a new chassi

I will paint it white, this makes a good base for eventually later liverys for this car if i want to as they are very much based on white from the works cars. To compare i put a 1/10 scale Escort on top of it, this is also how this one will look at the end

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 1:26 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 2:33 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 3:57 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 5:18 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 6:17 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 7/25/2012 6:37 PM   
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When you build your own chassis, what do you make it out of?

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I make it from aluminium mostly, and other suitable stuff i have lying around, like i did with this car

Oh yes, beleive me, i have seen Headquakes car(s)! I thin it is by far the most realistic i have ever seen, and also coolest. This Escort is also true to the scale, which makes it so nice. If he only could wrap a lexan sheet around it and vacuum form it for us others to enjoy it would be nice

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/20/2012 1:03 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/20/2012 2:52 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/20/2012 3:09 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/20/2012 9:17 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/20/2012 10:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks dudes! Today i finished masking the body, and also on the outside as it don't have a protection film. I covered it in a big, black plastic from some wrapping i found at work

Oh, and i have painted the grille, i did this even if i am going to make one realistic looking that i am going to make on my computer and print out. When i still owned my Escort mk2 1/1 i took a picture of the grille as shown on the 1/10-car in the picture in the first post. Going to use the same sticker as this one, just need a bit of resizing

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/22/2012 1:21 PM   
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cant wait to see it. This guy made an electric 1/5th escort.. sure it is electric.. but he made the body!




I love the way this car handles and fish tails. lol

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/26/2012 11:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Where did you get the body??? I had one 1:1 mkII as my first car.... ah, the good old days!! i want one!!!

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/26/2012 10:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		I got it from Spitfire on the RC-tech forum, he has a thread there about them. Yes, them, he also make a very nice Opel Kadett GT/E-body. I too had an Escort mk2 for about 3 or 4 years ago

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 8/31/2012 10:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Finally got to paint it, looks a little rough here and there where the masking tape was (got some leaks), but i guess i will sort it out. Going to make some window "seals" with some black tape around the windows to make it look less "sterile" than it does at the moment. I have also started mounting the rear bumper as you can see.

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/1/2012 6:15 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/2/2012 12:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have a grinder setup similar to what DVP uses lying around in my workshop, and a weedwhacker-engine that i am planning to use. A really asthmatic engine that i am going to try to tune maybe, hehe! It is barely used, maybe just for an hour.

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/2/2012 12:42 AM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/2/2012 11:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks! Here are some pics from the front work, i have also fitted the light brackets which i am going to put ligts from HPI Baja in:

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/25/2012 11:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Have made some "window seals" with trim lines to make it look a bit more real and not so "nude", i think it came out nice. The spoiler is also ready to mount, i have made the holes for it. I will go for the British Airways-livery, it seems very easy to make and also looks very nice in red and blue.

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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/26/2012 5:49 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/26/2012 5:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Who? Oh, you mean the God Yeah, this is my favourite, but i see a lot of work in making those decals. But i know that Spitfire (who makes these bodies) have made and painted it for a customer in the Rothmans livery. So i go for Bjorn Waldegård's car instead:


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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/26/2012 6:29 PM   
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RE: Ford Escort MK2 1/5 - 9/26/2012 8:36 PM   
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HI,

haha Lars i find you again.


Here the Belga and the Rothmans version off the jear 1980/1981



Wen you need the numberplate off the Lombard-rally i have this made for the Rothmans,
just change the nummer.


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