Mr. Bean and his Mini

Lights on!

Fresh from outer space, let's all welcome...... Mr. Bean!.............. and Teddy.............and.......

his Mini! :)

Yeaaaaah! After so many many many months of being a "work-in-progress," finally, I can now say it is done LOL!

To avoid any unwanted happenings especially to the car and also to protect the paint, I placed it in an acrylic case.

You may want to see how it was done:
WIP Part 1
WIP Part 2
WIP Part 3


That's all folks. Hope you like it :)

Mod #5 Mr. Bean's Mini WIP part 3

Whew! Sorry guys for the long wait. It's been long lazy months since I last did customs! It's frustrating for me to realize this project has been pending for a long time. So today I decided to post the very slow progress. I can say this is 90% done.

I want it to be a close replica of Mr. Bean's ride so I didn't stop with just replicating the paint but I added other designs too to make it just like the real car.

One of those is the funny padlock. 

The material used was an old top up card filled with epoxy and wire for the connector and the hook of the padlock.

Detailed the headlights.

And taddaaaa! :-)

But this is just 90% done. I want to put a decal for the car plate just like Mr. Bean's and some other stuff to add. I might do a wheel swap too if I find better wheels.

You may check:

Part 1

Part 2

Mod #5 Mr. Bean's Mini WIP

Mr. Bean fan here! And a Mini Cooper collector too... So why not do my own Bean's Mini or Mini Bean or... never mind LOL

I purchased a Burago - my first by this brand, 1:43 Mini Cooper on Sunday. Though this is not my brand of collection and scale (but I do have another 1:43 scale by Cararama - a Yaris), I've decided to give this one an exemption (again).

Why Burago?

Because.... they have 1:43 Mini Cooper that's still in the market and not the 2011 version. I think this one is called the Morris Mini if I'm not mistaken...

That's odd... so why were you looking for 1:43 if you're not a 1:43 scale collector?

That is another thing.. you'll find out.... next time... if I got lucky on this project :)


Work in progress

The first step I did was sanding. If you noticed, I don't do sanding when I customize a 1:64 casting. This is because I want to preserve the details so I just strip the paint off then coat it with primer. But since this is a larger scale, I opted to just sand it then apply the paint I want (didn't use primer).

One of the DCPH members mentioned in a thread that it is better (if it is new or the paint's still good) not to strip the paint because their factory paints has better quality than those that we use. Stripping is advisable when the paint has already deteriorated or has damage.

Okay. That's all for now. Will keep you posted ;)