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Hi friends. Perhaps some of you are wondering if I'm still alive as I didn't post anything for a long time. The reason is that I am taking a pause from cardmodeling (after a BIG work on my shuttle I needed something different for a while ... but that project is still in progress... I'll deal with the exterior as soon as I have finished this new work) to start another project: it was love at first sight when I saw the commercial: the FIAT 500 in 1:7 scale from Hachette! It's one of those weekly issues where you pay a lot for a couple of little pieces at a time and, at the end, you have paid enough money to buy a real car. I know this is not very logical but this time I couldn't resist. This subject is a car that I love immensely and this particular model is not available in any other way so I was forced to ignore my brain and listen to my heart. The FIAT 500 is the first car I ever drove and the one I loved more for many reasons. This model is really detailed and correct in shape and details (it's the second edition so I could see the finished model built by others before starting the enterprise...). Obviously I can't keep the model "just as it is" because I want to build MY "cinquecento" exactly as I remember it (unfortunately it's not here anymore) and I remember it very well. I already built it in a littler scale (there's some photo in my gallery) but this time the huge dimension will give me the chance to realize something EPIC! (I hope).
And so I hope you'll like to see the main steps of my work to convert the "normal" Hachette 500 to the real Tonino's original 500!