The bumper and license plate won't be used for quite some time, but that's typical of this build. The order they send things in is pretty strange. But at any rate, on with the seat.
This is some grey glove leather I bought from a place that sells materials used
to detail classic
Pocher kits. It's really nice stuff.
This leather is a little more than half a millimeter thick. So, where I plan to tuck it in between parts of the seat, I just have to shave off about 1mm around the edge of the parts (the leather will be stretched over the shape).
Like other large scale kits, Eaglemoss uses a rather hard plastic that really takes color well. The black isn't bad at all. But also like other large scale kits, the same handful of colors are used throwout if you don't change them. For example, this is the same black plastic as parts of the engine bay. In fact it's everywhere. Changing up the colors will add a good deal to the realism of the finished model.
Besides, this leather looks great!
I used a new adhesive that I had not tried before for this. It's a type of CA glue specifically for leather. I worked very well. I pulled this stuff pretty hard to form it around the seat's shape and the glue held easily.
I added a darker grey piping around the seam lines. I may use more of this piping. Photos of the rear car show piping on the seat and back.
The piping is a tiny bit over scale though. I don't want to over use it. Still it's something to think about.
Under the driver's seat is a pull out tray full of weapons. The real Goldfinger car had this tray, but thy did not use it in the film.
The gear in the tray is another opportunity to improve things with a bit of paint.
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