I started by rolling out a small ball of white clay to form the body. This proved problematic as it cracked and crumbled the following evening. I then hit upon the idea of using polyfilla to form the body and head. It worked a treat, albeit fiddly, especially when it came to gluing them together.

Very tiny bits of polyfilla were added to form the ears and snout. A liberal coating of gorilla glue hardened and stuck it all together.

I carefully shaped the ears and snout with an oval needle file.

I painted it matt green and dotted in the eyes and mouth with a fine tip marker.

See attached photo of 'ted'.

That is really neat and very well thought out and put together.

The next stage was all about assembly; adding the tonneau cover, joining the body to chassis, touching up paint here and there, scratch building two, small, windscreen wipers, gluing 'ted' in place and mounting the car onto the oak plinth.

The attached photo shows the completed model. I will be posting further pics tomorrow in the finished build section, showing more detail and angles.

From another angle.

Well that concludes my 1/43 scale MG TD build. Brian was presented with it on Saturday and by all accounts he was chuffed to bits! Ace!.

As I mentioned before, I will post lots more photos in the Finished Builds section of the forum tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and your comments. That's why this forum is a great platform for all of us modellers.

Regards,
Phil W.