Albergman

Fabulous model!! Just a nice amount of "weathering" too. Love the maple(?) leaves! The seat fabric looks absolutely spot-on for colour and pattern size. Congratulations.

Love that new seat fabric you made. Looks so much better than the kit decal. Model is going to be stunning when you finish it. Great job.

Nice looking print there!! Don't mean to be a critic but the scale of the kit patterns seems to be correct if you compare it to the photo I sent of that actual W196 which was auctioned off. You can see there were six full size blocks across the front of the seat and that is what the kit has. I'm thinking you should maybe double check your own scale cloth before applying it. Here's an image I've put together which puts the real seat up against the kit seat at the same scale and the kit is dead on. Frank

Nice job on the flocking ... looks much better. I like your fabric colours too but if I may suggest you scale the pattern up a bit. It looks quite a bit too small. Here's the W196 that was sold recently and the pattern is much more open, Cheers Frank

I'm just an interested spectator sitting by watching your progress. I did a scratch build of this car a few years ago on another site and of course I ran into the same problem you are dealing with about getting a decent looking fabric for the seat. My wife, who makes quilts showed me a cool idea which might help you. I found that Mercedes has reprinted this fabric in several colours and I was able to download a good quality image of the Moss' blue. I massaged that image in my photo editor till I had it at the correct scale for my 1/18th model. Here's the cool part. Here in Canada you can buy what's called wax freezer paper used for wrapping food to be stored in a freezer. My wife showed me that a piece of fabric can be steam-ironed onto a sheet of it and it will adhere perfectly and I assume the wax surface melts just enough to bond to the cloth.. Now you just trim that piece of fabric/wax paper to an A4 size and it can be run through a printer and have the image printed on it. I suggest you try a very tight weave of fabric to be closer to scale. It works a charm. Here's my fabric ... Hope this helps. Albergman

I'm interested!! I scratch build steam engines and I like to see what others are doing. Hope the offer is still valid.