Rear Springs

 Above is the standard "kit" spring and wishbone suspension piece, Pretty good to start with, but I wanted to see if I could make it any more realistic looking by removing the moulded coilspring and replacing it with an actual spring.
  So I chopped the top coil seat off and filed off the remaining part so I was left with just the parts outside the coil seats.

Then I drilled a .5mm hole though the centre about 6 or 7mm into the core of the shock so I could slip a needle in as a guide for a 6mm long piece of x1.55mm aluminium tubing.
  Then I coiled a piece of while around a x2.5mm screw driver shaft to create a new spring. Once I slipped the tubing over the needle and the spring over the tubing, It was just a matter of popping the top coilseat back on top. Once I've painted all of it up I reckon it`ll look pretty good.

Job One

The first job I went about doing was cutting all the parts off the sprues and sanding down any obvious ugly mould and injection holes. I like to keep all the parts stuck to an old CD sleeve with double sided tape. Keeps them neat and tidy and the sleeve can be stored neatly on my old CD stand out of harms way when I'm not using the parts.

Ok this isn`t much of a job but it means I`m underway and ready to start the first real job, the "Rear Springs"