Vespa 125 "Primavera"

Against the odds, I’ve just completed Italeri’s 1:9 scale Vespa 125 Primavera.

This was “against the odds” as not only did Italeri’s instructions assume I knew more about the Vespa’s construction than I do, I had to perform a repair to the steering column, using a thick piece of sprue, fuse wire and a bomb casing from the spares box, as a major section had failed in the moulding process.

I’ve never had the patience of many nor probably the required dust free environment to spray a showroom gloss finish, but that aside I’m liking the way Vallejo’s metallic arctic blue has performed and how it sparkles as I remember 1980s metallic paint did, in the sunlight.

This very different build for me is a homage to my formative years and a project which has been a perfect refresh, giving me more than a few modelling challenges to complete!