Thnaks for your input!
I did the change, it's a lot better. Well, not as refined as the "factory" one, but better than this.
You are absolutely right about the sanding and priming - ubder a coat of surfaser and paint it'll be OK.
I'll try to put some photos tonight.

New and final attempt.

Welding seams replaced, few more bits in the interior.

Frankly speaking it didn't turn out

Thank you for your input.
Any ideas how to make it better?

Hello Dimitar,
as the real weld looks fairly small and regular, I'd suggest scribing a shallow line where you want it and laying in a piece of stretched sprue or styrene rod in the groove.

Sean

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment, Sean.
Your idea is actually quite nice. I'll have that in mind.
I'm still reluctant whether to remove this seam or to leave it like that as it'll damage the plastic even more. We'll see, I guess.

I'd go with what Sean says. Sand ooff your weld, repair and then use stretched sprue, it does work, I use it all the time for this sort of thing.

HTH
Andy

Well, than! Agreed!
Will reposrt later how it went.
Thank you, guy, help is appreciated.

Little step forward:


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Nice to see more progress on this Dimitar. I must ask- why is the interior textured in that way and what did you use to do that?

On some interiro pictures, I've noticed that they use to cover the walls of the engine compartment with termal insulation blanckets and that's the reason behind my (odd) choice. On most of the pictures they are black, but I went for something more colorful just to make it pop trough the windows.
It is made with aluminum foil, sticked to the kit's parts with poxipol (it's a two componen epoxy glue).
I hope the answer is of some use. I'll try to upload the interiro pictures as sson as I get home.

What a great build and attention to detail! Will definitely follow this one!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
Cristian

I think the insulation material looks good.

The blanket looks very realistic and well done!

Guys, thank you very much for your words!
Hope to resume the project soon.

Thanks for the info Dimitar- the interior should look great once you are finished with it.

Wait and see I guess. I still have to decide what to do with that dash board - leave it as it is or to rework it and delay everything (that means all the painting and weathering fun).