How to repair broken "A" pillars on a Pocher Porsche?

[caveman]

Can anyone suggest the best way to repair the vintage 1/10 Pocher 993 model that I received yesterday. I spent almost £200 which, amazingly, is very cheap for a silver example and the stupid f*@£er that delivered it decided that he couldn't be arsed to re-deliver it so chucked it over our six foot gate resulting in both "A" pillars snapping off.

The breaks are clean so I can glue the bits together. I'll still have hairline cracks so do I:
a) leave it at that
b) use a few bristles on a paintbrush and try to just touch up over the joins with thinned down silver (probably cannot get a matching silver)
c) use a tiny bit of car filler, blend in and paint as per b)

I am gutted and very unlikely to get any money back as any parcel insurance pays to the seller and not the buyer and they already have cleared funds.

Any bright ideas/tips/techniques?

Thanks,

David

[pradley]

Hi Mate

What I would do is glue the pieces as best you can, and use generous filler around the joins, sand then down with fine sanding paper. Then spray some gray primer and look at the part in various angles of light to see if you find any irregulariries

if you do repeat the process until you have a clean join and respray the whole part to make it look invisible. It will mean having to spray all panels again, but it is also a chance to pick a new color. Could possibly use the money you saved on buying the kit on giving it a spanking new paint job! I guess in a way, treat it like you would a damaged panel on a car

search through 1/43 kit forums, if you look deaply you should find a lot of peole who go through a similar process, its a commen thing when adjusting these small kits to make sure all parts fit together as accurately as possible so panels constantly have to be adjusted

you can also buy modeling putty by the likes of revell and tamiya, no need to use car filler if you dont need to, scalemotorsport do some excellent fine wet sand sticks but i dont think they are really big enough for 1/8 scale

Hope some of this helps...

[caveman]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to have just hairline cracks if I glue it carefully so I don't know how much work I want to do versus what the eventual finish will look like. The real shame is that it's pretty close to polar silver which is the colour of my car si ideally I don't want to repaint it all if I can help it.