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Wow, that's looking fricking awesome mate! Good luck with the rest of the finishing!

UKguyInUSA wrote:Wow, that's looking fricking awesome mate! Good luck with the rest of the finishing!

Thanks for the kind words, Martin

Twokidsnosleep wrote:

UKguyInUSA wrote:Wow, that's looking fricking awesome mate! Good luck with the rest of the finishing!

Thanks for the kind words, Martin

You're welcome mate!

Super stupendous superb other adjectives

heel wrote:Super stupendous superb other adjectives

Thanks for looking, Heel
Busy weekend, haven't touched it today at all
Have to carve some time out to get her finished.....maybe tonight

Maybe more work than you expected, but the result is there

peppie wrote:Maybe more work than you expected, but the result is there

Thank you sir, it is getting there
Stayed up last night making side mirrors and a tail light
Then got side tracked fixing up an old Tamiya Corsair that was sitting abandoned in the garage.......short attention span or what

Hey Scott,

That a jewel. It's friggin' fantastic!

Looking forward to see the dio, I bet it will be totally awesome too...

TommyKillander wrote:Hey Scott,

That a jewel. It's friggin' fantastic!

Looking forward to see the dio, I bet it will be totally awesome too...

Hi and thanks Tommy
Have to ponder a bit on what to do with that...we shall see

Made the rear rotors with help from this tutorial
http://italianhorses.net/Tutorials/Brak ... brakes.htm



Painted the insides before gluing together and painted the black ring
Trued them up on my "lathe"



And then the mirrors


Can you even see the rear rotors hiding in there??
Done for the night

Now this is MODELLING !!!!

Really great ! No more words to say , except that I missed this one , but enjoy every of last minutes watching this thread !

Real great Build !

rodrant wrote:Now this is MODELLING !!!!

Really great ! No more words to say , except that I missed this one , but enjoy every of last minutes watching this thread !

Real great Build !

Wow, thank you Antonio
I actually had a little blush when I read that
I am my worst critic and feel it ain't all that good so I appreciate the kind words
I could point out tons of little stuff I don't like.....let's just say wait 24 hrs minimum before manhandling painted objects large or small; get stuff perfectly symmetrical or your OCD will pester you to remake them and on and on.
But this is a fun quickie build and I am not going to stress about it, I have given myself the two weekends to finish the car and now a week for a little dio and fini

So this is where I am thinking of going with the diorama
Background pic options



Then add in an old CD case for a base, some grass and some sandpaper track

The mock up

Refined a bit more


Would put a pole through the CD base and into the base of the car so it won't slide off
Waddya think??? Any thoughts???

I was poking through the Tamiya kit I showed here that I got from E Bay last year


Find I am missing wheels and all suspension parts. A whole sprue set is just not there
I clearly didn't evaluate it well enough when it came
Don't tell anyone, but I ordered the 1/20 JohnPlayerSpecial Lotus on the weekend I am not buying anymore kits, really

Oops, found the missing sprues in another Tamiya Lotus I have stored at work...remembered that my son was fiddling with the kits so I checked and sure enough found them

Thats a great idea for a diorama I think I'll using this when I'm done with my Tyrrell P34. Btw great job on the Lotus love the paint scheme

EasyEight96 wrote:Thats a great idea for a diorama I think I'll using this when I'm done with my Tyrrell P34. Btw great job on the Lotus love the paint scheme

ThanksEasy, good of you to say...steal away the idea is not an original ,I am sure

Scott

Messing around with the CD base
I CA glued the snot out of the cover and set it propped into an open L position to act as the support for the background photo
Then a little checkered flag 'skirt'




I will have her all done for the weekend, I hope

Little Thursday night sneaky time at the bench
Brass pin CA glued into base, matching hollow sleeve glued into base of car


They have a good friction fit, so car is very stable but still removable
I can hold it upside down and the car stays put
I haven't pushed it all the way down to let the glue fully set

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

EasyEight96 wrote:AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Easy
It is a reasonable way to secure a model to it's base so you don't have it rolling off and smashing....that sucker is really on there, I can hold the dio upside down and the car doesn't budge a mm

Got the road base finished off, line painted and skid marks added
Grass planted and trimmed



Sky cam view


Almost finis, she is in the completed section now