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Post by The Hooded Claw on Oct 2, 2007 20:26:00 GMT
Viewers of the earlier pictures will recall my issues with the wheel alignment in the body. Well I've spent about eight hours now on the arch liners and axles to get the thing looking like this. If you ask me and I'm sure you will, I think this is about the best I'm going to get.  So on with preparing the body and glazings and then it's fun with White bits! H |
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Post by ptcruiser on Oct 2, 2007 21:06:49 GMT
Worth the effort mate  Rich |
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Post by cosmosman on Oct 2, 2007 21:07:58 GMT
That looks a lot better. Did you have to remove any resin from under the wheelarches?
Cosmosman
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Oct 2, 2007 23:07:18 GMT
Did you have to remove any resin from under the wheelarches? Plenty! Here's another couple of photos to show what I've done tonight: These two show the vehicle on its wheels with the modified axles and arches. Still think the front wheels are a little low in the arches but if i drop the rears any more I'll really suffer with them hitting the arch roof.   The last one shows a coat of Black on the window lips. After this has dried I should be able to start fixing the glazings in place!  I'm actually quite enjoying this build. It has a number of challenging aspects. I've also scratchbuilt a few dodads and a gearlever replete with turned wooden knob! I'll photograph that bit tomorrow night. |
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Oct 4, 2007 13:29:59 GMT
After a couple of nights off I managed an hour or so today after SWMBO went to work and before I go pick up the kids for my weekly insanity session. First off I fixed the detail parts I had scratch built into the cockpit. These replace the very poorly moulded fixed parts in the kit.   The instrument panel has been sprayed with a slightly higher gloss Black than the coaming and the provided dial and guage decals placed in their respective locations. When this photo was taken they were still heavily under the influence of Micro Sol and Set. Also visible is the scratch built Gear selector lever assembly which awaits detail painting and its wooden knob!  Whilst the interior was drying I got down to masking the main glazing. I decided upon a sequence for this. Having already sprayed the frames black I masked the (already Klear dipped) screen inside and out before triming it back about two mm all the way around the edges. The interior area was then painted Black and the masking removed. I can now fix it to the body with a slow setting epoxy. Once that is dry the front seam can be cleaned up before repriming the body for the main colours.   This process has to be repeated several time for each glazing in turn. Here is the engine cover glazing dropped in place having already been trimmed to size.  H |
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Post by fatfingers on Oct 4, 2007 18:54:30 GMT
Comming along nicely ;D
Cheers,
Steve
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