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Post by rocketeer on Dec 22, 2008 19:06:08 GMT -6
What a charmer!
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 21, 2008 11:44:14 GMT -6
;D
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 19, 2008 10:02:40 GMT -6
Man, that baby is swoopy!
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 19, 2008 9:59:24 GMT -6
I had meant to comment earlier on this nifty project. This looks great! --like someone said earlier, it looks better than either donor kit.
Did you lower the hood by eliminating one of the longitudinal louvers on the side?
If the Pyro Cord is half as lumpy as their Auburn, I feel for you; way back when, I built a Cord pickup and sedan delivery--but I started with the Monogram Cord, which made life a lot easier...
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 18, 2008 12:36:30 GMT -6
Just for the sake of completeness, here's a copy of my S'cool Bus-based vehicle:
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 18, 2008 10:03:51 GMT -6
I didn't realize you lived so close, I'm only about 300 miles down the road......How do you like this weather we're having? Ah, c'mon now; you knew I was local-ish; you'd seen my Space Girl in progress at the PSAMA show in Puyallup a couple years ago. ;D This weather is a bit irksome. Rain doesn't faze us Seattle drivers, but let it snow a bit, and everybody loses their mind.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 18, 2008 10:01:16 GMT -6
I will have to find some of this milliput. Can you get it a hobby lobby? If so, what section? I dunno; we don't have Hobby Lobby stores here. I get mine at Skyway Model Shop; Emil stocks it with the other putties. I think I'm his best customer for the stuff...
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 18, 2008 8:30:45 GMT -6
...Ever read The Watchmen (soon to be a major movie)? Or maybe Flash Gordon... . I read Watchmen when it was first issued as a monthly comic. It was the longest year of my life--I'd feverishly await the next issue, dash home, devour it, and then it'd be another whole month before another. I also dabble in sci-fi models (no Star trek or Star Wars, though; those guys are just obsessive ) (not like car modellers ;D), and here's a link to a model I built of the Moon Tank from the Commando Cody serial: www.galaxyhobby.com/Contest/scifan2008photos/DSC01285.JPG
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 18, 2008 8:24:34 GMT -6
Is that all putty? Or did you use sheet for the Jacket flaps? It's all Milliput except the visor and skull emblem on her cap. Her lapels and all the various straps and cuffs are rolled-out Milliput. You can roll out Milliput between two sheets of Ziploc bag plastic, and if you wait about an hour, it's stiff enough not to tear but still soft enough to conform to surfaces. The wrinkles and folds and seams are done with a toothpick or paintbrush handle; then smoothed by brushing with water (uncured Milliput is water-soluble). I arrive at work early every morning to beat the rush, and fiddle around with her before I start work--thirty minutes is just about enough time to do an arm or a boot and clean up afterward. This morning it's Snow City here in Seattle, so I was late--and I'm just dweebing on the Internet instead of doing creative work.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 17, 2008 20:09:08 GMT -6
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C-rod
Dec 14, 2008 12:06:42 GMT -6
Post by rocketeer on Dec 14, 2008 12:06:42 GMT -6
I like the T'rantula lights in conjunction with the Lil Coffin grille. And the body has a nice sense of urgency, leaning forward like that.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 14, 2008 12:04:21 GMT -6
Thanks, gents. Ebay has several listings for Imai Harleys, with buy-it-nows in the $40 range--which seems a bit stout for just a rear fender. Looks like my best bet is to extend the fender by scratchbuilding the extension. Sigh.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 13, 2008 22:54:42 GMT -6
Does anyone make a full-length rear fender for the Revell 1/12 choppers? What I'd like is one like this picture: www.sunsetclassics.com/1961-harley-davidson/I could extend the existing fender myself by scratchbuilding, or get another rear fender from somewhere and splice two together, but it'd be easiest if someone made a resin full-length fender.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 8, 2008 15:42:33 GMT -6
That looks really cute! I love the color; very Sixties!
What kit are the chassis parts from?
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 4, 2008 21:19:47 GMT -6
Man that's awesome!!! Are you going to sell any? I don't think so, for two reasons: Vicki the Biker I'm sure belongs to Pat Brady, the Rose is Rose author, and I'd be dumb to infringe on his copyright; and My last foray into (extremely) small-scale manufacture (the exhaust flames, like on the Auburn Aircar) was a sh*tload of work and expense, with no very good results: I couldn't get the epoxy to harden, I had a massive number of short-shots and wastage, and everyone I had promised flames had to wait an unsatisfactorily long time.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 4, 2008 18:26:02 GMT -6
One more thing: You can see that I'm adhering to the fine old tradition of doing all the work in a postcard-sized clear area at the very front of my workbench. It adds to the challenge. ;D
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 4, 2008 18:23:58 GMT -6
This is my latest project, Vicki the Biker; I took it up as a quick break from an ambitious spaceman project that ran into aesthetic problems with the helmets. Vicki is the alter ego of the title character from the “Rose is Rose” newspaper comic strip; whenever Rose feels a little feisty, Vicki is apt to emerge. www.nightswimming.com/rose/vicki/vicki5.htmlThe basic figure is the horrid and asymmetrical ToyBiz Storm kit , which has one more-or-less redeeming virtue: The legs are great. ;D Vicki’s head is a resin copy of a master I made while doing my Space Gal conversion; the face is pretty much a direct steal from a Solarwind kit. The torso is also a resin casting—the Storm kit’s torso is unusable (believe it or not, the ahem, hooters are too big). Everything’s pinned together with 1/16 brass rod. To help get the clothing folds right, and because it’s more fun, I’m building her unclothed form first, and then I’ll be adding Vicki’s denim miniskirt and black leather jacket. Her cycle is going to be a straight-from-the box Revell Bone Daddy chopper, with some dechroming and maybe some added detail. So here are some in-progress shots. Now, this is after the first coat of primer, so everything is really really really rough. (This is the first really good look I’ve gotten at surface textures and smoothness--so right now I'm fighting off a severe case of post-primer depression ) Here’s the torso and legs, no miniskirt yet. As a concession to modesty and to riding comfort , Vicki will be wearing cycling shorts under her miniskirt; you can maybe see the line where the shorts end on each inner thigh. The sunglasses are going to be solid; I’ll probably cover them with Bare-Metal tinted with one of theTamiya clears. All the putty work is various colors of Milliput. Her arms are 1/16 brass rod, bulked up with Milliput. The curled hand is Storm’s; the extended hand is Milliput over a 0.040 brass wire-and-styrene armature. Vicki will be admiring a butterfly, which I’ll probably just make out of paper.
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 21, 2008 8:24:17 GMT -6
It's definitely got The Look.
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 12, 2008 14:53:15 GMT -6
So, basically, you own every cool car that's ever been built. The blue Chevy is sure a stunner.
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 12, 2008 14:48:16 GMT -6
Man, that's one homely car.
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 8, 2008 10:45:07 GMT -6
Thanks for the insight. Are you using rubber bushings, or those urethane bushings that I remember reading about way back when? I seem to recall that urethane was the hot setup once (and might still be, for all I know).
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 8, 2008 10:40:57 GMT -6
I own them all except the Jordan.
Did you know that the Mercer and the Bugatti were actually built? The Mercer was commissioned by a copper trade association to showcase uses of copper.
The Bugatti is identical to the Renwal design except that rectangular Cibie headlights were used.
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Post by rocketeer on Nov 7, 2008 8:29:39 GMT -6
I'm really interested by your description of instability when you were braking. Do you attribute it to the worn four-bar end, or is it just an inevitable byproduct of small tires in the front, a big engine up front, beam axles, and a short wheelbase?
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 24, 2008 22:21:21 GMT -6
The Little Deuce has some kind of stock Pontiac exhaust manifolds and dual exhausts, whereas Son of Ford has fenderwell headers. I think Chevy rams-horn manifolds would be a good-enough substitute.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 21, 2008 9:07:55 GMT -6
Very promising!
I do have a suggestion. If it were mine, I'd sand away the body trim line on the sides of the cowl and hood and replace it with a straighter one made of styrene strip. In your second picture, you can see that the existing one is pretty crooked.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 19, 2008 11:50:49 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 19, 2008 11:45:56 GMT -6
Ellis just covered it. Don't; the shine will disappear and it'll look like silver paint.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 19, 2008 11:44:09 GMT -6
Wouldn't it be great if the T kit included the tall body?
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 7, 2008 7:40:50 GMT -6
Two-part Evercoat glazing putty is popular, and won't shrink. I tend to use Milliput white two-part epoxy putty for major work, with Squadron white putty for last-minute filling of pinholes and the like.
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Post by rocketeer on Oct 7, 2008 7:38:46 GMT -6
What, only one front axle?
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