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Post by rocketeer on Jul 5, 2019 23:46:56 GMT -6
I think the boxtop they show in the video with the exhaust coming out on the left is a (photoshop?) fake. I did a quick look-see at eBay, and all the Barons for sale had right-side exhaust. I did find this poster, which is apparently based on a photo of the real car: ...and which has several differences (height of the helmet, radiator shape, wheels) from the one in the video. Perhaps the car in the video is a clone?
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 5, 2019 23:28:12 GMT -6
It's funny, how on the one boxtop they show, the exhaust comes out on the right, and then on another boxtop, the exhaust comes out on the left. . I'll have to go pull mine off the shelf and see whether they modified the kit (I rather doubt it).
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Post by rocketeer on Jul 5, 2019 8:54:11 GMT -6
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 29, 2019 18:35:47 GMT -6
Lovely red color--there's nothing like Candy Apple Red!
Apparently on the real car, the steering used a bicycle chain in the horizontal arm the wheel is mounted on.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 29, 2019 10:47:49 GMT -6
I love looking at your WIPs! Your thread title says "Bus"; are you going to add a roof?
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 29, 2019 9:52:40 GMT -6
...maybe mould one of those plaques with clear resin with a little LED cast right into it somehow so it lights up!... I haven't had much luck with clear polyester resins; what's worked best for me is Pebeo Gedeo clear epoxy resin; it cures best and quickest if you keep the ambient temperature above 70F or so. I'd love to see what an internally-illuminated nameplate looks like. Lately I've taken to using LEDs from Evan Designs; they offer a wide variety of colors and sizes, reasonably priced, with current-limiting resistors already wired in.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 28, 2019 19:47:17 GMT -6
With 3D printing you could have some letters stick up more than others or have cutout letters suspended in a frame, or spiraling upward, or any number of wild and creative things.
But I spent my whole working life staring at a computer screen, and I don't care to do that any more, so no 3D printing for me. The rubber stamp method is appealingly low-tech and physical.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 28, 2019 17:00:25 GMT -6
... How long did it take to apply all the rivets? A little while, I'll bet... It took three sessions of a couple hours each: Right side, left side, top and ends. You know how it is: You kinda get into the groove and the time just flies by. The nameplate idea is not mine; one of the vendors at Wonderfest, a really nice guy named John Dennett, explained it to me a couple years ago. It's a great technique. Very flexible; you can put anything on your nameplate you like. You have to have resin casting capability, though.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 27, 2019 20:01:47 GMT -6
Oh, I use Powerpoint to do the art for the nameplate. Create a text box, pick a font, fiddle with the outline, save it as a jpeg. Use another program to flip the jpeg horizontally, then send that off to the rubber stamp company.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 27, 2019 19:57:45 GMT -6
...A small question: do these things have wheels, or are they floating or something? And another question: how in the world have you created these great three-dimensional nameplates? They have wheels, hidden underneath. I made another putty mold and cast four copies of one of the Juggernaut's wheels to use on the Cruiser. A fine sculptor named John Dennett told me how to make nameplates easily. You order a rubber stamp (you supply the art) and then make a resin copy of it (silicone rubber mold, polyurethane resin). The only trick is that you have to order the stamp "reversed", because a normal rubber stamp is a mirror-image of the final imprint (That is, normally to print STEVE, the stamp says EVETS). Since you don't want your nameplate (which is a resin copy of the rubber stamp) to say EVETS, you have to order a stamp that prints EVETS. Here's a stamp I ordered to make a nameplate for another project: It's "reversed"; that is, if you smeared it with ink and used it as a stamp, the stamped image would say "NOOM EHT NO SAMTSIRHC". The label on the package shows this.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 27, 2019 19:45:58 GMT -6
What an interesting idea! I'll have to try it out sometime!
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 27, 2019 7:43:31 GMT -6
Allow me to post one more picture, showing off the nameplates:
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 26, 2019 20:41:50 GMT -6
Herb Deeks, who apparently had a thing for the pulp movie serials of yesteryear, once issued a resin kit of a tank-like vehicle used in the 1936 "Undersea Kingdom" serial. The other day, looking for a new project, I pulled it off the shelf and figured it wouldn't take much to finish it up. But of course it wasn't as simple as that. Looking for pictures of it on the Internet, I kept stumbling across an intriguing vehicle called the Jungle Cruiser, used in the serial "Tim Tyler's Luck", from 1937. The Jungle Cruiser was the old Juggernaut, reworked a bit with a new cab and a complicated sort of nerf bar that protected the front and sides of the vehicle. So I thought about converting the Juggernaut kit to the Jungle Cruiser, and then it occurred to me that it might be fun to just scratchbuild a Jungle Cruiser--after all, I had the Juggernaut kit to copy from--and then I coud display the two side-by-side, as sort of a before-and-after. So I got out the sheet styrene. I used silicone mold putty and casting resin to make a copy of the Juggernaut's sweet Art Deco grille:: and built the nerf bar from styrene strip and some working hatches using HO hopper car hinges: ...and used almost a whole sheet of MicroMark rivet decals: I built a simple base, made a couple nameplates, and bought a 1/35 scale movie camera kit, and here's the result: Here's a link to a Flickr album with more pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/150559382@N07/albums/72157677687610417/with/47636938472/
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 25, 2019 10:03:45 GMT -6
Very nice!
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 24, 2019 12:29:03 GMT -6
Your work’s always so clean and precise Bobby - I love it! Yes, always lovely crisp work from Bobby.
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 20, 2019 14:16:41 GMT -6
I like the idea of a roof over the driver; changes the feel of the truck entirely!
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 14, 2019 22:30:38 GMT -6
I experimented with painting the flames, but nothing is right yet.. Still has to find the right grading of shades… Here's how I painted mine:
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 12, 2019 13:17:07 GMT -6
Geez, looks great! I love the tire smoke and the flames!
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Post by rocketeer on Jun 10, 2019 9:26:12 GMT -6
Recently I found a picture of the prototype for the Charger 23 T. Here it is; it appears to be called the Modern T, although the builder's name is not clear:
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Post by rocketeer on May 26, 2019 7:17:57 GMT -6
What fun!
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Post by rocketeer on May 24, 2019 7:40:56 GMT -6
I built a really accurate Coach once. The first thing you'll have to do if you want a really correct Coach is dump the big-block Chevy engines and replace them with a couple of Pontiacs, then dig up or scratchbuild some stock Pontiac exhaust manifolds. And build new brackets for the long speakers that hang off the side of the power unit. I have a couple good pics of the chassis and power unit, plus some of my completed model and a page of notes, that I'll post to Flickr when they get running again. I'll post a link here then. Edit: Here's the link: Flickr album of Raiders Coach
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Post by rocketeer on Apr 25, 2019 9:29:39 GMT -6
Pretty cool!
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Post by rocketeer on Apr 21, 2019 10:58:44 GMT -6
Very very nice! The paint is great, and you made a good-looking model out of a tough kit.
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Post by rocketeer on Apr 18, 2019 11:46:26 GMT -6
I like it! It has the appropriately beefy look that real V8 trikes have.
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Post by rocketeer on Apr 8, 2019 11:38:29 GMT -6
What a cutie!
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 9, 2019 19:26:15 GMT -6
You might try looking for N-scale or Z-scale model railroad figures.
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Post by rocketeer on Jan 20, 2019 11:29:25 GMT -6
Yes, very promising! Go to it!
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 21, 2018 9:22:33 GMT -6
... Looking at this body, to decide how to proceed, it slipped out of my hand and fell to the ground.... Don't get discouraged! With me, it's almost a requirement to drop the model once before finishing it. I remember one figure I was building I dropped three times, breaking off the same leg every time!
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 12, 2018 15:08:58 GMT -6
The standard car is so elegant and beautiful compared to the Rommel's Rod! I have a suspicion that the Rommel's Rod is actually based on a Mercedes-Benz 540K rather than an SSK...the SSK has three exhausts but the 540K only has two like the RR I agree with you, Jim, but this was TD's statement, I just shared it here... www.tomdaniel.com/85_kits/frm_85kits.htmlThe Monogram kit was a Mercedes 540K; it was available either as a roadster or a coupe. For some reason, the roadster appears to have been billed as a 1939 model year, and the coupe as 1936.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 12, 2018 15:04:21 GMT -6
Nice job on the weathering so far!
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