David G. Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Beautifully Done! David G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dino246gt Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I don't think there's a nicer looking scale TR 3 out there, man that one is simply stunning, museum quality! Awesome work detailing it to look so realistic and in scale, wow!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielG Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Excellent. I like the way it looks like it was driven in off the street on to the show room floor, given a wax job but they forgot to Armor-All the tires! That to my mind is what sets off that profile shot. Beauty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Another excellent build Jurgen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Exquisite!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Thanks for all comments! Another stunner, as usual for you. This kit has probably never been done better. I'm a fanatic about dashboards, and I'd love to see some tighter shots of this one. Skip, after photographing my model all pictures of the entirely black interior showed only few perceptible details. I am going to make a new attempt tomorrow (now it is already rather late in Germany). If I succeed I will post the result tomorrow. Did you replace the kit "glass" with something thinner? Harry, you are right. As my old instruction sheet shows the kit windscreen consisted of 5 parts: 2 big chromed lateral brackets, 1 thick windscreen glass part, 2 thick clear lateral wind deflectors; the upper and lower part of the windscreen frame should be simulated with a silver decal. I used the 2 big chromed lateral brackets and cut the 3 glass parts from clear sheet. I made the upper and lower windscreen frame from bright wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 nice build and kinda right about many of those high-tech kits, some were better than others. do you mind sharing how you laid that wire on top of the fenders without messing up the paint? I am assuming you laid it down after the car was painted? jb William, IMO the best way to replicate chrome mouldings with bright wire is this: After removing the plastic moulding I scribe a groove with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the chosen wire. I drill numerous holes into this groove. After painting the body I fix the wire provisionally f. e. with clamps into/onto the groove . From the backside I make super glue flow through the holes into the groove. The result should be a clean half-round (as far as it is visible) chrome moulding. Nice TR3, but what is needed is TR 4A IRS kit greg Greg, yes, indeed it is incomprehensible that there was never a 1/24 or 1/25 styrene kit of the TR 4. And of the TR 6, the never fulfilled dream of my youth … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Very nice Jurgen. There just is something right about Britsh Sports Cars from the 1950's and 60's. And your model does justice to the beauty of the TR 3. Scott It's good to see a true British sportscar! Superb build well done. Scott, Patrick, I agree. IMO the decline of most British sports car manufacturers meant the decline of the true sports car. Subsequently the mainstream of sports car development went into the wrong direction: Permanently bigger, heavier, faster, more and more perfectionized and uniform cars eliminated a lot of the former driving fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Wann Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 You WOW us as usual with your great talent. My Neighbor drove a TR4A. He was 6' 6" tall. even with the top up he still had plenty of head room. He also rode a motorcycle. He would get up early and coast his bike down the hill he lived on. Once at the bottom he would pop the clutch starting the bike and stay away from the farm all day so he would not have to set on a tractor all day and watch dirt clods go by. He joined the Navy and spent several years on a sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Still not satisfactory but better than the first attempt: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Here you go. Jürgen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Thanks Harry, indeed much more visible details though it is a very bright black now ... . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjordan2 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Great stuff. And that tip about how to glue on the bright wire is brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davewilly Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertw Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 That is a magnificent job. Like your experience the prices kept me away from the Gunze hi-tech kits but I did find and build a number of their low tech English sports cars. They are very nice kits, easy to build, fairly accurate and with a little extra effort a quality addition to the model shelf. My one criticism is the rubber parts but they can be replaced or worked around. The molds for these kits must still exist, I wish they'd come out again. Again, congratulations on the quality of your build. rw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duntov Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Very nice work on this one!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydar Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 It's beautiful. Was lhd an option? Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastheniker Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Thanks for the further comments! That is a magnificent job. Like your experience the prices kept me away from the Gunze hi-tech kits but I did find and build a number of their low tech English sports cars. They are very nice kits, easy to build, fairly accurate and with a little extra effort a quality addition to the model shelf. My one criticism is the rubber parts but they can be replaced or worked around. The molds for these kits must still exist, I wish they'd come out again. Again, congratulations on the quality of your build. rw Robert, I can confirm your judgement for all Gunze all-plastics kit I built. Indeed the rubber parts were not an ideal solution, but they were more or less acceptable. It's beautiful. Was lhd an option? Joe. Joe, my old instruction sheet shows only a RHD version (and only English number plates). The same is true for my Gunze all-plastic Lotus Elan. Maybe the High Tech versions had LHD options, but I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FineModelCars Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Wowereit. I love this car. I think about scratch in 1/8 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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