Paul H Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Details of the 1912 T roadster kit (including pics of the sprues) here: http://www.icm.com.ua/news/371-model-t-1912-roadster-american-passenger-car.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysleder Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 That is neat! Looks like the steering wheel rim and spokes are molded separately! It could be a challenge just to get the rim out of the tree without breaking it I also note that the tires are made out of off-white (I suppose) soft plastic. I applaud having new manufacturers venture into car territory bringing with them new ideas on how to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 That is neat! Looks like the steering wheel rim and spokes are molded separately! It could be a challenge just to get the rim out of the tree without breaking it I also note that the tires are made out of off-white (I suppose) soft plastic. I applaud having new manufacturers venture into car territory bringing with them new ideas on how to do it. I doubt the tires are soft plastic, given the sprue. As for "white tires", those are a modern misconception: Early automotive (and even bicycle) tires were made from natural latex rubber, which is a cream color until vulcanized, which turned it a very light buff, or a "creamy tan" color. Carbon black only began being added to latex rubber about 1910-11 or so, which didn't make the latex rubber black, but rather a gray color, the darkness depending on the concentration of the carbon added. Camera film, even the black & white emulsion used on glass plates for photography back then, tended to photograph otherwise colored objects with very stark contrasts between light and dark, mostly due to the slow speed of exposure. That made those buff-colored tires stand out as starkly white in photographs, while the colors of cars, regardless of how bright, came out very darkly, some almost black. Now, over time, with exposure to sunlight, those old latex tires would bleach out nearly white, but by the time they did that, the rubber was so dried out, deeply checked, that the tires were unusable anymore. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 That is neat! Looks like the steering wheel rim and spokes are molded separately! It could be a challenge just to get the rim out of the tree without breaking it I also note that the tires are made out of off-white (I suppose) soft plastic. I applaud having new manufacturers venture into car territory bringing with them new ideas on how to do it. As for any difficulty removing that steering wheel rim from the sprue--the Opel Admiral kit steering wheel is made in the same manner, but I had absolutely no problem removing the rim from the sprue surrounding it. This feature will make painting the steeering wheel correctly very easy, BTW. Very early Model T's had steering wheel hub and spokes in a one-piece brass casting which was later replaced by a forged iron unit. The brass spokes and hubs needed regular polishing, where the forged iron unit was painted black. The wheel rim itself is made from segments of wood, glued together with dovetailed joints, I'm not quite sure how the wooden rim was finished, but at any rate, they ended up a pretty dark brown in color. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Impressive. Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 GREAT NEWS! The ICM Model T's are in-country. Ordered two of the kits yesterday, from Squadron. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carsntrucks4you Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 On Tuesday I got my Model T from ICM. It is a great kit but with a big mistake. The brass parts of the original car are chrome . Why!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 On Tuesday I got my Model T from ICM. It is a great kit but with a big mistake. The brass parts of the original car are chrome . Why!? I wondered about that from the pics ICM has on their site. Easy fix though! Airbrush with Tamiya Clear Yellow--polished brass. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmobil Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I wondered about that from the pics ICM has on their site. Easy fix though! Airbrush with Tamiya Clear Yellow--polished brass. Art Now thats a nice tip, must try that one some day. I belive you do get brass colored paint aswell so one could strip the chrome and paint it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Now thats a nice tip, must try that one some day. I belive you do get brass colored paint aswell so one could strip the chrome and paint it. Clear yellow over chrome plating equals polished brass, Atmobil. It always has for me. In fact, that is how it's done with model car kit plating where brass parts are needed. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmobil Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Now I learned something new today aswell Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carsntrucks4you Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I wondered about that from the pics ICM has on their site. Easy fix though! Airbrush with Tamiya Clear Yellow--polished brass. Art I'll dechrome the parts and use Alcad brass in stead of yellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 The ICM website, while showing a chrome-plated tree, also mentions "bronzed details", so maybe these will be appropriately coloured for production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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