Loving this build and all of your fabrication skills. This is really making me want to get to that 1/16 scale Fiat body I have. Thanks for the inspiration but I gotta finish my 1/25th scale Fiat first.
Oh, one other comment. Try to get ahold of some printing plates. They work great for forming sheet metal and cuts easily with a good scissors.
Great stuff Chris. Keep on scratchin'
Brad... thanks man, Good to see you back posting on here and loving your fiat build you have going on. I am looking forward to doing my 1/16th sacle Fiat as well. Where can I pick up some of those printing plates here in the valley?? I saw that you must of used that for your seat on your fiat and it looks great. I definitely have some things I could use those printing plates on and will have to pick some of it up.
When the time comes for me to get to that level of detailing for any of my builds, I just hope to have close to the same amount of patience you must have, I know of too many models I've had in the past that met the wall from across the room because of small problems (a certain '70 RoadRunner comes to mind, luckily I had another one thats still in the box), I'm planning on using modified pins as bolts for my P/M builds (valve covers,oil pans,manifolds & so on), hopefully now that I'm older, I'll have a little more patience. Love the build, can't wait to see more!
Richard.... I will tell you that yes it does take patientience with builds this involved. As of right now I have 75 hours into this build so far and I have a long ways to go and I started this back in March of this year. May sound funny but I am keeping track of my time on some 3x5 cards. Not every build I do I put this amount of detail into it, for one I couldnt' afford to do every kit like this. I can only imagine at this point how much I will have invested in to this build. In the midst of this build I am thinking of doing a curbside build to get something build up pretty quick and completed as well as jumping back to my 1/16th scale FED build I have going.... Actually the FED is really close to being done and will be finished before I finish this Funny Car. I am definitely with you on using modified pins as bolts. if you noticed on the rear end on this build I am using a pin since it was the closest thing I could find for a drain plug...lol
One piece of advice I can give you on doing highly detailed builds is you definitely need patience a lot of it and when you get to a point during the build if you get fustrated or need a break from it, stop and put it on the shelf for a bit and work on another kit, then get back to it when you are ready. another thing I do is I try not to rush myself and take my time building. I have learned quite a bit along the way since I really started getting into building models when I was 15... which was 20 years ago. I also had a period of time where life got in the way... college and early in my career where I didn't build at all. Missed it and Loving that I am back into it, Got back into it in Jan of 2010 didn't realize how much I was missing it until this past year. Now all I want to do is just build build build...
as well as improve my skills and get better at them.
Edited by Mooneyzs, 05 July 2011 - 07:50 PM.
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