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Lucky you! You're not far from living in that world. In fact, if you have the $$$$ you're almost there already. The technology already exists. Give people a few more decades and the software to print out whatever kit you want will most likely exist as well. They already have the ability to 3D scan existing parts and print them out in whatever scale you like.
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Time for a little update. There are no alignment pins or tabs or even an overlap for these body sides. It's just a butt joint. So I made my own overlapping alignment guides that will also serve as great support for the front firewall of the body. You can see below where I glued a couple of pieces of scrap plastic onto the inside of the firewall on each body half. This will help to align them and provide a very strong glue joint to hold the firewall together. In the next photo I've actually glued the two pieces together. I have them clipped together with sawed-off clothes pins. This win in sure a prefect alignment as they dry. In the next photo I'm just showing that I'm doing this to five bodies. I have five to build so I'll probably do the other two whilst I'm at it. I'm confident that this is going to work pretty well. Finally the glued and dried lower body half mounted temporarily on the chassis in the photo below. It's like a spring now since the body halves naturally want to spring outward. But that's cool, it actually fits very snugly into the chassis. So next step will be to glue the body top on to this lower section. I think I'll just glue on one side at a time. There seems to be enough play in the plastic to allow that. That will make it easier since I can wait until the first side is totally dry before trying to align the other side. Things are coming along! I've got three lower bodies glued together and well-aligned. As a second more ambitious project I'm just starting to cut out the rumble seat door on the black body. This will be my FIRST door panel cut-out project. So we'll see how this goes. I painted the body with flat black paint just so I can more easily see the panel lines I'm scraping out. Close up of the rumble seat panel lines: I did a boo boo on the left side, But I think I can fix that up with a little primer and sanding. What happened was I accidentally turned the Exacto knife around to the sharp cutting edge down and it went off the panel groove. So live and learn! Never use the sharp edge of the Exacto blade when scraping out a panel groove. I knew better too, I just wasn't paying attention. I think I'm getting too carried away with model building cutting out door panels already. This hobby can be addictive! Somebody needs to STOP me if I start getting bogged down in too much detailing. But hey one working rumble seat out of 5 coupes? That's not too much of an addiction is it?
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Yeah, that's a lot easier to arrange but very difficult to live with. That's why I prefer the ten-body monogamy thing. Just one nice girl I can trust.
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You guys have been blowing my mind ever since I've joined this forum. The details are quite simply unbelievable. Right down to the lettering on the tires! That's crazy! Did you actually find model tires like that? Or did you do that lettering yourself somehow?
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Hey I'm trying to imagine a "Perfect World" and you're bursting my bubble with the hardcore facts of reality. And besides, whilst I'm not a religious person God did come to me in a dream once and she's the one who said that she would fix me up with ten wives in the afterlife. I argued with her because I'm actually quite monogamous minded. I told her that I would actually rather have just one devoted wife. She said, it's not a problem. She can simply give one woman ten physical bodies that she can simultaneously live in. With God all things are possible. So everything is cool. I'll have one wife who exists in ten different bodies all at the same time. I realize that I started out writing a letter to Santa Claus and this is probably beyond his capabilities so perhaps I'll have to write the Goddess a letter: Dear Goddess, I would like,.... (actually she's omniscient and already knows what I like so the letter would be redundant anyway.) It was her idea for the ten-bodied wife anyway. Honest!
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The detail in this scene is absolutely stunning! It totally amazes me that this level of realism can be achieved in a model. I do agree about the cat though. The bird looks real, but the cat looks like a porcelain cat. It has the potential to look like a real cat, but I would have no clue how to do that. Maybe some kind of paint wash to make the fur look more realistic? I have no clue, just a suggestion. But other than the cat everything else looks extremely realistic.
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Truly! I forgot to mention my robotics laboratory in my letter to Santa! And oh, yeah, the ten wives: Just use your imagination for the other six. May as well round it off to an even ten wives. This way each one only has to do only 1/10th as much housework. (hee hee) Gotta keep em happy!
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Deuce Coupe started following Me Boo-Booed - 1934 Ford Coupe and In a perfect world
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I'll have to apologize up front, but if I lived in a perfect world I wouldn't be building model cars, I'd be building the real thing! In fact, I recently answered this question a while back when I was asked what I would like "heaven" to be like. As strange as this may sound I would love to have a complete auto and machine shop. And be able to order brand new parts for cars and trucks from the 20's to the 60's. I would personally focus on only a few specific models from various eras and probably build a few of each. When I tell people this they often ask, why not just have them delivered ready to drive away? Clearly they don't understand. Building things from the ground up is my passion. I would also have a Woodmizer sawmill, a complete woodshop, and a forest full of great trees, I would build my own house from scratch too! I would also like to have stuff to make my own concrete. Oh yeah, a metal furnace for casting model train parts out of aluminum and bronze. I would still continue to build model G-scale railroads to put in my yard around my wooden house. I suppose it would be cool to have G-scale model cars to build too. Or maybe the trains could built to 1/24 scale. I'll have to think about that one. I keep forgetting that this is a "perfect world" we're talking about. Where's Santa Claus? I want to put in my order right now. I'll need at least 100 acres of land near a small tranquil lake since I'll be building wooden boats too. Oh yeah, I also need at least a 1000-year extension on my lifespan too (possibly with a renewal clause when the 1000 years is up). And since this is a "Perfect World" I'll assume great health is automatic. Thanks for asking. I'm looking forward to this dream coming true! Dear Santa, I would like,....
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@ Steve, Yes I know you are correct. But for my purposes I thought it might be close enough for an abstract representation.. It's better than having no model to work with at all, unless you know where I can get a model of a 1982 Virago? By the way, since I'm actually rebuilding my 82' I can "bash" it a little too to make it look a little bit more like the model of the '84 For example, I could add the Chrome Air cleaners and horn to the real bike and make it look a little bit more like the '84. But you're right, a lot of details will be different. The tank and side covers are larger on the '82 and the tank doesn't have as much of an angle. Also the front fenders are mounded differently, and the '84 has rear shocks with spring, where the '82 has a hidden mono-shock that can't be seen. Also the '84 you show above has real spokes in the wheels. But the Tamiya kit has the larger aluminum spokes a bit closer to my '82. Except my '82 has curved spokes and the Tamiya model has straight spokes. Yeah, there's a lot of differences in the details. But does anyone make a '82 Virago kit? Anyway I didn't mean to hog this whole thread with my bike project. I just thought this might be a cool idea and the question in this thread inspired the thought. I would much rather use a model of an '82 VIrago if I can find one. But kit bashing the '84 might do in a pinch. It won't be exact, but it will give the general appearance of being a model of the bike. Between "bashing" the kit and "bashing" the real deal during the rebuild I'd probably end up with something pretty close. By the way, just this conversation alone has me thinking of adding the chrome air cleaners and horn to the real bike. I wasn't thinking of doing that originally.
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I'll second this! I love to build dioramas too, but mine are definitely on a very amateur level to be sure. You'll never mistake mine for a real life scene. None the less they still serve to inspire the imagination. Great photography Ken, and an awesome web page! Those models look like photos of actual cars and garages. Thanks for sharing your work.
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That's some pretty crazy attention to detail there. You could have built the real thing by the time you're done with this model.
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Nice looking truck. One of my favorite years. I only wish I could build the real thing. I have about five or so of these to build in 1:32 scale. Mine are 1930 Lindberg kits.
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Hello Everyone, I truly am as stupid as I appear so let's get that out of the way right off the bat. I'm currently working on a 1:32 scale Lindberg 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe. I bought 5 of these kits at $5.11 each, so I have plenty of room to learn. Ok, here's my first problem. I thought I was being smart painting the parts whilst they were still on the sprue trees. But this has turned out to not be so hot for this particular model. The body is in 3 pieces, plus the fender/chassis. But the problem is that this body is not going to go together easily, especially after having been painted. You can see how the firewall isn't even close to lining up. So I'm going to need to glue that together first and then set the lower part of the body into the chassis as shown in the picture below. Right now I don't have anything glued: But you can see how the firewall is very far from being lined up. So I'll have to glue that first along with some reinforcement and then "spring" the two halves of the sides of the body into their proper place. Then I'll have to fit the top part of the body onto the lower parts and glue it to the bottom half. I'll probably have to do this using the chassis as a guide/holder to be sure that everything will line up. I should probably glue one side panel to the top at a time right? Then I should end up with something like shown below on hopefully far better lined up. The only problem is that I'll probably ruin the paint job by the time I do all this gluing and aligning. Notice in the above photo I'm also thinking about trying to "bash" a 1:32 scale T Street Rod engine into this kit. But this is going to be one extremely tight fit. I think it might make it, but it's going to be close. I'll have to cut out the floorboards or tranny to get it to fit, and probably even remove the distributor entirely. I'm not sure if this engine can be made to fit or not. It's going to be really close if it can be done. In any case, I'll probably ruin the body paint by the time I'm done trying to glue the body all together. I don't think I should have painted the body first. But not to fear, I have five of these kits! As you can see above I have a second chance to learn how to do this right. I think on this second model I'll glue the three body pieces all together first before any paint has been applied. Get that all lined up and squared away and then paint the body as a single piece. The only question here is whether I'll be able to install the glass in the upper part of the body afterward? The instructions state to install the glass before gluing the top piece to the bottom panels. But I don't want to have the glass in it when I paint it, that would require masking off the windows which would be a real pain. Anyway, I warned you that I'm stupid, so all suggestions are welcome. I took this last photo just to show the three body panels clearly. Like I say, I have five of these kits to play with. So this is all a learning experience. I might even buy more if I can get this construction down to a science. I was even thinking of toying with trying to cut open the doors on one of these. But I won't try that until I get a few of them built. I would imagine that the body would need to be constructed as a single piece with some seriously good structure before I moved forward to cutting doors open. Or do you think it would be better to cut the door out of the bottom section and top section separately and then glue those two pieces back together? That would seem to me to be far more likely to end up with bad alignment. So anyway I have five chances to build a good body here. So all suggestions are welcome. I haven't glued anything yet, but I have painted the first body as you've already seen. I think that was my first mistake.
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Yes, I had to add the back rest too. I used a lightly taller sissy bar as well. My was also a 1982 it looked very much like the one in the photo below when I bought it. It was mundane black like this one. It's a shameful mess right now. It ended up being stored in a shed that had a leaky roof and the paint all blistered off and a lot of the chrome is now rusty. I'm too ashamed to post a photo of the actual bike. Its pretty bad. This is why I'm totally disassembling it and redoing the whole thing. Fortunately then engine itself seems to have made it through without too much cosmetic damage. I'm thinking of painting it yellow, I current have the fuel tank sanded and primer, and the side covers aren't bad since they are plastic. I'm going to do them in bright yellow and leave the Yamaha logo off the tank. Mainly because the original logos are pretty ugly and they seem to be a bit pricey to replace, so I'll just leave them off. I like the simple clean look anyway. By the way, I wish I had a 1941 Indian Sport Scout that Davemodeltech posted out in my garage to rebuild. That would really be cool. But I guess this 82' Virago will have to do as my "antique" restoration project since this is what I have to work with.
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@ Steve, My Virago is actually a 750, but this model would be close enough, you can't really tell them apart much other than maybe for some engine details. I also took off the stock seat and replaced it with a really nice King-Queen seat. That makes a huge difference in the ride comfort. In fact, after I made the post here I was wondering how I would fabricate a replica scale King-Queen seat? I also have black leather saddle bags on the back, and an after market windshield on the front. With the wider King-Queen seat, the saddle bags, and the windshield it actually looks like a much larger bike. I only use it locally anyway, so I don't take major trips with it. But it's really nice to have a bike in the summer. And the saddle bags come in handy for picking up a few items from the grocery store. I just realized also that my pipes are different. I have one pipe on each side, they also flare out at the end instead of narrowing down. So this model isn't going to be an exact match of my bike anyway. But I could probably bash it to look pretty close. Other than the add-ons and the different pipes the rest is pretty much identical.