Scale-Master Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 This will be the 1976 Follmer-Morton Vasek Polak car as it ran at Watkins Glen. The casting is pretty good, but needed some smoothing out and scribe work. After I did the basic body clean up, I made the windows. The frames are PE that had to be bent to fit to the openings then painted black. The kit provides a sheet of flat clear stock to cut the glass from. The hood needed to have a hole bored through it for the fuel filler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennyboy Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Looking great Mark!Now people will really be amazed when you tell them how big it is.......great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CabDriver Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Yeah, how big IS it? I've been trying to work it out! Looks small! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxer Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 It does look small, but casts a big shadow!My fingers ache looking at those windows! very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 It is 1/43 scale. I expected the windows to be a female dog. By comparison to the wonky bent up, brittle and oversized white metal roll cage parts they were a breeze... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogfish_7 Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 This should be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 The wheels are aluminum and the tires are soft. It comes with PE brake rotors… And PE calipers… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 After I installed the BBS wheel centers and center nuts I set them aside. Unfortunately the rear tires split along the line where the material met when being molded and apparently did not bond well. I cemented them together with CA and will have to sand and paint the repairs. At this point I’m waiting to see if the front tires split too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I did one where the tires did the same thing. What causes that ? Dried out tire material ? Interior bore too small ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 I think in this case it was two main factors. There was a clear line from where the tire material went 180 degrees around the mold and I suspect the material was not hot enough to fully meld. Plus the tires were a really tight fit with a good amount of stretching needed to get them over the rims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete J. Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Mark, is this an old resin kit? Nothing ages like old resin! Thank goodness. Looks like a challenge. It will be fun to watch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share Posted May 7, 2016 I was under the impression it was a recent kit Pete. But it looks like older technology in some areas. Looks like the front tires won’t be an issue since they are not stretched/stressed as much. The rears have been repaired. Not perfect, but once under the car I think they'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 The seat was MIA so I dug one out of my stash and modified it to match the drawing on the instructions. The seat belt hardware comes in the kit, I cut the belts out from tape. The roll cage looks a little rough partly due to the brittle nature of the white metal parts, and partly due to the tight fit inside the body. Fortunately when installed it looks OK and the windows/frames further limit how much can be seen once buttoned up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 The body is painted. I used some old stock (25+ years) Testors enamel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twokidsnosleep Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Very cool project, will pull up a seat and follow along For such resin kits, do you find you have to do anything special protection wise for your lungs when sanding, filing or drilling??? I have an old 1/43 Provence Moulage resin kit that smells like vomit when I touch it to sand or file....I wanna wear a full hazmat suit. I put a new dryer sheet in its box and packed it deep in the stash pile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 Well, I don't breathe in the dust when I make it, but I don't wear a mask or gloves either. Most of debris from filing and drilling is not so fine as to become airborne. When I do sand I almost always wet sand, and that contains the dust very effectively.The smell has never bothered me. But then I love the smell of new tires too.This one is not too strong smelling. Starter and PM kits from several years ago are much more pungent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 The decals are done, I used the new Decal Magic from Scale Motorsport and it worked well with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 17, 2016 Author Share Posted May 17, 2016 Time for final assembly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cook_dw Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 (edited) Looks great.. Always liked those cars. Edited May 17, 2016 by cook_dw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 Even with all the pre-fitting of the windows the windshield was still a bit of a challenge to install.The taillights are PE items too and had to be formed to fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale-Master Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Into the final stretch. The body and chassis are together for (I hope) the final time. While it came with decals for the black soft trim for the front and the rear fender guards, they were incomplete and poor fitting, so I hand painted those areas black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twokidsnosleep Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Nice clean build, especially at that scale Master-ful work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTJUNIOR Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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