Florent Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I believe that this is my first post on this website. I registered a while ago but I think that I never introduced myself, a french-canadian scale modeler living around Montreal, Quebac. As I like to build things from scratch and use all kinds of materials... and toolings, I happened to have a very unusual and crazy race car project into 1/6th scale, the biggest scale that I have been working on in my life. I wasn't able to find anything anywhere up to my desire as race tire and rim, so there I am, once again. in the process if building it myself. I am going to put the last picture of my update (near completion) on this work in progress but I own a website on scale modeling since 2009 (ten years old next summer) and I have created a page on the whole story and the whole process, with several pictures and paragraphs of blablas on the different steps. The piece is huge enough and I wrote the dimensions on my page as references. I created the wall of the tire from scratch (another crazy challenge) and you can see the different steps on it. There is also another 1/6th scale project, a figurine of a beatiful girl that is near completion too. The link will be at the bottom of the page that I am leaving here. http://montrealminiatures.com/?page_id=1922 Feel free to contact me for any comment or question. My email address is at the bottom of most pages. Have a nice day Florent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Nice. I looked at your beautiful girl too. Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Thanks for your kind comment Ace-Garageguy. By the way I like the nick name that you chose. That reminds me that my late elder brother was calling me ''the garage rat''. He was not a handy man at all. He had all the time his nose in some books. So I called him ''the library rat''. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brudda Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Torres Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Nice.. i had the same issue in 1/12 scale so i had to improvise.. it was a challenge but i have learned how to make my own tires and make a mold to cast them in rubber.. now i have options i didnt have before.. 3D printing helps, you can convert them into rubber.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuces Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 I have 2 sets of shaker trike slicks for a couple of 1/12 builds....?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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