Kit Karson Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) Continued marching towards the paint shop picking up after myself... tidying up a few more loose ends: Mocked up the engine with new Holly Carburetors from the original Revell Deuce Coupe kit (x2) Worked on the door hinges... Started with the right side upper hinge: Trimmed up the lower previously plugged door surround hinge: Felt like the lower hinge was a bit thick compared to the upper hinge... So, I cut the bottom off: Looks better, right? Fits good, after a bit of kleanup... How 'bout from this angle? Better? Tacked the lower hinge to the door: Set it all together... Aligned the two closer together... Applied a drop of CA on the inside between the hinge and the door frame surround: The fun tack blocks the CA from kreeping on to the door hinge edge. Let the right side dry & went after the left side! Repeated the same process detailed above on the left upper hinge: Will go in and file out the excess after both have dried completely over night. Next time, we'll go after the lower door hinges. -KK btw I may work a little slow (including the # of times looking for each loose hinge more than a couple of times in the karpet beneath my work bench) but, each hinge so far has taken about an hour each! Edited September 28, 2021 by Kit Karson Text correction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 The step by step on the door hinges is great. Thank you for going through the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill-e-boy Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 @Kit Karson Kudos to the local model shop... is it still around? - Sadly no. That shop closed up years ago but we do still have one that opened up at about the time it closed. We have been fortunate to have a model shop in our provincial city where I live and I hope it manages to continue trading in these troubled times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullybeef Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Holy moly, you step away from the bench for a little while and boom!! The progress is incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill-e-boy Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 I am taking note of your hinge diet @Kit Karson and I will certainly copy your work to get the hinges looking better I have been working away ever so slowly on my build - life has a way of getting in the way of modelling time I did not feel that the bare board underside of the roof was in keeping with the theme so I cut out a hood lining from some .010" sheet stock In the process I get rid of a couple of nasty ejection pin marks Next up is prep work on the body. This issue of the kit has some much flash it is unbelievable. It also has these little nubs in hard to reach spaces - it looks like there may have been some corrosion in the mould. At least rust does not hit plastic as our stashes would be a pile of brown stuff from all the years of hiding them away. I don't remember the older orange version having this much flash or marks. I will have to check a newer version I have to see if it is any better. It took me the better half on an evenings work to get around the outside of the fender unit. I still have the inside yet to do I can't wait to get some paint on this with my newly acquired Paasche Model H airbrush. I score from the local auction site. This is the third or fourth used airbrush I have picked up and all have been in a sorry state mostly with paint build up in critical areas like the mixing cone and internal ways. As all users of airbrushes know the old adage of "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" applies Enough rant - onwards with the build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) On 9/28/2021 at 10:23 PM, bobthehobbyguy said: The step by step on the door hinges is great. Thank you for going through the process. Made a little more progress on the left & right upper hinges: Pulled the doors away from the lower upper hinges... still have to remove the fun tack... Line up pretty well from this angle... and, straight on, as well. A little more work on the top right hinge... Looking better... even from this angle. Paid a little attention to the upper left hinge, too. Looks about a good as the other side, right? On 9/29/2021 at 2:04 PM, bill-e-boy said: @Kit Karson Kudos to the local model shop... is it still around? - Sadly no. That shop closed up years ago but we do still have one that opened up at about the time it closed. We have been fortunate to have a model shop in our provincial city where I live and I hope it manages to continue trading in these troubled times. The history of a kit, like the REVELL Ford Model A is a story in itself. Thanks for sharing. Looking back on the different places this kit came from and ended up in is most interesting, too! Now we have, in this thread alone, almost all four corners of the planet being represented by modelers from around the world. All working from the same pile of plastic parts from a cardboard box brought to us from halfway around the other side of that same world. 20K plus viewers watching over our shoulders, we with a slightly different take on the subject, yet each building the same model kit. Thanks for jumping in, Brother! -KK Moving on... @bill-e-boy I too was looking at the wooden roof skeleton and have been thinking about making a rolled & pleated headliner to match the bench seat from the roadster. Mocked up the engine... Seems a little tight, but it all fits... sorta!?. The '29 Ford PU Yard Sale Have to start kolor sorting the parts... Stay tuned as progress on the '29 Ford PU & Trailer will continue on most of these same channels at about the same time... until next time, keep building - so little time & so many models yet to build! -KK Edited September 30, 2021 by Kit Karson Text correction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Lacy Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 Progress is looking good brother KK! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 11 hours ago, Kit Karson said: Made a little more progress on the left & right upper hinges: Pulled the doors away from the lower upper hinges... still have to remove the fun tack... Line up pretty well from this angle... and, straight on, as well. A little more work on the top right hinge... Looking better... even from this angle. Paid a little attention to the upper left hinge, too. Looks about a good as the other side, right? Moving on... @bill-e-boy I too was looking at the wooden roof skeleton and have been thinking about making a rolled & pleated headliner to match the bench seat from the roadster. Mocked up the engine... Seems a little tight, but it all fits... sorta!?. The '29 Ford PU Yard Sale Have to start kolor sorting the parts... Stay tuned as progress on the '29 Ford PU & Trailer will continue on most of these same channels at about the same time... until next time, keep building - so little time & so many models yet to build! -KK Impressive work K K.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Great progress by all...exciting to see these come through the development/build process. And belated congrats to this thread's "Father", Dennis, on his call-out in issue #7 of Speed and Kulture magazine as the builder of the tranny in a very traditional early style 1/1 scale 1932 Ford Highboy Roadster....way to go, guy! TIM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 11 hours ago, tim boyd said: Great progress by all...exciting to see these come through the development/build process. And belated congrats to this thread's "Father", Dennis, on his call-out in issue #7 of Speed and Kulture magazine as the builder of the tranny in a very traditional early style 1/1 scale 1932 Ford Highboy Roadster....way to go, guy! TIM @Dennis Lacy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Lookin' at paint allocation... part-x-part! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Made the final adjustments to the lower right & left door hinges... Trimmed the left hinge off the tree to start the klean up process... Remember, the hole was filled before removing the part... Insert Tab A into Slot B... Test fit looks workable... Klose enough for government work... Filing was a bit quicker than cutting with the saw! Next step fun tack the left upper lower hinge to the inner edge of the door... Set the door back in place... Slight adjustment before securing with glue... A little drop of CA... Let it set up... Left side needs a little work... So does the right side... Small opening between the hinge and the door surround needed attention on both sides... Easy fix... All kleaned up and ready for the yard sale... One good side... deserves another! Decided, after checking out other headlight bar options, to go with the stock unit. '29 PU & Trailer Yard Sale -KK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan barton Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Gee, you do clean work, Kit! I aspire to it but sometimes feel like I fall short.......again! Lovely to watch the progress on this model. I have been focussed on a different model for my model column in Austrlaian Street Rodding magazine but hope to get my doors hinged this week so that I am ready for the paint booth soon - we are just starting to get a bit of warm weather here after one of our coldest wettest winters in decades so it will be good to get the colour on. Good luck with your painting efforts! Cheers Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatW Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 On 9/29/2021 at 7:04 PM, bill-e-boy said: @Kit Karson Kudos to the local model shop... is it still around? - Sadly no. That shop closed up years ago but we do still have one that opened up at about the time it closed. We have been fortunate to have a model shop in our provincial city where I live and I hope it manages to continue trading in these troubled times. Your very lucky to have a local modelshop. Here in the UK they are very few and far apart. We have a Hobbycraft store with only Tamiya stuff, they have just stopped selling Airfix so one of my contacts says. Tiny glue bottles, small bottles of paints and very few small brushes. No spray stuff at all. Another about 15 miles away concentrates on RC and railways and that's about it. We have to buy online, pay for shipping and wait in for deliveries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattilacken Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 3 hours ago, PatW said: Your very lucky to have a local modelshop. Here in the UK they are very few and far apart. We have a Hobbycraft store with only Tamiya stuff, they have just stopped selling Airfix so one of my contacts says. Tiny glue bottles, small bottles of paints and very few small brushes. No spray stuff at all. Another about 15 miles away concentrates on RC and railways and that's about it. We have to buy online, pay for shipping and wait in for deliveries. Same here in Sweden I have a fairly local store 250km away with a good assortment of most materials and a good selection of kits but no “aftermarket” parts as wheels and such. Glad there is car-model-kit and an other Swedish store Virago supplying such aftermarket. You can be glad that you have Hiroboy at least in UK, best store before brexit, a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH nice guy as well, remember meeting him in 2006 in his GT-R, got to know him through AF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattilacken Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 O btw.. good looking build! Cool trailer and all the small vehicles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullybeef Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) On 10/4/2021 at 4:08 PM, Kit Karson said: Lookin' at paint allocation... part-x-part! @Kit Karsonexcited to see all your hard work in colour! Edited October 8, 2021 by Bullybeef Typo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Gosh! It doesn't get any better than to hear from more international followers!! Thanks, Brother Modelers!!! Went back through my notes and noticed that I referred to the headlights & bar as the stock unit... not so. This was an AMT product; kleaner than the Revell PU kit unit. This is just one version of the long time running Ford '29 Model A Roadster box art... While digging through all of the old model parts... came across the Ford Step Plates... not a big fan of them, but seemed to follow the Ford Logo theme going on in this build, we'll see if they make it to final assembly... Had to take a klose look at them... they travel in pairs & sometimes they don't quite match... Following a short treasure hunt... a duplicate pair were located! Having spare parts sometimes makes for a better selection... Game! Set!! Match!!! Searching for the right taillights turned up a couple of pairs from the old Monogram The Beach Boys/Rockin' Rods Li'l Deuce Coupe... These will do just fine... They're the right shape... Kleaned up and ready for their new stop light red lenses... After a light sanding, hit them with the chrome pen & then a drop of "Stop Light Red" (Note: the best result comes from NOT shaking the paint up... the clear red sits on top of the paint, just a single drop on each taillight, works good) Cobbled together a set of Clutch, Brake & Gas pedals... Gas from the Revell '29 Roadster & the other two from the AMT Phantom Vickie... Phantom Vickie Pedal Assembly Crossed with the Roadster Gas & Brake pedals... and elongated pedal assembly slot... make for a stylish three pedal setup! Odds & Ends the story of the fiddly bits & small details that most will never see... -KK Edited October 7, 2021 by Kit Karson Text correction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Kit Karson said: Gosh! It doesn't get any better than to hear from more international followers!! Thanks, Brother Modelers!!! Went back through my notes and noticed that I referred to the headlights & bar as the stock unit... not so. This was an AMT product; kleaner than the Revell PU kit unit. This is just one version of the long time running Ford '29 Model A Roadster box art... While digging through all of the old model parts... came across the Ford Step Plates... not a big fan of them, but seemed to follow the Ford Logo theme going on in this build, we'll see if they make it to final assembly... Had to take a klose look at them... they travel in pairs & sometimes they don't quite match... Following a short treasure hunt... a duplicate pair were located! Having spare parts sometimes makes for a better selection... Game! Set!! Match!!! Searching for the right taillights turned up a couple of pairs from the old Monogram The Beach Boys/Rockin' Rods Li'l Deuce Coupe... These will do just fine... They're the right shape... Kleaned up and ready for their new stop light red lenses... After a light sanding, hit them with the chrome pen & then a drop of "Stop Light Red" (Note: the best result comes from NOT shaking the paint up... the clear red sits on top of the paint, just a single drop on each taillight, works good) Cobbled together a set of Clutch, Brake & Gas pedals... Gas from the Revell '29 Roadster & the other two from the AMT Phantom Vickie... Phantom Vickie Pedal Assembly Crossed with the Roadster Gas & Brake pedals... and elongated pedal assembly slot... make for a stylish three pedal setup! Odds & Ends the story of the fiddly bits & small details that most will never see... -KK "Odds & Ends the story of the fiddly bits & small details that most will never see... -KK" ....and the sometimes countless hours it takes to do these fiddly bits correctly. No one will ever know the work you went to in getting it right.....but you will! (Or in this case, Kit will and so will everyone following this thread!) TB Edited October 8, 2021 by tim boyd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 10 hours ago, tim boyd said: "Odds & Ends the story of the fiddly bits & small details that most will never see... -KK" ....and the sometimes countless hours it takes to do these fiddly bits correctly. No one will ever know the work you went to in getting it right.....but you will! (Or in this case, Kit will and so will everyone following this thread!) TB @tim boydtruer words, ever spoken... from your lips to the world, Brother! Too many nay-sayers gripe about the missed details in any given model, only to brag about their knowledge of a given subject. Too many new/rereleased model kits have minor flaws... some correctable, or represented better in another version of the same model. When the first '32 Ford model hit the shelves in your local dime-store/hobby shop, many were over joyed that we had a model to start from. Not a perfect start, but better than the pine-wood carved body from a solid block of balsa/bass wood. Few ever do the research to find out how a car/truck was originally created/produced. If it's wrong... fix it! If it's bent... straighten it! If the model car manufacture missed or messed up certain details... calling them out won't resolve the issue, but in some cases subsequent re-issues may address the problem. Or, not! This is a HOBBY not science! It's a HOBBY not a religion!! It's a HOBBY... an art form!!! An individual expression of one's own idea of how something can be assembled from a box of associated pieces. A cumulation of bits and details from a sorted mind and vision of something to be. Every model builder has some skills... and those skills improve with every effort put forth. Mistakes can be corrected, errors found can be overcome, nothing is made perfect or is it? Perfection is an aspiration... inspiration is everywhere and satisfaction is subjective. Keep building and sharing your experiences! -KK 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can-Con Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 3 hours ago, Kit Karson said: @tim boydtruer words, ever spoken... from your lips to the world, Brother! Too many nay-sayers gripe about the missed details in any given model, only to brag about their knowledge of a given subject. Too many new/rereleased model kits have minor flaws... some correctable, or represented better in another version of the same model. When the first '32 Ford model hit the shelves in your local dime-store/hobby shop, many were over joyed that we had a model to start from. Not a perfect start, but better than the pine-wood carved body from a solid block of balsa/bass wood. Few ever do the research to find out how a car/truck was originally created/produced. If it's wrong... fix it! If it's bent... straighten it! If the model car manufacture missed or messed up certain details... calling them out won't resolve the issue, but in some cases subsequent re-issues may address the problem. Or, not! This is a HOBBY not science! It's a HOBBY not a religion!! It's a HOBBY... an art form!!! An individual expression of one's own idea of how something can be assembled from a box of associated pieces. A cumulation of bits and details from a sorted mind and vision of something to be. Every model builder has some skills... and those skills improve with every effort put forth. Mistakes can be corrected, errors found can be overcome, nothing is made perfect or is it? Perfection is an aspiration... inspiration is everywhere and satisfaction is subjective. Keep building and sharing your experiences! -KK Can I get a "Harrumph" for the honorable member from Atlanta! 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Lacy Posted October 9, 2021 Author Share Posted October 9, 2021 8 hours ago, Can-Con said: Can I get a "Harrumph" for the honorable member from Atlanta! 👍 I didn’t get a Harrumph out of that guy… 👉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kit Karson Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Spent the evening in the attic rattling kans after siting at the bench koating engine parts with a brush... Fired up the fan & lights in the booth in the attic... Primed the undersides... It was a little after 7 pm edt & warm & dry... Let everything settle before moving the flats back into the shop... Look klose... there's a dash of kolor drying in the attic paint shop... -KK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan barton Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Burgundy? Should look very cool! How are you going to hold your doors while painting, Kit? I painted my frame about a month ago but in view of the cold, damp weather here I waited a long time before handling it. Got the rear brakes and wheels/tyres on today, with the front axle and wheels and tyres just mocked up for today. Still got to come up with an exhaust, a driveshaft and some sort of an intake. Still haven't tackled the hinges - just wasn't in the right frame of mind and I expect to take few nights to get them right. At least I have made some headway. Cheers Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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