Richard Bartrop

Not a car, but an example of what you can do with Milliput. I made the pistol from aluminum tube, and the base was styrene sheet, but the rest was sculpted from Milliput. THe Figure stands four and a half inche tall.

You can shape Milliput like clay when it's soft. Just keep your fingers and tools damp to keep them from sticking. Milliput is pretty tough once it's set, which is great if you want to make a fin or a sharp corner, but you can carve and sand it.

I bin most of it, but I will save a little sprue, chop it up fine and add it to a bottle of liquid glue to use as filler. I've also used it to make small parts by putting it into heavy foil moulds. I keep clear sprue and clear red sprue separate for making lenses.

It has been done

Very nice! At first glance I thought it was a photo of the real thing.

Think of it as extreme patina. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41265294

It's actually not a Chaparral, but a modern tribute car.. https://www.motorsport.com/roadracing/news/can-am-spec-car-revival-will-it-work-in-2015/

The '36 is definitely Monogram. The AMT '36 is a roadster. It's probably from Monogram's Early Iron series. The White '32 with black fenders looks like it might be MPC's Keep on Truckin' kit.

The white one at the top is a Stutz Bearcat kit first put out by MPC in the 70s, and the one on the bottom looks like Bandai's Thomas Flyabout kit. It might even be the Entex reissue.

Unfortunately, the MPC kit also had it on the right.

Unfortunately, the MPC kit also had it on the right.

The MPC/AMT Lincoln chassis. The engine is different, and the frame will need to be shortened, but the frame and axles look they're about the right shape.

Maybe the Beverly Hillbillies truck or the 1928 Lincoln as a starting point for the chassis?for the chassis?

Now if they could smehow be persuaded to bring back the Stutz Bearcat, or the Thomas Flyer.

That roof looks better from the back, but that kink in the middle of the fin is just a bad idea.

I'm thinking it would look a lot better as a convertible.

The phrase"making a silk purse our of a sow's ear" was never truer than her. Congratulations on a fantastic job! What did you end up using for the wheels and tires?

And here's a 1983 Eldorado hearse.

There were Eldorados before the front-drivers, but as far as I know, no they were never made into hearses, or ambulances.

I came across a plan view of a Vickers online, and a length, so I just worked out all the dimensions from that. The Vickers is basically a box with a cylinder attached, and all the details were all boxes and cylinders, so it was just a matter of puying the right styrene stock, cutting it up, and sticking it all together. The body and turret are .5mm styrene, which is almost the perfect scale thickness for the armour at 1/16. I tried to follow the construction of the original wherever possible, since everything was going to be pretty visible at that scale. I have a 3D modelling program to work out a pattern for the turret armour plates. I glued them together in a ring, and I cut an internal ring of thicker styrene to hold it in a circular shape. For the body, I took measurements off a plan I found in a WWI armour modelling website, scaled them to 1/16 in Photoshop, and measured and cut from those. Those plans were for a 1920s vintage AC. and since then, I've found some better references of WWI vintage ACs, including photos of what is possibly the only surviving WWI vintage Rolls AC, so I want to redo the body.

Here's where I got on it. THe idea was to use the Entex/Bandai Rolls "Balloon Car" Since I needed extra tired anyhow, I figured I try casting them in a more accurate colour, the one on the right has a little carbon black mix into the white RTV Scratchbuilt Vickers gun for the turret

This page has some nice plan drawings of a Silver Ghost chassis. It's what I used for my own Rolls armoured car project https://www.rrec.org.uk/Cars/How_A_Car_Works.php

Looks good!

Personally, I think those wheels look really good on the roadster.

Oh yes, you don't have to throw money at this hobby to enjoy it. Honestly, I'd be way more impressed if somebody showed a really nice model and said they did it all for 12 bucks.