jbwelda

>I have to agree that the best kit is a BUILT kit let me correct you just a bit: I have to agree that the best kit is an about-to-be-BUILT kit!!!

>The previous build's excellent jbwelda , I found photo's of that in my first search , but that resin body is brilliant , >have you got the contact details for the maker please ? First up I thought it was the usuall 1:35 resin slot car body >from the UK till I remembered they have the bonnet moulded shut . This is to fit the parts from the Tamiya mini isn't it ? well the story on the body is it was made by a fellow in south africa and his company Scalekraft i believe it was. unfortunately he met with an accident and is out of commission, perhaps forever. very sad situation but he was livin life to the fullest when the misfortune hit him. anyway he had this incredible list of bodies he cast up and at one point i wrote him a letter (yes indeed) and ordered a few bodies. that speedway mini is a real jewel, i would suppose he made the mold himself and it comes with window glass, minilite mag wheel inserts, weber carbs and a bunch of interior parts i believe (i would have to dig them out to be sure whats in there exactly. and yeah it is made to fit the tamiya mini, and near as i can tell will be a super easy conversion. keep an eye on it coming up in a month or so, i will post in the workbench section when i get into it. i also got a couple of other bodies, a porsche carrera early style and a mini traveller, but i kick myself for not ordering quite a few more. they were fairly expensive but most came with conversion parts and interiors etc and the castings are very very nice. you might establish a search on ebay and one might come up...i do know Scalekraft products do come up time to time. now there was or is a 1/32 broadspeed mini body for slotcars? please tell me where i can find one! i got a 1/32 brass tubing chassis just waiting for something to put on top of it!

heres one i did a long time ago; sorry for the poor quality, its in a diorama with plastic glass around it and here is my next project, was gonna post on the workbench soon with a closer look. broadspeed mini by scalekraft:

well before i go gettin all self congratulatory and all, i thought i should point something out, in the third photo i posted above, i was looking closely at it, and thought "what is that crack on the left side of the engine compartment? must be 'lense flare' or a UFO or something!" this one i mean: uh...sure enough, thats why it fit together so easily! they will do that when you break em! i knew that area was weak and not real well reinforced but did that stop me? ohhhhh no. anyway thankfully it glued back together and it will near or completely be covered or obscured by the rear bumper...i hope. its always something...

ok just to show you i am really serious this time, some progress to report! detailed the headliner a bit with some visors and mirror, then penciled in some horizontal lines to simulate headliner sew marks (not shown in this photo unfortunately) i had been dreading final fitting because like i have mentioned, i never really test fitted the body to chassis with the fujimi 356 dashboard in place so i sat down and just kinda engaged the front end into its mounting tab, then eased in the back, twisted the body a bit to get the interior sides up even with the glass and what do you know...fits pretty darn good! lookin good from the side, and both sides are even... and looking good from underneath! chassis is sitting evenly and flat and even the rear where i was afraid i would have to glue the motor up in one corner looks like its sitting nice. my biggest concern is getting the hood/deck to fit over the motor. i dont like the way tamiya makes these hoods because you cant lift them open enough to really see whats inside, so i think i am going to clip off the end pieces so the arms just slide into their slots and the deck can lift off. thats if it doesnt stick up on one or both of the aircleaners...if it does then things might get drastic. heres a weak shot of the interior, you can see the side panels are lining up well and what you can see of the porsche dashboard fits very nicely, like it was made for it.

>although obviously not as good as glue. i'm not so sure about that...the photoetch is buried under a layer of plastic basically...its sealed down there pretty good. i just used it yesterday to attach the "karmann ghia" script on the back of a tamiya ghia...

someone really really really needs to do an FJ-60!!!

wow that detail is spectacular! you oughta work for Fujimi!

i have enuff that anytime i start digging in them i come up with kits i didnt know i had (or in a couple cases, kits i would have sworn i had never seen before!)

here is another piece of anecdotal evidence: i have the same bottle of future i had 10 years ago (when it was actually called "Future"), and its as clear and bright (if i may coin a phrase) as the day i bought it. in addition, i originally poured some into a smaller spice jar for easier use...i thin it about once every 2 years with 20% or so distilled water, and it still works as new. they may have changed the formula at some point but the original Future keeps on ticking... thats not to say that putting some over pure white might not yellow it, but its certainly not yellow in the bottle or anything.

>how did you go getting the body panels to sit , they are a little tricky on mine and not wanting to line up too well ... if you mean where the various body pieces join up, yeah they were a little tricky to say the least; i didnt bother, just got it close all around and welded everything up with thick CA glue and am currently filling and sanding the remaining seams. this thing actually fits together pretty well, i accidently installed what was left of the steering shaft/steering box upside down and see now that it would have looked a lot better as it was supposed to be. that may be borne out in how the steering column eventually angles in the interior. but fussy as a lot of the chassis was, i have to say stuff fit like it should, which to me has been a revell hallmark: fiddly but all fits with patience.

not all that exciting but along with smoothing the body and sharpening the edges, i actually did my very first airbrush session and painted the interior bucket, flat black on the outside and classic (gloss) black on the inside. came out pretty nice too. probably have this built up later in the weekend: its pretty simple but i am going to flock the carpet and do some other little detailing. ps: look at those stupid ejector pin marks right in the middle of the upholstery!

you ARE the scale-master! one look at those first two photos and i would have had to put the kit back in the box and hide it under the bed. that thing is looking awesome despite its humble beginnings, fantastic work!

well it has been awhile but in my current "clear the workbench for something new!" mood, ive started back in on this moldy oldie! finally faced the foil so to speak and it needs a bit of trimming but overall looks as good as i expected, next time im going to sand off those side trim strips instead. all thats really needed to do here is putting the glass in, final fitting which is probably going to be a bit of a challenge because that porsche dashboard, while following the contours of the stock tamiya ghia one, hasnt actually been fitted up in there with the glass installed, etc. i predict a little dremel therapy on this patient in the immediate future. then its just a matter of installing the trim and getting it to sit nice and i should be wrapping it up! headliner being painted, still will be trimmed around its edges with a black sharpie before the glass is installed: body is looking ok, still needs a bit of polishing up: i am hoping to get the glass in tomorrow and then start with the final fitting, then install the wheels and tires to make sure it sits level...

futurabat, get that thing on the workbench!

well we all know that in an ideal world... thanks for the replies on that, i just shot some paint today and used the respirator for some and didnt for others. so im half fast on the subject....

>What is face book? thank you.

wow i am always amazed when people build something like this in 3 days! does it have the motor (if not, wanna trade it for something? ) it takes me forever just to do a little foiling and that thing is completely trimmed out! great car man...

heres something i have wondered: aside from trying to be 100% safe, if i am spraying into a pace booth, with fan running, and there is no detectable odor of solvents in the air, is a respirator really necessary? i am sure the really safe answer is to always wear the thing but they are just so clumsy and hard to use that i avoid it when possible...to the probable detriment to my health though its usually been when using buzzcans outdoors or nearly outdoors that i havent at least used a particle mask when painting. still...any thoughts on this aside from dont be a dumbazz and always use the thing?

i thought and still think it was atrocious how revell treated ed roth when his interests diverged into motorcycles and certain motorcycle clubs. it was like he became a pariah overnight though obviously revell didnt have a problem profiting on his creations without his name attached. they went for this squeaky clean image that was pretty much 180 degrees from what most hot rod people were in real life. this was right about when i got out of models and into real cars so it wasnt that much of a thing back then but in retrospect i think revell still owes ed roth a giant apology. in many ways, at least to me back then, roths cars were what kept me in the hobby as long as i was. and the fact they continued to put out his designs without his name in flimsily disguised versions was beyond belief...either he signed away his life in his contracts or he didnt like lawyers because outside of those two possibilities, i dont see why he didnt sue them out of existance when they were doing that. all that said thanks for bringing up this kit and posting the photo of the box art...i have never seen or even heard of this kit before. ps: the sixties are over only if you want them to be. go occupy something.

wow that looks nice and that motor is killer. so you widened the body by splicing in some width right down the middle? or do you mean with wide fenders? looks low and wide!

your tutorials are the best ive ever seen. i am going to spend a couple hours there just tonite. thanks for the link and all the work! i liked the way you modified the harbor freight to actually work kinda. i looked at mine, which i hadnt actually tried to use yet, and it looks like mine is in better shape, heres a photo of its tip. looks like they cleaned up their manufacturing on the tip at least but its nowhere near as fine as the badger. (by the way the photos were taken with a 50$ microscope on a usb port from amazon. totally amazing thing.)

love those blue dots...where did you get them or did you fabricate them?

hmmm...the pinstriping, yeah thats a problem...i had a decal sheet with it on it but i dont recall what kit it came out of. the white version is on the red car and the black version is on the yellow car. and if you look closely you will notice the feet got folded over each other but i kinda liked it like that so i left it instead of straightening it back out. maybe someone will chime in with where that decal came from...i am thinking its one of revells recent 32 fords? robert, feel free to post a pic here of your stock version, i would like to see it!

so nice and that figure painting is killer. the guys expression is excellent.