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If you heat the tube, doesn't it "anneal" I think the word is and thus soften up a bit for bending??? I did melt some aluminum tubing trying to make it heat colourize at the exhaust tips...dumb idea so be careful

You are kicking butt on this, great progress

Your brilliant skewer sticks remind me of marking water lines on model ships It is simple and smart to get everything balanced and even like that; going to use some version of it when I build from now on as a double check for level. My little MG was out of whack left to right dimensions in the rear

I really like that belt line you posted Monday....was wondering if you heated and pre-curved it and yes you did after I read the whole post Your wheel gap and stance are superb in today's pictures..great attention to detail Very classy look Cato

Gheeze the black, brass and chrome look good together. She is a real beauty even upside down!

I sent you a PM about making brass louvers Looking for some help from your scratch building expertise

Superb!!! Thanks for sharing it

Awesome!! Your photography skills and model making abilities make them look like 1:1 real vehicles Excellent work

Very nice!!!

I forgot to compliment you on the engines your posted already, all vey well detailed

I totally agreed and have the same fixation for engines of many kinds Purchased some 1/8 kits to post along side their vehicle builds Have a love for famous WWII airplane engines as well...Pratt and Whitney, Merlins and the like

You guys are scaring me

Another cool build from you!!! Always pick up some great scratch building tips along the way...build platform for example

The Pocher 911 gets a lot of bad rap as a lower quality kit vs the other exotic and the classic kits...do you find that so???? I have the F40 and I would rate it good; the Testarossa I would rate as fair... more plastic and toy-like. The Porsche gets hacked online as the weakest link perhaps due to more plastic components??? There is definitely metal vs styrene camps in the modelling world

I would just be happy if someone wanted my builds....until you make a name for yourself, gotta start somewhere

So nice to be following along a few classic, large scale builds....need to see more of these I am dying to get my proper workspace up and running so I can return to the larger scale stuff

Impressive progress!!! Looks like you are enjoying this Bugatti more than that Rolls The suspension work is excellent and the radiator and grill are just glowing. Agree that the water pipe and spark plug area is improved with your razor saw solution I like what you did on the exhaust manifold as well. As we say in Canada, you are "just given-er" i.e. going very rapidly

The build and silicone water is awesome.....maybe a finished edge on the base to spruce that up a bit. Blue to match the water or a nice wood that matches the hull

You should be really proud of this build, really really well done, awesome photography also Makes me wanna crack open my 1/12 kits, but I just don't have the time or space right now Thanks for letting me trail along on a great build man

There was one using soda can aluminum as well, but darned if I can find it again

Band saw is for outer radius, not for inner.....that would be a hole saw drill bit Jig looks like this

Driving me nuts as I know I have seen at least one as well I found another site I booked marked where a Bentley Blower had metal spokes done...hope that is what you were after, sorry to refer to another site http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/showthread.php?89017-Tagged-Airfix-1-12th-Blower-Bentley-with-improvements-(I-hope-)

Made a circle cutter for my bandsaw...I can see it coming in handy to make this

Great replies to this topic guys, the photos were especially helpful for me Thanks to Michael for asking the question as well

Awesome!!! She looks like she has run a hard race