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I’m trying a new technique to ‘photoetch’ metal parts, but by using a vinyl resist rather than the ‘photo’ bit of the process. I can make a vinyl mask pretty easily, and I have the materials and chemicals required here, but it’s still taking some figuring out to get it to work right.
Im trying to make a windshield frame for a 34 truck - which would look like this, loosely:
Vinyl resist applied to some aluminum sheet:
And some chemistry starting to happen:
I over-reduced the etching solution to slow the process down some seeing as this is my first time messing with this, and I think it’s going to take a bunch of experimenting to learn how to do this stuff successfully and repeatably, but I’m hopeful!My brass version of the same part is starting to etch down to the right shape on the outer edge - not sure how much of that I’ll lose by the time the opening in the center has gone though...
Guess we’ll see what kind of mess we have by morning! -
Next level stuff, Eric!!! Such a joy to see it come together!!
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On 11/16/2020 at 9:05 PM, Bainford said:
Nice work so far. The Miata looks great in red.
Thank you! It’s funny, blue is my go-to color for any 1:1 I’ve ever bought...but I don’t like the blue Miatas as much as the red ones. They look cool in red!
On 11/16/2020 at 10:12 PM, Italianhorses said:Great start!
Thank you sir!
On 11/17/2020 at 12:38 AM, slusher said:I. Like that burgundy, glad your building one...
Eventually anyway... ?
On 11/17/2020 at 1:23 PM, kelson said:Looks good so far,is this version the Eunos roadster that comes with the hardtop?
Yes sir! It comes with a clear plastic hardtop so you can mask the window and paint the rest. The fit looked a little hokey on the one in my kit though, so I’m going to go with the top-down option this time around I think...
Tiny bit of progress - got all the underside stuff done - used some washes and watercolor pencils to add a little interest to the exhaust but nothing too major...
And this weekend’s project is the interior. Just shot all the plastic bits (as in, what would be plastic in the 1:1 - I realize the whole kit’s plastic ?) in Tamiya NATO Black this evening:
This grey is actually a little light compared to the 1:1 (although some semigloss clear darkened it up some after this photo was taken)...but I’d like to be able to pick out some of that nice detail on the dash with a black wash and make it stand out a little better.Did the opposite on the door panels - the detail is a little flat so I shot those with a darker shade to kinda hide them...trying to use some tricks to draw the eye to the interesting and well-detailed parts more, and away from the less well done stuff in the kit. We’ll see how it works when it goes together...more soon!
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I’ve just been messing with one of these and didn’t spot any issue, although I’m not ready to glue it together here yet either...do you remember what the issue was, roughly?
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I did a search but there wasn't a bunch on here about them...
I've been tossing up between this...:
https://taigtools.com/product/10171-starter-set-1/
...and a Sherline, and while I like the Sherline I don't think the extra money you pay to buy one will gain me much compared to this Taig, which seems like it has great reviews.
At just over $450 the starter set seems like it would have everything you'd need to get going on making some little aluminum 'hop ups'...but I'd love to hear any advice from anyone more knowledgeable about these. And given my lathe experience is almost zero it'll all help...
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Just now, Tom Geiger said:
Skunkworks? ?
My current space is simply called my model room.. and storage in my basement is known as the model warehouse.
The Rod Shop!
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12 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said:
A pity that social media appears to have become detrimental to various forums.
I agree - Facebook groups are quick and easy to make, and everyone gets to be head honcho of their own little site, but good luck searching for a cool post you saw on facebook 2 years ago to find some reference info.
I've got a Facebook account so I can follow some of the model clubs who don't post on here or have 'real' websites, but that's about all it's useful for to me. That said, I like my little Instagram page, and it has a lot of followers and commenters who aren't on here, but same deal - good luck searching for that useful piece of info you found on there years ago, or following an in-progress build from start to finish.
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6 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:
My model room / den in my first house was called “The Dope Room”. It was the second floor in a cape cod style house with two sloping walls. A previous owner’s teenager painted all the walls and ceiling black and it was evident there were black light posters etc there once. And shag carpet. The first time my wife saw this she said it looked like people did dope up there. The name stuck.
Haha! I've been trying think of what to call the room I've got set aside in the house for hobby stuff now. 'Workshop' sounds too industrial (it's actually a pretty nice comfortable space) and 'studio' sounds too artsy. I've been calling it "my room", but then when I say I'm going up to my room it sounds like I've been bad and I've got to go write lines or something. "Jim! Go to your room, at once!"
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Dumb question, probably...what's the best link to click to just buy this copy online from SOMEONE (don't really mind who).
My wife wants to get me a subscription for Christmas, but in the meantime I'd like to pick up 207...I clicked through all the local hobby stores to see if I could just click and order it but none had it listed...a lead from anyone on where has a listing for it online would be much appreciated!
No complaints, I know you guys are just getting rolling again here - I just didn't want to click through every single hobby store in the country to try and find an order link, or have to call round a bunch of places
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2 hours ago, Mike999 said:
LOL! Or they could have used the alleged quote from Henry Ford II, when The Deuce saw his first VW Bug: "Americans will never buy that little s--t box." In 1946, Ford was offered not only the VW Bug, but the whole Wolfsburg factory. He turned it down.
A Fordswagen would have been cool!
5 hours ago, NOBLNG said:Does it at least have the small block V-8 in it.?
It's definitely a small block, but I don't think its a V8 :D
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8 minutes ago, ChrisBcritter said:
Hmm.
First time I've seen that error - is it pretty common, like the "429 Vette"?
I believe I’ve seen it mentioned on here before, although my memory is hazy...I wonder if the Ford has info about the Beetle on the box? ?
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I’ve been eyeing this one lonely Beetle kit in our local Hobby Lobby for three months, but the box had had the seals broken, then had been taped up again and had THAT ripped off too and then finally had some different tape holding the lid in place.
Saw the manager lady in the kit aisle and said “can you do a little discount on this?” and she said “You know, that’s been on the shelf there for a year...I can mark it as damaged if you wanted it, but I can’t accept a return if I do” so I checked it real quick and it all seems to be in there...paid $6 + tax! Score! And the box isn’t THAT bad, on the top at least...
I probably would’ve paid the $18 they wanted for it anyway, even if the box does say it’s a 37 Ford on the side ?
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Brilliant, I’ve been waiting to find a place to order the latest issue. Thanks Dave!
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Thanks fellas!
13 hours ago, slusher said:Very nice red paint. There was a burgundy one here in town that I recall seeing often.
I like the metallic burgundy they did later on, on these - that’s on my to-build list!
Meanwhile, I prepped a BUNCH of parts today, and got base colors on everything ready for primer. I’ve been referencing @Italianhorses’s recent build of this same kit, and he’s smart enough to paint a bunch of the same colored parts all at once, as I’m sure a bunch of you are. So, I figured I’d do some smart building for once here and not prep and prime and paint every individual part one by one like I normally do. Not sure why I’ve always done that, but hey ho ?♂️?
Did a little detail painting on the engine...I don’t really enjoy curbside kits because of the inherent soft detail that you get stuck with out of the box...but I’m intentionally building this one out of the box so I’m running with it:
I already know that I rarely if ever turn my builds over, so I’m not sure why I care what’s under there, but I’d feel like I’m cheating if I didn’t make SOME effort anyway, so I used some Silly Putty for the more tricky masking around the engine and shot some metalizer colors on the block and trans just to add a little visual interest here, then added a black wash and some light drybrushing.
Oh, and while I was at it, added some detail paint and a wash to the brake discs and calipers:
See - I learned to batch paint parts, for efficiency ?
More soon, soon as I’ve done more!
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3 minutes ago, AmericanMuscleFan said:
Thanks for your kind word Jim!
I never took the time to evaluate this option since I have a milling machine and a rotary table which are the usual tools for this kind of work. With a lathe, you will have to put the drill bit in the chuck and find a way to index the body in the tailstock... not easy! The rotary table is the way to go based on my limited experience but maybe and very experienced machinist could answer your question better than me? Feel free to send me a PM if you need my help.
Take care Francis
I appreciate you taking the time to explain, thank you Francis! The way you described makes much more sense! I've had a yearning for a lathe for a while here and I'm trying to learn a little more about that I will and won't be able to do with it aside from the obvious. Thanks again for the insight!
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Outstanding as always Francis
Beginner’s machining/fabricating question - is it possible to make a part such as the ‘body’ of that distributor cap, with the eight outer holes equally spaced around it, with a lathe?
I’ve got to assume there’s some easy-ish trick to making a part like that and getting the spacing and angles perfect on the holes, but I can’t quite visualize how it’s done with my almost-zero machining experience...and I’m not sure what that trick is called to be able to Google it and learn more ?
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Last year I built a Revell Miata, and made the resolution that I’d build another a year on to see how I’ve improved as a modeller...and it’s nearing the end of the year so I thought I’d better get going on this year’s box-stock skills-test and see if I’m any better than I was a year ago ?
This is last year’s build - it was ok...some fit and assembly issues on the Revell kit that I’d know how to handle better when I try this kit again, but I decided to take on the Tamiya kit of the same car this year and see how that goes:
The Revell kit is full detail, which the Tamiya isn’t so it’s not a COMPLETELY fair comparison...but also they’re both Miatas and I’d like a nicer Miata build to put in my display case so I’m going with it ?. Will keep (mostly) box stock and concentrate on how my prep, paint and assembly chops have improved since I did the last one.
Picked up a can of GM red for the body...a lot of 1:1 Miata owners use this as an easier-to-find alternative to the Mazda Classic Red these cars came in from the factory for touch ups and whatnot...they’re INCREDIBLY close to being the same color, and close enough for the girls I go with...
The body needed some massaging and smoothing out before I could get to the primer stage...some bigger mould lines and imperfections that we’re used to with modern Tamiya kits, but this one was issued 30 years ago so it’s not too bad considering...
All smoothed out, and some panel-line excavation later...
The mirrors for this kit are on one of the black parts trees, so you’ll need to hit those with a coupla three coats of a lighter primer so they match the body...
All set and in white primer to help that bright red pop nicely:
I let this shrink up overnight and touched up any little imperfections that I’d missed before laying down the color itself...crept up on it with mist coats so as not to risk any wrinkling of the plastic:
The original Miatas were a single stage paintjob, but they later switched to having a two-stage with a clearcoat, so seeing as this particular brand of paint needs clear anyway I guess I’m replicating that kind...so next up was some nice glossy clear:
Already looks better than last year’s ?More soon, soon as I’ve done more!
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I agree with Dennis - I really like think this nailed that current “modern traditional” look well (as did the green Deuce in the final SA)
On a slightly related note,and I’ve posted a thread about this before but I’m interested in your answer - what do you consider the big trends in hot rodding generally right now Tim? And where do you see us going next in rodding (both in scale and 1:1)?
I’m seeing a lot of those nice traditional colors but built in a slightly cleaner style than some of the ‘real’ traditional hot rods, but I’m not seeing a big movement towards any particular ‘big thing’ (like we had when rat rodding/patina rods were HUGE a while back, and then more recently the big interest in TRoG type projects).
Do you have your crystal ball handy there Tim? ? ?
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6 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:
If you haven't heard from them by now, you likely didn't win anything.
I won a couple of F1 models and was notified by email almost a week ago.
Steve
Ohh, congrats!!
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I entered a few builds in the hot rod category and tried multiple times to even make the page load properly so I could even SEE my entries, let alone vote for them. The page was trying to load maybe 500 images and would always time out for me (on multiple laptops, desktops, iPads and phones that I tried it on).
As such, I have no idea if anyone even SAW my builds, or was able to vote for them.
I’m happy @TimKustom’s excellent 29 won in the hot rods though! Congrats Tim!
Holding out hope I maybe won one of the raffle prizes instead ??
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On 11/12/2020 at 1:05 PM, Mr. Metallic said:
"regular guy" is well known around here for spouting some , shall we say dubious "information" on this board. He hasn't been around much anymore. His posts were always good for pure entertainment value, but not much factual information
I miss Regular Guy - it was ALWAYS an entertaining thread when he started one
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1 hour ago, Robberbaron said:
Stopped in at the Merrillville, IN store again last night.
Down to the dregs with the automotive kits: nothing but curbside Vettes and the Camaro concept.
Gotta think and they'll be getting at least one more shipment in before X-mas?
Be nice if they got some more of the Lindberg 37 Fords - missed out on those before!
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I've had some parts from them, including their Uncertain T clone body, and have been very happy indeed
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I have a mental list of cars I dreamed about that I'm going to build at some point!
It's a fairly short list - in the last decade I've only dreamed of a pearl orange 69 Charger, a stock red original version Viper and just last week I 'found' a patina'd old MG sports car that I had just seen mentioned in Road and Track...in my dream I found the body and fenders sitting next to a dumpster waiting to be hauled off and I decided they needed to come home with me
34 Church Truck
in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
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When I posted a mock-up rendering of this build, someone on my Instagram said it looked like what Farmer John would drive to church instead of his regular farm truck, and I liked it, so I guess I’m building a church truck ?
I just finished a patina’d 34 truck and I wanted to do another variation but nice and clean this time - mildly hot rodded and not TOO far from the AMT/Lindberg kit, but with some cool little touches to make it a little different. Not full hot rod, not full custom, but a nice 60s inspired 34.
Did a rendering of a 34 with the sunvisor removed and some simple fender flares - I think I like it!
So, starting with the cab...
First is making a replacement windshield frame that deletes the visor, and that I can shape into the roof to get a nice radius. Drew a frame in Illustrator and cut some styrene sheet to make the part:
And a fit-check:
Looks kinda awkward here, but I can glue it in place and start sanding and shaping to get a nice blend where it meets the roof now.
I was going to use the kit’s optional smoothed-out firewall but I didn’t want to deal with trying to detail paint those moulded-in brake reservoirs, so I made a new one from sheet...you can see here that I’ve started blending the windshield frame to the roof a little:
I’ll need scribe some lines in there once I get a little further along, but I’ll let the glue setup a little before messing with that.
More soon, after dinner ?