89AKurt

Went to a Circle K just to get some Monster drinks, saw this Bentley with Florida plates. I thought everyone went there in the Winter! I wanted to challenge the driver to a race over to Jerome (89A goes over that mountain in the background, over the pedestrian sign). ?

Ah, another one comes out of the closet! ? Welcome aboard, always nice to see someone pick up the hobby after life changes things.

Awesome, worth a look. Someone who must never sleep, all that takes a ton of time. The air torch is a good tip. The 250 SWB deserves this treatment, the kit is terrible to begin with. This is my Out To Pasture:

for the greenhorns

Got my fix on gold wheels with this project, now sitting at the back of the shop under a tarp. Cutting clear plastic with a saw, problem is, if you slip and then scratch what you're keeping. ? Also creating a crack is a risk. If you have a Dremel with a spiral bit, you could hog out the cut and then clean up the edge.

Correct, the taillights are 1958 Tour De France, which should be easy enough scratch-build. My Air Trax kit is in transit at the moment.

for stealing models

On the home stretch........ The cooler has some of the Subie plastic. The handles are temporary glued in the up position for painting. Will need to make some bungee cords. Tamiya surface primer dries really fast, ideal for adding texture. Sprayed lots of gloss white, will paint red. I have the wheels painted boring silver, would have looked sick in gold, but that's not the purpose of this project. Lights are glued on. Hood hinges are glued in. Have some more interior details to make.

First of all that's a great reference picture. Yep, Kelvlar, that color above would work. I would paint black first, the used a fine screen as a mask to simulate the weave.

made from Kevlar

I am? ? Once in a great while perhaps. Figured out the license plate. Wanted something hard to read and relay. Time for the windows. First off, wanted the windows rolled down, cut apart with the hot-wire. I never like the Tamiya smoke, am out of Testors gloss clear, so really thinned out gloss black for the tint. Jumped to the cooler, started on shaping it. Back to the windows, sprayed more tint. Since the window unit was cut apart, didn't trust glue keeping it in. Used coffee can lid for keepers, bent some before supergluing on. Also put a wire in for the cargo box electrics. The detail of the decal for the seatbelts is really good, couldn't waste it. Also didn't wish to use up photo-etch buckles. So I carefully cut out the belts, painted the edges and back. I think the 3Dness looks better. Added red paper belts in back that go down to the cross bar of the roll cage, didn't bother with detailing the ends. Have started working on the lights, a least favorite task is painting the lenses red and orange. Glue on the doors panels, radar detector, finish the cooler, then fingers crossed on last insertion of chassis into the body!

Cool subject. Doing something like the steering wheel holes is what makes a better model all around.

for karaoke. Bring

LOL That should be easy, just don't put decals on. ?

Moles are offended.

1750-HP SSC Tuatara Sets Production-Car Speed Record (for Real This Time) [...] Lau sent us a signed certification of the results, vouching for the fact that the Tuatara hit 279.7 mph on its northbound run and 286.1 mph on its southbound run, that both runs were completed within an hour of each other, and that the average of the two runs was 282.9 mph, good enough to break the prior record of 277.87 mph (average run) and the prior single-run record of 285 mph. [...] Yea it's cool to go so fast, but how many of these won't hit 200 MPH during their life?

Awesome workmanship on this vehicle. Without these, many of our vehicles would be toast.

armor plating remodeling

the visitor center

As a Beemer fan..... ?

and dumptruck poised

Tonight the cargo box got finished. This is a classic example of how I fumble my way through engineering working details. Made clamps from aluminum plate to connect to the roof rack. Glued the light assembly together. The issue became the clearance of the light with the bottom, at this stage of rotation. In retrospect, should have cut the bottom and included with the light pod. The solution, cut a hole in the bottom so the light clears. I'm happy with how the camera lens shows up as real optical parts. This would probably howl like a bass flute at speed. ?

a nasty hag

Thanks Fernandez. ? Hopefully the last time to paint the gloss black on the body. Still not glass smooth, but it's going to get weathered so not a huge deal. Decided the cargo box should be a more "normal" grey. Did this detail sdrawkcab, rack was determined by the width of photo-etch mesh, and length that fit between the roll cage. Had to look at dozens of coolers to find a size that works, an Igloo was picked. Drew to scale, cut from Corian scraps, two pieces were glued together which worked out to be the lid thickness. Rough shaped using the disk sander.

the Blastolene Garage