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  1. absmiami
    Edited with the Becassa phone app …. Cool. Now. Did Berris do the W196 engine for Autocar ?!
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    Back in the day - Sports Car Illustrated was known for featuring some great cutaway illustrations - this one - first done for Autocar (british pub) was by Victor Berris - I’ve seen many of his cutaways - but this is a new one to me …. Its the Mercedes 300SL engine …
  3. absmiami
    whilst the Ferrari engine is marinating - always great to find an obscure engine cutaway drawing, right ?? ...
  4. absmiami
    The louvers presented a problem - as rhe rescesses in the casting were hard to clean and finish - in the end just cleaned these up with a file … the process of finishing the surface of the metal required repeated passes to knock out the most visible scratches …
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    Gracias mr 100
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    Well done
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    Good stuff
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    Great looking gauge cluster
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    Gracias Kit
  10. absmiami
    Be very carful applying decal #56 !
  11. absmiami
    Well why don’t we make a molding of the Iso before we place it in a box and hope that it gets to Tasmania …??
  12. absmiami
    Ok. Ok. We’ll set aside that spicey Scarab interlude - for now - the engine bonnett needs the same finishing as the body - lots of rivets- made from .020 phosphor bronze rod - and then the engine turned finish …
  13. absmiami
    Then we need to consult w Gramps - …
  14. absmiami
    dark green and purple fantastic in the under glass section ...
  15. absmiami
    How many more engine pix do you need ?
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    By the way - the cyl head seems to be designed like the Porsche cyl heads …
  17. absmiami
    And if you draw up an offy engine with 20.5 inch cam covers and curved fuel injector horns you’ve got the engine … just sayin…
  18. absmiami
    The Pocher engines are not- in my opinion - reliably scale accurate - the anwer - is to measure these things ourselves - which until recently - has been difficult to do - my I phone has a photo measurment app - its either cheap or free - cant recall - now - when i come across something I’m really interested in - Like the Scarab grand prix engine on display at Rev’s in Naples - I take some photos with some measurements …. Do you have this app ??
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    Gary of Circle Track Decals fame agreed to attempt to produce a set of these in 24th Scale - which is an act of scale foolishness and/or bravery … Anyway - he somehow pulled it off - these markings are designed to be applied over a white backing decal … which he also supplied - the black dot next to the insruments - believe it or not - depicts the water temp gauge perched on top of the radiator - which is also cool …. Bravo Gary …
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    the Millar 122s were heavily influenced by the French Grand prix cars the French - such as Peugeot - are generally credited with birthing the modern racing engine ... so it's interesting to see that the 122s had French tachometers .. black numbers / white or off white background ... later Millers - such as the 91s - changed to white on black ...
  21. absmiami
    The Heller T50 was a large car with a 5 litre engine - larger than the DOHCs in the T57 series - but Ive always suspected that the kit engine was too tall or over-scale …. thierry - what do you think ?
  22. absmiami
    Lister confusion - the Sayer Lister is a fiction- meant the Costin Lister …
  23. absmiami
    Crazy - you are right of course - Heller does kit the T50 - but dosn’t that just make you want the others? Have you built your T50?
  24. absmiami
    Lister confusion meant the Costin designed Lister - and not the Sayer designed Lister - which is a fiction …
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    Gracias Cman
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