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  1. absmiami
    The exhaust manifold is really cool - forty years before BRM (and later Ferrari) swept the exhaust pipes out of the center of their DOHC engine - Delage tried it in their new 12 cylinder engine - spectacular looking but maybe not the greatest packaging ???
  2. absmiami
    Building a Gloster Gladiator for an IPMS show cub display gave me chance to get familiar w Tamiya’s acrylic laquer paints - good stuff - i hand painted the cyl head royal blue - and then set off the sump pan bolts w some gun metal …
  3. absmiami
    You’re welcome - I’ll post some more Miller porn as i get a little farther along w this build …
  4. absmiami
    Thank you. Bondo to improve the surface of the chassis rails - big fan of Micro Mesh …. Finding that there 1800 sanding stick is good for sanding the bondo …
  5. absmiami
    Very helpful … maybe this explains why the Bugatti 59 kit had excellent detail while the Miller and others were curbside …. With the ready availablity of printed wire wheels now - any of their kits can be built and will look great ….
  6. absmiami
    “Picked by Mary” shout out to “Scranton Mary”. And to Oscar !
  7. absmiami
    This. Is. GREAT …. … !! !!! do you still have the hinges ? I think i got the same set ? how’d that auto cutter work ? ! (Just kidding) Nova Scotia - one of my fav provinces …. The Cape Breton drive is the best in North America …
  8. absmiami
    Thanks. Excellent …
  9. absmiami
    Great Stuff …
  10. absmiami
    And a note to our esteemed moderators …. You can slide this build over to the race car subsection - por favor …
  11. absmiami
    Asleep for two years - i’m waking sleeping beauty …. Most of the parts have been finished - but need paint - i have to re-do a few things - and then work on the finish applied to the body work - first im gonna try to get a chassis / drive train painted and assembled …
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    And you’ve still got it - right ? here’s the motor - looks better than the rest of this thing …
  13. absmiami
    And by the way - AutoWorld still lives and breathes as a .com. … Ive sent them an inquiry - asked them what the 1968 catalog price was …
  14. absmiami
    If you want to see what this kit looked like when built correctly - see F Reynolds’ build on the Modelingmadness.com site … actually he built the B spec kit released in 69 - but you’ll get The idea …
  15. absmiami
    Anyway - time has not been kind to the Hill 49. So ive decided to dispose of this treasure - with or without a proper burial - not sure …. By the way - that goop in the picture with the kit wheels is what’s left of those magnificent kit tires - so heres a tip - DO NOT -store old Tamiya kit tires in a plastic bag in an unheated garage - this is what you get if you do - maybe ill try some with my ice cream tonite …
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    Of course Tamiya would soon produce a kit of the B spec 49 - but 14 yr olds arent very patient - so i set about creating the 49 B - and as you can tell - this was my first attempt at making a large scale race car - it didnt help that Tamiya supplied plug wires that scaled out to about 1.5 inches ! And yes i wired it to run on a battery set in a casing where poor Mr. Hill’s feet were supposed to go - the electric motor fit into the engine - which is partly why the engine was so inaccuate - I actually got mine to run - really !
  17. absmiami
    Of course none of this would deter a 14 yr old fr convincing his parents to buy the kit - first available in the US through Auto World - mail order - thats right - mail order - and i think the decal sheet was produced seperately for the 68 Hill car …
  18. absmiami
    The Lotus 49 debuted in ‘67 Tamiya jumped at the opportunity to make a 12th scale 49. The first kit was produced the following spring - just as the 49 sprouted wings and cigarette sponsorship - and sadly - Clark had perished in an FII race …
  19. absmiami
    A brief interlude ill call this Requiem For A Lotus:
  20. absmiami
    oh you could make that - just had a look at it on the Worthpoint site ... And I'm daring you to put an engine into it ... apologies to Todd fr Canada for stealing his thread !
  21. absmiami
    Yup. There needs to be a Fisher rule - everyone needs to post their builds on his rare kits …. Thanks ans well done …
  22. absmiami
    Never ever - well not quite - years ago Bill Jorgensen did a 25th scale resin kit - it was curbside - good luck finding one. Nice job on this rare kit - and dont feel bad about the poor fit of the body - no one else got it To fit - i should know - i tried and failed when this kit first came out …
  23. absmiami
    I swear to God - back in the early eighties - when Pocher went belly up - some of their kits ended up on goodwill store shelves - I bought a Rolls Royce Sedanca kit from the South Miami store for a silly price - silly low - and built that sucker. - it still sits in a display case in my office …
  24. absmiami
    So this is the finished Gladiator - constructed in two months - the struts are peices of nickel that were filed flat - you see - i actually can finish a model - just took lots of cursing - and i didn’t leave the house - or sleep …
  25. absmiami
    Paint is mostly Tamiya - with some Alclad here and there - the markings were a mess - mostly because i had to make some if my own and i applied the various markings in the wrong order - oops -
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