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    Magnifiers ?
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    Love those switches ...
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    Those of you who have wandered thru this thread will recall that I am converting a Lotus 49 Japanese resin kit from long, long ago. One of the changes is to reshape the leading edge of the cockpit cowling - the 43 has a rounded leading edge or lip. Whereas the 49 had a more squared profile....
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    There is a momentary clearing on the workbench - which is an excuse to return to the Lotus 43.
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    I somehow missed your Offy drawings - rather nice! This is my petition to resurrect these drawings for a 24th and 25th scale engine - oh - and a Novi - because you could twin the cyl heads on a crankcase and away you go...
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    Hurricanes ... and now blizzards ... so much for “don’t mess with ..... “.
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    Running board hell. ... I knew there was reason that I stick with race cars ... no fenders and no running boards ...
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    awaking a sleeping thread - Profil 24 has announced a Howmet Turbine with a very detailed engine looks like they are doing some 3D design ?? it wont be cheap - but it will only be slightly more than an ebay Howmet Turbine AMT kit and by the way - thats a nice looking - build !!
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    Rather nice. Would like to see some more photos of engine - did you take any before installation...?
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    Thanks BJ. And Pico. Forgot to thank Aber - makers of the photo-etch chain used in the chain drives ... it’s still in their active catalog ...
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    Will you have a visible engine bay for those cool twin cams that you drew ??? ?? ?
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    Yup. by the way - the random toothed files and burs that I use for renshape are made by PermaGrit ... they are a “must have” for shaping the stuff ...
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    Oh yes - I did forget - Stirling Moss - RIP ...
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    Finito. thanks to all of you who slogged along - I don’t post encouragement or compliments as often as I should. - My bad last pic is a pose with a Merit friend - shows you how small the Cooper Mark 9 was / is ... driving it must be like strapping an engine onto a bicycle .... for the very brave and / or the very foolish ...
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    Thanks: Herb Deeks. The mysterious Guido Feiuw : Merit kits : Model Master paints: Floquil paints: Tamiya paints: Alclad: RB Bentley: Evergreen plastics: who am I missing ? ...
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    Gracias strateliner... it occurred to me a short while ago that I needed to finish this thread before I got to page 13.... because we all know that this build goes to hell on page 13 - right ? So here’s the last part - the second exhaust pipe spring clip - which is made from .0075 steel wire and looks way better than my first clip ...
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    Almost done ...
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    These cars used those neat spring loaded hooks as bonnet stays. Sakatsu makes these things in metal - ive had them a long time - don’t know if they are still available ... soldered on some brass pegs and epoxied them hanging down since the bonnet will be mostly hinged open - gotta see all that stuff, right ??
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    I had made some Cooper markings on my computer- on blank decal sheet - but the badges on the Cooper kits from Fernando Pinto are better. So I sort of borrowed a sheet from one of these kits for the badge on the bonnet and the marking on the steering wheel... the badge artwork has a red circle - which is accurate for the Cooper badge - but it proved to be overscale - so I punched a smaller badge without the circle for these markings ...
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    It’s a small car - so my box of decals fails to produce roundels of the correct size - so I’m tracing circles on the back of a decal sheet with a template - 7/16 - and cutting out 3 roundels. The numbers are from a sheet of dry transfers that I’ve kept from an older project ... the first one was a failure - but masking tape removed the offending marking and the next one was better ...
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    Like I really need another 3>4 year CAD project! Maybe we can get Mad Mike to work one up? The MFH BRM build on the britishmodeler site had lost all it's image links however there is still a WIP of the Lotus H-16. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235084613-lotus-43-brm-jim-clark-1966-us-gp-watkins-glen-mfh-120/ yes - Pascal is a really good builder - but where do you surf in France ?? ???
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    You can leave out the valves stems .... 64 of them ?? ready to break at a moment's notice ...
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    and just for the record - the cutaway was done by Berris for Autocar i'm sure he was well compensated - or not ...
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    there is a rule on this forum [I just made it up] ..,. if you post it, you eat it ... so now you've got to draw an H16 with all of the internals - and send it to Mad to scale and print ... just kidding - mostly ...
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