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Seat covering ... team lotus used red leather. Figure painters have a great knack for painting a surface and making it look like leather. And I am not a figure painter. So I’m trying different things. Too shiny. Too dark. Etc. the fix I think will be the thin leather - think it’s calf skin not sure - coated with a red sharpie. Getting close but I’ll try a perm marker with a slightly darker shade of red ....

The pipe has some heat shielding - this was added with some tape. The shielding will be painted red and the exposed pipe is aluminum ... there is a short length of rubber pipe running past the roll bar and into the collector in front of the cyl head - there is just enough room there - things are going to get crowded in the engine bay ...

The aluminum wire bending jig is Randy D’s fault ... sold on amazon and/or eBay.

The water return pipe ... the run forward is different on the 32B because the sides of the monocoque are slimmer than the 33 ... so I can’t use the cast part. It’s replaced with a part that I’ll make with styrene tube with a copper insert - so I can bend it around the fuel filling pipe ... the styrene was sold by a model railroad outfit called contrail. These aren’t sold anymore. There is probably something similar but I haven’t found it

The 4 plug wires are cut from some railroad accessory pick up wire - I like the finish. Real flat and the .015 thickness ... the plug boots are made from .034 brass tube and finished with a black sharpie. And glued into the cyl head at an angle ...

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This is rather nice. Really precise finish and detail. What paints did you use for the seats and other leather surfaces ??

And some detailing on the Weber’s ....

Master club bolts on the gearbox cover - .08 size - with some sharpie silver - looks a little too flat. - might finish these with a molotov ink pen ...

And it time to mask and paint the gear box. Using 3M parafilm and Alcad aluminum, polished steel, and magnesium is next ...

The roll bar is braced to the top of the engine - so I’m making the brackets on the cyl head and at the peak of the roll bar for this assembly. Using RB motion components here too - including some of those rod ends that dandy d is putting to great use on his hot rod Porsche ... rb makes these in three or four sizes. I’m using an intermediate size here. - think it .47 ...

RB has some acorn nuts in his catalog [ does anyone under the age of thirty know what a catalog is ?] He probably is too busy filling pandemic orders to have time for custom work at this time - but a number of years ago he made me some custom acorns with a small sleeve. These are correct for the cylinder head nuts on the climax . Thank you mr Bentley ...

Using my last stock of 0.5 mm bolts. -will there be more ? I’ll try to find out .... also using RB motion hardware and resin 3D printed bolts - these are tiny and with very fine detailed. - I’ll paint them with a mix of floquil colors for a gun metal finish ...And some brass for contrast ...

Edit II. abs Miami ...

Edit : thanks for staring ... and Miami

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Thank you for sharing. Made my day ...

The paint finish on the block is Alcad semi-matte aluminum. Might be a little too dull - not sure - but I’ll paint the engine accessories with a brighter finish to contrast ... the valve covers are painted with hardware store flat black - again it’s impossible to know what exact shade is correct ...

Using my last stock of 0.5 mm bolts. -will there be more ? I’ll try to find out .... also using RB motion hardware and resin 3D printed bolts - these are tiny and with very fine detailed. - I’ll paint them with a mix of floquil colors for a gun metal finish ...And some brass for contrast ...

Valve covers and fuel pump... the valve covers are drilled and prepped for a bunch of bolts ... the fuel pump is made fro evergreen stock. - based on photos of a pump that I took on a different climax engine. - the restored car appears to use a slightly different pump - but it’s hard to know what the arrangement was for the Tasman season so I’m winging it ...

Not to mention Coconut Grove ...

Body Color ? I like them in gold ...

Gracias Now would you please dirty up your workbench some more ...??

The seams are very convincing what is you hand tool of choice to bend the pipes. And I assume that you anneal the metal first - have you found pliers that will bend the metal with only a limited amount of tool markings in the metal ? ? I’m about do do something like this on my Lotus ....

.007. ?? Holy cow. That’s scale ...