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Wow did you really build a model in 13&1/2 minutes ...?? just kidding. Very good. Why don’t you do a video on keeping your workspace clean. I needs a little help ...

Engine mounts and the cradles for the mounts glued to the chassis. Everything made fr Evergreen strip and bar and rod

The suspension / transmission bulkhead. The light resin color kit piece is scrapped. The gray resin bulkhead is from the resin parts box and is modified with some evergreen plastic, files, and sanding sticks to mate with the ends of the monocoque. This took several hours - but this part has to be right - all of the susp parts and the transmission will be bolted to it.

Guido / Scalekraft lived in South Africa. If I recall this correctly we were exchanging faxes and I had purchased a couple of his curbside kits and/or body castings. The internet was an infant ... he was making some castings for one Or two of the Cooper GP cars and I expressed my interest in a kit with a detailed chassis and engine. I mailed the master parts that you see here To S Africa. - and a month or three later - back came the masters and some castings. But before the project was completed - I lost contact with him - as apparently a number of other modelers did also ... and that was that ... the castings I’m using for the body of the Cooper F3 - Cooper Barn Find - are Guido’s. Years later I’ve read/heard nothing but rumors or speculation of Guido’s fate ... ... Do we have any forum members from that distant part of our planet ... ?? ... I’ll post some more of the Cooper castings later this weekend ...

These castings were done by Scalekraft’s Guido Fiew (sp?) years ago - over ten years ago - the resin is brittle and in tight spots - tears - so not ideal but usable . I’ve also gotten Norman Veber to make better castings in his standard cream colored resin - which is much more forgiving when drilled .... so now you’re supposed to ask me why/how I had Guido , who lives half a planet away from me , cast this engine .... ....

So the engine components are made from sections of Evergreen bar and sheet with some bolt detail - both plastic and metal

this Scott-Davies drawing depicts the sports car FPF - with the generator - excepting this / it is dead accurate for the engine used in the 32B ... enjoy

one of the FPF drawings fr this article

now - what could possibly be better than a site full of Lotus porn ... http://www.colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk/?page_id=2861 this link will take you to an article written and illustrated by one of the site's curators: a certain John Scott-Davies - someone I would like to meet some day ... very good article on Climax racing engines the FPF illustrations match quite well with the drawings that I used to do the engine castings years ago. - on a very good site ….

http://www.colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk spend an hour nosing through the articles drop-down very good site - worth a look I am referencing the Climax engine article on my Lotus 32B build ...

Steady hands low blood pressure ...

Yup liking that firewall - the chalk markings ? Done how ??

Very nice and thank you for not clear coating .... by the way. Any thoughts on brake-ductgate ??

I’ll post pix of the castings later ... the Climax FPF was mounted straight up/down on the Lotus 32B. I’ll have to make the exhausts and the “swirl pot” That sits at the front of the engine. The transmission will be “borrowed” from one your Ford GT 40 printings ...the Lotus 33 used the 8 cyl climax engine - so the Engine casting in the Joker kit is now just spare resin stock ...

i scratch-built one Years ago and had some resin castings made. This particular build is for an inclined engine mounting - which is why the Weber’s are pointing downWard.

Coventry Climax 2.5 lite FPF ....

The delage was designed by someone who has spent too much time on a play station ... [oldguyrant]

The delage is kinda out there. But I’m really digging the Murray T50. Love that Cosworth V12... since the delage project is bank-rolled by a Miami guy. I’m thinking that the Delage mite be shown at Amelia ... that would be cool ...

Wonderful feature this morning on the GP 70 Silverstone pre-race show. 3 of Stirling’s GP cars demoed on the circuit - including the Rob Walker Monaco winner - which is creeping up to the top of my project list ... same engine that’s in the 32B ... why hasn’t anyone asked me about the engine yet ?? ...

White walls really make the look don’t they ? have you seen the new Delage ??

The casting comes with a great looking shift plate. - but I dont think the 32B has one. The restored car just has an opening in the monocoque. -and most of Clark’s cars [all?] did not have one. So off comes the shift plate. Made some more corrections in the cockpit - re-cited the right side mounting tube for the dash support ...the mounts were not perpendicular with the front bulkhead - now they are ...

Nice I

The body casting has a dimple on each side to guide the placement of the suspension arms - the kit parts are White metal - and not too good - so the replacements are placed / pinned to the body with new openings - a little closer angle - there is enough play on the parts to permit good alignment with the rocker arms once it’s time to assemble everything ...

Lower front susp arms made from .08 m nickel silver rod and tube - pivots made from bent .06 nickel bar - soldered and drilled

Yup Im obsessed...