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Everything posted by absmiami
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wait a minute, Tim - the workbench photo was taken AFTER I had cleaned it up .... the restored car - you can refer to the engine shots page 1 .... - used Zenith carbureters feeding 2 branches of manifolds to the cylinder heads subsequent cars used super-chargers - as did most other GP cars til the second world war ... so I am making the manifold pipes - out of renshape - per the pics time consuming - the first one wasn't quite right - I have to shape the manifolds so that they bend down - so the carbs do not interfere with the run of the chassis rails the white pegs are evergreen plastic - .035 - which are stuck into slightly larger holes drilled in the cylinder heads - the printed engine has accurate ports to locate the holes ...
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wondering of Ryan Reynolds is looking for some additional set designers for Dead Pool III what do you think ?
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the bolts are resin bits made by Master Club fr Russia they also make some neat "castle" nuts that I will use on the supension
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the engine sump - strips of evergreen plastic mostly the fins are alternating strips of 0.10 by 0.40 - and 0.15 by 0.20 - all liquid glued - this allows for some alignment while the glue sets
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thanks to Bill JC and Tim - fr the middle of Pa ..... Pico - the mesh for the radiator core - is ACS24175 1/24th sc mesh hexagon - mite still be available - check the usual suspects don't know where I got mine - I'm sometimes lax about tracking that - if you strike out I'll send you some .... also going to use "Finisher's" photo-etched No 11 screen for the engine panel openings once again - forgot to market the package with the internet source - maybe it just floated into my workshop one day a few years ago - who knows anybody seen the announcement for a super/luxury/vintage car show in Miami next February? as part of the Miami Beach art basel weekend - google Grand Basel car show ... you'all are invited - or inverted .......
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the engine is that really cool printed part that I posted at the beginning of this thing it was designed and printed without crankcase or sump detail - but I am adding this - as I think this car raced with an engine compartment opening in the undertray so I filed away the lower portion of the printed engine and sawed up some renshape for the crank case and then I'll make me an engine sump ...
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so back a few months ago I was working on the engine bonnet panels ... now that the radiator shell is attached to the frame I can check the panel fit - which needed a lot of trimming and tweeking - this is a little closer to what I had hoped for also a lot of work on the frame - but the changes are not as obvious now I can start to mess around with the driving compartment and the engine bay ...
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.... tiny update acu-stion also makes a photo-etch pattern that is correct for many pre-war racing radiators cores such as this Delage and your typical bugatti etc - maybe Millers also - gotta check sort of an egg crate shape - way different than modern racing radiator surfaces this will get painted or sharpied black and used in the front and back of the radiator core ....
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the screen needs some more cleaning/fettling but it will sit in front of the shell on some small pegs at the base and two protruding from the top of the rad shell and I'll add a photo-etched radiator pattern to the front and back of the renshape radiator ... and merry Mother's day ....
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the screen is photo-etched pattern made by Acu-Stion it's cross-hatched and has some three dimensional etching - it's got the best scale appearance that I have found they make a series of different patterns - good stuff then soldered to the silver frame - with some initial cleanup some pooled solder on the top and the bottom - have to live with this - I can't heat it and "flow" it off the screen - that's OK
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the radiator screen - the 1924-25 car had one - and the restored car does also don't know how the '25 grand prix winner managed without .... started with heated .020 nickel silver rod that was bent around a pattern made from evergreen sheet - it has a dark appearance due to the heat treatment had to try this twice - got a more correct shape the second try - and used the tip of some brass strip to solder the tips of the rod together
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filed and sanded the surfaces and added a backing plate for the badge - somewhere in my accessory drawer is a good Delage badge - now I can figure out the radiator screen ...
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so why am I messing around with the radiator shell ?? While studying photos to make the radiator screen I realized that the shape of the radiator shell on the 1925 car - the French GP winner - is different than the shell of the restored car - which was the 24/25 interim car ... the restored car - see the pics on page 1 - has a more "formal" shape - with the badge on flat sheet-metal facing straight ahead across the top of the shell so I filed away a portion of the top of the radiator shell and replaced it with some renshape sheet ...
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the radiator shell needs a radiator sawed up some scrap renshape - actually, there is no such thing as "scrap" renshape ... sanded to shape - the surface will get some photo-etched radiator patterns from the accessory parts drawer ...
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the printed engine has no sump - model factory pico sent me a picture of the sump from and old german magazine - so Ill make me a V12 Delage sump ...
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first photo shows the axle and leaf springs mocked up in the chassis - it's a tight fit ... second/third photos just show the opening for the sump in the undertray
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mock up pix for the axle/spring and spindles and placement into the chassis next - got to modify the front chassis cross brace , glue/attach the radiator grill/forward chassis rails, and make/attach the undertray
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- dragged kicking and screaming into the new century .... - wow - I just learned how to use auto-correct - how exciting ! the part used to locate the front axle to the spring is cut fr tubing, filed, and glued the short length of tube is inserted into the part when gluing - to approximate the correct angle on the axle ...
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thanks for the compliment - but if you want to really see some Delage detail - check this builders blog out ..... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235014899-delage-15-s-8-grand-prix-18/ this guy is gonna give me nightmares ... anyway - the resin cast spindle/drum brake assembly will be used in modified form -with separate brake drum housings with sharper detail and I glued a short piece of filed evergreen plastic - fr larger section tube - to the top of leaf spring to grab the axle the real axle was just welded onto the top of the leaf spring - but this way I think I can get a safe axle attachment w/out a lot of extra glue - at least that is the plan ... and I think I have just located some tiny cast "castle" style nut/bolt assemblies - been searching for these suckers for years - more later
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but first the front axle ... using the white metal Finecast kit part for the '27 delage GP car as a reference began with .118 Raboesch wh styrene tube - tapered the ends with files and sanding sticks - marked a guideline to center the bends - inserted brass rod - cut notches in tube - and bent by hand with the help of a pin vice that is open-ended - so that I can insert the axle assembly then glued and sanded the bends and checked on the drawings - this should work ..... the axle and spindle is one single assembly - no need to design working spindles because the mechanical brake assembly makes pose-able scale turning front wheels impractical next have to figure out a secure axle attachment part on the top of the leaf springs ....
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RRrrenshape: bought a half a slab over ten years ago - expensive - but it will last me a long time ... ebay is apparently an option for smaller amounts/pieces - at least one ebay seller offers board end "cutoffs" at what should be a decent price haven't tried it yet - but if you do - let me know - ask to try the brown stuff - 450 - first - that's what I've been using - but you can also order a "harder" substance the pictures show the second leaf spring in place - the gray casting - almost ready to glue the radiator/frame assembly to the main frame rails ...
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none of the above makes sense til you see picture 0733 this is a mock up - once the radiator and front rail section is glued to the main chassis casting - not yet - the leaf spring will both locate the axle and act as a brace for the chassis assembly the leaf spring pictured is a casting from another project - I'll either use it or make something like it .... without the shaped fairings - the leaf springs can't sit under the chassis rails - where they belong ... starting to think about the axle - can use the white metal casting in the Finecast '27 Delage kit as a guide make it in nickel silver or shaped evergreen plastic ?? dunno
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gotta make the same changes to the fairing attached to the section of chassis rail forward of the radiator so the renshape/evergreen sandwich replaces the thick resin fairing and will again be shaped with the bulge renshape is easily shaped with sanding sticks to get a precise shape also filling in the fairing ahead of the radiator - again with renshape the casting is accurate for the '25 team car - but the restored car that I am modeling does not have these openings