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    Bainford - is this your first Merit purchase ? Careful - they are addicting …
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    Great shot of the Lotus 12 - probably the prototype - late ‘57 - my next Lotus open wheeler i think - already at work on the body …
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    Yup
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    Brake and clutch pedal resevoir bottles are perched on a bracket between the dash and the bulkhead - at least on the Halford 16 …. The Tamiya super seven has some very nice castings - I’ll borrow them …
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    The cover for the dr shaft is a little different on every 16 - the one in privateer Halford’s 16 may - or may not - have looked like this … peiced together with Evergreen rectangular tube, strip, and topped with a Half-round strip - everything glued with Tamiya liquid glue …
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    Fitting the cyl head radiator manifold pipe - took a while because it has to sit low enough to clear the profile of the bonnett …
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    Gracias runningman - thinking about radiators - even the best photo-etched patterns are not true scale for 24th - but i think that good patterns mite be just over the next hill - think 3D printing - William Cunningham has done it really well in this scale … how about it Decalcas ? Making the brackets, filters and pumps in the engine bay …
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    Design and history …. 2 examples of race cars that have not been done in 24th scale …. The BRM V16 and the Gurney GP eagle ….
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    Thinking …
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    Olek - thanks for your post … curious - you chose as your first subject a great / significant auto that had never been modeled in kit form - so do you want to continue that theme for your next project - or try a subject that has been modeled - but not very well - and would you like to take a swing at an iconic race car ?
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    Hi Terry !! Where are the squirrels ??
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    This stuff is produced by “Croco” and is the metal screen on the UMM site- croco’s “radiator screen” is good too - but sold out on this site ….
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    https://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/ think i got this etched screen here - checking … they sell those great razor saws that are always on display at IPMS shows …
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    Part used as the core - filed to shape and bordered with bitsandpeices of Evergreen …. W a photo-etched grill …
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    Borrowing another Tamiya Super Seven kit part …
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    Back to the nose for the radiator - another auction photo …
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    Actually - the H strip is .060 …
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    Using some short lengths of .080 H shaped Evergreen in the rear section of the chassis - this section will cradle the transaxle …
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    Instr gauge panel made fr .020 by .188 Evergreen strip …
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    The engine position forces a kink in the left side top tube - this was actually done on the sixteens - Chapman was sometimes criticized for chassis details like this …
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    These tube segments are temps to get things oriented ..
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