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Download Fusion 360 - free for hobbyists - learn it, and you can make anything. Youtube has many videos and Udemy has courses, many are free: https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?ref=home&src=ukw&q=Fusion 360 .

Bill uses Fusion 360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators.

Haven't seen the Revs F&F Delahaye. Saw and photographed Mullin's two F&F Delahayes when they were on display in the Petersen, several years ago.

Wouldn't that distributor cap be bakelite, therefore brown?

Lookin' good.

Jason, The powdered sintered material is the strong white flexible material; which is a low resolution material and it's very "layered". It is not suited for detailed items, I have used it on bodies, but I don't use it now because of the difficulty of finishing it . I now use a local 3d printer to make my bodies - see my " The supersonic has landed" discussion thread. The material used in the door panels and seat is Shapeway's smooth detailed material. The cost of those items is $32.80. It has very little layering and is easily sanded to a smooth finish.

My kinda model !

The wood area has the curved line, same as the 1:1. On my model, I will replace it with a piece of cherry.

I have received the seat and door panels and am quite pleased with them. They are printed in Shapeway's smooth detailed material and in the photo have a light coat of primer on them but have not been sanded.

Jason, I'm looking forward to the printed parts, too. Should be here this week. Here's some history of the Figoni & Falaschi bodied Delahayes: http://www.coachbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=455 .

Add putty subtract putty add putty subtract putty. I'm beginning to be pleased with this.

I've decided the fenders don't have enough bulbishness, so slap on more putty, and that means the headlights move outwards.

Putty time.

After a review of some issues in the front of the model, I'm back in the saddle and ridin' it hard again. I've made a jig to hold the headlight buckets in an exact position to embed them in the fenders. Next reshaping the fenders to fit and placing the fog lights, again with a jig.

Ilario has some good stuff - I wish it was 1/24th scale.

I'm stuck with the grille, which is too broad at the bottom, unless I want to design and print one , which is possible. Rethink time.

Seat design is finished, it and the door panels will soon be off to the printers.

Eric - ask Andy M.

Heller should have, but why not? I suspect they made models of cars that were close and they could easily measure. Why the Delage that they modeled? A nice car but why not the Blanche Montel D8? Or the Aerosport? And the Talbot Lago? Why not the "teardrop" ? The Delahaye 135 they made was was nice but were others that are more interesting. They did hit a home run with the Bugatti T50, however. That one is near the top. BTW, a resin caster is making the T50 Superprofilee with the correct wheels as a transkit for that model.

Sorta what I thought. Work continues....

Here's a frontal photo of the model, see what you think... It's not easy carving these things out, and looking at photos of different cars from different angles can be confusing. They are all hand made and so there are differences between them, also. I was able to measure the 2000 Pebble Beach best of show car ( the maroon and white car, admittedly not this one) when it was in a showroom in St. Louis; so I feel it's dimensions are reasonably correct. When putting the louvers on the side of the hood, they were tight the the valley of the fender-hood junction, so it should be a bit deeper. Too later to correct now, not a big issue, besides. I'm now on my second cup of hi-octane coffee and will soon be burning up the keyboard designing the seat to be 3d printed by Shapeways.

Most louvers are now on, so it's time for the interior. Because of the difficulty of making the tuck and roll upholstery, I decided to design it in Sketchup and have it 3d printed. I'm pleased with the door panels and now am working on the seats.

Side spear on; it's time for the louvers, made from Evergreen lap siding.

I've found the Acu Stion website but the nearest thing to that honeycomb radiator p/e is something called "radiator panel plate". It does not enlarge enough so that I can see if that is the same product. Is that it? Do they have a US distributor?

It is time to think about decals and the raised areas the decals go on. I put an image of the car in Sketchup, sized it to 1/24th, and using the circle, arc and bezier curve tools, drew the decal shapes. Next I will print these, cut them out and fit them on the model, seeing if they need to be adjusted. The rear fender decoration is different from the front and has yet to be drawn.