Pico

Not based on the Heller kit, on my Talbot Lago "teardrop".

Since starting this project I've been bedeviled by the feeling that the front fenders are too thin. I'm following the plans but they just don't look right. It's putty time.

misterNNL, certainly.

Time to start refining the curves.

1/24th

Templates help shape the fenders using wood rasps and files.

I've scratchbuilt several Figoni & Falaschi designed cars - a Talbot Lago "Teardrop" and a Delahaye 165 - and I've always wanted to produce this one, a Delahaye 135 cabriolet with a body style know as the Paris Show Car series. The series is a dozen cars built from 1936 to 1946, all along roughly the same design, following the original car, shown at the 1936 Paris Auto Show. That car is the same one that won best of show at Pebble Beach in 2000, when ZoomZoom and I attended. As the design is similiar to the TL "Teardrop", I made a cast of it and chopped to top off and filled the wheel openings with Aves Studio Apoxie Sculpt. Looks rough with much work to be done but I'm in no hurry. Deadline is November 3, 2018, the Southern Nationals NNL, in Smyrna, Ga. I hope to see everyone there. Here's a video:

Hope you are feeling better. I'd feel better if you weren't soldering on a plank of balsawood.

Headers are part of the engine, carbs and aircleaner are not. Headers connect with the exhaust pipe which is printed as part of the engine compartment.

Finished engine.

Bilingham (see above) made the wheels. Thanks, Bill!

All finished and I'm packing to attend the Philly NNL; everyone here is going, right?

BMF and clear coat are on, dashboard is in, windows are next. Completion by Thursday night, in order to take it to the Philly NNL on Saturday at the Simeone Museum. Hope to see everyone there! I will be wearing a black shirt with an ACME logo and giving out flyers for our show, the Southern NNL on November 3. Drop by and say hi.

It is a resin printer, I don't know thew make but can check. PM me for contact info on the printerguy.

Ace, Yes!

Not much surface prep - several coats of primer and light sanding. Much less than Shapeways' materials. I'm sold on resin printer quality.

Glad ya like! My printerguy has a resin printer, the layers seems to melt together; giving a much smoother surface.

After some problems with the hood and hinging it, I have applied the first coat of paint. Hope to see everyone at the Philly NNL on March 10 at the Simeone Museum.

Digging a little deeper, I see the grille is $9.00. Probably worth it, considering how much better it is from the kit. . https://www.shapeways.com/product/K4AMVS3WM/alfa-158-grill?optionId=63435569 .

I haven't seen this update kit for your Alfa yet, but I understand it's very good: https://www.shapeways.com/product/AURGTZLE8/alfa-romeo-158-update-kit?optionId=60111686&li=marketplace .

The Lusso I modified from a 330 LMB, about 21 years ago. I painted it red but since then decided that looked a bit too common and so I am now repainting it in Gravity Colors MB Ice Blue. I have displayed it over the years but, oddly, it never drew much interest. I cast the body and sent it to an English builder that I swapped kits with , who when he quit building, sent it to Scalekraft. So it is the basis of his kit. Unfortunately, he went out of business about 11 years ago. The Lusso is my favorite Ferrari and in my top ten favorite cars.

There has been two Cord L29 masters floating around for ..what?.. 15 or 20 years? Am I going to have to wait until either of you two retire?

Lookin' good with the new wheels. Bill milled the knockoffs, too. Working on filing the door handles from aluminum today. 3d printed handles are too fragile. Maybe I need a centrifigal casting machine for small metal parts?

ACME member Bill Cunningham offered to machine the wheels on his cnc milling machine, an offer I quickly jumped on. I designed the wheel in Sketchup and sent him the file. Picked the wheels up last weekend at our club meeting, no pics yet, but here is an image in computer.