Pico

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.

After a break due to other projects and a short vacation, I'm back on refining the shape. Shooting black over white primer and then sanding reveals ridges and valleys that need to be filled or sanded down.

Very nice!

Creativity is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

After a considerable amount of eyeball engineering and head scratching, I've decided the rear trunk area is too high, top of the doors are too low, Front fenders are too tall and not long enough. It seems fairly late in the project for this much rework but it wasn't close enough.

Ramfins- Me too, but I try not to repeat myself too often.

This beginning to shape up...

Sinking the headlight housing into position.

This is looking better. Also making the headlight housing.

At PhilX's request -

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.