Gumball

Awesome! sounds good keep in touch! I agree, looks good, that was until the clear coat crinkled all across the black... not the red even though both the black, red, and clear coat are water based. hopefully I will be able to sand it and straighten it out without taking off any of the paint under the clear coat.

Looks like a way you can hot rod yours!

What in the? Clearly im building this wrong, now that's how you build a luxury car!

Painted one silver trim. I'm starting to like this car more and more! Pretty soon I'll start speaking German! I'm also considering throwing in some old woodlight headlights for that extra "je ne sais quoi" but that will all come down to whether or not I can scratch make some. It will look good non the less!

Two tone is now done! Now just for the silver stripping to separate the two colours! I'm probably like 80% complete on the paint now. Also started to get the front end more together, a little more like the original now.

That sounds cool! I was going to suggest a Rolls grill, but stock is cool to... ill still be watching!

Touched up the paint, still about 50% done. Going to need a good clear coat. And yes its going to be another 2 tone... I just love the 2 tone.

Believe it or not i use solder for a lot of things now not just exhaust, for example the throttle return spring on the gasser engine is just a piece of solder wrapped around a needle. Another example is the turbo I built for the 75 Datsun pickup, the idea came from the tips and tricks page (which I cant find anymore probably buried) the solder is nice to work with, but your better off bending the stuff by hand as using pliers marks up the solder.

Perfect!

Or just a little poster of his face

Now that's a cool idea, whats the plans for this? stock? hot rod?

Well it's comming along now! Finally in the final stages of fixing the horrifically unallighned rear end! Still needs alot of work, but it makes me that much closer to finishing the kit!

Some more updates. Body is primed and about 50% painted. The red paint sadly turned out more like an orange, I'm considering just airbrushing it quick. And ya I know u should strip the paint but rn I do t have any paint stripper, hopefully the paint won'tend up super thick. Luckily so far the amount of paint is minimal compared to the umpteen layers of paint on the sunbeam corvette... Yeah never again! I have a picture of a painted piece of styreene painted Tamiya red which is what I would airbrush it with if it's better to do a redo on the paint.

I give you colour! And some chassis updates. Engine oil pan no lo Ger sits on the chassis! And yes I got a spot of red on the waterpump just don't look at it and it will be fine.

Looks like I need to move there.

lol i was confused, I had to search up what you said to understand. as you can tell i'm very Canadian.

Not much of an update but it is something. Got both exhausts in, still waiting on the paint stripper and other things coming in the mail.

Here's another update on the engine. Looking at the kit it appears that the original engines oil pan sat flat on the frame with these large plastic pieces there as well. Now looking at the original car it seems that the engine mounts to the frame both off the bell housing and from the front of the engine forwards to the frame support. I'll probably end up cutting these two large plastic pieces out (I taped in green) so I can mount the engine more accurately. Still no find on the grill, I may start to reach out to our freind Eric Macleod for some spares. Other then that the oil pan, timing cover, cylender head, and water pump is starting to take shape, however the supercharger cover whachya macallit part of the timing cover looks like it sticks out a little far.

That and the long sloped front fenders, its really a good looking car. ill be interested on seeing what you do with yours if you post it on the forum.

Thanks!

In my search for the original chrome bits, and perhaps some glass, I managed to stumble across the chassis! Although I couldn't find anything else belonging to the kit. I also only just discovered that I made the cylender head with only 7 spark plug holes instead of 8, so I redid the cylender head. I guess this kit has become less of a 90% scratch build, and more of a 50-60% scratch. That is unless I soup up the chassis.

Killer looking car! Looking forward to seeing it complete

My best guess to what happened is that my dad is just mistaken and it did indeed have a i8, after all he built the kit back when it was new. On the other hand, maybe some little green men could have come out of hiding to mess with his model kits? sadly right now this isn't a possibility to me, I left my tinfoil hat back at home...

That helps a whole bunch thanks! once again I guess im changing a few things from what I currently made, good thing styrene is easy to work with, id lose my marbles if this was brass!

Some more progress