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MarkJ

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  1. Thanks, guys. I think when I get them completely finished , painted , tires mounted, and on the model, They should look okay. Now I need to drill out the area between the spokes.
  2. Not finished yet, but getting closer.
  3. Thanks, Trevor. Yes, I really enjoy doing it. Started on the 4th wheel today. When I get them finished, I will move on to the back of the model ,where I will have to make a tailight panel, some tailights, a rear bumper, and a rear spoiler.
  4. The resins I found were 1/24 scale and finding a sunbeam tiger kit or a 73 mustang kit would be near to impossible and costly. Anyhoo, here are some more pics. I have some more sanding and adjusting to make them look more alike. I just like making parts more then finding parts to buy that may or may not work on the build i'm doing. The wheels on the Grand Sport I did turned out pretty good, so I'm hoping these will be passable.
  5. Thanks, Gerald. when they are totally finished and painted I think they will get by. Better then just slapping some 5 spoke mags on it.
  6. the spokes are filled with putty and then shaped like wedges to make the wheels look more like the real wheel that was used on the subject of this build. i know the wheels wont be exactly the same but I think they will work.
  7. Using PPP 1964 Holman & Moody wheels to make the wheels I need for this one. The front wheels need to be narrowed and the back tires need to be widened.
  8. Thanks guys. I started on the wheels and I think i will be able to transform them into something close enough to work.
  9. The continuation of this thread has been moved to the , " Wip, other racing ,road racing, land speed racing" forum. I figured since its a race car it should have been posted there to begin with. Sorry about that.
  10. The first 4 pages of this wip is posted over in the model car wip section. That's kind of a broad area so I thought since this is a race car, it should have been put here to begin with. My apologies to the guys that frequent that forum . Here is what I have so far. The parts you see are removable, so the fit right now will be improved when they are actually installed for good, after everything has been painted. I will now go on to the wheels.
  11. Up to your usual fine work. Everything looks just right.
  12. Grille and bumper are not in their final locations. They wont be installed until after they are painted. They both need some more work before painting them.
  13. Another winner from your bench. Excellent work.
  14. Super fine build.
  15. Beautful, as always. Super clean, Fantastic build.
  16. Finally got the rough grille assembly finished. I now need to fine tune it with more styrene in certain places, and then some block sanding to give it a more egg crate appearance and also it needs a more pronounced pointed edge to the middle of the grille. The smallest material I had to use was .020 rod which was really too big for the grille bars, so to speak, but anything smaller would have been impossible to work with and the glue would melt it. I think i can get it presentable when finally finished. I also need to adjust the grille opening for proper fit.
  17. Yes, photoetching would be great for so many things. I had to remove the grille work I did and start over by making the side grille slots more pronounced to fit the horizontal rods better. hopefully I will nave better results today.
  18. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but I basically found a picture of a 74 camaro with the left side of the grille facing the camara directly . i turned the image into a 1/25 scale image of the grille and enhanced it by making the grille black on a white background. I then flipped that image horizontally to get the right side of the grille. This gave me patterns to put on the grille opening so i could mark where the .025 rods I used woud go. These were the smallest rods I could find, but they were really flimsy to work with as you will see on the pictures I post today. it was really hard to cut the slots on the sides of the grille for the horizontal rods. I will need to cut the back out of the grille assembly, so I can bolster the rods from the back to give them a more flat appearance.
  19. Thanks , Patrick. But I actually put the grille together yesterday. I will try to post some pictures today
  20. Thanks, David. The trouble is that things that look good in my head don't always translate to the real world.
  21. David, I have come up with an idea in my mind that I think will work with both horizontal and vertical pieces, but this time they will be rods instead of strips and I'm going to cut tiny slots where the position image I have made shows me where to put them . The horizontal and vertical pieces will overlap but I think I can clean that up after I get the cross hatch pattern done. Stay tuned. And thanks for your input.
  22. It would probably work, John. and I might have to go that route but I'm going to give it one more try. Thanks for your input.
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