charlie libby

We want to to see before the warm weather hits up there

Went back to page1 just incase i missed anything,very cool! Nice job. And very guick compared to my builds

i have machined several fuel cells out of plastic. how come yours looks so much nicer?

WOW.

back for more Pierre ,looking great

hey tim ,1/16 ,everything is so small i have to keep checking to make sure its right . 1/25 is scary to think abought, i will have to get better lighting and a visual assistants. hi tony here is a small update. working hard on the Bugatti paint. i had a 55 in 1972.great fun, bored out 283 with big cam and Headers, i miss it. sold it just before basic training. i have been using alot of rattle cans of late donato. working on the rearend. i went with a fabricated 9 inch and 3 link suspension. started a little on the novi. i know ,kind of weird huh! i like different. see you in a week or so

hi Tim how is your arm doing, getting better i hope. hi mike thanks for the complement and for looking. Francis is it warming up yet? your car is looking great. thanks for coming back noel. thank you ,Donato its slowly coming together. got alot of paint done ,all of it i think. finally got clear on the body and got most of it sand to 3000 grit ,only 4 more finer grits to go. can't wait to see it polished. had to strip and repaint the nose.one part of the clear got foggy and would not sand out before i sanded through to the red. also had a spot on the right rear fender same thing happened. it looks like thousand very tiny air bubbles. its starting to look nice. i have company visiting all this week. no progress for awhile.

i am really excited about this build Pierre. a nova is great but a land speed racer awesome. the paint is perfect. i like it when people do something a little different and this is different. cant wait to see more.

How is your arm doing tim? Well i hope .your transmission,as with all you do is wonderful.it is an insperation to us all.

hi everybody, computer has been down .assembly and paint is going well . i had to unsolder some of the chassis and make an adjustment i don't know what happened . it had been assemble before but its ok now. sand blasted and repainted. I think its going together well other then that .all the separate pieces are sanded out to 12,000 grit ready for polish. the body will get the clear this week. i think the colors go together well. looking forward to it being shiny. talk to you again soon.

computer problems. i am back just been working on the rearend in between painting and assembly on the Bugatti . not much done but it is going well . yeah bruce he is definitely the man in charge. thanks for the picture john. mark awesome ,have seen that more than once . i printed all those pictures mark thank you.

my favorite part the engine. 'glad to see it come together. more pictures please.

so nice i find it out of this world. get that surgery and get healthy and back to the shop again.

i have been painting ,sanding and polishing. red is coming long well. i thought the pin stripe was going to be .040 but it is more to scale at .015 but hard to see in the pictures. none of these have been sanded or polished . i will start that this saturday. i like to wait a week after painting. the front fenders are sanded but not finished polishing. thanks ken .

Tim so sorry to hear of your injury.i hope all goes well.keep us informed

my finger is doing well,six months they say for the nail to grow back. thanks for asking. yes it is 1/16scale, hard to get used to . it all looks so small. i thought this was an unusual idea. but i really like the way it looks. styrene is fun,its so easy to cut and machine. ill save alot of money on tooling. thanks for your comments

had this idea for awhile i had said i wanted to use a novi v8 for something different but i am not a researcher so i am having trouble finding pictures and info on the novi but i havent given up yet. if i dont find it i will go with an Ls . got my wheels made and am happy with them. made the brake rotors and front hubs. i opened the trunk, this is the first time i have tried that. the doors were already separate. alot of cutting and modifying of the wheel openings. I am not sure how many pictures i can put on here at one time so i will stop for now. thanks , more to come in between the Bugatti paint and assembly

i finally polished one fender. 4000,8000, and polish. it looks good .i always afraid when it comes to sanding the clear, its so easy to sand through on the edges. i put the body back together to do a pin stripe and i could not get it to go back together. i had to make some adjustments in the frame rails and i dont know why. but it fits now. have to sand blast and repaint the frame .i will put the ..040 pin stripe tape on and take it apart and start painting the red. i have been working on the 55 chevy in between.more after some of the parts are painted red

I always learn so much from you francis.your work is amazing.i wish i could learn patients from you.i am always in a hurry. As i get older i am getting a little better.

Looks awesome.realy like the color.i am just starting a 55 chevy road race car in between painting my other car.hope my pint comes out as nice as yours

Hi tim,cant wait to see it go down the track.looks so real and at that size wow. You amaze me.

thank you all for your kind thoughts . it is doing well. stiches are all out. got to keep it bandage for at least 4 for weeks. didn't slow me done as much as i thought it would. alot of sanding and painting and alot of plastic gloves. got the front fenders in black with 4 coats of clear. i can sand and buff next week. i have found thru test pieces a huge difference in the red if i paint it over gray primer or black. i painted the entire body black so that i can put it all back together to put 1/16 pin stripe tape down the length of both side with the doors , hood and nose lined up properly then disassemble and paint the red on the parts separately. chassis is going together well, it should its been apart and back together enough times. more time invested in drying time , but i am working on my new project in between.thank you all

If i send an engine will you mske it look as real as yours WOW! I thuoght it was pictures of the real thing , its amazing

last week was a tough week.i drove to charleston sc. to help a friend with his car. i went to do englishwheel work for him,which i did but got my finger crushed an air cylinder and spent 4hours in surgery puting it back together. 6 to 8 weeks to heal. but got the parts made anyway. going to slow my progress a little but not to much. here is a few pictures of the car we were working on. starting to work on paint the body will be the dark carmine red with black fenders. painted this old hood the see them together. just test for color. i did some work on my wheels or the next project while paint dried.i will probably start a new thread for it in a couple of weeks. thank you brian,i could only hope to be that good someday,at 70 i dont think there is enough time for me to get that good. tim and francis are already there. be back after more paint and assembly. thank you all for your commentary. it is appreciated.