Venom

Looking good Bill!

Rats eating rats

Livin’ on the edge!?

I finally got this built last night. Had to make it from scratch. If you want to see how I did it, go to my WIP in the Other/Road Race catagory... ‘(HRM) Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe’

My first resin kit too. I understand that for a resin kit it is pretty clean from the start, that’s what I’ve heard anyway. But since I’m only familiar with styrene kits, I find it to be much more cleanup than what I’m used to. I’m happy with the kit so far. Nothing really to criticize about it except the instructions need to be a little more visually informative...hopefully this WIP can aid in that area. **One thing I should note regarding cleanup, is that the body of this HMR is much cleaner than the bodies of the Revell Cobra kits! There are virtually no mold lines to deal with on the Daytona Coupe body. That is real nice! The parts I’ve found finicky to clean so far are the carb and suspension parts.

Thanks Trevor. It’s the vinyl that is used in sign businesses. They always have scrap that they can no longer use in their plotters and usually have no problem giving it away free. There are several types of the (chrome) vinyl - different thicknesses, finish, flexibility, etc. Some feels more like actual vinyl, some feels more like super thin metal. The kind I like and used above is the kind that feels like super thin metal, it’s about the thickness of notebook paper, if not slightly thinner and it has a perfect mirror finish - some have a slightly hazy mirror finish. Anyway, just call your local sign business and ask them if they have any chrome vinyl scrap - I found it’s the easiest way to acquire it. Last time I got some it was about 2ft x 6in worth - that’s enough for a lifetime of models. If you cannot get it from them free, you could probably buy sections of about 12” from them. I also posted a tutorial about this material under the ‘Tips, Tricks, Tutorials’ section titled ‘Chrome vinyl details from scratch’

I provided these construction tips as a basis, but please note that there were several other steps I had to perform in order to get the finished result. I have a lot of experience cutting vinyl patterns and I will say that this was a very challenging and delicate piece to create. I just hope it works as expected to! Forgot to mention, the curved part is a piece of tin cut from a tin pan. The chrome vinyl is not capable of holding such a bend.

They’re only brown?

This is making me think of a particular South Park episode where a lot of, um, guys were riding their choppers around.

Thanks Paul! I’ve noticed that the earliest versions of the original ones are always lacking a heat shield/ (cold air box) around the carbs, but at some point it appears that all of them wind up having it installed... apparently to protect from vapor lock? I am currently trying to scratch build my own heat shield/ (cold air box) which is proving to be quite challenging. The model doesn’t come with one, nor does it give any hints of how to construct your own.

The ones that really get me are all the pharmaceutical ads on tv where you hear the person reading off an entire list of horrible side effects while happy music plays and it’s showing people having a blast... one of the side effects that seems to eclipse all others is the one where they say, “may cause suicidal thoughts or actions”.... Okay, so isn’t a suicedal action actually suicide???... So, if I’m picking up on this right, it’s like walking down the street and finding a briefcase that says in big words, “opening this briefcase might make you kill yourself”.... Are you going to open the briefcase? ...Why????

Wild West lazers

Hahaha! Algorithm picking up on “ model” , never thought of that, and it’s so true! What an observation! Plus, now I know how to spell algorithm... Thanks?

Thanks Trevor

Hmm... You inspired me to look up Wyoming’s record low. It was -66F in Yellowstone in 1933. Welcome aboard Vitaliy! I think you are going to find a lot of good on this forum. I will try to remember that when it’s 9pm here, it’s 7am there.?

They’re BROWN lazers!

and brown lazers

Uh... NO for sure on that one

especially good tools

for more models?

...And why do they still bother saying $399?... doesn’t everyone realize that it’s $400?

What did the pirate say at his birthday? ”I’M EIGHTY!!!”

Three guys walk into a bar...the fourth one ducks

Spendin’ Dat munny...