Chris B

Instead of laying the mold down on a flat surface, I carefully clamped the two halves of the mold together and stood the mold on its side with 1 & 2 parallel to the ground at the top and injected the resin into 3 with a syringe until resin came out of both 1 & 2 the air that was being trapped would have been forced out of 1. Hopefully you understand my explanation. I think that it is likely that I will be casting more parts in the future so I have started collecting parts to make a vacuum chamber and a pressure pot. nothing flash just a hand operated automotive vacuum pump and an old pot with an acrylic lid and the pressure pot made out of 100mm PVC pipe with screw on ends and a bike foot pump.

Killer color. outstanding work

Another quick update on progress with making my own quick change diff. First up I prepared the plug by attaching some runners to aid in pouring the resin into the mold and made a dam out of Lego bricks. I filled the bottom of the bricks with modeling clay and mounted the diff into the clay. After poring silicon into this half of the mold I turned the mold over removed the clay and brushed with mold release the poured the second half of the mold. My first attempted at poring the part in resin resulted in a large air bubble on the top of the diff nugget Apart from that it came out pretty good taking into consideration that this is only the second attempt ever of casting my own parts. Once I figured out how to solve the air bubble issue I poured a second part and this time it came out with no bubble. Next up is to cut up the backing plate casting and graft the two parts into one. The flash on the if is not as bad as it looks in this photo and will clean up nicely. All in all I am pretty happy with the result.

This is wicked can't wait to see how this one turns out

Looks interesting

Well done, model looks nice

Work has been slow on the model of late with multiple Birthdays including my own and one of my daughters getting married in another city. I have spent a lot of time traveling out of town. First off I soaked the diff from the 32 roadster in Simple Green to remove the paint and as the top of the diff is hollow I filled the space with epoxy putty and shaped to the desired shape. I also soaked the chrome quick change center section in bleach to remove the chrome. I then made a silicon mold of the center section The part closest to the mold is the cast part This is my first attempt at making a mold and casting my own part and I am pretty happy with how it came out. Next will be to make a mold of the diff and cast a resin part so that I can reshape and adapt the quick change to the diff

Here's another one for you

This project reminds me of this Terraplane here in NZ

Love this, very creative. Your execution of the body mods are flawless. Cant wait to see how this one progresses.

Aye yes I remember that now, still it's an outstanding build. Well done

I can't believe how quickly you have built this model. Your attention to detail is sublime. Beautiful model well done

Another quick update. Work has been a bit slow over the last couple of weeks. I decided as I have modified pretty much everything on this kit so far why stop there. Initially I planed on using the kit rear axle for this build and I extended the axle tubes to allow me room to cut to length to suit the skinny wheel choice and finned brake drums. But then I decided that it would be better with a quick change diff . I started to look around for aftermarket resin items with no luck, so then I asked around for anyone that may have one in there parts box with no result So i guess that means I will just have to make one myself. I looked through my parts stash for a suitable axle to modify but could not find anything that I liked the look of. Then by chance I saw a Vintage Monogram 32 Ford roadster kit come up for sale. I already have this model that I built 36ish years ago but couldn't resist turning down the opportunity to own an un-built kit to add to the stash, my bid was successful and I now own this kit. While looking through the opened box I noted that this diff looked like a good donor. Not wanting to open the bags I removed the diff from the built model. This model was a little run down and stored away in a box in the top of my wardrobe and when fishing it out I noted a sprue from an equally as old Revell 3 n 1 Hot Rod kit. On this sprue was a center for a quick change diff My plan is to remove the paint from the diff and the chrome from the quick change diff center, make silicon molds of both parts them modify the new castings to resemble the Quick change diff I want. Progress updates to come 🙂

Thanks for your comments Alan and as I said I love your model and as it is really similar to my build in some aspects it goes to show that Aussies and New Zealanders do think alike. Love the dice shifter knob Cheerrs Chris

They are very similar to your average o-ring. o-rings are available in made many different materials dependent on there application. I chose to use EPDM o-rings as they have excellent resistance to ozone, sunlight, and weathering so I felt that in many years to come hopefully the steering wheel will not have deteriorated as it may if just using rubber. i don't have any particular preference to size, in this case I did not have a lot of room for a larger sized steering wheel so I choose to make my own. After cutting the wheel spokes down to the size that fitted I took it to a local bearing supply store that I knew stocked a large range of o-rings I bought two different sizes of the correct diameter, the difference being the profile size ie how fat the o-ring section was and made two wheels then fitted them and chose the one that looked more visually appealing