François

Did a trial fit of the hose clamp, pretty satisfied with the result. The hoses aren't the final ones.

Did a bit more work on the tank this morning. Made the bumper out of a brass strip made the left and right tank support strut bracket And both tank support struts Still have the fuel hoses, fuel hose clamps, clamp support bar and tail lights brackets to do. Should eventually look something like this.

Thanks again, means a lot !!

Thanks!! Yes, quite a lot of work on just that one component. I'm in for the long haul on this build.

Thank you all for your kind words, it's always nice to see that the effort one but in is appreciated. For the wheels, I would say it took more patience than courage and yes I'll do the same to the bentley. I'm also very proud of the working crank and pistons that the base kit doesn't provide. For those of you who are familiar with Pocher kits, if they can have a working engine, why not this one !!

I've bought Nick's lockwire bolts, very nice. The Italeri Bugatti might be next or maybe an old motorcycle, haven't decided yet.

Thank you Bugatti fan, I respoked the wheels myself. A very fun jod!! I'm currently doing the Airfix bentley and, yes, it is very outdated. But I think it only adds to the fun and challenge of making à nice model. Here is a link to my Alfa photo gallery, you'll see how I did the wheels and the rest of the car. https://photos.app.goo.gl/q9tNynVn8YGu8Dtz7

Hello, I started building the Bentley blower from Airfix. This kit is very old with moulds dating back to the 70's, so the fit and details are not very good. It will be up to me to improve. In 2020, Bentley decided to build 12 new 'old' Blowers using the original fab drawings. The result is nothing short of amazing. As a reference car, I decided to go with car 'zero' of this new old series. We usually see these cars in the more traditionnal british green with green interior. The zero car is black with a red interior which is very nice. Here's what I'm hoping the end result will look like. Here's a quick list of the modification I would like to do to the base kit. Fully detailled fuel tank Wired wheels Working brake linkage Working inner engine parts, 3d modeled and 3d printed Leather upholstering Carpeting as per ref car Fully detailled engine Cloth rag top with working top frame Adding nuts and bolts Fabricate the body either from real wood or 3d print it. The kits body is plastic,naturally, but the actual body was a wooden frame with aluminium sheets on certain areas and then covered with a man made material called Rexine. Very cheap at the time but very expensive today. Bentley had to refurbish old machinery to make the material for the 12 new old cars. I'll be using a very thin rubbery material that, I think, will look pretty good. My first task was to 3d model the body using the kit's body as refenrence to eventually fabricate it out of wood or to print it (or both). real wood body Now, that being done, I decided to sleep on it a bit (or a lot) to figure out how to make the thing. In the meantime, I started on the fuel tank. Here's what the kit gives And here's what I'm aiming for Here are a few pictures of the process I hope all of this is to par with what is normaly posted. more to come

Hello, I recently joined MCM. Before posting my first wip, I would like to show a few pictures of my latest build. A 1/12 scale Alfa Romeo 8c from Italeri. As a reference car, I choosed an actual 1934 Alfa that was recently sold in California. I have yet to receive the custom made decals. Here is a quick review of what was done: Rewired wheels Real leather upholstering 3d modelerd and 3d printed internal engine parts (engine actually turns) Functioning brake linkage Cam shaft added All interior to match ref car And many more details working brake linkage 20230327_202533.mp4 working internal engine parts(not in kit) 20230509_163541.mp4 20230311_220549.mp4 ref car

Hello, my name is François, I'm an almost 60 frenchy from Québec. Back in the 70's and 80's, I used to do a lot on models, cars, trucks, formula... At 21, I decided to try my hand at a wooden boat. It went great until I meet my wife 6 months later(we are still married!)but lets say that the boat building wasn't my priority anymore. I set it aside for 38 years!! I finally finished it last july. Since then, I did a WW1 1/16 scale plane, a fully scratch built 1/16 scale sail boat( a reproduction of a 24 footer that I actually built for a friend in 2012), and a 1/8 scale scratch built wooden kayak. Why am I interested in a car model forum you might ask? Well after the kayak, I decided to a build 1/12 scale Bentley blower. And after some Web searching, stumbled on a wip of one of your members, John Teresi, of a blower build. I was pretty impressed with the reasult. But before starting a somewhat complex projet as the blower (a lot of modifications/details to add) and since it had been many years since my last plastic car model, I decided to try my hand at the Italeri 1/12 scale Alfa Romeo 8c 2300. It's now done am I'm now starting the bentley. Well that's it for my winded intro. Where should I post my build log for this project, any particular section? Can I add links to the photo galeries of my different projects ? If so, where? Thank you

Hello, my name is François, I'm an almost 60 frenchy from Québec. Back in the 70's and 80's, I used to do a lot on models, cars, trucks, formula... At 21, I decided to try my hand at a wooden boat. It went great until I meet my wife 6 months later(we are still married!)but lets say that the boat building wasn't my priority anymore. I set it aside for 38 years!! I finally finished it last july. Since then, I did a WW1 1/16 scale plane, a fully scratch built 1/16 scale sail boat( a reproduction of a 24 footer that I actually built for a friend in 2012), and a 1/8 scale scratch built wooden kayak. Why am I interested in a car model forum you might ask? Well after the kayak, I decided to a build 1/12 scale Bentley blower. And after some Web searching, stumbled on a wip of one of your members, John Teresi, of a blower build. I was pretty impressed with the reasult. But before starting a somewhat complex projet as the blower (a lot of modifications/details to add) and since it had been many years since my last plastic car model, I decided to try my hand at the Italeri 1/12 scale Alfa Romeo 8c 2300. It's now done am I'm now starting the bentley. Well that's it for my winded intro. Where should I post my build log for this project, any particular section? Can I add links to the photo galeries of my different projects ? If so, where? Thank you