OldNYJim

Right? I knew I wanted those right from the get-go! Fun to use some materials I don’t always get to use on a build! Thank you Pierre! That’s super helpful - thank you! Good reference pics for these older racecar a are hard to find, so info like that is GOLD! I did find a reference pic where it looked like the fuel lines disappeared under the tank but it didn’t show the underside so I was kinda guessing…that’s some good info for the next one! Thanks so much! Tiny update, as I’m replying anyway - did a little work on the base this evening. I wanted a compact little stand that JUST fit the car, I wasn’t looking to make a big diorama out of this…printed some concrete barriers somewhat reminiscent of one of the little tracks I remember as a kid, used some self-adhesive cork sheet for the asphalt and the base is just a cheapo wooden one: As you can see, the car is pretty much as big as the base - I was kinda thinking of the kind of image where something looks like it’s bursting out of the frame: And the two combined: Once the paint is dry on all the parts I can assemble the base and then start the fun part - weathering it! Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

That Duplicolor paint, in my experience, can be a little ‘hot’ for some types of styrene and can wrinkle them…be sure to exercise caution with that…

Thank you! And yeah, I’d been meaning to design and print some little stands like this, then decided I ought to be a ‘real’ modeller and just build some ? Thank you!!! Always appreciate your work too! Thank you!! Interesting - but it figures. I would think a lot of places would have a transponder system but I’m sure plenty don’t. Figures they’d want the numbers as clear as possible Some more progress this weekend… Got the gas tank mounted - made some safety straps and added some fuel line and a couple of little details: Still needs to be subtly weathered with a little dust and dirt… I still wasn’t totally happy with the seat I’d been messing with, so I printed a Recaro for it, along with a battery…plus an era-correct helmet: Shot the helmet (and steering wheel) with a little flake green, for my own amusement… Got the roll-cage padding in place - used some 1/8” heatshrink and as low of a heat as I could blast it with so I didn’t warp anything: Got the driveshaft painted - a lot of tracks stipulate it has to be white so it got a white center section, and with that done I could finally get the engine in place for good (and, in turn, with that done I could finally get the radiator in place and the hoses run): Whilst the glue was drying on the wheels, I decalled that little helmet from before: And it’s starting to look like a thing! Next project, aside from a bunch of little bits on the interior and some chassis stuff I didn’t get to get, is that I wanted to make a base for it. I’ve got a bunch of little wooden bases that it’ll JUST fit on nicely: So I got out in the yard today and finally used some of that Rustoleum that some people rave about for something modelling related: I’m not trying to make a full diorama scene, but it’ll have a little piece of asphalt underneath and some concrete barriers to add a little interest. Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Happy birthday Kit! Always enjoy seeing your work!

Looks amazing David - beautiful work on an iconic car! Looks like I need to add one of these to my (already pretty sizable) ‘to build’ list ??

More news from Atlantis - those guys are working hard over there!

I wonder if it was the Flintstone piece - looks great! I’d been meaning to pull the trigger on one of those…thanks for posting up the pic!

That’s awesome! Who made the resin body?

Coupla pics of what’s in the Midget kit, from the Atlantis site:

I would be OVERJOYED if they had that entire series...

Ahh, so you’ve been to the Brooklyn Flea? ??

Me too - I’ve had a bunch of trouble with Rusto cans doing that to me in the past. Which is a pity because they’re usually fairly cheap and readily available. My favorite primer was/is the $2 a can stuff that Walmart used to carry, in the blue cans. Haven’t seen that for sale for a while, and getting dangerously low, but it was thin, never flaked or peeled and the gray was such a light gray it didn’t affect anything if I was painting a light color over top of it. I need to find more of that stuff…

So, you guys who own Optivisors - which lenses do you like for them? I see they have various magnifications (with varying respective depth of fields…)

Ohhhh, this is cool!! Nice start!

That looks awesome already! Like the Topolino in back too!

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I've intentionally sprayed them through an airbrush without thinning them probably 100 times ? You're right - works just fine!

I built one of these a while back - I don't recall any issues at all, I think it pretty much fell together... Decently detailed, for what it represents

I like this kit - I’ll be watching! I wish I’d seen kits at my local Walmart - NW Indiana here, right under the lake

$30 today ?

For ‘dry assembly’ I like three techniques in particular. One, is pinning. Drill a hole in a hidden spot on one part, and insert a little piece of wire. Then drill a hole where it goes and you’ve got a good repeatable method for mocking up a part repeatably every time. Second, when that’s not possible or desirable, is this stuff: Plenty strong enough to temporarily mocking up most parts, and cleans off with water. Downside is wait time for it to dry, and it’s not so good on big heavy parts (think heavy resin tires, for example) Third, is this stuff: It’s an infinitely reusable putty-goo-stuff that you can mold into whatever shape you need to hold things in place, and cleans right off most surfaces just fine. Also useful can be little jigs and stands to hold things off your bench so you can work on them a little easier - I just scratchbuilt these this week to hold up the (painted) frame of a build so it didn’t get marked up accidentally: A lot of guys are enjoying using magnets lately too, but I haven’t got a bunch of person experience of using those on my builds so far…

Much more southern NY than that…but definitely a semi-famous spot in the 70s thanks to a certain movie: Saturday Night Fever was filmed in ‘my’ neighborhood in Brooklyn and I frequented it pretty regularly until we moved out of the city. It just closed this year, so this is a little tribute to a spot that I’ll miss… Thank you! Awesome! It’s a fun kit - get to it! I added a steering box from a Revell Deuce - not sure how accurate it would be to the 1:1 but it’s in there anyway - I’ll take some better pics when I get the steering shaft made and installed properly… A little more progress today…got the body ‘polished out’…actually I flattened the orange peel and got it relatively smooth and uniformly kinda-glossy by doing a partial polish but not all the way to show-car. I don’t want it looking syruppy, but I didn’t want lumpy paint either… Then, with that done, finally time to add the holographic numbers I’d been excited about: Next up, finished up the brakes finally and got them properly mounted to my satisfaction. The disks were shot with SMS chrome, got a black wash and then some thinned Vallejo rust around the edges: Made a little rock-shield (I guess?) to mirror one I saw on some 1:1s in reference pics. Not sure how much it would protect the radiator, but maybe it’s a simple air flow thing or something? And as you can see in the pics above I’ve been detailing the radiator some today. Made a radiator cap, mounting brackets and installed the hood pin posts: There’s an aluminum catch-can on the other side that I forgot to photograph and I made a start on the hoses…need to finish the driveshaft so I can get the engine in place before I can get the hoses installed before I can glue the radiator in ? Quick motivational mock-up…it’s starting to look like a thing! Still a bunch of work to do, but I like how it looks so far! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Regular pics are much more reliable than videos, just FYI ??

Got my delivery of Bugs! Came in a nice Revell box - I assume that’s what they send out to dealers: I was concerned these were mis-listed and would be 1:32 scale or something weird, but nope, just as described!