OldNYJim

Haha, thanks for the info!

What were the new ones?

Nice work Bill - looks great!

You do such nice clean work - always enjoy seeing your build threads!

Really enjoying this so far! Can’t wait to see more!

Could you slice the top off the magneto and replace it with aluminum/brass tube maybe? (I didn’t research the magneto on these cars yet admittedly, need to find some good reference pics…)

Earlier in the year, when my Evergreen and Plastruct supplies were running low, I ordered one of every set of square, round, half round, strip and angle that this eBay seller stocks: https://www.ebay.com/sch/kdarr70/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= Excellent value, way cheaper than the big names and I never seem to be short of anything 'normal' that I would need. I bought some 20ft x 4ft rolls of styrene in various thicknesses too so I've got plenty of that to work with, and as you'd expect, buying bulk of that stuff makes it better value than buying the hobby-sized packs. 0.010, 0.020 and 0.040 are my usual go-tos for that stuff, depending on what I'm intending to do with it. I'm lucky too that the local Ace Hardware is only a block away, and they stock all the K&S metal sizes, but I try and keep at least a couple of packs of each in stock anyway. Add to that I've got a decent selection of about every color of paint and plenty of primer and clear, and I only really need to go 'shopping' for something for a project if it's something out of the ordinary or I'm looking to match a specific color that would be hard to mix. I try and make sure to grab glue whenever I see it at a good price too - Dollar General or Dollar Tree usually have 4 or five kinds of superglue or Krazy Glue or something useful at good prices... Never hurts to have an at-home hobby store!

Sounds like you'd like a Pocher kit (one of the old ones, anyway...).

No - it’s interesting! Keep ‘em coming!!!

Figures - thank you! You’re right! Going to do my best to correct the look of that somewhat (but still have it so I can actually pick the thing up without breaking it ?). I tried making styrene pieces originally but settled for getting some gel glue in there, hitting it with activator and filing it square as best I could without damaging the frame and making more work…didn’t quite get it like the 1:1 but tried my best anyway… Speaking of the frame, got the last few pieces added before paint this weekend: Had some little brackets and clips and a few little pieces that it needed, before shooting the whole thing with primer, smoothing out some of the little flaws and imperfections, adding some weld beads with Vallejo plastic putty and then shooting with Createx pure white as a base to make that yellow really pop: Then, I mixed up some Createx yellow with just a tiny dash of orange to warm it up a little and shot the frame and engine: Once that was dry, shot three mist coats of clear just to gloss it up a LITTLE, and let it dry overnight. I already figured out the rear axle, aside from adding detail, but the front axle needed some more work, so I tackled that next: I sacrificed a little scale fidelity to make sure I can actually assemble the thing when the time comes - I really don’t want to be fiddling with tiny little gluing areas once this part is in Alclad, but I’ve also got some more detail to add after paint that is going to add some more realism. Whilst I had the Vallejo putty handy, I used some of that, mixed with a little water, to smooth out the ‘leather’ in the bucket seat and headrest that I made and then got that painted and made some seatbelts: The belts on the real car had a little brown leather cover over the one latch for some reason, so I added that as a little detail - although I’d really like to find a scale crash helmet that I can sit on the seat so most of this stuff will disappear anyway. Michael’s sells some great textured paper that works well for belts, incidentally, which is what I used here, with Gopher Racing (I think?) photo etch. Seat and headrest in place: Not a tonne of progress since the last update, but I had to keep waiting for paint to dry ? Next job will be running some brake lines and lines for the parachute and whatever else - I want to get them handled before I install a bunch of other stuff in the way. More soon! PS: yeah, I see the bow in the frame - but with the engine in there it fixes itself ? PPS: I hate how easily you can see flaws with pictures this large…makes it easy to see the areas that need touch-ups tho More soon!

A few more! I’m REALLY enjoying these videos - and there’s a good interview with Doug (below) where he mentions that there are plenty more to come…I hope this series runs and runs!

Marcel Bebris ?

Not being ignored at all...if they'd pitted, Max was close enough that he would jump Lewis and take the lead - and with only 5 laps to go and a car smashed all over the track, likelihood is they wouldn't have had a chance to regain the position. And they were right - if things had followed the normal procedure, the track was clear and ready to race with one lap - but the one lap that the regulations require to let lapped cars loop round to the back of the pack before the safety car comes in would've taken them to the flag. Of course, that's based on the FIA following their own rules and not cutting the safety car short...

Exactly. I find it interesting enough though without them doing that, personally...but look at all the headlines they got by doing something controversial. It figures, they're a business, they're trying to get eyes on screens and get people talking about them. I'd be pretty upset if I was the guy who finished second yesterday tho. Cool Lotus! I wanna build some F1 kits - I always wanted that Tamiya Williams from the Mansell era, but last time I looked they were seriously not-cheap. That little Fujimi (I think?) Senna kart kit is a cool semi-F1 related piece too. There's a really nice resin kit of this year's Mercedes that I wanted, but that was crazy expensive too...

It's funny, I've been using Vallejo putty on my build too...but for weld seams on the frame, and for replicating the look of fabric on the seats. For little pieces of detail work, that stuff works GREAT for me...but yeah, as a filler, not so much. Looking good so far Bill!

Mazda has a factory color that sounds very much like this - it's called Soul Red and it's a candy over a REALLY reflective silver...looks pretty much like what you're describing when you see it in real life - like candy over chrome: That picture doesn't really do the color justice - but if you ever see it in bright sunlight they GLOW, it's a beautiful color. Sucks if you get a stone chip though, apparently - its really hard to touch in and repair

And that's the problem for me - picking and choosing which rules to enforce and which ones not to. The rules really should be a binary thing, as much as possible. Same thing with Max overtaking Hamilton under the safety car on that penultimate lap. Was it by much? No, but he did it. Did he get a penalty? No. (Standard penalty for that is 5 seconds, which would put him back in second again). They're both guilty of various rule infringements throughout the year, but only because they SOMETIMES get away with these things - and if you don't get a penalty for breaking a rule then you'd be giving up a sporting advantage if you DON'T make the most of that opportunity. I get it - they want to push things as far as they can...but it's wrong, in my opinion, when a blind eye gets turned sometimes and not others and it ends up affecting the results. I wanna see a fair even fight without the governing body interfering and spicing things up.

I was pretty disappointed in how they ended it, honestly. Exciting? Sure. But tweaking the safety car rule to manufacture a more exciting finish seemed artificial and absolutely not in the spirit of F1. Would they have changed that rule and allowed just SOME of the backmarkers to un-lap themselves and bring the safety car in early to give Max a chance at getting by Lewis if it WASN'T the last lap of the last race of the season? Nope - because they never have in the history of the sport, and that's not the how the rule works. They shouldn't just change rules and invent new ones on the fly to guarantee (or at least try and provoke) a more interesting result - that's what left a bad taste in my mouth with the whole thing this weekend. Is Max a worthy champion, based on the rest of the season? Sure - but if they hadn't messed with the safety car procedure to introduce One Final Lap Of Racing™ then Lewis would be champion right now, and that doesn't seem right to me.

Is that Beetle their little Superbug kit - the drag car with the shorter wheelbase? Or does AMT have a 'regular' Beetle in the archives too?

Love that color - nice job!

Not too late at all - and those reference photos are GREAT! You have REALLY helpful shots there of some angles I couldn't see previously - thank you so much! Now I know what I'll be working on today

Tiny bit more progress on this the last couple of days - I spent a couple of evenings hunting through old photos trying to find any pics I could of the 1:1’s frame without the bodywork in place so that I could see what little details I was missing. Found ONE solitary picture on a photohosting site from ten years back: Now, I believe this is one of the frames that the replica car ran before they rolled it, but it’s the closest I’ve found to a good reference pic to use so I’m rolling with it… From front to middle, added a little support brace behind the front crossmember, the two missing hoops atop the upper frame rail and brackets to mount the steering box and cowl steering setup. You can see the little pinch in the frame that was being discussed above in the ‘passenger side’ rail there, but the motor mount brings that true when installed so I’m not too concerned at the sec… Onto the back of the car, added the missing supports and mesh under the driver’s seat at the back of the frame, plus I made some of the little brackets that the body attaches to on the real car: And finally, a quick test-fit of the body panels to make sure everything still fits - perfect! Im considering remaking that upper body panel with brass rather than clean up the kit piece - but I’ve also been looking for an excuse to buy a little vacuum former so this might be the trigger for that… Just a small update, but it’s taken me half the week to get these few parts researched and finished…excited to get the frame far along enough to paint it! More soon! ?

Oh, the 40% works on that stuff too? Sweet!

I found these by mistake whilst looking for something else, and would love to see more of Ricky's work. Does anyone have any other pics of his builds saved? I remember his 'Moo Truck' was one, and SA did a feature on him sometime back in the dark and distant past...

This site is useful for trying to determine what you were trying to determine above: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Tells you whether the problem is at your end or theirs. I know you already discovered the answer anyway in this case though...