OldNYJim

Old post - but how DID you make that grille Shawn? Is it photoetched somehow? Looks GREAT!

I’m not sad at all that it rained if you get some more bench time Francis! Truly masterful work as always!

Mine didn’t change yet, but I’m hoping it starts moving this week - did they send you a tracking number?

I'm interested in hearing more about that lemon-scented Tamiya cement ?

Or Clippy the Paperclip ?

Last cars and coffee of the season Impalas: VWs: Drift cars (I think?) Exotics: And more here: https://public.fotki.com/NewYorkSpeedShop/11-cars/car-shows/cars-and-coffee-at/page14.html

You guys need to go check some of John’s WIP threads - so much amazing stuff to see! ?

Never ??

Thanks everyone! Because basically everything attaches to the body on a lot of these TD kits, I really needed to get the body finished and in clear, so that was this week’s project. Used a scan of the original decals that Bob @TooOld kindly provided to redraw them in illustrator: Then cut masks out of Oramask on my plotter, and masked for paint: Shot silver first, then gradually worked through the process, shooting red orange and yellow over top. Decided not to follow the same pattern as the original design, just because I liked my way better ? All done and ready for touch-ups: Because doing all those layers adds those visible paint edges that you can see I used a high-build acrylic clear to help bury those graphics - the acrylic doesn’t polish up as nicely as enamels or lacquers for me, but you can shoot multiple coats quickly and if you get them plenty wet without it pooling you can get decent results: Excited to get this part done so I can actually stick something to something else ?. More soon!

Geez, that hood bulge is ENORMOUS. Good luck seeing, well, anything much whilst driving that thing ?

Herbie at the supermarket

I wonder what "Unity Graphics" are?

Nice start! I like the color combination!

Even when you add a little weathering your builds are super clean Steve! Nice job!

I took a break from this one to learn some techniques with my lathe and work on a coupla builds for shows and whatnot…but dug it out again this past week and did a little Polished out the body and gas tank: Did some assembly on the engine and got it in the frame: And started assembling the forks after I found some springs I’d been missing for the springer front end - couldn’t resist a mock-up with the tank on to see how it’ll look: Just gradually working through and adding a little piece here and there whilst other projects are stalled for paint-drying time or whatever. More soon!

That's weird - do you have a screenshot of the message?

Oh wait, nevermind ?

"I LOVE ANAGRAMS" ?

Their post says it'll include two engines, so I guess it'll be those! Works for me! I really like those wheels - I'll be ordering a few of these for sure... Thanks for the info everyone!

So, old kit experts, what do we know about this Topolino kit (at least, the bits that aren't new tooling)? I never saw one of these I don't think (although I might have one of these bodies somewhere if memory serves me correctly)

Nice maskin’!

I was trying to figure out how the clutch would work - but the pic explained it all! Ingenious!

One that got missed, for people enjoying these (but I’d recommend showing support by subscribing to his channel):

Spotted at the gas station this morning - super clean!