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MAYDAY!!!!!! Attention Pocher crazies! Need your help. After installing the previously finished gas (OK petrol Rick) tank into the chassis and patting myself on the head, I went to install the filler tube. Where's the freakin tube???!! It's been my habit that when subassemblies get finished to paint, I either wrap or store them in plastic bags. Then take them out when time to put in place. Just like the tank and now the axle. After turning the joint upside down, I can't find it. A quick inventory shows everything else I finished safely stored. How can I make another? I don't have any sprue that diameter and I don't even know if I could get that tight a bend if I did. Same with metal tube. I do have styrene tube in .250" OD but it's about 1/16" shy. Any thoughts appreciated. If I don't answer by tomorrow, I've slashed my wrists...

This is where you're way ahead of me- I'm not conversant with what to use where in this scale. But I'm writin' this stuff down.

As for you-----------more FIAT!

Thanks pal. Yes the work stand has paid for itself already and I just got the rear on it. Was going to make them because they're simple enough but I traded the $$ for the time saved. I'm racing the clock and grim reaper... You'll hate me but I'll probably leave the springs natural SS. I just plain love 'em. Fabbing leather wraps is out of my skill set. Thanks to you, I know I now have adequate support for this heffer.

See what I mean?? This is all magically supposed to tuck into the chassis and connect to a jillion things at once: http:// Happy Rick?? It's dull red and graphite-not a gloss out of bottle and silver paint. May not be popular but I'm trying for the patina of an aged restoration with use. And some 'scale effect' which the AC and Armor guys do beautifully but I'm struggling with. I'm really just trying to keep it subtle and understated. Oh and the wheel backing plates do NOT have a ton of positive camber-they're perfectly upright. It's my 35mm lens bending 'em: http:// Next in process; MMC's beautiful (and $$) PE leafspring set. Includes the shackles and curled end leaves. When done, I have to hang the rear and install in chassis hangers. Wish me luck: http:// http://

Sorta like a dinghy on a yacht??

^^^Yup but they make a nice stripe on the 'tread'...

More junk hanging off it now-pics when I regain sanity... Can see I'll need 10 hands to hang it on the chassis.

Sewing stores also sell the healing mats but much larger. Mine is 36 x 24. I think they are cheaper than the hobby mats for their size.

Do you still have house privileges and is She even speaking to you??

Do you like me now?? http:// Shocks and levers just hanging for now. Finishes used; gloss and satin blacks, Smoke, VHT (1:1) header paint, pencil graphite, art oil (fluid stains at the drain and cover plate). http:// On to the many linkages and clevises for the brake actuators.

Great work Joe-I'd kill for that space and those counters building 1/8 scale. Beautiful first shot on the wheels.

I truly understand your dilemma as I ponder similar choices in RR land. The $$ is nuts if you let it. I agree with your final choice as what I'd probably do in your place. It may be boring to you the 4th time, but I know it will be a knock-out museum piece when you're done. Keep the costs reasonable (so you can get a Sedanca :lol:) and you live to fight another day.

Aren't you gonna weather the contact patches (such as they are) at least a dusty tan?? You know us weathering guys...

Try 'Almond' which is an appliance color. They all make it.

Thanks for the kind words David and Gary. I am totally captured by this project and have logged the hours just for fun since opening the box. I'm just shocked and embarrassed how little I've accomplished vs the hours put in. Part of the issue is the fact that the Pocher 'manual' is little more than a 'schematic' of (tiny) exploded line drawings with virtually no instructional text. Basically, a parts locator that's hard to read-even enlarged! I'll post a page or two soon for those who might consider owning one. Getting the Koo CD was the smartest thing I've done with the whole build. I'm realizing I'm doing the same kind of planning and prep (and spending!) as I did on my 1:1. Hoping I do justice to the really nice parts I have to work with.

Nowhere to be seen when there's work to be done...

Dude-it's all I got! But it's great to cut on without worry. Like Rick, I gotta be anal about sanding, grinding and then the vacuum. It's on a 30 x 42, 60 year old drafting table. The other two tables I've got are covered with sprue parts-looks like an autopsy in progress! And I've got a 500 sq / ft basement which would cost $30K to finish as a shop and sewing area...shoot me. Do we have a 'crying' icon??

Uhh-I was warming up for 27 years on that little 1:1 project, remember?

Tonight's episode; 'Pain in My Rear!' Sinks, seams and pits: http:// http:// Relief is on the way!: http:// No more lumps in the ham : http://

Don't set me up Harry! I know you'll pull some magic out of your a$$ and knock us dead. And I think Rick is in the wings to shade us both...

Thankfully, Model Motorcars does.

Lickin' my chops...

Boy am I gonna disappoint everybody...................

I can't believe you have no pics of this or your other Pochers........