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What year is this car?
wisdonm replied to Rick Schmidt's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
That Capri II body style was a '75 in europe, and a '76 in the US. However those bumpers were never used in the US. We got big battering rams, not little chrome things. Those look like bumpers from the '73. -
Anyone else watching "Two and a Half Men"?
wisdonm replied to Ben's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Yes it is. But did you catch Cheech Marin (from Cheech & Chong and Nash Bridges) building a Tiwauna Taxi kit in his office at the car wash, a few weeks ago, on Rob? -
STAR FIRE! ...( 59 Impala Flying Car) Update: 3-29-12
wisdonm replied to Ira's topic in WIP: Model Cars
I really like what you're doing. The first flying car model I ever saw was made back in the day by Bob Peath. It actually flies too. http://public.fotki.com/zbuckster/model_car_gallery/bob-paeth-flying-car/ -
Very unique.
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Cool Hand's photos are great. They remind me of pixs a friend of mine takes on the roof of his grey car. I don't understand why a lot of people take pixs on their hoods and roofs, especially when they're red and yellow, but this grey seems to work. I guess we could always test drive a grey car on photo day.
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Why Did Figures in Model Kits Disappear?
wisdonm replied to Casey's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Of course it's a dollar thing for one reasone or another. It would be foolish to think otherwise. I do have a Jungle Pam from a Revell Monza FC. -
SN95 build thread (in conjunction with the FOX thread)
wisdonm replied to whale392's topic in Community Builds
Anyone know where I can get either a 2003/04 Mustang Cobra or GT body?- 106 replies
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The WAM dio is the first thing I seek out at the Milw. NNL. They are all anally designed and built. What do you do with the old ones?
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I'm trying to locate a builder.
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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I'm trying to locate a builder.
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
That's the guy. Thank you very much. I've lost all my bookmarks. -
I'm trying to locate a builder of a LSR car made from a '60s Corvette, an Olds Aerotech, and a lot of scratch building. Anyone recognize this model?
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B. S. Levy Special - 1938 Mercedes-Benz Indy Car
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in WIP: Model Cars
The body was so warped it popped apart the first time I glued it. Sorry, I didn't take any more assembling pixs because of the rush. So here are a couple pixs of the B.S. Levy special. Don't you just love any car whose name ends with special? -
B. S. Levy Special - 1938 Mercedes-Benz Indy Car
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in WIP: Model Cars
I guess the kit's wheels were Hawk's poor attempt at the French GP car. I made decals last night. Tried something new. I used genuine gold leaf. I printed the decals as usual and then applied them onto the gold leaf. All the white areas in the original decals are now gold leaf. Applied the composite decals to the body using Future for a fixative. The #2 burst are from the Shorty Templeton 19 56 midget set made by Greg's Racing Graphics. He has a good product and his customer service is outstanding. Painted the chrome dash and steering wheel spokes with Dullcoat. Then applied home made decals. I've got big problems ahead.The body is so warped, it is almost impossible to line it up for gluing. Always something, never good. -
B. S. Levy Special - 1938 Mercedes-Benz Indy Car
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Remember when I said I was going to set the body out in the sun to dry? Well of course the wind blew it onto the cement and put two pits in the paint. I also used a liquid mask to cover the chrome grill while I painted the body. I have never had good luck with liquid mask. Didn't work well this time either. First it pulled the paint off the nose. Second it removed some of the chrome that I was trying to protect. title= Made new wheels out of the PVC rims I turned and, after a lot of work, the kit's brake drums. Did the Glosscoat, decal, Dullcoat thing. Didn't turn out too bad. I now know why this kit was originally abandoned. Many of the parts are handed and only go together one way. Well anything that could have been glued in the wrong place, was. I am surprised by the detail of the brake cooling scoops and vents, considering that this is a 1962 Hawk kit. Here is the chassis with the simple suspension installed. -
B. S. Levy Special - 1938 Mercedes-Benz Indy Car
wisdonm replied to wisdonm's topic in WIP: Model Cars
I was going to do a variation of the Straitline method, Dave. But needed 80 spokes per wheel and basically chickened out due to lack of skill and time. I'm under the gun and the parts are all messed up, so of course nothing is going right. I painted the car last Wednesday. Usually my rattle can wet coats are too wet and cover details. I wasn't going to do that this time, because I don't have time to fix anything. You guessed it. Now the paint was too dry and I have orange peel to deal with. Worse than that, after 4+ days it still smells like paint, so it is not dry enough to fix. I've now set it out in the sun to bake. The next problem was the wheels. These are big 21" x ~6". None of the original wheels were measurable for width. The original wheels were wire wheels. I thought I could make some from 1/2" PVC pipe caps. I bored out the centers to thin the rim wall thickness on a lathe at MG Ltd. Not sure what happened to one? Must have got too hot and deformed. My plan was to split each wheel into three 2" sections and make wire wheels out of them. After rethinking this, I got cold feet. Since each wheel would be made out of about 90 separate pieces, I questioned their rigidity and my ability to get them done in time. Plan B called for one piece disc wheels. So I went back to MG Ltd. on Thursday to make new rims. I did not have time to work on it Friday, Sat., and Sunday, except for some preliminary decal designs Fri. morning. This brings things up to date, with nothing actually accomplished. -
I bought this glue bomb after seeing another kit like it on evil-bay. I'm not sure all the parts are there. Some of it had been painted and assembled in the best glue bomb tradition. Especially the wheels. These were made up of 5 or six pieces each. There was so much glue on them, the plastic started to melt and deform. Not to mention that the clear wire spoke pieces were clouded with excess glue. The body was totally chrome plated with glue smudges and scratches all over. The bottom half of the body was warped and the decals were disintegrated and parts were coming off the backing sheet. The kit has a 4 cam, 32 valve, supercharged, dry-sumped, 3 liter V-12 that made about 450-475hp. It is the right engine for this car. Upon fist impressions, I don't think this engine will fit in this body. So, I put the body in the DIP, aka Purple Power degreaser, and stripped the chrome plating. Next I sanded all the mismatched seams and blemishes. Then primed it with Dupli-Color sandable primer.
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I would like a '62, best looking grill and integrated chrome. I also had one as my first race car. No wagons. $100+ is too much.
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super singles
wisdonm replied to Pete1980's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
So where canI find super singles and what size wold they be in 1:1? -
Now if they would only build this VW W12 650 for under $20,000, I'd be interested.
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I wish it was 1:1, but is roughly 1:18.
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1984 Ferrari 512/2 motorcycle prototype Carrol Shelby once joked that the only reason Enzo Ferrari built road going GT's was so that he'd have something to drive to a rendezvous with his mistresses. This is the 1984 Ferrari 512/2 motorcycle prototype that was designed by Enzo Ferrari's illegitimate son Piero Lardi. For thirty-two years, no word of him was breathed in public. He was not mentioned in Enzo's autobiography. After Enzo's wife, Laura, died in 1978, he was brought into the firm and openly and introduced as Piero Lardi-Ferrari. He is still with the firm today and owns ten percent of the company's stock. The Scuderia Ferrari was always strapped for cash, even after the "sellout" to Fiat in 1969. Piero's job was to find new profit centers. In 1984, Piero was in Miami, Florida. A friend suggested they go to Daytona to see "bike week". He was amazed at the size, unrefined noise, lack of power, and the shear numbers of the omni present Harley Davidson motorcycles. Surely Ferrari could build a motorcycle, he thought. Piero decided to create a show bike that combined the power and style of Ferrari's flagship, the Testarosa, with a motorcycle. He called it the 512/2, for five liters, twelve cylinders, and two wheels. Styling cues were definitely from the Testarosa. The five liter V-12 engine was a combination of old and new pieces. The dry sump block started as a 365 GTB. The single cam heads were modified from the early 275 GTB. There were six Weber twin choke carbs from the 250 GTO. The exhaust pipes were ceramic coated, like the F1 cars, to reduce heat radiation. The most unusual part of the drive train was the right-angle, direct drive, in and out box that was used instead of a transmission. Power was transmitted to the rear Axel via a covered Pirelli cog belt with a 3:1 reduction. During the 512/2's initial presentation to Enzo, only eight months after conception, he asked the question "Why only one gear?" Piero answered "Our motorcycle makes more horsepower at idle than the others at red-line." For a moment, Enzo smiled, his eyes twinkled, and his face glowed. Then his face grew sad and slowly, Enzo move his head from side to side in silence. Sadly, the 512/2 was never developed any further. And to this day, there has never been a Ferrari motorcycle. Notice: The people mentioned above are real. Sadly, the motorcycle and related events were not. This motorcycle is a phantom.
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This will sound silly, it's just something I tried successfully. I tried a two tone paint job with Testors one coat. The top color krinkled up in a few spots. I needed it finished in a few days and did not have time to sand or strip and repaint. I took a flat wide (1/4"?) paint brush and dipped it in lacquer thinner then painted the affected areas. It liquified the enamel paint. I smoothed it out, blended it in. It re-dried smooth and looking fine.
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Wow Dave, those engines are beautiful.