MrObsessive

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I'll be there!

Yeah Dave.............I saw that on the Turbine Car site. While it's probably correct for that particular car.................I sure do hate plain black chassis'. I wanted to give mine some "life" by painting the floorpan with the red oxide primer and then finely dusting on the Turbine Bronze. I figured since this was a unit constructed car.......it just looks better. It'll give some decent contrast because the exhausts ducts, suspension, front and rear subframes are semi gloss black. Although 99.9% of the time the car will be sitting right side up! :mrgreen:

Thanks Jaffa! Yes, 50 cars were available to the driving public......IIRC, the "tests" were run from October 1963 through January of 1966. 203 people were chosen to test drive the cars, and they were allowed to drive the cars for free for 3 months at a time. During this time, they kept track of how it was to drive, driveability, fuel economy, etc. I saw one of these cars as a weeeee lad here in Central PA when I was around 4 years old or so.....but was too young to know what it was at the time. The reason I remember it was the whining sound it made when it ran............ It sounded like a miniature jet. For years I thought it WAS a then new T-Bird as it's lines were similar, but about 25 years ago realized that was the Turbine Car. A friend who was a bit older were talking cars one day and he also remembered the car, and even knew the family that had it here in the area back then. And no, you definitely don't have bad taste......everyone I've ever talked to about the car always thought it was sharp looking. It's too bad Chrysler just didn't produce this body style which could have been a "personal car" for them like Ford's T-Bird.

Maybe I should put in "almost"!

Well thanks for the compliment Greg! I ditto pretty much what Bob said..............I've learned to view anything that needs bare metal foil the same as if it were paint. Prepping the surface beforehand, polishing the paint, and burnish, burnish, burnish, the BMF! I've judged contest models where the BMF was put on cleanly, but the end result wasn't as smooth as it could have been. It may take me up to an entire week in some cases (working an hour or so at a time) to get the BMF put on an entire model. Cars like my '58 Chevy and '61 Caddy were somewhat frustrating to do because the chrome was not well defined to begin with..................goes back to prep again. As Bob said the end result is many times worth it! As an elderly man once said to me..........."Effort follows desire". If you want to achieve something bad enough..........you'll put in the effort.

Welcome aboard Keith! Love the weathering job on your builds.........and your 1:1 '61 Falcon wagon brings back some pleasant (and painful) memories!

Matt, here's the link for PSAB chat and for anyone else interested......... http://client.sigmachat.com/sc.php?id=12510

Mike, you continue to impress! I might have passed that up as a hopeless case if I saw that on a vendors table in the shape you got it............ I'm sure the model has breathed a sigh of relief for being saved!

Wow! I can shave by the reflection in the paint it's soooooo nice! Super slick Simón!

Absolutely stunning!! :shock:

That's gonna steal the show wherever that turns up! Love the miles deep paint! 8)

Nope! :wink:

Here's a fairly clean one on eBay...........click here to see it. Hope this helps out! eBay is a great place for all kinds of detail pics...............even chassis ones sometimes.

I'll say!! That looks like a REAL workshop! Great details!

Brian, I used a sort of triangular half round rod that Plastruct makes. I don't know the size as I have various types I use laying around. Whatever looks "in scale" is what'll get put in. Edit: Okay, I just checked the original packet it came in and it's Quarter Round rod .040" styrene. I like this shape as the inside of the A pillars are somewhat rounded and they'll be BMF'd near the end.

Wow! It's been a bit since I did any updates! Work is getting busy again, so the updates will be more few and far between. I had overtime last week and have to go in during the daytime this week for recertification to train folks so hopefully I can get some more done in the evenings. Last time I left off I was filling in this section with plastic to get rid of the empty look. Much to my chagrin, my trusty can of Dynatron Putty-Cote has dried up on me after 5 years............sooooo, I went out and bought a tube of Bondo spot putty. While it's not Dynatron, it did the job for the time being. Meanwhile I ordered another can of Dynatron off eBay, since the place I originally bought it, no longer carries the smaller can. They only had the 5 lb. stuff which is way too much! Here's the chassis painted with red oxide primer and oversprayed just a bit with Turbine Bronze. I originally was going to use the Sunset Orange paint I used on the 'Vette...............but on closer inspection I decided to go to the local paint jobber and have them mix me up the Chrysler Turbine Bronze which is a '67 color. It is very close if not exact to the original 50 cars' paint. The body will eventually be primered with a light gray as the red oxide makes the paint appear too dark. I chose the red oxide because in the '60's, this was the typical color used on the undercarriage. Since I have no pics of the underside, and since the fellow who runs the Turbine Car site never got back to me..........I'm simply going to wing it to how I see fit. I'm simply NOT going to spend 45-50 bucks for a CD for only a couple pics on a kit I may never build again for a very long time! I don't mean to sound curt.......I just want to move on as there is MUCH work to do on it yet! :shock: I was playing around with the thought of putting in brake and fuel lines...............here's a tiny bracket I made out of brass with a couple HO scale bolts. I dipped the bracket in some "Blacken It" to get rid of the brass look. The more I think about it though.............the more I'll probably be inclined to simply build the chassis straight out of the box, and move along. I already installed the brackets as can be seen by the pic above......but they're going to be covered up by the super wide exhausts. One thing I almost forgot about are the windows! Since I don't care for older kit glass.........(too many scratches and distortion) I decided to make my own windshield and backlite out of acetate. First I laid a piece of 3x5 card over the outside of the windsheild opening and made a tracing......... Now I need to place a "channel" in the A pillars to hold the "glass" in place. Okay, if you're really good............ the piece that you cut out for the glass should stay in place on its own due to the channels. You want to cut the piece just a bit larger than what you traced. Here's a small square of acetate................I bought several sheets of this (8"x11") at the local Arts and Crafts store. Don't ask for acetate as they'll look at you as if you've got a third eye blinking in the middle of your forehead...............in the aisle it's called "Clear Stencil Sheet". But it's still made of acetate. :? Now I want to take the paper cut out and transfer it to the acetate. I like to lay clear items (windshields and the like) on chamois cloth that I use for polishing this greatly reduces the chance of scratches while I'm working on it. Simply take a new exacto blade and trace a fine line around the pattern. Now you can cut around the pattern, and you've got your windshield! I did a preliminary test fitting of the glass and it fits very well without much trimming. The upper edge of the glass will need tightened up some............but when it comes time to epoxy this in, I'll make sure that the corners particularly are flush with the bodywork and A pillars. I'm gonna use the same technique for the backlite..............this method works very well for "straight" windshields..............but if you've got a wraparound windshield such as most cars out of the '50's early '60's you'll have a tough time as acetate only likes to be bent one way. I did do this on my '58 Chevy and '57 Corvette.....but they aren't the dual compound curves such as GM's '59-'62 cars, or Chryslers '58-'64 "bubble canopy" windshields. You'd probably have to vacuform those..........or better yet, just order 'em from The Modelhaus! :mrgreen: I want to say thanks to all of you guys who've been following this so far...............with over 1900 hits to date, I must be doin' something right!

Hmmm..........lessee, a 1/24 1961 Volvo P1800 Coupe made by Palmer. I have pics of the kit.........and for a Palmer it's not bad at all. But dang if I can find one anywhere......let alone eBay!

Beautiful '61!! :shock: Just about anything '61 (save for some of Chrysler's stuff) gets my attention as that's what was sitting on the dealers' lots when I came along. Your engine detail is outstanding!

Bill, is that a diecast?? That's truly a rare bird! I'm still hoping someone will do a Type 3 Ghia........I don't care if it's plastic or diecast! :!:

I just love first Gen Firebirds! There's something so innocent yet sinister about them! Nice paint on the car Matt.........aren't polishing cloths great? :mrgreen: :wink:

Hmmmm........a name tag.......Well my face pic is in my avatar and those that know me can see that I'm very difficult to miss size wise! :shock:

Looks great so far Dave! I have one of those too but haven't looked at it in a long time...............I'll let you build it for me! Brian, did you have any peculiar troubles with your build? It looks really sharp!

Wow!! That yellow is eye searing! Beautiful paint job!! 8)

My how time flies! Has it been nearly a year since I started posting here? Anyways, congrats Jairus and Gregg for your first anniversary on the 'net...........and many more!! :mrgreen:

Ahhhh! My kind of detail! If that's your first time Izzy.......you're doing excellent! 8) I wish the people I train at work to solder picked it up that quickly!