Scale-Master

I got the printer working again and made the original proportioning valve I did in 3D. (I guess it's like losing a part in the carpet; make a new one and you find the original…)

These are the masters I pulled a mold off for the brake and clutch parts. I broke the little bracket extricating it from the RTV, no problem; it will be more resilient as a cast part.

For some reason the proportioning valve would not print/grow with the rest of the layout. I tried to print it separately but the printer stopped reading all files, so I made one from scratch the old fashioned way while I try to figure out what the problem is.

I spent some CAD time this week designing the brake master cylinder. The clutch master cylinder. The clutch slave cylinder. And the J-56 Corvette adjustable proportioning valve & bracket. Full assembly.

Thanks guys. I'm not sure what you're referring to as the gearbox change rod John. The shifter linkage is included in the kit.

Thanks! You can read all about it in the new Muscle Cars, Restomods & More magazine from SA. (The C5RX-7 is one of the cover cars.) There was a thread here about it a few days ago...

Thanks Guys! No, the GTX is still a '71.

1/3 scale 289 Mustang Engine Supernatural Impala Kawasaki Ninja H2R Carbon Honda Monkey 125 Mazda MX-5RF Flamed '57 Chevy (Cover car for the very last issue of Scale Auto) C5RX-7 (Also a Scale Auto special edition cover car) Mustang GT-4 Earnhardt '86 Monte Carlo Greenwood Corvette Starsky & Hutch Torino Honda Fireblade 1100 C5 Monoposto Speedster Ferrari 312T Fast & Furious '72 GTX S-10 Sonoma Bede BD-5 Bede BD-J XF5U-1 Flying FlapJack Lola T-70 (still under construction after 19 months)

Thanks guys! The wood props aren't as odd to me as it having nose art and never actually flying, let alone put into service. As if its unproven unique design wasn't enough, it was also a victim of the jet age (it had two piston engines) and WWII had ended, so it had two strikes against it before it ever could take off.

1/72 scale Hasegawa kit. Mostly finished with Tamiya paints. Warbird decals woodgrain for the props. Fun build; not perfect and questionably accurate, but worth the time for me to put it together.

I reworked the prop hubs and added bosses to the backs so they would plug into the nacelles and not require cement and still allow the props to turn. I brush painted the yellow tips.

Thanks Alan! The insignias turned out to be a bit more work than I expected after the instrument decals went on so easily. I didn’t notice the one for the underside goes across the starboard main gear doors until after I cut the doors apart and installed them. I cut one of the kit insignias into three pieces with a new blade, but it disintegrated while wet before I could apply it. I found a couple more same sized replacements in my stash and they fell apart the same way, even the one I didn't cut… So I found some newer Scale-Master ones (age-wise) from a Testors A-4 kit, but they had red bars. The first one I cut to fit the plane worked fine so I freehand painted out the red bars after they were applied.

The landing gear is a bit fiddly but buildable.

I painted the prop blades Dark Tan and then used some clear red to tint the tone towards mahogany. Warbird Decals Brown on Clear Woodgrain made up the bulk of the grain. Then a little of their Black on Clear added some contrast. Pretty easy to do in less than an hour…

I added the tails then blended in the blue around the mounting points after the fact too. The intake fans are installed (glad I added the supports) and the "roll-bar" behind the seat with its reinforcements. Check the fit of the canopy as some trimming is needed of the rear bulkhead for it to fit.

I finished the seams around the perimeter and then blended the blue to cover the raw plastic. I also added the stabilizers.

Thanks guys. I too am drawn to odd and interesting planes, and scale is not an issue. My Dad was really into 1/72nd so building from his stash means lots of that scale. Tamiya AS-8 Navy Blue.

Intentions are all well and good, but actions are what's needed. Out of curiosity, what will constitute "MCM being restored to financial health" in light of past excuses? Or is it a term like "flattening the curve" that changes as time goes on to justify never quite being able to follow through? (See "moving the goal posts".) Another observation, isn't there a lot of lifetime subscriptions to fill? Those won't be generating any revenue...

The cockpit fits well enough between the fuselage halves.

While the kit is labeled Flying Pancake, I'm going with the term my Dad used when I was a kid while he was working on vacuum-formed kits of it. 1/72 scale Hasegawa kit. Going for out-of-the-box, but I added Warbird Decals seatbelts. I also added some supports to make installing the intakes out of sequence easier.

Thanks Ray! I made the first sections of the exhaust pipes, brass, styrene rod and pliable tubing.

Thanks guys! The timing tab marks are a custom made decal. The muffler was done with vinyl I cut and painted over.

Thanks Trevor! The markings have been added to the timing tab and the bolts for the harmonic balancer and lower pulley have added as well.

Thanks Guys!!! The kit oil coolers were reworked and had some details added including some machined aluminum items and custom decals. They will be mostly hidden behind the radiator when done.

Thank you for the kind words Pete! And David, FWIW, the Lola I'm building is not a race/competition car, it is a street car, (as explained in the thread)... In fact much of the engine is a copy of my daily driver.