Scale-Master

I repainted the interiors and replaced the seatbelts. The prop version gets red stabilizers.

I painted some wood grain onto the prop.

I thought I might have been able to mask off the cockpit like I usually do with other 1/72 planes when I started, but it turns out the easier way was to ditch that work and I'll hand paint and re-decal the harnesses after shooting the white. (Good thing the Warbird sheet provides a lot of belts.) I was able to hold them by the interior with tweezers for painting too. I used Tamiya Fine White primer to check my bodywork and provide an even base, and then shot some decanted TS-26 Pure White for the color.

Something fun and simple between Lola sub-projects... A pair of 1/72 scale BD-5s. These things are tiny. The BD-J is on the left, the BD-5B is on the right. I used Warbird Decals seat belts in them.

Yes, the traditional schemes. Red, white & blue. Just realized I put this in the wrong section. Moderators please delete this thread as I cannot and already created a new thread in the proper place.

I added the oil and water plugs before the last coat of orange.

I thought I might have been able to mask off the cockpit like I usually do with other 1/72 planes when I started, but it turns out the easier way was to ditch that work and I'll hand paint and re-decal the harnesses after shooting the white. (Good thing the Warbird sheet provides a lot of belts.) I was able to hold them by the interior with tweezers for painting too. I used Tamiya Fine White primer to check my bodywork and provide an even base, and then shot some decanted TS-26 Pure White for the color.

Something fun and simple between Lola sub-projects... A pair of 1/72 scale BD-5s. These things are tiny. The BD-J is on the left, the BD-5B is on the right. I used Warbird Decals seat belts in them.

The timing tab has been bolted to the engine.

Thanks Anton! Thermostat housing and fuel pump block off. The kit part didn't match my intake manifold. I was able to thin out the kit's block off plate. I machined the aluminum bolts on both parts.

I added the sand-cast texture to the block. Notice the freeze plugs and timing cover are not textured. It still needs another coat of paint, but not until the oil and water plugs are added.

I could scale it down, but some of the finer details will probably be lost. You'd still have to make your own distributor housing and vacuum advance canisters.

And I made spark plugs too. Steel and resin; shown with a boot installed.

Thanks Dave! Plug boots for the wires. Made using the same process as the for the distributor boots.

The distributor boots for the ignition wires; made from scratch. (Return of the big ruler…)

Assembled scratch-built HEI distributor. I'll add the tach and power wires later, the plugs are already on it.

Thank you Anton! Hold down clamps, nickle wire.

I'll be building other parts of the car too. It's not like I'm only building the engine. Like a real car, different areas are worked on as needed to get everything to fit. And in some cases I just make something I'm in the mood to make... And thanks!

Shiny new distributor cap.

Distributor base and vacuum advance canister machined from aluminum.

No, not the whole project, I was hoping to have the engine done by January 2022. I think two years and seven months is longest I've spent on a single car model. I have a couple stalled projects that span longer, and a '69 Camaro that sat idle for twelve years, before I picked it up and finished it, but I'm only counting active build time.

Finished oil filter. I milled out the mounting location of the block so the filter sits in to it instead of flush on it. Made a decal for the label. I date my filters when I install them. Taking a guess on this one…

Thanks Trevor! Oil filter machined from resin stock. It will be a Delco PF1218. (More parts off my real car…)

Knowing the inside would probably not grow as clean as needed to fit to the aluminum distributor base I grew a jig with it to hold the cap so it could be machined to fit. Worked like a charm too. The distributor base was machined from aluminum. The cap is a cast resin copy.

Thank you Trevor! I machined the breather can from aluminum.