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  1. Hi Tomasz, I commented under the WIP but seeing this pics too is a special treat. Cheers, tim
  2. Beautiful car Rickard and congrats on finishing her too. The red truly does the entire car justice. Again, congrats! tim
  3. Tomasz, another fantastic build of yours. I took a moment to go through all of your flikr pics and you've got quite a wonderful collection. Congrats! tim
  4. Hi Chris, I agree with your comment btw.......you should 7,000 views and at least 50 comments on this thread. Your paint btw is just fantastic on her. White might now be the most "spectacular" color but the way you did and the clear & decals just set her off! Keep the posts coming and yes, I'll be certain to check in too! Cheers, tim
  5. OHHHH, so that's how he did it.....(nodding his head) .......Thanks Charlie, from one that dabbles at machining to one that forgot more than I'll ever know, it's so cool to see how you got to this point on your fantastic engine. It looks the part and like you, I agree, the engine is the most interesting & fun part of a build. Keep her going, I'm most assuredly following along. Cheers to you, Tim
  6. Well executed Ken. One to be proud of certainly. cheers, tim
  7. I see what you're describing Joe with the ZM engine. A lot more to work with, hopefully it fits well for you. Great subject on a pretty rare plane. Will be sure to follow your progress too. cheers, tim
  8. Charlie, I'm remiss in getting caught up on your build. Loving this engine come together and the set-ups you shared to make it in the first place. VERY interesting and helpful. cheers, tim
  9. Ian, Seat looks really good in position and I enjoyed the process you shared on how you did yours. You're clipping right along for sure. cheers, tim
  10. Chris......Good one.......sadly no, they're not sponsoring me. cheers,tim Tony Coomer, I apologize for not acknowledging your earlier post and wanted to say thanks. "Master of Sherline" is quite a stretch but I do appreciate the sentiment. They make great equipment. cheers, tim Thank you Bob!! cheers, tim Francis, thanks and you're right, Tamiya makes an excellent product, we're lucky as hobbyists to have such a resource. You've talked me into it btw on the doors. They will be coming out too and I've settled upon how the car will be presented when finished. Should be pretty cool. cheers, tim Randy D. Whatever I do I assure you it will have zero on your Birdcage Maserati. I'm going to do a 75' Don Hardy style chassis and will do my best to be 95% accurate with it. Most of the bits I've made to date should be perfect with it. Plan is do get the bulk of the body work done over the next couple months and then draw up the chassis so I can get it made. I'll paint the car next Spring and then assemble it all by Summer 25'........keep your posts coming too please! cheers, tim Daniel, thank you too, that grille was time consuming but when it all comes together at the end it should add that little bit of interest to the build. cheers, tim
  11. That's absolutely stunning Jim. Can't wait to see the finished car but I'd be happy to have her just the way she is today. Gorgeous. The mica pearl, did you use Pearl-X ? Just curious. cheers, tim
  12. I love the V-10 era of F1 and stance of this car to my eye was one of the best. If only they could have run with 70's era fat slick rubber all around it would have been even better. Great job sir! cheers, tim
  13. What a tremendous display of talent Francois. I learned a lot while cruising through this thread. Its definitely one to go thru multiple times as I know I've missed some things while going thru it just now. Thanks for sharing. cheers, tim
  14. Codi

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    That's fantastic JT. The color is gorgeous and you lay down some great paint. Oh, and that engine ain't too shabby either. I'll be sure to follow along. cheers, tim
  15. You are one talented individual Bill. If this is where "modeling" is going I'd say it has a bright future indeed. This type of creativity and excellence should excite anyone young enough and ambitious enough to learn the skills to do that.......marry it will some basic fabrication skills and the sky is the limit. Congrats, a big fan! cheers, tim
  16. The camaro IS nice Bruce.........but having a soft spot for Ford's I have to say the Mustang is just stellar. Great job my friend. cheers, Tim
  17. For the life of me I don't know how to delete the last 2 pics which were downloaded by mistake of the tool mentioned earlier in the thread......sorry bout' that.
  18. Roger & Chris, thanks fellas for taking a moment to check it out, yes, I was away far too long....... Claude, That glue, PolyZap in the pic that I posted was a dud I'm afraid. I was messing with something on the body and the part on the hood popped right off. What I've discovered is that my best results is either Super Thin Glue by Ammo/MIG or Tamiya's Super Thin glue, either one that sets in 10 or 30 seconds. Just for good measure, after joining certain parts I add Zap-A-Gap either thin or medium. So far now, so good.........but man these bodies are SOOO fragile. All the recent body work I've been undertaking has been quite delicate to say the least. Glad I bought the additional promo bodies as I can experiment on certain techniques before trying them on the build body itself. Thanks for your note too! cheers, tim Today I'm posting some bodywork updates & progress "report". First you can see the under-hood support I came up with to replicate the fiberglass hood. I don't know why the aluminum plate looks crooked in the pic as it's not. I was going to use hood pins to secure the hood but by 75' dzus fasteners were the more common method used. In anticipation of opening up the doors, trunk and removing the front clip from the car I fabbed a pair of brass rocker panels (the chassis will be all brass) and messed around with a technique of forming windshield frames using sq. brass rod. The test worked well and if I decide to take the doors out, that's what I'll do. This tool by Tamiya is the bomb for scribing btw........this one is the .2mm blade. This next tool I stumbled across and I experimented on the practice body with it to remove the drip rails.......it works great and I highly recommend it. In this pic the red arrow clearly shows the remaining drip rail and the blue arrow shows where I removed it and scribed out the window frame using the Tamiya scriber. These next pics show the new door handles ( I removed the molded in handles and used modified parts box handles that I modified to get the right shape) I also added the door lock and re-located it as the stock location on the kit is wrong. The side marker lights front and rear were removed. The front lower valance was filled & smoothed in. The windshield wipers were removed & the cowl vents eliminated (that was a mess) which necessitated that I add the windshield/cowl trim back that had to be removed. The mock-up shows a possible 4" spoiler that I'm considering on the final build. The 75' rules stipulated that one could be added even if the actual car didn't have one but it couldn't be an aerofoil & could not exceed 4" in height. Still debating it and comments are welcome on adding it. Next step is to thin out the body where needed before starting to cut out / off the doors etc. that I mentioned before. I'll add the brass rockers for strength and to help keep everything aligned and I have to remove the drip rails. Another good pass of body work refinement and I think I'll almost be done with this initial part of the bodywork. To everyone, cheers !! Tim
  19. Very nicely done Ian. This is gonna be a sweet build. cheers, tim
  20. Hi Francis, well I had a solid 6 pages or so of catching up to do but all of the things you've accomplished we fantastic. Loving the results AND the methods shared. Keep em' coming! cheers, tim
  21. Morning too Charlie, I'd be remiss not to say that I always learn something when I stop by your builds. thanks for sharing with all of us. cheers, tim
  22. Charlie, man what I wouldn't do to see his pro stocks up close.......didn't know you worked for him no less. Very cool! Francis, it would be great to finally meet you one day just to chat at large. btw, you should see the other side of the room.....lol! Chris, a most sincere thank you for the comment. I hope not to disappoint as things progress....cheers Daniel, thank you as well. Regarding the rack, it's pretty hand and best of all keeps things OFF the bench.....I'm glad I bought it. Zack, I'm flattered that you asked but unfortunately there's just some things I can't make and sadly, more time isn't one of them. I'll have to pass as I can "see" another 18 months of time trying to get the Mav finally done. cheers, tim Randy, always a pleasure.......and thanks for the 3 thumbs up. I'm anxious to see YOUR next update as well sir. cheers, tim Sadly, no pics today.....just had oral surgery yesterday (first and hopefully last time) but I will get bench time today at some point. Like the nice lady at the Rite-Aid pharmacy told me..... "getting old isn't for sissy's"...... cheers to all! tim
  23. Jason, that year of the Camaro was always one of my favorites and it's nice to see this one brought to life. Must have been pretty sweet to chat with Butch himself. His car, Barry Setzers and the BaldwinMotion cars stand out! Good luck with her! cheers, tim
  24. Morning Tim, On the forum right now it seems like we're raining 70's Pro Stocks and it's great to see another Ford too. Can't wait to see how yours turn out! Cheers, tim
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