Harry P.

Wow. I just spent about eight hours wiring up the four magnetos... a task I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. First you have to cut 24 individual spark plug leads to the correct length, then strip the insulation off the ends, attach the connecting thingie onto the ends of each of the 24 leads that will glue into the caps, paint it black, then attach each of the 24 leads, one by one, without messing up the paint or anything else... and all in microscopic 1/12 scale. I think I put a year's worth of wear and tear on my eyes today. This was not fun...

I like it.

Read the very first topic in this section.

And DupliColor.

Wow! That's very impressive!

Yes, four plugs per cylinder. And yes, the tape is there just to protect the paint when I hold the block. It's just plain old cheap dollar store masking tape.

No, there are small pins on the looms that the wires attach to. They don't really go inside the looms.

Here's a view of the left side of the engine. You can see how the plug wires run through the brass loom and exit at each cylinder location...

More cowbell!

Hi-o Silver! Away! Go ahead... make my day. Schwing!

And here are the modified parts installed, and carb linkage added. Fuel lines next...

The carbs and the vertical intake tubes are molded all in one piece, However, the vertical tubes are actually part of the intake manifolds and should be copper; the carbs themselves should be brass. I guess I could have painted the carbs brass and then masked off for the copper intake tubes, but I decided it would be easier to saw the pieces apart, paint them separately, then reglue. That way I also get a realistic joint where the kit parts as molded don't have one. One cut... three to go...

so far, 12 of 24 spark plugs installed and wired into the brass wiring loom tube...

Here is the finished dash with four, not three, toggle switches.

Build it and they will come...

I'll be back.

There's a spider in your bathtub the size of a Buick!

Sufferin' succotash!

In the same vein... I tawt I taw a puddy tat. I did! I did see a puddy tat!

Houston, we have a problem.

They won't catch us. We're on a mission from God.

A classic! WKRP in Cincinnati.

Done several posts ago.

I know, but working on the model sort of takes my mind off the pain. A little. So it's sort of "therapy," even though building this engine is really hard. Much harder than any Pocher engine I've ever built.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore! Oh, Rob!!!! Tune in tomorrow... same Bat time, same Bat channel. Don't have a cow, man. That's not a knife. This is a knife! We are two wild and crazy guys!