sjordan2 Posted June 4, 2015 Posted June 4, 2015 The only suggestion I would make would be to have the rear windows be horizontal sliders rather than roll-down.
Harry P. Posted June 4, 2015 Author Posted June 4, 2015 Here's the gun drawer... it opens up, then the cover that keeps everything in place flips up to reveal the shotguns, I used a strip of aluminum duct tape for the "hinge," in real life this would probably have been a piano hinge. There's no latch on the cover, I guess I'll have to simulate one with some bits of aluminum duct tape...
Harry P. Posted June 4, 2015 Author Posted June 4, 2015 Also got the lift gate installed. This was hard. There is only a very thin frame of wood with very small glue surfaces to hold it all together... but I managed to install it without breaking any of the corner joints (of course, in real life those corners would be mortise and tenon joints, a very strong joint... but in this scale that would be impossible; the corners are simple butt joints). Should I continue those vertical pieces up through the lift gate, giving the illusion of a three-piece rear glass? Or just keep that rear glass as all one piece?
Harry P. Posted June 4, 2015 Author Posted June 4, 2015 The only suggestion I would make would be to have the rear windows be horizontal sliders rather than roll-down. Noted. When I do the 1/8 version, that's the way it'll be.
sjordan2 Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 I vote for one-piece glass, no preference on rear bumper.
Kit Basher Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Every thing about this model is spectacular. As a professional woodworker, I really admire your choice to use real wood, and the way you have used it. Getting mortised in butt hinges to work well can be a challenge in 1:1, doing it in this scale is awesome. It looks great, and I've enjoyed watching you build it.
Harry P. Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 Getting mortised in butt hinges to work well can be a challenge in 1:1... Oh believe me, it was a challenge in 1/16 scale too!
Kit Basher Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Oh believe me, it was a challenge in 1/16 scale too! No doubt! For your 1/8 version try using maple framing with bridle joints at the corners. That'll slow you down!
Harry P. Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 No doubt! For your 1/8 version try using maple framing with bridle joints at the corners. That'll slow you down! No way!
Harry P. Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 Just about the last piece of the puzzle... the side-mounted spare tires. I raided one of my Phantom II kits for the wheel covers I used on this Phantom III. However, the Phantom II had only four covers (no side mounts)... so I had to either A: go with open, spoked wheels for the sidemounts, B: scratchbuild two wheel covers to match the ones on the road wheels, or C: go with fully covered side mounts. I thought mixing wheel covers and open wheels would look weird, and I couldn't think of an easy way to scratchbuild the covers, so I took the easy way out and went with fully covered spares. First I glued the kit's side mount halves together, but without the chrome trim ring in the middle, because I wanted them to be narrower to account for the thickness of the material I would use to make the covers and yet still fit into the fender openings. Then I cut strips of card stock to match the thickness of the spare covers... ... and glued these strips into loops that would just slip over the spare tire covers... Then I glued a wheel front and back into each cover to give me a "center" for the sidemount brackets to attach to.
Harry P. Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 Next, I took some vinyl material I have that looks very much like leather, and cut out the fronts and backs for each side mount... I glued these discs onto the edges of the strips that surround the sidemounts, and added decorative piping around the circumference using scale model ship rigging... Finally the covered mounts were painted flat black.
Harry P. Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 I think that about covers the building process. Next stop: Under Glass!
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