PatW Posted February 8, 2017 Posted February 8, 2017 As I'm waiting for various printer ink cartridges to be delivered, I'm building this indoors instead of in my garden cabin workplace..................... Floor in............. Rear Door..........
PatW Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) Yes Dave it certainly is. Imagine trying to build a car with a twisted chassis/frame, that is this kit! Edited February 9, 2017 by PatW
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 Yes Dave it certainly is. Imagine trying to build a car with a twisted chassis/frame, that is this kit! Pat purposely twisted, or its made to be that way?
PatW Posted February 9, 2017 Author Posted February 9, 2017 (edited) Hi 426-Hemi, When you look at the box art you immediately notice the rear wheel closest is off the ground that's the way it's made. Superb! Crazy! Edited February 9, 2017 by PatW
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 So its made as it looks on the box...... Thats wild!!!! BTW you know you & I go back and forth over at Coffin Corner 2 right?
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 Yepper LOL John.... its all good! A lot of times I find, people don't "connect" my avatar and I couldn't use the same screen name here as I did there, so.....
PatW Posted February 10, 2017 Author Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Update..........Well.........because the chassis and everything else is askew, not square, I've had to shave off and bend the floor to fit. Then you have the problem of the tailgate not fitting, but guess what...............it did! And a tatoo and earing for the driver........... a few flames.......... and the horn and rear light fit.................... and of course there are only exhaust manifolds, so I attached some ally tube to finish the exhaust off. More tomorrow hopefully. Edited February 10, 2017 by PatW
PatW Posted February 11, 2017 Author Posted February 11, 2017 See final pics..................'Under Glass'.
Skip Posted February 12, 2017 Posted February 12, 2017 You're doing a great job on this one, I've built nearly all of the Hawk Weird-Ohs (except this one for some odd reason) at least once. If you look at any of the illustrations Bill Campbell did Hawk Models really did a great job of staying true to Bill's designs which is why some of the parts have a wonky fit in places. According to a book that I was given for my birthday on Bill Campbell, he was very hands on with the production from illustrations to the models. He designed and or illustrated box art for a whole lot of Hawk's aircraft models as well, most of which had pretty normal fits.I've used baking soda and thin superglue to bring the characters seams together a bit more than they fit out of the box and it makes them look a whole lot better. The last couple of Weird-Ohs that I built I was on a rushed time schedule so I ended up using two part Bondo glazing putty which works as well if not better than the superglue does, if you aren't careful with the superglue and soda filler you can oversand the surrounding plastic and end up with more filler to fix it. With the Bondo I used a super light glaze of Tamiya white putty, it's fine grained and gives a good transition from filler to plastic. Don't be afraid to use detail washes of black or other blending darker colors to bring out the highlights.These models all came out around the same time that Revell was doing Ed Roth's Rat Fink and the other monsters, Monogram did Stanley Mouse's Super Fuzz a few years later. The Weird-Ohs really look great with decently scratch built doo dads that fit the theme, as I can see you are doing with your Woodie character already.Yours looks great, have a load of fun building him, these are great modeler's block kits.
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