Rommel's Mod Showrod

[89AKurt]

On 2/23/2019 at 11:50 AM, CabDriver said:

I was meant to be working on the floor for this thing, but I need to make a driveshaft and I want to scratchbuild some U-joints for that so whilst I think of the best way to do that I did some work on the engine...

 

First up, starting from the front and working back, I want to use but improve this kit piece and add some pulleys (hence the watch parts) for the mechanical fan arrangement these engines used to run:

 

 

I also picked up some of these amazing RB Motion miniature bolts for the project, in a few sizes:

 

 

First job was to remove the moulded-in bolt detail and drill a bunch of tiny little holes:

 

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And then test fit those little bolts in there.  Looks cooler already!

 

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Next up, assemble some miniature pulleys.  I wanted them to actually be grooved, but super skinny like the 1:1 car's pulleys were so I assembled them with a correct sized gear in the center sandwiched between some photoetched round discs that I can't remember the source of:

 

 

Like so!

 

 

And a test fit to see how it'll look:

 

 

There will be some more miniature bolt detail on the inspection cover too:

 

 

Next job was a mount for the fan (which sits at the top of the block on these engines)...I used some half round styrene bar and some miniature railroad bolts to fabricate this part:

 

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And, aside from the belt (which I'll tackle when this is further along and assembled for good) that's another piece of the puzzle done!

 

 

More soon!

 

I have some gears in my stash, this is a great idea!

[Modelbuilder Mark]

OK, so the red toggle switch protector... more info on that please :-)