What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[NOBLNG]

Did my first castings at home. They turned out pretty good I think.

[ChrisBcritter]

^^^ Nice going! What brand of resin did you use?

[Tom Geiger]

A bit more work done... 

[89AKurt]

Took a few pictures.

[NOBLNG]

14 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

^^^ Nice going! What brand of resin did you use?

Smooth-On, Smooth Cast 305.  Seven minute pot life and 30 min. cure time. I am pleased with the results since I don’t have a vacuum chamber or pressure pot!? There were a few bubbles, but I stirred most of them out with a toothpick after pouring it in the mold. It is clear until it starts to set.  I did about 10 rims plus all that with 2 oz. of resin and still had some leftover. The rally rims came out beautiful!?

 

Edited April 25, 2020 by NOBLNG

[stinkybritches]

9 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Smooth-On, Smooth Cast 305.  Seven minute pot life and 30 min. cure time. I am pleased with the results since I don’t have a vacuum chamber or pressure pot!? There were a few bubbles, but I stirred most of them out with a toothpick after pouring it in the mold. It is clear until it starts to set.  I did about 10 rims plus all that with 2 oz. of resin and still had some leftover. The rally rims came out beautiful!?

Did you also use a Smooth-on material for your mold?

[NOBLNG]

1 hour ago, stinkybritches said:

Did you also use a Smooth-on material for your mold?

Yes, OoMoo 25. Very easy stuff to work with.

[stinkybritches]

3 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Yes, OoMoo 25. Very easy stuff to work with.

Thanks for the information. 

[mchook]

I got the old paint stripped off the cab & finished the big parts of the wrecker body today.

 

[Tom Geiger]

Interiors complete. Added PE belt buckles, and made some shifters. Painted some headliners, trying not to make visors! 

[mikemodeler]

No pictures to post but I did get a lot of body work and final prep sanding done today on about 6 models, so hopefully with the nice weather this week I will get some painting done.

[espo]

1 hour ago, Tom Geiger said:

Interiors complete. Added PE belt buckles, and made some shifters. Painted some headliners, trying not to make visors! 

These are going to be great models. 

[ChrisBcritter]

On 4/19/2020 at 6:30 PM, ChrisBcritter said:

Made the chassis and bumpers fit the Skylark, pretty much. Looks like if I glue in the firewall just at the top and let it cure, I can pull in the sides by gluing the ends of the firewall to them. 

Did so; ended up having to relieve the joints a bit at the bottom so the sides wouldn't pull in too much. Got the interior bucket fitted after that - had to sand the top edge where it meets the firewall flange. Started removing the chrome blobs in the taillight buckets to accept the Acme Resins clear red lenses.

[Sam I Am]

I did a quick and dirty hack job for a quick and dirty mockup.  I like what I see, so now I will try and get it lower and find different wheels. 

[ZTony8]

It was yesterday but I finished another long ago started kit; this one is the reissued MPC Chuck Miller Fire Truck. I corrected the engine's valve covers to represent the Chevy that comes in the kit, not the Ford engine of the real car that's illustrated on the box art( the kit is based off of the old AMT King T), put in a steering wheel rather than the kit's tiller and used the King Bee headlamps from the Revell '32 Ford coupe. It's not one of my best efforts, but it's done.

[NOBLNG]

5 hours ago, Sam I Am said:

I did a quick and dirty hack job for a quick and dirty mockup.  I like what I see, so now I will try and get it lower and find different wheels. 

 Nice! Is that cab from a kit or resin?

[NOBLNG]

I made a resin copy of an electric fan the other day and today I sanded it down and opened up the slots. Then I mounted it to a custom built aluminum, err...plaluminum radiator.?

Edited April 26, 2020 by NOBLNG

[Sam I Am]

13 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

 Nice! Is that cab from a kit or resin?

Resin, Jimmy Flintstone. 

[Tom Geiger]

My work here is done! Finished up the pair this afternoon. 

Time to find another house to flip!

[br67]

Dual quad Chev BB intakes don't seem to be too popular in scale. So built one out of a tunnel ram. Still needs some final cleaning up

[Straightliner59]

I bought these Cox Chaparral wheels on Ebay, a couple of weeks ago. Today, I decided to pull them out, and hit them  with a wire wheel in the Dremel. I probably spent less than five minutes, knocking the tarnish off the pair. Kinda' nice, that they're magnesium!

[Ctmodeler]

So I airbrushed my first pieces ever ! They are for the belvedere Ive been sloowly working on. I bought a fairly cheap set to begin with, but it seemed to go really well. Can tell there's gonna be a learning curve as to how far back to full the trigger for paint to come out and be nice and smooth, but for a first effort I think it came out pretty well. I'll post a pic tomorrow when it's dry. I used little testors in the bottle and lacquer thinner to thin it at about a 1 1/2 to 1 paint /thinner ratio

[Snake45]

Got the frame from an AMT Double Dragster Fiat prepped and painted, along with most of the suspension, and started trimming the wheels. With a little luck I could have the frame up on the wheels tomorrow. 

[slusher]

Put my engine together on my 55 Nomad !!

[Tom Geiger]

Started a pair of Jeepsters today. One will be a pickup and the other will be a convertible with a backseat. Working with what I have on hand, and because i already have an interior In this color, the pickup will be red. Not sure about Jeepster two just yet.

So far I pieced together two vehicles from boxes of parts including a couple of the later Commandos. I have cleaned up two bodies this afternoon. The hoods have a scoop cut out that’s exceptionally deep and can be seen as a distortion from the top of the hood. These are sitting filled with thick CA drying.  We are on our way!

Edited April 28, 2020 by Tom Geiger