What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[catpack68]

7 hours ago, Keef said:

What wheels are those?

They are Fireball resin Items,FMR-190 15X12 5 slot wheels and the tires are FMR 0053 M/T Baja Belted tires.

[catpack68]

Got paint on the AMT Wild Hoss Bronco project.Painted the body Tamiya black. Gonna let it gas out before I lay down some urethane clear.

Edited January 10, 2023 by catpack68

[Dpate]

Got some interior carpet into the supra interior tub.  This is zoomon's interior carpet, but i think it's the sticky felt material and i think it looks the part. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

Decided to try the simplest, or at least most cost effective and least time consuming method, for addressing the obligatory bad pulley/belt situation evident in almost every kit.

After cutting the belt from the existing kit pulleys, I carefully filed a groove around each pulley with a small three sided file.

Worked better than I had expected!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[NOBLNG]

2 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Decided to try the simplest, or at least most cost effective and least time consuming method, for addressing the obligatory bad pulley/belt situation evident in almost every kit.

After cutting the belt from the existing kit pulleys, I carefully filed a groove around each pulley with a small three sided file.

Worked better than I had expected!

 

Steve

I’m interested to see what you do for a belt. A lot of kits have ugly looking belts!?  I just made a set of pulleys because I temporarily lost the kit piece and used electrical tape for the belt. It would make a better serpentine belt than a v-belt though.?

[Straightliner59]

8 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

I’m interested to see what you do for a belt. A lot of kits have ugly looking belts!?  I just made a set of pulleys because I temporarily lost the kit piece and used electrical tape for the belt. It would make a better serpentine belt than a v-belt though.?

 

I used Evergreen triangular stock to make the v-belts on this Cummins. It worked out, pretty well.

[Straightliner59]

I just found these photos of applying them. I filed/sanded one corner of the stock, so that it wasn't a sharp "V".

Edited January 13, 2023 by Straightliner59

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, Straightliner59 said:

I just found these photos of applying them. I filed/sanded one corner of the stock, so that it wasn't a sharp "V".

 

 

 

Already been playing with black 30 AWG wire sanded flat on one side for the belt. Preliminary tests look promising.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

[Straightliner59]

8 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

 

 

 

Already been playing with black 30 AWG wire sanded flat on one side for the belt. Preliminary tests look promising.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

Indeed, it does. Due to its flexibility, probably easier to work with, as well. Excellent idea!

[catpack68]

Got the interior finished up for AMT Wild Bronco project 

[Lownslow]

Was able to paint something before the temperature cools

[Lownslow]

Garage was freezing and wife doesnt want me getting sick so as long as im using tamiya and not painting a whole car i can paint in the house.

[Bill Eh?]

Last Wednesday I purchased an Iwata/NEO airbrush starter set through KiJiJi. It wasn't until I got home that I realized the filter cover on the spray out pot was missing. I didn't think much of it, as I was sure there would be an available part number for my missing part. Well, no such luck. These spray out pots now retail for close to $40. I did want to use it, but I didn't want to buy another one just for the missing part, so my solution was to make my own.

[Modlbldr]

Adding 26 ga wire to the seats of a 69 442 for a little added detail. One seat down. One to go.

[Bill Eh?]

1 hour ago, Modlbldr said:

Adding 26 ga wire to the seats of a 69 442 for a little added detail. One seat down. One to go.

 

 

That looks absolutely perfect. Well done.

[Modlbldr]

2 hours ago, Bill Eh? said:

That looks absolutely perfect. Well done.

Thank you!

Later-

[catpack68]

Got the Wild Hoss Bronco cleared today.It turned out pretty good IMHO

[Bill Eh?]

I have had this Tamiya "Electric Handy Drill" kit for ages. I'm not sure why I haven't assembled it before. The fit of the pieces was mostly good. They provide a plastic bushing for cost reasons as opposed to a metal bearing. The two halves of the drill body to not come together tightly using the self tapping screws. This I believe contributes to the noticeable wobble that you see at the tip of a drill bit when rotating. This can probably be remedied by taking out the top two self tapping screws and reinstalling with appropriate sized washers as spacers. As it stands, the drill will come in handy for repetitive drilling. But not so much for accurate drilling until the fix is done. One thing Tamiya does not tell you is that you need three or more hands for some of the assembly! LOL  Installing a snap ring at one stage, had me ready to test and see if the kit contacting the wall would improve my my building experience or at least my mood.

[Bill Eh?]

Something I made a couple of days ago. The "Pringles Evergreen / Plastruct / K&S organizer. I finally got around to organizing my inventory so as to make it easier to find/use. The first pic shows the way it used to be. The next pics show my inventory in a somewhat better state of organization. It is easy to add more Pringles compartments as necessary. Currently I have them organized as Strip, Rod, Tube, Miscellaneous, and Brass. As Jim King (CabDriver) has stated, you can never have too much structural styrene!

[TransAmMike]

I haven't worked much lately for any period of time on my what I call 66 ChevelleSS #2 (re-creation of my long departed 1:1 '66 as it looked after I did mods to it) but today I did manage to get BMF on a lot of the trim.

 

[Tom Geiger]

I participated in the 24 Hour Build this past weekend. I had family plans on Sunday so it was more like the 14 Hour Build for me!  I worked noon Saturday until 1am Sunday, slept until 8am and did some work for an hour or 2 until I had to leave. 
 

Still some work to do but I’m pretty pleased with what I got done

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by Tom Geiger

[OldNYJim]

On 1/27/2023 at 1:34 PM, Bill Eh? said:

As Jim King (CabDriver) has stated, you can never have too much structural styrene!

It’s true…if I ever feel like buying something but haven’t got a kit in mind I order some scratchbuilding materials.  

Your future self always thanks you for having ordered that stuff (especially if you keep it organized like you have ?)

[jaymcminn]

So after posting in the wrong thread I'm just gonna post again here... I laid down Tamiya TS60 Pearl Green and TS13 clear on my Ebbro Citroen DS21. No cat hair or dust, which is a bonus. I switched from automotive tack cloths to an anti-static brush a few years back which really seems to help. I caught a couple of pics of the body shell in the sun, which really lets the color pop. I think my phone's camera is probably exaggerating the brightness of the color. The color is pretty close to Citroen's Silver Green paint color. Roof will be black, interior will be red-brown with dark green carpet. Since the Ebbro kit doesn't represent a high-end Pallas model, there's a fair amount of the body color in the interior as well. Going to let the paint dry for a few days before polishing with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound and Polish. WIP thread coming soon...

[OldNYJim]

That color looks great @jaymcminn!  

Im gonna build a NY taxi, so I needed to draw up an sign for the roof:


Not ‘real’ modeling work I know…but it will be once I print one and glue it to something!

[Straightliner59]

1 hour ago, CabDriver said:

That color looks great @jaymcminn!  

Im gonna build a NY taxi, so I needed to draw up an sign for the roof:


Not ‘real’ modeling work I know…but it will be once I print one and glue it to something!

If you use a minivan, you could make it "Cash Cab"!?