What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[PatW]

The beginnings of a Miniart 1/35 Farmers Car. Small fiddly.

[PatW]

Today, 10.01.2024. Painted a few bits, added the cab and test fitted the pick-up bed. I may well rub down the paint work for a used look. The wheels/tyres are weird as the tyres alone are four pieces!

 

Edited January 10, 2024 by PatW

[catpack68]

Getting ready to finish up the VW Samba project I’ve been working on. I should wrap it up next week.

[Tabbysdaddy]

13 hours ago, PatW said:

Today, 10.01.2024. Painted a few bits, added the cab and test fitted the pick-up bed. I may well rub down the paint work for a used look. The wheels/tyres are weird as the tyres alone are four pieces!

 

Wow, you traveled in time to October.

[PatW]

1 hour ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

Wow, you traveled in time to October.

In the UK we put the day/date first!

[PatW]

11.01.2024 Update, as the attempt to matt off the dark red hasn't worked I've used more of the matt brown and added some rear side bars to keep the load in the back. Pluss added the wheels and tyres.

[Tabbysdaddy]

1 hour ago, PatW said:

11.01.2024 Update, as the attempt to matt off the dark red hasn't worked I've used more of the matt brown and added some rear side bars to keep the load in the back. Pluss added the wheels and tyres.

Future November looks great.

 

[PatW]

Yes Sean it certainly does!

[Kit Basher]

Finished the running gear for the Ford GT. Now all that's left is the easy part, painting the body. (Yeah right! Painting red, white, and blue on all those crazy shapes will be a piece of cake!)

[PatW]

Just the door handle to fit. The doors took a lot of adjustment to fit properly.

[PatW]

Finished!

 

[PatW]

Started..

Just a quick wash and rub down, removing moulded extensions to from and rear bumpers, trimming wheels of excess alloy. A few pits and blemishes to fill and generally sanding down.

I've never seen one of these ever built, anyone out there?

Edited January 15, 2024 by PatW

[Mattilacken]

Got some work done on my LS Twin Turbo Impala SS.

Plumbing is mostly done on my engine,

Trunk got a new spoiler and the key is in the egnition.

Also the rear axle found its way in to the chassi.

[PatW]

From my previous pictures on the Del Aire, I've sliced the thick resin base so that the tyre smoke is now on the ground! A few hours carefully slicing with a new hacksaw blade without a handle..

This then shows up the tyre smoke...

with the body and hood scoop...

Yes a wee bit of filler here and there.

[Dpate]

Got some primer on the ole 2021 Bronco.  More clean up than I'd expected on a newly tooled kit, but i go into a AMT kit with 50/50 standards.

Edited January 17, 2024 by Dpate

[mk11]

Dug out my unibody shortbox conversion project to check something...

[Lownslow]

finished a simple air ride setup

[Modlbldr]

Been working on these two 37 Fords. Getting close on the blue Sedan.

Later-

[Slotto]

Great builds there Tom!

[Modlbldr]

1 hour ago, Slotto said:

Great builds there Tom!

Thank you! Making more progress tonight.

Later-

[catpack68]

Worked on my 71 Rally Nova project in the last couple of days.Finished the interior and mocking up the engine bay.

[Modlbldr]

3 hours ago, catpack68 said:

Worked on my 71 Rally Nova project in the last couple of days.Finished the interior and mocking up the engine bay.

Nice looking interior and I love that shade of blue.

Later-

[mk11]

First straight mockup on foose frame with yenko camaro rolling stock...

 

Track/height will be finessed further; wheelbase is perfect

[Scott8950]

My 65 valiant pro street. Still got a ways to go but I'm slowly getting there.

[Bill Eh?]

Yesterday I finally got around to finishing the disc brake face drilling. Doing this with a pin vice and a 0.3 mm bit is risky at best. That size of bit is so easy to break! So I thought that I'd give it a try with my Tamiya battery powered drill. My only issue with the Tamiya drill is that the screw that holds the body shell halves together, up near the drill aperture, is not tight enough to keep the two halves firmly together. Keeping this area snug is important, as this is the area of the drill that contains the gearing and the drill chuck. I did not want to risk tightening the screw any further. There is the risk that the metal screw might strip out the plastic. So, I came up with another idea to hold the two body shell pieces tightly together, a nylon zip tie.