Cobra Gluebomb restoration

[Snake45]

14 hours ago, Twokidsnosleep said:

This girl is classy and needs classy shoes, not whore boots.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 

[Twokidsnosleep]

Anybody making wooden steering wheels?? Like with real wood?

I bought a PE set and the steering wheel is rubber....blah

I have been trying to cut out appropriate circles with a laser cutter so I can glue them up and make the wheel rim. SO far not great, the veneer chips out too easily

Like to hear any opinions on how to do real wood steering wheel fab

Then I made a mad scientist sign

Edited January 24, 2020 by Twokidsnosleep

[afx]

Just a brown sharpie marker.  Anxious to see how yours turn out.

Edited January 24, 2020 by afx

[Twokidsnosleep]

1 minute ago, afx said:

Not real wood just a brown sharpie marker. 

That's exactly what I am after, I just like taking the hard stupid route

[afx]

3 minutes ago, Twokidsnosleep said:

That's exactly what I am after, I just like taking the hard stupid route

I'm sure your efforts will be rewarded.

[Dann Tier]

Try staining, and sealing it first....should soak in, and bond it together.

[Cpt Tuttle]

I would go for the wires, I think.

[Twokidsnosleep]

The kit had no steering wheel, well a broken center piece only, so I ordered an aftermarket racing set.

BUT the wheel part is a freaking rubber o ring. This is the drive to make a new wheel....and learn something new as well

Last night I tried a copper wire bent into a circle and silver soldered the ends. After filing, I hammered the front and back flat.

Next  is to solder in the PE into the center and add some ribbing finger notches to the back

[afx]

I used that rubber O-ring/PE set on this build.  Fiddly but it does work.

 

[Twokidsnosleep]

1 hour ago, afx said:

I used that rubber O-ring/PE set on this build.  Fiddly but it does work.

 

You could make anything look awesome

[Twokidsnosleep]

So, this is my mad scientist thing that happens during builds...off on a tangent.

I have made a perfectly good copper wheel that will work fine, and have that rubber ring that would work too.

But I want to make a wooden Wood steering wheel ring?

 So I pull put out the cheap man’s lathe, attach the wood to a mandrel and away we go

sandpaper on the edges so not too much pressure..... this veneer wood is very chippy and easily broken.

I didn’t get my two halves perfectly glued so there is a void?

Spinning picture:

now working in the middle cutting a groove to separate the wheel from the middle

pop off it comes

 

Not horrible for a prototype, but not perfect either. Much room for improvement. I chipped the wood on the opposite side filing the middle flush .

I have made WWI plane wheels this way out of styrene stock....might try that material too. Remember Harry P used to say “nothing looks like wood, like wood”

 

 

Edited January 25, 2020 by Twokidsnosleep

[Belugawrx]

Totally Macgyver'd.....I love it !

If you just gotta have a wooden wheel

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harry Member since August 2007 From: Halfway between the Loop and the prairie

Posted by harry on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:00 PM  On most cars that feature wood trim, wasn't the wood almost always varnished to a high gloss? And wasn't the actual wood grain "surface detail" you mentioned buried under several coats of gloss...thereby leaving the wood with a glassy smoooth finish?  Even on unfinished woods, as for example the stakes on a stake-bed truck, the rough grain surface detail (not the woodgrain pattern, but the actual "ins and outs" of the grain) would be virtually invisible when reduced down 24 or 25 times. Nothing wrong with using real wood on a model, if you have the talent to do so, but I still think realistic decals (either store-bought or homemade) are a better solution for most "average" modelers in most cases. Of course, decals won't always work..you can't very well decal a wooden steering wheel rim, for instance. That's where your best bet is a painted woodgrain finish. I know the phrase "nothing looks more like real wood than real wood"...but I don't think it's necessarily true in many cases in the 1/24-1/25 scale world.   The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The optimist sees the glass half full. But only the realist sees that the glass is simply the wrong size. -------------------------------- "I've had a wonderful evening. Unfortunately this wasn't it"– Groucho Marx

[Twokidsnosleep]

Oh man, spoil  my memories of Harry

well at least we know he would have argued with me about it for a while and told me  I was wasting valuable time?

[Belugawrx]

Naaah , he would have cheered you on till the end ....good or mediocre... just like us..?

Keep it going Scott

[Twokidsnosleep]

43 minutes ago, Belugawrx said:

Naaah , he would have cheered you on till the end ....good or mediocre... just like us..?

Keep it going Scott

Very true.

I think of him every time I log in here?

[Twokidsnosleep]

Anyhow, version W1 of wooden wheel is smoothed, oiled and detail painted 

 

Not horrible, but there is room for improvement with W2

[Twokidsnosleep]

How about some Porsche Fuchs wheels...just for fun.

I found a set when I was cleaning up my desk

[Twokidsnosleep]

Deciphering paint method and options on styrene sample: white primer, Mr Metal Color aluminum


‘Body silver aluminum inside and out...as many of the early cars were all aluminum

 

 then Clear Blue Tamiya

Vs Hot  blue metal Alclad

and a little cube of Tamiya LP...for the Fujimi 427 that is coming

[Dann Tier]

This is picking up some great momentum, Bud!!!....i miss Harry too!!.....i really like your wooden steering wheel too!!!

[Twokidsnosleep]

6 hours ago, Dann Tier said:

This is picking up some great momentum, Bud!!!....i miss Harry too!!.....i really like your wooden steering wheel too!!!

Thanks

Harry would be giving me hell for fooling around wasting time with the wood..that's ok.

I like figuring out new things, that is what these kinds builds are for. Still need to find a better wood, will look in my fruit tree supply for some cherry.

I am best with only one build on the desk at a time or I seem to get lost and unmotivated. 

[Twokidsnosleep]

Couple layers of Tamiya clear blue down, testing the body fit and the rear wheel/suspension gap and alignment

 

 

[Twokidsnosleep]

Second coat

[Twokidsnosleep]

Rebuilding the front and rear suspension....combo of salvaged parts and new styrene.

I put it in the motorcycle jig to try and keep things square and level

[Dann Tier]

Man this is looking GREAT!!!!

[Twokidsnosleep]

On February 4, 2020 at 1:01 PM, Dann Tier said:

Man this is looking GREAT!!!!

Cheers Dan