"SKWIRLY 2"- 'Weird Ohs' style VW pickup funny?

[CB]

Keep it rollin Bro

T'anks Led. It be rollin' along superfine ....

....just got done sprayin' SKWIRLY's cab with his first coat o' primer....

He looks like Darth Vader!!

mo pics coming asap

[CB]

All the snow & ice has got me cooped up with ol' SKWIRLY !

Kinda good in a way.......if I survives it

Been bracing up his frame some, so's he don't fall apart when he jumps on it.

Added a shifter housing to the transaxle, cut from the axle end. Closed in the

wheel wells, and fabbed some body mounts.

Trimmed the 'sheet metal' on hims bed. Found some 'barbed wire' and worked

up Led's ideer for SKWIRLY's emblem (T'anks bro ). Found the chain, and it was all over .

Started slappin' the ol' boy around with bunches of putties of various repute.

While the snow & iceys keepd comin' down, got cozy warm just sandin' & sandin'

& sandin' dat putty. Finally grabbed ol' SKIWLRY and some flap black laquer

primer, shot 'im up, and....... YIKES!

HIM LOOKIN' SCAREY!!!!

[Dr. Cranky]

BRAVO!!! Great scratch-building, and it's getting yet a step closer to taking on some paint. Love it in primer!

You are making great progress, chap!!! This is a highly entertaining and smile inducing build!!! Cheers.

[juergen]

hi !!!

i love your absolut great scratch building. good to see the detail fotos from your built to learn about this.

greets jürgen

[E St. Kruiser50]

WOW!!

Your SKILLS, TALENT, and IMAGINATION are amazing.

This forum is so lucky to have builder's like you and "Cranky", and Peter Lombardo, Raul Perez, and just a host of other incredily talanted and gifted "Model Artists".

I love the support and encouragement here too, and the chance for all of us to share our passions - pretty cool

keep up the great work.

Another insanely incredible build - Love the art work too

all the best - dave

[Scott Colmer]

OK this is FUN! Look forward to seeing more. :lol:

The story is well done too. Reminds me of the Deals Wheels instructions. Great stuff! Great model!

Scott

[atenzapower]

This is fantastic,i love those weirdos. can t wait.

[CB]

Just gotta say THANKS to everyone for the comments and encouragements .

God bless all ya'll fer dat, coz it aint easy dealin' with ol' SKWIRLY at times, even

tho it does seem to be workin' out alright if'n I just do what HE says !!!

Nice to know I'm among friends here---Thanks again---means a lot

Oaky doaky, I did some mocking up the other day, trying to get an idea of

balance established with MR SKWIRLY, and his big blown VW 4banger:

On the left is a photo of the model with a heavy paper cutout of ol' Skwirly

all duded up that I stuffed down in the hole in the cab. I also used the same

heavy paper to 'box' up the engine block and stuck the top of a 2 litre bottle

on for the bellhousing thing. I removed the background from the picture so's

I could concentrate on the dude and the engine. As I suspected when I did

the mockup, the dude and the engine looked too big--even tho' it is in the

old 'Weird-Ohs' style it do gotta have some sense of proportions.

With the computer I was able to 'remove' the SKWIRLY dude from the cab and

scale him down a bit, as you can see on the right. I did some 'painting' as well.

Looks like I'm goin' with a red frame--unless SKWIRLY says differnt. Still no clue

what colors for the body--- I suppose I'll hear ol' SKWIRLY talkin sometime about

that .

Gotta do more work on that 4banger on the computer--get it sized up right. Can't

wait to start cuttin' & gluing so's I can be inhaling vast quantities of styrene dust

and toulene .

Later all, and t'anks again

[juergen]

hi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

without words - only

greets jürgen

[CB]

Here we are again.......

...started off this morning by giving ol' SLKWIRLY a

good sanding and then tried to give him a bath. No, them aint his brains,

or maggots in his cab........it's rice to dry up the water from his swimmin'

in the sink.

Once he dried up a bit, I put some new, good, green putty all over him, and

his big fat rear end, and..........

even slopped some on his big fat meats, just for kicks. The innerds will be

showin' a bit andyhows, so.........figgered I might as well.

Finally able to turn my tension to the go box fer the back---dat VW 4bangin'

thing. Started by welding a big hunka 'iron' to the back of the frame.....

(I aint gots a clue at times what I's doing here--I just waits to hear from ol' SKWIRLY )

so, anyhows, I did resize the engine smaller and looked for just the right size

& shape hunka styrene fer the bell housey. Anyboody care to guess where'm

it comed from? If'n you been followin' along, they be some clues somewheres

back in the preceding pages. Whacked out a couple big discs fer the mounting

flange and sliced some thin strips (and my finger ) fer the reinforcing ribs, and

couldn't stop there! so I cut & fit the ring to mate the housing to the transaxle tube.

And here be the start of the 'block' fer them 4bangin pistons & cranky shaft.

Next up, I'll be drillin holes fer them cylinders, and mebbe a few other holes

as well---

Oh boy, I's gettin' excited ..............I think

[Manic Mechanic]

So thats where my 2 liter bottle housey thingie went.....

[CB]

CAUTION! -MAX PHOTO POST

aaaahhhh......... :ph34r: .....

.....styrene, toulene, xacto knifey, drilly press, sandy belt, baby

Ol' SSKWIRLLY aint saysin' much at the moment, coz he be seein I be in

another world.......and I even leaved him upstairs whilst I went down to

the machinen room where all the power tools live

Started by laying out centers for the cylinders in the 'block'

'Drilled' some starting holes for the 'milling' drilling machine and cranked out

them cylinder holes........aaahhhhh.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhh............shavings.

Mating block to belle. Looks like a goodly couple.

I'd like to make a 'point' here, and reinforce.......uh, something.

Aaaaahhhhh.......progeresso!

4 Sharpies later, Ol' SKWIRLY is closer to pistons and all them other moving parts.

Cut each 'cylinder' from a Sharpie cap and stuck in the 'block' for a mocken up.

Bad part is, I gots to now make fins fer each of them cylinders. But, I be diggin it.

Ol' SKIWRLY in a rare, all skins down posture showin him posterior. Gonna

have to consider mebbe puttin a skid plate under his oily pan. Mebbe a hunka

diamond plate with wheels?

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh..............aaahhhhh.

Spended most of this morning session sanding all that green putties down.

I likes dat stuff! Hope to get some primer on both his body parts. Don't know

if'n I'll be using that flap black primer, coz it make ol SKIRAWLY look awfully scary.

[Dr. Cranky]

I love the fact that the totally INSANE hang out on this forum! That is SO SO SO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!

[ajulia]

Hello there friend! I have to agree this build is off the meters man Keep it coming amigo!!!

peace

Tito

[CB]

Howdy do everbodies! Woked up a bit sore after bouncing around the beginner

slope on a snowboard yesterdays. Don't rememebers hittin' my head, but sure did

slam my butt down hard quite a few times . As usual, Ol' SKWIRLY din't wanna

hear nuthin' from me--just tol' me to get busy, so..........

Procured these wee tiny li'l brass bolts from my LHS just 'tother day fer SKWILRY

and spent this morning's session drilling mounting holes.

These li'l bolts are only 3/8" LONG, so do de math --they's way hard to

thread a nut onto........but ol' SKEWIRLY keeps a close eye on me, so.......

I finds a way .

Actually startin' to look like somethin'................it'll look lots better when

I gets some paint on it.

Ol' SWRIKLY says it feels purty good with some weight back there fer a change.

[Dr. Cranky]

Man, that's looking great! Keep it going. Wonderful.

[Raul_Perez]

Wow, John!!

That is really becoming one WILD looking ride!!

[E St. Kruiser50]

OK OK OK This is just INSANELY COOOOL.

I feel like a beginner when I look at what you and "CRANKY" build.

You guy's are on another planet .

Ol' George said I was runnin' on 10 cylinder's, tryin' to be nice , but you two are runnin on all "16 Cylinders".

I don't know how to even think the way you guy's do - LOL.

Anyhow, way too cooool build and I'ma still watchin' - dave

[CB]

[CB]

CB I owe ya one I saw dat ya done went an updated, sos I click it an whats the 1st ting dat pops onto my 'puter screen? The pic above of Ol Skwirlys' Eye starin at me and dem menacin chompers just waitin on some fresh meat. Bro He actauly Scarred me, I almost bangded me heads agin

He lookin nice and mean bro, keeper rollin

Sorry Led! Been ruff couple days with the SKEIWIRL ......he done got me way wahked out sniffin some bad gluem ups, and 'fore I knowed it, he signed us on and posted his ownself up .

gots lots o pix ready fer loadin, but gottsa wait til tomorrows to dump em at the liberry, coz they gots dat ol turbocharged inkernet

[CB]

Guten tag, everones been couple ruff days with the SKWIRLY one.....I mean 2!

He tricked me into usin' some dat superduper glue, and I done sniffed waaay too much

of it.........and got meself perty sickly........well, physically anyhows . So anyhows

here's what we been accomplishin':

Figured I'd best get them inner fender shrouds bolted in, before they felled off.

Had to use some pretty small bolts to do so, and found some at the LHS. Aint

they just the cutest li'l things! ...aw

So now, we's good to go.

Talk about a 'tub'

Had some them li'l bolts left over, so........twas only naturl

to use 'em to screw tham skinnies onto the front ax.

Now I hopes ya'll realizes this aint actual size, coz dem would be some really

big tweezers! Yep, them li'l darlins was a naturl fer screwin' into them hubs.

Aint dat purty?! Li'l dab of the superduper headachey stuff, & them bolts

aint goin' nowhere man.

While layin' there with an icepack on me head, I done remembered about how

I gonna be puttin' ol' SLKWARLS together after paint & @, and I sure am glad

ol' SKWIRLys had me bolt his big bad 4banger on. Superdupered the bolts to

the block and enlarged the holes in the frame, and we's cool. Data way we's

can always display SKWIRLS with or without him engine.

Finally! I can inhale somethin' other than superduper glue and

putty. Das frame ready fer squuirtin'.

And squirtin' I done did. Thinkin' of paintin das frame red,

so this here kinda satin stuff'll be a goodly base---or just

might leave it as it is.

Splashed some black on dem slicks, and things're lookin' perty goodly.

[george 53]

Naw, paint the chassis, youse won't be happy if ya don't! Dontcha think if it waz YER behind all hangin out like that,You'd want it ta be lookin purty? SQII is lookin like he's got some idea of what he wants done! Jus keep onna rollin!

[CB]

Well, ol' SKEWIRLY seem to know what time of year it am.........and he be

talkin' Valentiny talk at me, and got me to cover 'im with chocolate

Actually, I aint havin' much luck with the rattlecans. Tried to cover 'im up

with some gray primer, but it just started spittin' on the ol' boy. I really didn't

mind dat part so much, coz we aint been gettin' along so famously, but....

tweren't much good fer gettin' a finish on 'im, so's hadta shoot some Krylon

brown stuffs on 'im.

I's gettin' tired of havin' to get up every morning and give

ol' SKEWIRLSY a mudpack. Putty 'im up, and sand 'im,

putty up, sand, putty up, sand.........yer makin' me sick

SKEWEIRLY! all dem off gassin's---WHEW!

Did another test fit of the 4banger, & hadta enlarge them holes a bit-- basically

just clean the paint outa the holes. Yeah, they's a cylinder in there... we's

gettin to dat.......

Just like the real SKWIRLY ( There's a REAL SKWIRLY???) gonna havta snug

the engine up to the frame coz them bolts are off just a bit. Well within the

tolerances though. 'Tolerances'---yeah, I can only tolerates ol' SLKEWIRLY's

stuff so much!

So here we is violating the 10 photo per post rule.......I means, with a mini

tutorial on scratching cylinder fins. Cut 'em outa a 'FOR SALE' sign, making

'em each a li'l bit bigger or larger than the others, dependin on where I felt

like positioning 'em on the 'cylinder'.

A scratched cylinder in the hand is better than 2 or 3 in a bush............?

Shut up SKWIRLY. Yeah, here's them 'fins' hangin out on the 'cylinder' in

their positions, and ready for..........

GLLUE! had to resort to the ModelMasters glue, coz the superduper stuff

was bout to shrivel me eyeballs up.

This here's the culprit--the superdupered cylinder that ol' SKEIWIRLY

just bout put me inna hospital with.

2 down, and 2 to go. Ya'll notice that ol' SKWEARLS aint worried none

about symmetry, or parts all lookin' the same. Longs as they's parts

here and there, and they does a reasonable job, he's happy. He can

run 4 cylinders, or 3..........don't matter to him, long as he can get

them li'l skinnies up off'n the ground.

[george 53]

OK Cap'n Howya growin the shrooms? You gotta be on SOMETHING to start buildin up some cylindros por your motor!

You even usin screws? Are you sure they ain't summa yourn? Jus don't get too freaky or you's gunna end up inna book o' world records, Heineken? Guiness? You knows what I'm talkin bout, Willis!

[Raul_Perez]

John,

It must be that oxygen poor environment out there on Mars that's giving you so much trouble with outgassing.

Without the correct atmospheric pressure to keep all of those nasty little microscopic atoms of gas from wanting to escape the top later of your paint, you'll be popping air bubbles in Skwirly's topcoat like a teenager with a bad case of acne for a long time to come!

On the lighter side, it looks like old Skwirly is finally starting to see things your way!!

Later,