Miller 122 Rear Dr Junior Eight Special

[absmiami]

Wouldn’t it be weird Charlie if we had I phones in the fifties and all the pix were in black and white ?  
Btw - liking your jag powered roadster ….

[absmiami]

Some more color - I’ll knock the paint edges down w a sanding stick before i mask for

the dark green

[Kenmojr]

Fantastic thread and build. Love your work.

[absmiami]

Halifax !  One of my favorite cities - though ive only been there once …  the Cape Bretton drive is my alltime favorite roadtrip - hope to do it again one day - but with a stickshift …

and gracias

[absmiami]

Mr Bradford has just sent me the final bags of parts - before i dive into them im making  the windscreen posts - and the bracket that the winscreen swivels on - the bracket emerges from behind the dash - these two shots show what’s visible … the bracket is probably secured by the four screws that are visible at the edge of the cowl …

[absmiami]

Ive Got a large stash of brass, copper, and nickel rod, tubes and other odd shapes - snagged over decades - sometimes i put stuff away and it disappears - because yup - forgot where i put it - after a furious search of the workbench nooks and crannies i found my super small brass channel - it measures about .032 x .032 - with a channel of about .012 - perfect to hold some .010 clear plastic ….

[absmiami]

So the “glass” will slide into left/right posts made from a short section of channel soldered to a couple of brass screws …. Like this … next the bracket …

[Pierre Rivard]

That's getting into the details. Beautiful work...as always.

[absmiami]

Gracias

A copper rod was bent to shape and soldered to some brass tube and 2 peices of .022 nickel tube …. 

[absmiami]

By soldering the parts this way -  the bracket has good left/right alignment once ive removed the excess copper, brass, and nickel …

[absmiami]

The  bracket will be glued under the cowl - like this - and the two brass posts are then slid in from the inside  - i noticed that the assembly is not quite spec - it should be a little wider - but ive got a fix that …

[Pierre Rivard]

Beauty!

[Randy D]

You are one fine modeler my friend!!!   Your scratch built parts are wonderful.

Randy

[absmiami]

Working on prepping the resin parts fr some new bags of castings - here’s a shot of the rear leaf springs with the original master part above …

[absmiami]

So the first issue is the slender neck of the spring - which needs reinforcement …. Thats done with an additional leaf of nickel  ….  That should be strong enough …

[absmiami]

Next the spring is located on its post at the rear of the frame to locate and drill the hole used to pin the post for the other end of the part … both sides …

[absmiami]

There are friction shocks front and back …. I convinced Brad to cast these parts seperatedly - a tricky exercise - each shock has three plates - and each plate has different features - i managed to glue these together with epoxy - so they pivot - that will allow precise location to the mounting points on the frame and the leaf spring …

[absmiami]

All 4 springs have shackles - these are the two shackles for the fronts - the rears have four - slightly different in shape …

[absmiami]

There are about a dozen parts on this car that are cast bronze - or copper - can’t tell which - so Im trying some Green Stuff World paint over this zero textured paint - 

[absmiami]

The engine cradle is brush painted w some tamiya copper - the brace in front is the GSW copper over the textured black - we have a winner …

[absmiami]

The leaf springs come to life w some Zero Paints airbrushed steel over Alclad black, and GSW chrome - then the axle cradle is hit w some Tamiya semi-gl black  - then the bolts get some GSW chrome - the finish on the water pump shows the contrast with the steel finish on the springs … based on the early returns - the Zero Paints metal finishes seem to withstand handling during assembly …. I think the GSW Paints will lose some lustre if handled alot …

[Pierre Rivard]

I second your comment about GSW. I tried their chrome and it looks spectacular but you can't touch it. Alcohol based.

[absmiami]

Per the last picture - The reinforcement on the rear quarter of the frame interferes with the transxle case - so i had to open a great big hole in the frame casting and modify the case - the opening is not visible once the tail is on the frame - but i was hoping not to have to make any major corrections at this point of the build - the casing has to spec so that the axles sit in the cradle of the leaf springs - or else ..

[absmiami]

Now its time to knock off the ridges of green paint - time to add the dark green paint to the body … this was done with some fine sanding sticks - the masking tape just above the lines kept the work of the sticks to the edges of the paint - 

[absmiami]

The masking is tedious  - using up more than half a role of Tamiya masking tape on this project …