BMW 507 Cabrio 1957 - Elvis Presley's one - Revell old kit 1:24

[NOBLNG]

Wow Thierry! Amazing attention to detail you demonstrate! Your scratch building skills are impressive too. I just found this thread while searching this car and only skimmed it. Now I’m going back to read every word and study the pics. Thanks for documenting this beautiful build!👍

[absmiami]

Tres bien …

[CrazyCrank]

Evening gentlemen 

Improvement of the water expansion tank

The kit part:

 

Mine, after having added a few bits of thin styrene sheet and after priming :

- 1 superior strip (0.5 mm wide)  to increase the diameter of the lid
- 2 strips(0.6 mm) on the middle of the tank, which simulate the routing collars
- 1 plate to close the tank at the bottom

 

   

 

Obviously, an expansion tank has 2 hoses,for entry and exit, one at the top, and the other at the bottom.

I've taken inspiration of these pictures, the left one from Elvis restored car, and the right one from another one:

 

   

 

And have machined the superior and inferior hoses and connectors, using:

- 0.5/0.3 mm diameter brass tube .
- 0.3 mm steel wire
- Two micro-bolts: 1.0 mm head, and 0.6 mm thread, that I've re-drilled to 0.6 mm
- some 0.8/0.6 mm aluminium tube
- 0.5 mm electrical cable of which I only kept the plastic sheath

 

I proceeded as follows:
- bended a short section of brass tube, 
- threaded and glued two bolts on it, 
- inserted a short section of 0.3 mm steel wire at one end,
- threaded the plastic sheath on the steel wire
- inserted the free end of this set into the hole of the aluminium tube

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

And hereunder is a close view of water lines

 

 

After painting: 

   

 

While the paint of the the expansion tank was drying, I've fabricated the file supply line which comes from the rear of the car and is visible in the engine bay

Ì used:

- 0.4 mm Ni-Cr wire

-3 brass bolts 0.6 mm as previously

- a short section of 0.6 mm brass tube

- A thin strip of Hasegawa Mirror Finish for simulate the collar

- And after market silver braided line 0.8 mm (0.6 mm would have been more adequate butI didn't have it, so...)
 

I took inspiration of this picture:

 

My interpretation:

 

   

 

Fuel supply  and expansion tank installed in the engine bay

 

   

 

 

It is now time to move on to more serious matters, so, stay connected  😉