65 Moebius Satellite

[NOBLNG]

On 7/19/2025 at 3:22 PM, bill-e-boy said:

A conundrum I have is with the body - the chrome detail around the windows and wheel arches is very fine and I am frightened that the separation line for the foiling will be lost. Has anyone scribed along these lines and to what success.

Here is a link to a tool I made for scribing trim. https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/140583-trim-scriber/

 

[bill-e-boy]

I have been spending some time with my 32 Coupe build and I was waiting for paint and glue to dry I dug ot a door card to detail. I used BMF on the arm rests and Satellite emblem and used Molotow on the window cranks and door handles

 

I must say that the engraving on the interior parts of these kits is very good in that the details are crisp and of good depth. The foiling and masking so far has gone reasonably smoothly. Kudos to Moebius

 

[bill-e-boy]

On 7/23/2025 at 2:45 PM, NOBLNG said:

Here is a link to a tool I made for scribing trim. https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/140583-trim-scriber/

 

Thanks for reminding me of your post. I remember it now after the nudge 

[bill-e-boy]

Got the second door card chromed up!

Next up is body prep. I have scribed the door and trunk gaps and now need to move onto the trim scribing - I have been procrastinating again

Also from my reference pix I see that the console has carpet part way up so may need to get that detailed up too

[bill-e-boy]

Checked the reference pix and found I needed more chrome on the doors. I have added the two chrome strips on either side. The dash has had the decals for the instrument cluster and radio added. The Moebius decals are quite thick and take some effort wit Tamiya Markfit Strong to get them to settle. Aslo got chrome on the front seats

 

 

 

[customline]

Looks great, Bill. I'm gonna send all my masking work to you. 🙂

[gtx6970]

Looking great so far.

Excellent work / colors on the interior 

[espo]

Great looking interior colors and detail. 

[bill-e-boy]

On 7/27/2025 at 2:59 PM, customline said:

Looks great, Bill. I'm gonna send all my masking work to you

Thanks Jim, but that would be an expensive exercise being that I live at the other side of the world and with the expensive shipping costs these days. 

Shaping the masking tape is very much like foil - you need good guide lines and a fresh (and very) sharp blade and a truck load of patience

[customline]

2 hours ago, bill-e-boy said:

Thanks Jim, but that would be an expensive exercise being that I live at the other side of the world and with the expensive shipping costs these days. 

Shaping the masking tape is very much like foil - you need good guide lines and a fresh (and very) sharp blade and a truck load of patience

Mmmm...yeah, that last thing.....😕

[Andrew McD]

Really impressive work on the interior!  I’ll be watching this one and learning a lot!

[bill-e-boy]

Did a bit of work on the exhaust. Needs to be done before I assemble the rear end of the chassis. Although a new kit and should not have nasties like 30-50 year old kits have but it still needs time to tidy up the mould parting lines. Go to tools here are a sharp blade for scraping and a flexi-file for finishing off. So after an hour or so of scraping and sanding its off to the paint booth for some undercoat and a couple of coats of SMS stainless steel. I also opened up the outlet a tad with the point of a #11 blade. 

Clean up work - what a mess on my felt pad.

And straight from the paint booth - and I cleaned up the felt pad. I mocked up the exhaust and rear end into the chassis. The rear end has had a bit of lowering by de-arching the springs a tad. This necessitated slotting the rear spring mounting holes and will mean the shocks will need some love to fit up too.

By dropping the back end I needed to visit the front end

Wasn't too difficult. I cut the original axle pin off and drilled a new hole as far up as I could for a 1.4mm rod. This will have a 2.4mm OD tube glued to it to mate up to the wheels. I got about 1.5mm lowering by doing this. Any more would require a fair bit of work and does not fit into the build theme.

Will certainly look at lowering the front end in more depth in a future build.

The pix shows the original axle cut off and the new mounting pin glued in.

And to add to finish off a little tire rake. The wheels are from the Moebius 65 Belvedere with Satelite front tires and rear tyres from the parts box.

 

Still undecided on whether to chrome the wheels without caps or to paint body colour with poverty caps

Thanks for looking

[bill-e-boy]

Thanks Andrew. Glad I can pass something on.

I have been doing this for a jolly long time and a lot of the things we do we take for granted. Even I take tips from here and I am always open for a better way to do it

[dwc43]

2 hours ago, bill-e-boy said:

 

Wasn't too difficult. I cut the original axle pin off and drilled a new hole as far up as I could for a 1.4mm rod. This will have a 2.4mm OD tube glued to it to mate up to the wheels. I got about 1.5mm lowering by doing this. Any more would require a fair bit of work and does not fit into the build theme.

Will certainly look at lowering the front end in more depth in a future build.

The pix shows the original axle cut off and the new mounting pin glued in.

 

 

Thanks for looking

I think I just flipped the spindle on my black car to lower the front end. Can't get away with that on every model though. Thought it might help on the next one you build. 

[bill-e-boy]

Thinking about it I may have raised the ride height instead of lowering it. I may have read the instructions wrong and saw the spindle the wrong way round. I did consider flipping it but the way I read the instructions I did it the way I did. Oh well only plastic and not too hard to redo it.

[dwc43]

6 minutes ago, bill-e-boy said:

Thinking about it I may have raised the ride height instead of lowering it. I may have read the instructions wrong and saw the spindle the wrong way round. I did consider flipping it but the way I read the instructions I did it the way I did. Oh well only plastic and not too hard to redo it.

Hey, I can't say I have not messed up before. lol That's how we learn sometimes.