Rolls-Royce No Chemicals, No Paint, No Harmful Glues

[MarkJ]

David, I believe you have figured this out very well and like you said just a tiny bit of touch up is all that remains to be done on the wheels.

Mark J

[Anglia105E]

47 minutes ago, MarkJ said:

David, I believe you have figured this out very well and like you said just a tiny bit of touch up is all that remains to be done on the wheels.

Mark J

Thank you Mark . . . It was mainly as a result of useful suggestions by yourself and John Rourke and also Les Budge that brought me to this point. Without the use of the hollow punch set of hole cutters I would not have achieved this result effectively . . . This is why the MCM Forums are so important for us as model builders.

David

[MarkJ]

7 hours ago, Anglia105E said:

Thank you Mark . . . It was mainly as a result of useful suggestions by yourself and John Rourke and also Les Budge that brought me to this point. Without the use of the hollow punch set of hole cutters I would not have achieved this result effectively . . . This is why the MCM Forums are so important for us as model builders.

David

So true. I could not agree with you more.

Mark J

[Anglia105E]

This evening I was able to get a little more engine detail done, and although not a great deal, I am slowly adding a few tiny components to the engine.

Here are a few photos of the engine test fitted in the engine bay of the car . . .

David

[Anglia105E]

I managed to get two aspects of the build completed this evening . . . The rear bumper has been held in place on the chassis by double sided tape, purely as a temporary measure until it could be positioned correctly before glue was applied. Now the bumper is super glued in place, using two tiny dots of the offensive adhesive !

Then I moved onto the interior tub, which has been clipped onto the four locating pegs, two at the front and two at the rear. I decided to apply some PVA glue around each locating peg and allow the glue to run down into the gaps using gravity to do the job. This should secure the interior tub to the body, while still allowing access to the interior later if required . . . The PVA will be given 24 hours to set fully overnight.

During the work on the interior tub the body was supported in such a way as to protect both the roof antenna, and also the Spirit of Ecstasy hood mascot.

David

[David G.]

Nice work getting the masking for the wheels sorted. I missed that detail on my build. 

The engine is looking fantastic.

David G.

[Anglia105E]

19 minutes ago, David G. said:

Nice work getting the masking for the wheels sorted. I missed that detail on my build. 

The engine is looking fantastic.

David G.

Many thanks David . . . For my previous Silver Cloud builds I have always tried to paint those circles on the wheel embellishments by hand, which hasn't brought much success in the past. Thanks to helpful suggestions by several MCM Forum members, I decided to purchase the hollow punch set of cutters and see if this could be done with masking tape. Mixed results of course, but generally I would say this method is an improvement upon hand painting.

I would like the engine to be more realistic than it is at the moment, but it's getting there slowly . . . I wish I had an engine from the Franklin Mint diecast model because that one is by far the most accurate representation of the Rolls-Royce 6 cylinder in-line 4.9 litre engine ever produced . . .

David

[Anglia105E]

This afternoon allowed me to apply some Liquid Chrome around the black circles on the wheel embellishment covers, using the fine tip of a CD marker pen rather than a brush . . . Had I used a brush for this operation, I would have also needed to use a chemical solvent to clean the brush afterwards.

These black circles on the wheel covers are extremely difficult to get right, and this is partly due to the complex nature of the Rolls-Royce design, and partly due to the raised surfaces of the chrome wheel covers not being clearly defined, as supplied in the kit by Entex . . . Each attempt at touching up the black results in slight marks on the chrome, and then each following attempt at touching up the chrome results in slight marks on the black . . . and so it continues.

The appearance of these wheel circles from a distance is reasonably good, so it is only under close scrutiny that the imperfections are more obvious.

David