Jon Cole Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 Well, I just want to build something easy to keep my feet in the fire, until fall arrives when I can start other projects. I'm building a late-model Charger Daytona in Sublime. It's a plastic kit, but the body is pre-painted die-cast. Those big 'dog leg' hinges have to go! My moto tool took care of 'em, but the underside of the hood will need some filler. I sanded off the copyright info... Then I had to fill in the slots in the firewall for those clunky hinges. I used solder to replace the line sections that were missing. If I cannot get this to look right, I'll sand off the lines, and glue all new lines down (I should have done that to begin with!) I'll show more as it happens. I need to overcome a mental block of loading the airbrush to paint the inner fenders / engine bay, bottom of hood, and 'trim' the chassis edges.
evilone Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 Dang thats why i don't work with dicast.The hinges are unrealistic.But your doing some good work so far bro can't wait to see you do some plastic
RodneyBad Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 Looking good with the 1:1 details.. I'm trying to throw the Police Diecast together. But I'm not going that far.. Gonna redo all the hinges? Be a little heavy for modeling hinges. Can't wait to see how this turns out.
Jon Cole Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 Gonna redo all the hinges? Be a little heavy for modeling hinges. Can't wait to see how this turns out. Actually, I want to make this like a plastic kit as much as I can. The doors will be glued shut (I don't open the doors on plastic kits that have them), and the hood may be removable just like most plastic kits. Why for the life of me they think the hinges must be as large as scale 4"x4" timber just to make it so kids can play with it is silly. Kids break half of everything they touch anyhow; I wish the Testors would just avoid the entire hinge process if they don't want to scale them down to something more realistic. At these prices, can kids even afford them? I'm 52 and I can barely afford them! Oh oh... maybe I should saved that part for "Rants & Raves"?
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