Scale-Master Posted June 1, 2006 Author Posted June 1, 2006 Mostly aluminum. A couple-few dozen parts and some wires and custom decals. Even has the shock absorbing mounts... And a couple of secondary fuel filters. One for the normal fuel injection, one for the boost when nitrous is engaged... Aluminum and soldered brass for the bracket...
MonoPed Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 Nice work!!! Take the "big ruler" out of the pics, and it looks like it jumped out of the Summit Racing catalog... :-)
Mal.au Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 Hey where do you get one of those big ruler LOL Great Model is there a car to go with it, you could win a trophy for just the MSD
Scale-Master Posted June 2, 2006 Author Posted June 2, 2006 Actually it's from my Jeg's catalog... Thanks. It goes in the Blue Super 7. Other progress pictures of it and it's parts are here in this forum...
Scale-Master Posted June 9, 2006 Author Posted June 9, 2006 Still lots of work and loose ends to tie up visible in these shots. But I have been making progress, and lots of hardware and fasteners, and doing a lot of wiring and plumbing...
GTmike400 Posted June 9, 2006 Posted June 9, 2006 Are you using wiring diagrams to assemble this beast?
Scale-Master Posted June 9, 2006 Author Posted June 9, 2006 Are you using wiring diagrams to assemble this beast? Yes. And digging through a real one...
GTmike400 Posted June 10, 2006 Posted June 10, 2006 That reminds me, are you going to GSL in April Mark? Im going to try and save up the funds to fly out there. It will be tough with college, but I'd love to meet you and take a ride in this Seven.
Scale-Master Posted June 12, 2006 Author Posted June 12, 2006 And the headlights are ready to be mounted. SMS Hi-Def C/F on the rims... There are bulbs in them, but they don't light up.
Scale-Master Posted July 12, 2006 Author Posted July 12, 2006 More scratchbuilding and machining. Been working on the new dash for the Super Seven. More specifically the gauges right now. They are going to be Auto Meter. I'm working on the internals now. More later...
Ken Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 Working on the internals!!!!!????!?!?!?!? Man, this thing is definitely over the top. Great stuff to look at man!
Scale-Master Posted July 19, 2006 Author Posted July 19, 2006 Here is the gauge set I made for the Super 7, in no particular order. Auto Meter Ultralite series. Everything is scratchbuilt. I created the gauge faces and the needles are parts, not decals... Here is a shot of one of the smaller ones and it's lens, (machined from 1/4 inch thick acrylic sheet): And the "Arm Nitrous" dash switch...
MonoPed Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 Wow, Every update of this build has been jaw-dropping! Very nice work!
Daniel Peterson Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 I have to ask the question... Does your model bench feature a low power microscope and a series of magnifying glasses? And do you have to wash your hands in really hot water to get them to shrink small enough to build this wonderful stuff?! Or do you cheat and hire little tiny pixies with engineering degrees? My dad was a precision machinist and was fascinated by close tolerance, finely detailed and accurate anything. He would have loved your work. He would have said "That's some good work there, kid. Ya done good." You have no idea what high praise that would have been. It's one thing to detail, and it's another to make something small and apparently true to scale, but doing both borders on witchcraft & wizardry.
Scale-Master Posted July 20, 2006 Author Posted July 20, 2006 Thanks guys. Yes, I do have to use reading glasses now, no microscope though. Average sized hands that stay the same size, tweezers are helpful. And that is a very high compliment indeed Daniel, thank you very much.
FirePig Posted July 21, 2006 Posted July 21, 2006 Hard to follow Dan's comments, but oh, so true! This is such amazing modeling ... your work is just so incredible! Keep it up! It keeps the rest of us on our toes. -- Dan
Stingray69 Posted July 23, 2006 Posted July 23, 2006 Uh.... I think my eyes have popped out of my head :shock: Speechless!
Stingray69 Posted July 23, 2006 Posted July 23, 2006 Looks like something you would find in a Jegs catalog... Yes they are that real looking! Excellent skills!
Scale-Master Posted July 23, 2006 Author Posted July 23, 2006 Looks like something you would find in a Jegs catalog... That's exactly where I did my "shopping"! Thanks... - Mark
Scale-Master Posted July 24, 2006 Author Posted July 24, 2006 SMS HiDef C/F decal, clear coated and color sanded. The dash panel itself is a reworked kit part, not much of it left though. The rest is all scratchbuilt...
BIGTRUCK Posted July 24, 2006 Posted July 24, 2006 Thats wild..3-D dash ..that will be hard to top, not for you Mark, just for us mortals
ismaelg Posted July 24, 2006 Posted July 24, 2006 Mark, As usual, I can't find words beyond WOW! Your work is in a class by itself. How did you do the toggle switches? Also, in the last picture, the third gauge from left to right, Does the pointer pivots down the bottom like the first one? Thanks,
Scale-Master Posted July 24, 2006 Author Posted July 24, 2006 Thanks guys. The first small gauge on the right is a vacuum gauge. The sweep is reversed from the other gauges. Not sure why Auto Meter does it that way, I have Sun vacuum gauges in my real cars and they work with the more traditional clockwise sweep. But I copied the real deals, so that's how it had to be. As for the toggle switches. I machined the hex and the recepticle out of aluminum, then I made the toggle and stuck it in the hole...
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