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Post by gascarnut on Jul 11, 2012 18:48:53 GMT -5
Dennis, the PP kit comes with white metal wheel inserts. To have an easier adaptation to the rims and to get lighter wheels, I have made a resin-copy. And I added the central lockings, that I had in stock. I don´t know, whether you can get the inserts individually or only with the Ferrari 1512-kit, but you might ask Steve Ward from Penelope PitlaneKind regards, Taffy Thanks for the info! I got a PP Ferrari 1512 from Russell, but he said he had ditched the white metal parts, so I never did see the inserts, and had to carve some for myself: Not the best photo (or the best inserts!), I will take a close up and post it some time.
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Post by Taffy on Jul 12, 2012 8:48:29 GMT -5
A very nice car, Dennis! Its your last years entry of the GP of Montana, right? Most impressive the complete drivers figure. I couldn´t realize that with the PP-chassis and the long can motor.... Mark, usually I´m not so fast. But for now, I can give my full concentration to this car. And I have to do that, because I have to finish it. There are other projects in my holidays, too, and it should not take more than one week to build the Ferrari.... The progress of today: I have chosen the Spa car (''7), thank you, Mark! Painting and decaling are almost done. Cockpit is nearly ready. Front suspension details are built. Rollbar, intake and intake-cover are mounted. My battlefield (who finds the Ferrari? )
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 12, 2012 9:25:46 GMT -5
Mark, usually I´m not so fast. But for now, I can give my full concentration to this car. And I have to do that, because I have to finish it. There are other projects in my holidays, too, and it should not take more than one week to build the Ferrari...Ahem, Taffy, Perhaps I should send you my BRM to complete.. I think I've been muddling around on my car for 4 months if not longer Of course, when I consider it a big deal to glue one piece of plastic a day, you can understand why. Where did you source your instrument decals? The instrument panel is great! Nice work all around.
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Post by Taffy on Jul 12, 2012 14:11:04 GMT -5
Again, Mark, I´m on holidays! And my wife is at work this week. That means, plenty of time for scratchbuilding, no, all the time. If I have a good timetable, I can realise a project like this in one week - if necessary. And yes, I wanted to do this!! Day by day I want to see the progress, and it is a good feeling to see that the car becomes more and more complete. Unfortunately, these circumstances are only once or twice in a year...all my other cars are growing as slowly as yours. I had started a Ferguson P99 in the end of April, its far away from a ready car, but I will continue by time.
The instrument decal are a mix of "Virages decals" and "Call´graphe decals", I bought them many years ago and I don´t know where. Please google to check the availability in your country.
The windscreeen! Arrgh, I hate windscreens! Does anybody know a good way to fix these unruly things to the slotcar body? I needed two trials and two screens to get an acceptable (not a good..) result.
Drivers head is ready with see through goggles.
Tomorrow I will finish the car.
Best regards, Taffy
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 12, 2012 14:32:33 GMT -5
My apologies in advance for the size of the embedded pictures, but there is a reason as you will see below.Taffy, This is the Chris Wright (the guy who created this forum!) foolproof method for attaching a windscreen. This technique avoids the glue smudging and holds up very well in racing. 1) Cut 2 thin strips of plastic card, one for each side of the cockpit with a small tab where the mirrors will be positioned. 2) Make a small hole in each tab for the mirror post 3) Glue the strips to the inside of the cockpit, the tabs will sit up above the edge of the cockpit 4) When dry, fit the windscreen over the tabs. 5) Insert the mirrors with the posts and then apply glue to the posts on the inside of each tab Attached is a picture of Ken Wehnert's Lotus 21 .. You may have to enlarge the picture to see the effect since Ken added one additional and clever refinement to this process.. he fashioned his strips and tabs out of clear plastic so the effect is almost invisible. And here's a picture of Chris' BRP.. you can see the tabs inside the mirrors.. And finally, here's a picture of my BRM P57 shell with the windscreen inserted over the tabs but before I glued on the mirrors. This is an excellent way to attach a windscreen (provided the mirrors on the car went through the windscreen rather than the car body of course).. Good luck
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Post by Taffy on Jul 13, 2012 10:24:23 GMT -5
Thank you Mark, for this explanation and for the pictures! Particularly the close shot of Chris´BRM sent me back to earth. Inbelievable, no mistake to be found in that magnification. I´m not able to do these things in such a precise way.... Well, the reference came a bit too late for the Ferrari, after crying and raging I had glued the screen to its place....but there will be other cars, where I will use this method of fixing the screen with the mirrors! Now the Ferrari is ready and I hope, I can do a track test on Monday. Here is my first proxy race-car: Comments welcome!
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 13, 2012 11:54:30 GMT -5
Taffy, You've even got the brake lines on the front! Very nice. We're looking forward to seeing and racing your Ferrari when it makes its way to America. (I'll be sending out the shipping address to you and all the participants via a separate e mail.) By the way, I've magnified cockpit/driver pictures of my own cars and believe me.. they do not hold up to the same level of scrutiny as Trevor Taylor in Chris' BRP. It is rather intimidating isn't it?
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Post by Dave Wisdom on Jun 23, 2013 4:01:03 GMT -5
Lovely work. Your attention to detail is, as always, quite remarkable.
Regards, Dave
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