At Sixes and Sevens: Super 7 Group Build

[deltableh]

This is looking really good! I love the shift lever/knob. But I have to be stupid and ask, what gauges are in front of the passenger?

PS: Stance and wheels look PERFECT for the car.

[gionc]

Great job buddy, time to start your iron-glue bomb LOL

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by gionc

Great job buddy, time to start your iron-glue bomb LOL

You mean my Japanese die-cast of the 166MM?



A modeling friend in the States sent me some 32AWG white wire and it arrived yesterday so I spent an hour this morning fixing it on the seats with CA glue.

I don't know if this piping was standard on all S7s but it was clearly visible in some of my reference shots so I put it on there. I don't think I will by making the effort to do the rivets though

I've not done something like this before and I have to say that my already high respect for Tang's 612 interior rose even higher - this is pretty fiddly work to do cleanly and I only had to do about 5% of what he did!!



Here are a couple of reference shots








And here's how it came out for me. I went a little "wonky" in places but as J-M would say.."tant pis"







Thanks for looking in.

[Jamme]

Not "Tant Pis" !!!!
Nice, really nice, should I say!
Just need some rivets (com'on, Steve....... ) to be finished!

Nice Work you did on that litlle nice green car!

Cheers,

Jamme

[quadzero]

That trim is very slick and put on flawlessly. It's stuff like this and your wiring job and research that to me is what modelling is all about. Having seen your efforts and great work, I am thinking of going back to easter egg painting.

[bigfrit]

Oli

[auw12]

Hi my friend long time no skype lol~~~ I remembered that you said you'll build this OOB at the very beginning and seems I'm fooled lol~ It's rather a highly detailed wonderful job you've done so far! I really love what you've done on those small attachments and engine details, I know that they requires great patience and well planning as well as good skills. You've done awesome works on the seats which look so realistic man! I especailly appreciate that the curve of the wires looks very natural and smooth, that's hard even for some great materials. Bravo!

[klutz_100]

Thanks gents.

Originally Posted by auw12

I especailly appreciate that the curve of the wires looks very natural and smooth

I like that! Sounds much better than "wonky"

Put some light staining on the muffler this evening. I feel I am geting better at this each time - practice makes perfect (still a long way to go though )

[klutz_100]

Just for J-M

Added some p/e studs

[gionc]

Where you purchased the PE dusts?

Great so far! BRAVIIIIIZZIMO, you deserve more remole!

[Jamme]

Aaaahhhh, Voilà!!!!!

Nice touch the PE nuts.
Should have been roud ones, but OK, I'm a difficult guy!

Nice anyway!

Cheers,

Jamme

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by Jamme

Nice touch the PE nuts.
Should have been roud ones, but OK, I'm a difficult guy!

you are right of course! They are so small and my eyes aren't so good.
When I was cutting them off late last night, I thought they were round

This time it IS tant pis

[CeeElle]

looks great, ski!

[auw12]

damn that looks real...

[klutz_100]

So close to finishing this quickie OOB build

Did some stuff that I am quite pleased with this weekend.

First, I remade the rear indicators that pissed you all off so much

Had a piece of clear sprue messing up the bench and remembered whaty someone said so I gave it a try... all hand shped with sanding sticks in 10 minutes ( and a great demo on the power of polishing!!)

First steps.




just to show how clear it was after final polishing stick...(is Sean sees this, he should recognise the image )



Sliced of the tops with p/e/ saws and painted with clear orange....



made bases with slice of plastic rod painted with Alclad Alu, glued in positioning pin on back and drilled out the rear fender for cleaner placement (wish I had done that with the brake lights )..




close up...




Next, based on my most valuable reference photo.




1. The number plates. Tried to find a suitable font but couldn't find one so first I made plates with regular font but it just wasn't good enough or some people, so I tried again by using the ref pic and photo shop.



Glued in place. Amazingly, the p/e grill is the single BAD fitting part of the whole Tamiya kit Forget trying to fit it with the tabs - cut them off, sand off the nubs and epoxy it in place instead...




Fom the same photo I prepared the leather strap for holding the spare wheel. Tamiya masking tape and some wire for the buckle.

Funnily enough none of my daughters had a brown marker pen in their school bags so I used firstly a blue sharpie and then rand a red one over that. The two inks mixed and I got brown (obviously art classes 30 years ago were worthwhile after all )





Now for my favorite

Take a look at the close up on the ref pic.



See that disc on the windscreen? That's a UK tax disc holder.

A quick google search turned up an image which I edited and reduced in photo shop and printed off on regular paper. I made a simple holder with a styrene disc painted with grey primer and the attaching knob with a piece of hex rod....



The whole thing was attached to the inside of the windscreen with Kristal Klear PVA glue...



Hope you enjoyed that - I did!
Some of the work could be cleaner but I hurried and it does quite good in reality.

Thanks for looking in