UPDATE no 3– underside
My hero mikebench is saving this build with a spare dashboard from his great build– Big thanks!
While waiting for the dash to arrive I thought that I would experiment a bit with underside detailing. I washed the engine and suspension, plumbed the front brake callipers and added some brake lines and made some metal rivets/nuts. Here’s what I got:
Brake lines:
The kit underside has “pipe lines” moulded in and could be masked and painted. I know my masking limits and this would undoubtedly be a disaster for me so I took this route: I cut small lengths of solder wire cut to lengths and bent to shape. I ribbed them to give them some texture and used CA to fix them in between the moulded brackets
Rivets:
For some extra effect, I created some real metal rivets/bolts by cutting thin slices of solder and CA-ing them in place. Once the glue set I used a homemade sanding stick (2500 paper glued to a plastic coffee stirrer
) to level and polish the rivets.
Brake callipers:
This was more for practice and not meant to be an accurate representation. First I drilled the callipers and glued in some red wire then drilled the wheel arch to pass the line through. Then, to create a rubber seal (grommet?), I inserted some black wire insulation thick enough to feed the calliper wire through. When the wheels are posed, the wire moves slides within the insulation.
Next step, Polishing the body, fixing the dash and final (?) assembly
Hope you like it
