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Originally Posted by Big Kahuna
Clay,
Do you do your own photoetching?
You can turn parts with your lathe and mill, You have an ALPS. Surely this would be the last frontier of modelling to conquer if you haven't done so already.
Can you give me some details about your lathe and mill?
Thanks
Nenad
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I've done some photo etching in the past. It was a lot of work, and I didn't do very well at it! But someday I'll try again. My lathe is a Sherline 4000 with the mill column attachment. I've got a handful of extras.......rotary table, vices and so on.
On to an update. I got quite a bit of time this weekend so I drug out the old Kasey Kahne car. One thing that had been holding up progress was a new seat. Kasey runs a Lajoie seat so I had some work to do to replicate it. I started with the Revell kit seat, removed the head rests, shoulder rests, and rounded off all of the sharp edges. Next I cut down the center of the bottom part to remove a wedge to narrow it up enough to add the leg supports. All the lower bracing was done with Detail Master #4 hard line bent up and glued on. The shoulder rest is bent from scrap aluminum with DM #3 hard line for the ribbing. The new head rests were scratched from styrene stock and glued on. I shot the whole thing with Alcald polished aluminum, then flocked it, and added the vinyl areas with masking tape and brush painted them with semi gloss black.
Once I had the basic seat done, I made new leg braces from sheet aluminum covered with sticky backed craft foam. And like my Jr seat, I added a radio to the left leg bolster from styrene stock and wired it up with Pro Tech wire.
And here's a few shots of it test fitted into the chassis.
Thanks for looking...
ClayK