My New Model Well Underway

[Guiddy]

Are you going to remove the side repeaters off the front wing?

[primera man]

Originally posted by Guiddy
Are you going to remove the side repeaters off the front wing?

Yep.

Forgot to fill the holes in the front bumper....bugger

[S Brake]

Originally posted by primera man


My model shop i go to has different size round lengths of plastic.
I then just make a copy on paper as to what i want, then cut it to the same size. Any bits that need to be bent i very carefully heat the plastic over a candle till it can be bent to shape. Then i superglue it all together then putty up the joints. When dry, sand and paint.

Here's another view of the cage...

Warren, you truly are the man! i would never have the patience to build one myself...

[primera man]

The body is almost finshed and ready to be primmed to see what the putty well look like. You have to leave the putty for a few days to allow it to "shrink"
Have sanded the whole body with 1800 grit paper.
Have removed all the seem lines and molding marks.
Be painting it later today.

[primera man]

Painted the body with the undercoat and all went well.

Have to fill 2 door handles again with putty as they are not quite right looking

Have to wait to sand again then paint again.

Have started on some of the wiring inside...being a lot harder then i thought.

[genX]

Dude you're hardcore:smoker2:

[primera man]

Body is now painted and thinking about what i'm going to do next to it.
Either leave it all blue, or do some kind of small graphic on it in different colours.
Painted the body with 4 coats of Tamiya TS15 Blue.
The body was left for 10 days before giving it a very light sand with 1200 grit wet-n-dry in places.
Then used Tamiya rubbing compound to give it a real good cut.
Then waxed the body with Tamiya wax to bring out a nice deep gloss.

[primera man]

Next will be the masking of the body to paint the rubber around the windows in semi-gloss black and the rubber on the roof black too.

[Jay!]

Coming along nicely, Warren.

I like your hanger-rig. I use something similar.

[pkw1]

hmm.. that hanger-rig is a pretty good idea, I should try that... I'm just using toliet paper rolls now

but the car is comming alone pretty good Warren

[primera man]

LOL...I wondered who would comment on my 4X2 wood and clothes hanger

[josedi]

I am going to have to fabricate one of those super high end coat hanger things...

[primera man]

Good old Kiwi-know-how

[Jay!]

Here's how mine works. (diagram attached)

Take one hanger. Bend to suit. If needed, put some ballast on the bottom part.



The car it made it for was the MR2, and right now it's holding the NSX. It may be tailored to hold mid-engined cars best by design. The top part fits inside the body along the backsides of the doors, just under the windowline. Mid-engined cars with side scoops may have an advantage to this approach.

[primera man]

Yep....thats the baby ....real easy to make....and easy to paint all around the whole car