'95 Supra Gettin ripped up

[WRC_413X]

Excellent progress so far really makin an AMT supra look stunning
i would probably shy away from the lambo doors being it your first car model, but im not sure of your skills because there is a lot of hingework in plane modeling. At any rate Keep up the good progress!!

[ejclide]

well, I'm a little worried about the doors myself. I'm not however doing lambo doors, i don't like them really.

I have a question for anyone who can help me. I don't know what to use as a screen in those 4 cut outs on the hood. Hopefully there's something i can get at a hardware store, but if i really need to get something from a hobby source for realism, then i will. I just don't know what to get.

[rsxse240]

I found some 1:87 scale chain link fence at a model railroad shop that works great for this. it is actually quite thin expanded metal, just like your 1:1 "grill mesh", and can be shaped quite easily. Or if you have any tamiya kits with the black mesh stuff, that would work too, but then the kit you take it from will be without, and you'll still be in the same dilemma, but at least your current project will move foreward.

[ejclide]

Alright, so I got a little work on the engine done. Don't criticize it too much, i know it's not the greatest. I kinda just wanna get it done because the AMT engine is so horribly detailed, but I wanna get a taste of a little engine work. Let me know what you think.


Here's the engine bare. The oil pan didn't match up with the bottom of the block at all, and I didn't do a lot of research on this motor so i kinda guessed. I just widened the bottom of the block to match the kit oil pan, then added a sump to the kit oil pan.


there it is done and with a crappy coat of paint.


there's the exhaust manifold gasket/bracket for the pipes... a little big i know, but i haven't figured out how to cut such small pieces of styrene so exactly.


the pipes in (I used solder)


there's the pipes bent to look like an equal length turbo header. I still don't know what i'm goign to do for the turbo. Should i try to make one, or is there a resin aftermarket i can find?


haven't finished the intake side. I don't know what I'm goign to do for the main body of the manifold.

I also need to make an intercooler and plumbing for the system. I don't know where to get the stuff for the intercooler, and i'm not sure what to use for the plumbing. I was thinking just more solder.

anyway, there you have it. I hate to say this, but my work on this is goign to slow a little. I am going to try building an aircraft for a museum, and that will preoccupy my time, plus I'm working on a 1903 Rambler (I'll start a WIP thread, but it's goign to be OTB). anyway, thanks for the comments guys, I really look forward to hearing what you guys have to say, seeing so many knowledgable modelers on this forum.

[mugenhb]

what size diameter solder is that? I'm working on a tamiya supra and I am doing the same style manifold, but all my solder is too big.

Steve

[ejclide]

it's .050 solder, got it at radio shack