ULTIMATE SCRATCHBUILD: 1:12 Hot Rod-Updated 03/12/06

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by tonioseven

I expect to be able to drive it when it's finished!! Great work man!!

It will probably big enough for one of your kids to drive. Glad to see you post here finally. Hope you follow this thread more often!

Originally Posted by OzZySi

Good thinkin with that jig.

I'm looking forward to seeing the leather interior... good luck... I wouldn't try it, but it should be cool. You can do it... but I would prep myself for some profanity if I were you. You should buy some fabric for the floor though.

You wouldnt do a leather interior coz youre chicken shit, just kidding. It will be well uh,...intresting to do. I cant wait to see how well it turns out. I will also put XM radio in the interior, need to modernize it somewhat.

Originally Posted by jswillmon

HEY NICE JIG....lol
comming along great, can't wait to see the interior.

Like that, eh?

Originally Posted by BRM

Nice frame. So...what color is it goin to be? aha Had to be the first to ask.

Thanks for the comment. Paint will be 2 tone. White pearl on the bottom with Royal Blue Pearl above the chrome strip. The paint will probably be HoK or PPG, and it will be custom mixed.

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Thanks to everyone for their replies! The project will begin to slow a little with Final exams approaching in the next week or two. Im also buying an RC from a friend so funds are depleted. However with my birthday on the last day of school I hope to reciece the powerplant for this thing!

[OzZySi]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

You wouldnt do a leather interior coz youre chicken shit, just kidding. It will be well uh,...intresting to do.

No, you're right. That's exactly why I wouldn't do a leather interior, lol.

Nice choice for the color, GTMark. I love when they do those 2-tone colors on hot rods. You probably already have something fingured out for this, but for the chrome strip seperating the colors, might I suggest some dress-up door frame covers that they sell in pep boys/autozone etc. Seems to be just plyable enough...

[willimo]

You did drill into the frame rails and glue the crossmembers inside, right? I don't remember how you said you were attatching them, my mind has been elsewhere lately. Is the front end far enough apart? I hate to ask such things since I've seen you planning it so much, but if it slipped you mind, better to fix it now than later...

Otherwise, it looks like it's coming together. It looks like a frame now! Just some wheels, a body, engine, interior... heh... I'm glad I'm not in your shoes...!

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by willimo

You did drill into the frame rails and glue the crossmembers inside, right? I don't remember how you said you were attatching them, my mind has been elsewhere lately. Is the front end far enough apart? I hate to ask such things since I've seen you planning it so much, but if it slipped you mind, better to fix it now than later...

Otherwise, it looks like it's coming together. It looks like a frame now! Just some wheels, a body, engine, interior... heh... I'm glad I'm not in your shoes...!

Yes I did put tubing in the rails for the cross-members to slip into for support. I triple checked the front end, I thought it was awfully narrow also, its 3", right on target. Thanks for spotting me, I tend to forget small things that are very important.

In a few minutes I will sand the new putty joints and add more cross-members for the cross-members. I need the wheels, and motor badly. Especially the motor.

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Thanks for the comments!

[mike@af]

I am taking a break from this project. I just broke one of the rails. I was sanding the damn epoxy putty and the POS breaks. I hade having to substitute epoxy for a nice nickle weld. Dammit that sucks.



Ill get pictures in a few, right now I am steaming.

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

I am taking a break from this project. I just broke one of the rails. I was sanding the damn epoxy putty and the POS breaks. I hade having to substitute epoxy for a nice nickle weld. Dammit that sucks.



Ill get pictures in a few, right now I am steaming.

Sorry to hear that mike. Hope you don't quit the project.

[GvEman]

You are always in some kind of truble
i hope the best in your project!

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by Howielong

Sorry to hear that mike. Hope you don't quit the project.

I wont quit it. Im just taking a sebaticle.

Originally Posted by GvEman

You are always in some kind of truble
i hope the best in your project!

Its called Murphy's Law; What ever can go wrong will go wrong. The problem isnt a big one, it just pisses me off.

Thanks for the wishes.

[Howielong]

Good to here that you will not quit. I hate quiters. Hope you can get this up and running soon.

[supermod04]

well mike i think it is good ur taking a break. (not to be rude or any thing, but i have never seen any thing completed by u in larger scale besides a couple modifiers and your modifiers were pretty sketchy, yea mine were horrible o well)

[willimo]

Hmm. Perhaps in the future, you might reinforce the joints with strip stock, running along the upper and lower bit of the C channel? You can bend them around the corner of the joint, and it would be positive reinforcement, like the holes in the frame for the crossmembers. I always hate attaching things only by their surface, for this very reason.

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by Howielong

Good to here that you will not quit. I hate quiters. Hope you can get this up and running soon.

I'll try working on it a little this weekend, but I just bought a new Schumacher Mission (RC) with an ass load of extra parts for $40. Last night I used epoxy putty to join the two pieces together. I thought that might actually work best since you could build a real car body kit with it, run into another car head on a 75mph, and the body kit would be find while the other car is totaled. That shit is strong as hell.

Originally Posted by supermod04

well mike i think it is good ur taking a break. (not to be rude or any thing, but i have never seen any thing completed by u in larger scale besides a couple modifiers and your modifiers were pretty sketchy, yea mine were horrible o well)

I have completed many large scale models, and I have also built 1/1 scale things. Mods I could slack on because it was immature children.

Originally Posted by willimo

Hmm. Perhaps in the future, you might reinforce the joints with strip stock, running along the upper and lower bit of the C channel? You can bend them around the corner of the joint, and it would be positive reinforcement, like the holes in the frame for the crossmembers. I always hate attaching things only by their surface, for this very reason.

I had planned on reinforcing those joints with strips, but the epoxy was strong, I guess over time and vibration it wheres down.. Funny thing is, this was the joint I broke before. I think I may have fixed the problem with some Tamiya Epoxy Putty.

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

I'll try working on it a little this weekend, but I just bought a new Schumacher Mission (RC) with an ass load of extra parts for $40. Last night I used epoxy putty to join the two pieces together. I thought that might actually work best since you could build a real car body kit with it, run into another car head on a 75mph, and the body kit would be find while the other car is totaled. That shit is strong as hell.

So you got that one mike. Nice. Im going up to the hobby shop tommorrow so i need to know what type of tamiya putty to get. Might do up a body kit.

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by Howielong

So you got that one mike. Nice. Im going up to the hobby shop tommorrow so i need to know what type of tamiya putty to get. Might do up a body kit.

Get some Tamiya Epoxy Putty, I like it.

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

Get some Tamiya Epoxy Putty, I like it.

Thanks mike. Hope to look for your stuff too.