The 2014 Automotive Group Build

You guys are making me jealous with all this talk about weather. We just got done with 2 weeks of below zero farenhiet temps. It is still getting below zero at night. Hockey is our sport up here in northern Minnesota.

We might be talking cricket Seabe, do you follow it ? The Aussies arrive there in early February. Sorry  talentless, shouldn't have mentioned it :)

Another hot one here, but there is a cool change tonight, at long last. Needless to say, the Ferrari was untouched.

Regards

Tony

Its peeing down with rain AGAIN here north of london. Enjoy your pools :'(

In Paarl - the Cape Winelands in South Africa. In a few weekends we talk rugby... ;) Hit that pool, apparently you guys are in for a rough time. (See the tennis guys are also struggling.) On that note - I'm off to hit the pool myself!

I am, boys....very relaxing here :)))))

Where are you Seabe ?

Cheers

Tony

Haha, it's taking a lot of restraint! But something totally different to the Lotus 91... mind you, that's also actually OOB, but... a different prospect altogether - for me, at least!

Tony, hit that pool! I saw from the Tour Down Under guys (starting this w/e) that there's going to be some hooot days! We're in summer, but nothing that bad yet. Feb is our traditional hot month. But we do have 42 predicted for next week... Our pool water temp was nicely hovering at 30, so it's just perfect!

And also hit that F186! Go for it, man...

Gee Tony, 46 degrees C would be about 114 degrees F here in Yank land.  No wonder your gonna ease on out to the pool!  If you had the degrees in C that I have here you would be facing 6 degrees.  No pool for me, I gotta go break Ice off the pond for the critters.  More Ice and snow flurries due by Fri.  Maybe I can get some modeling done then.  Enjoy the pool you lucky dog!

That really is looking great talentless. I must be a magpie too, I have boxes of that stuff for all scales and all subjects. Decals too.

George - I've added the Caddy, sorry I missed it.

I'm really feeling like working on my Ferrari F186, it must be an annual thing at this time of year. I might mask up the body so that I can spray the front wings and suspension black. Then I can give it a quick spray on the weekend when the whether cools down. I have quite a number of these resin F1 Ferraris, I need to build them quicker than 1 every 3 years.I wanted to build one car from every year from 1975 to present, but the seasons are rolling buy quicker than than I am completing. If I ever get this one done, I'll have complete 1986-90, including two cars from 1989.

Forecast today varies between 44 and 46 degrees C. This is some heatwave ! Might mosy on out to the pool now :) Forget the Ferrari....

Cheers

Tony

The large silver part on the airbox is pe. The striped SLR  cylinder tops are also pe, they were painted and the paint rubbed off the raised  bits with micromesh.

I wish i had the restraint to build oob, but i am a magpie for pe and resin bits and bobs and cant resist. It makes it an expensive hobby tho :-/

Lookin' good, talentless! Are those silver parts PE or paint? It looks absolutely stunning! 

Will attempt to put my previous pic in here...

have lost a lot of the painting/ prep pics 

anyway, heres how the cylinderheads/airbox look. i chopped off to crap plastic piping and will do a part re-plumb with shrink tube, theses more to go on yet and the horrible off-centre merc decal will be replaced with a pe part (i hope). the decals in this kit suck a**

Hi Seabe,

Yeah, I upload my photos to Photobucket first. There are other sites available too, of course.

Cheers

Tony

Had a bit of a busy weekend and hectic week for a variety of reasons thusfar. Very little progress. Just fiddled and cleaned a bit on the body parts. The intakes on the engine cover was the only thing I altered a bit (emphasis on "a bit" - this is still a quick OOB build!) by just hollowing them out slightly more. I stared at some of the plates on the diffuser and thought about thinning them... and slapped myself on the wrist and told me to behave!

Just a quick pic of the engine in it's current state. Like I said, OOB quick build, so don't get excited about defects, this will at any rate be hidden beneath the engine cover! Oh, just put the Lotus 91 next to it for a fun size comparison. Not the world's best shot, quick, shallow and with flash. Don't sue me.

Oh darn... I now see I have to upload it somewhere first and not load it from my PC. This will have to wait till I'm home and can access such sites. Or have I missed a trick?

Count me in with a just barely started AMT International Payhauler.  Gives me a good excuse to git r dun.  I think 3 GB's should be fine until I finish one.

Yeah, that does look like it was rough Dale. Extra work for noting, but I guess that is what we sign up for !

Cheers

Tony

Talentless things are looking great so far!

I've been working on getting a Mustang done for the other GB so I don't have much progress to report. About all I have done so far is working on getting the body ready for paint.

There were pretty heavy mold lines on the cab, and box, and the light bar(wing?) was not a good fit. It needed a lot of sanding to smooth out the seam.

The rear bumper wasn't a good fit either, but a little sheet styrene and some sanding and it should be fine.

Hey all,

Finally getting some decent weather. I hope to start on the Chevelle this week. I just about have the body ready for primer. Also have all the chrome stripped. I'll post some pics later this week when I have some good progress to show.

L8TR

Eric

I've updated the build roster Mike. Get stuck into it !

Cheers

Tony

I will join in on this one just to finish what I had started in the last one. That Moebius Models Hudson Hornet.

Thanks Greg. From South Africa, so will just soldier on - think I'll manage without those.

Not much progress, was away for the weekend. But I did start the body colour on one section. Thought I'd use silver leaf to give a lighter and brighter colour... but then it turned out quite a matt colour. No worries, we just slap it with clear... it turned a semi-gloss (at best!) greyish colour. Hmmm... So I re-did it with gloss alu this morning and will see how that comes out.

To add it to the discussion, the Lotus cockpit was added. Saw afterwards the steering wheel is straight, but "turned"... I am trying my best not to give in and correct it! (Who will really see it anyways!) But it is taunting me.

just with an artist fibre tip pen , easier to control than a paint brush.

Wow, those brake discs really are a standout. Look great from every angle. How did you paint the springs Talentless ?

Cheers

Tony

i seem to have misplaced or lost a lot of pics, most of the painting, so no great loss really :-(

here is the latest. front suspension assembled

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Seabe: Not sure where you live, but if you're in the USofA (or Canada), try contacting Revell (www.revell.com/.../index.html) for replacement parts...just click on "Online Parts Request" button

Looks great Talentless.

Bad luck on the driveshafts Seabe.  That is annoying.

Cheers

Tony

Yeah, that's an awesome improvement, Talentless! You can hardly compare the two parts...

Seabe - it really sucks when something turns up damaged, doesnt it. i have a 1/48 flanker with really bent wings, not actually broken but still disappointing,

this is one part of the pe set that appears to be well worth using.

Hmmm... my build went a bit downhill just now.

Was fitting drive shafts. Could not for the life of me figure out how on earth it's supposed to remain in place, esp with instructions not to glue. And it looked short. Then I looked back at the sheet which displays the parts. Mumbled, looked in the bag... grumbled. One drive shaft breaking off was fine. But BOTH having been snapped in the middle went a bit past my sense of humor. To boot, only one of the shafts other half can be found. Did not even warrant trying to figure out L or R! So, with it being hidden from sight, my Audi will be without drive(-shafts)!

Looking around at the rest of snapped off (prior to me receiving the kit) pieces, I saw another disturbing sight. One of the wishbones in half. Full L and R wishbone. Fortunately I looked and saw it's the top wishbone. The supporting (bottom) one is in tact. So will be able to wangle something there, even if it means gluing the support structures in place.

So, no drive shafts at the back, not fully wishboned in the front. Should I make another car than the no 8 and have a crash scene rather?! ;) (Sorry, humour...)

So to the guys who have this kit - I hope yours were treated better than mine! And remove carefully from sprues, otherwise you may end up breaking things - if mine broke whilst removing themselves.

Not complaining about the kit itself. I think mine was just handled very badly en route to my grubby paws. Onwards we go...

started  on the "pit". look close at the dial decals. they ALL broke. these are some of the worst decals i have come across, they crack at the slightest provocation. next time i will coat them in decal fix before using. be warned!

I ahave loked at the hobby design pe set and a lot of it seems a waste of time. a lot of parts are superflous or worse than the kit parts. i reckon at least 1/3 are redundant. love the aircon grills though

Seabe, I have an R10 also and look forward to your build.  Tony, I may hate myself for this choice also but put me down for a 1931 Cadillac Town Brougham.  Its the old Johan kit I have had for years and think its time to build it.  I have always liked that car just not sure how this will go together.  I guess the worst thing that could happen is everyone can watch an epic failure happen!  Hope you beat the head cold.  

george