AUTOS - Racing Car Group Build (ends 12/1/04)

Had the 'cuda body primed & sanded when I realized that funny cars from the 70's up didn't have the seams for the doors, hood and deck lid in the one pc. body. So, I can either start painting or fill in the gaps......right now, I'm leaning toward puttying in the gaps-so, looks like the weekend is planned....can work on the Monogram GB Spitfire in between.

Mach12003-thx for the encouraging words-kinda fun to work on the same kits I did in my youth in the 60's & 70's-of course back then, I could build a kit in one day-paint & all-you can guess the quality of the work....just started back (Jan 04) after a 30+ year 'break'. most everything up to now has been wwII allied aircraft-weathering can hide a lot of imperfections & mistakes-autos are a little more difficult-and I tend to be somewhat of a perfectionist concerning my projects.

Mach12003 thank for the good words. At this time i am getting burned out on doing these cars, so for the time being I am going to do a model of the Boeing E-3A Awacs. This is the aircraft that I worked on in the US Air Froce 12 years ago before I had to get out for a medical discharge. I just got a visit from the UPS man that brought this kit to me from EVEL BAY. So I hope that everybody understands my feelings about this wingy thingy. I will be watching this GB until I get back into the cars. OK, see everybody soon.

proosen, I think the carbon fiber looks great. I would have never guessed it was the wrong scale. Nice clean work.....

bobbaily.... nothing at all wrong with being a out of the box builder. I am too... at least most of the time... and I rarely get my airbrush out unless I just absolutely can't find the color I want in a spray can. Otherwise I always use a spray can for painting.

Greetings all,

I would like to join, if ok-I am just starting on a Polar Lights funny car (Big John Mazmanian's) and finishing up on the Monogram GB (next week, maybe).
I have enjoyed monitoring everyones progress and work so far-I'm a strictly "out of the box" modeler, without an airbrush. Therefore, I'm open for any and all advise.

Thanks

Niclas, that is a nice-looking one! I was just about to start my D2 one, after receiving SMS PE set, when we put in an offer on another house and now we will very likely be moving shortly. Don't want to go through the effort and then have it end up as a casualty of the move!

At this stage, my biggest fear is my long-time in-progress 1:12 F190... I will move that one personally! (And put it on a safe place once there!

RC Man... you are fast..... the car looks great. You're making me want to break out some of my Dale and Dale Jr. NASCAR kits.... someday, I'll get around to them.

Currently working on the interior, lots of modification and scratch building, for mt Shelby Mustang GT350-R..... it's going slow. Some piics later this week...

The completed builds are looking great Finished the chassis of the Fw07 on the weekend, should have the body ready for painting tonite? Will try a fourth time to get a desent finish?

Cheers Trev

QUOTE: Originally posted by R-CMan73 Proosen I like the way you have made the carbon fiber look in the cockpit pic. How did you make it look like that, if you don't mind me asking.

Thanks a lot!
The CF is made from, or rather in the process of being made from CF-decals from F1-specialities. I think it looks rahter smart and slick but it's actually the wrong scale on it, the one I have is 1/12 but it works fine I think. Managed to get some more decals on the DTM-car but there is quite a lot left to do so I have the modeling future staked out

Cheers Niclas

Alright here are the pics that I said I would have up for the Oreo Shootout Car


I hope that you like them

To Proosen Mach12003 and Luke
Thanks for the good words on this build. I should have the Oreo Shootout finished tonight. I will try to have some pics up in a day or so. Plus everyones builds are coming along nicely.

Proosen I like the way you have made the carbon fiber look in the cockpit pic. How did you make it look like that, if you don't mind me asking.

QUOTE: Originally posted by mach12003 nicholma, I would like to see more pics of that GT40, even if you start a new thread. GT40's are some of my favorite cars.

Check out the new post under the Autos section of the Forum

ok - lads - I'm back!

but the news of today is that I'll be away for another two weeks or something!
if it's urgent, contact me via email, and I can quickly up-date stuff if you so desire,
so untill then . . .

everyone's cars are lookin bloody cool !

Good work guys, R-CMan73 and proosen. Both cars look great. I'm finally going to get back to my GT350-R tonight. I've been busy with work, out of town visitors and a general lack of motivation..... Things are getting back to normal though so I hope to make some progress tonight.

nicholma, I would like to see more pics of that GT40, even if you start a new thread. GT40's are some of my favorite cars.

wow, that's looking really good proosen!

I'm finally getting some time back at the bench, although a small disaster occured when I found one of our kittens running around with an assembled photoetched seatbelt. It's a bit chewed, and one buckle lost, but I needed to shorten it anyway.

Started on the engine, but I have some excellent source pics so I'm hoping to build it up a bit with hoses, clips and so on. It's also a chance to add a bit of colour to what would otherwise be black and metal.

Looking good RC-man, I'm making slow progress on my Original-Teile, just started decaling the body. It's quite a few to put on and now both me and my LHS has run out of decal solvent. The one's I've put on is done sitting outside in the sun during vacation Still haven't decided on the Sportswear car, whether to keep the paint job or not. Will have to take a look at it again and if I go for a repaint I'll have to await a fresh delivery of paint as TS-17 also is out at the LHS

Cheers!
Niclas

Alright, I am sorry for the lateness of these pics, but here they are



So I hope that you like it. The next build should be out but the end of the week.

Just to show it isn't a figment of my imagination here is the Ferrari underway.



The weather has been terrible (have to paint outside), with the worst storm for 30 years earlier in the week and again rain Saturday and today and cold. However I have managed to clear a little space on the work bench with the completion of a GT40. Unfortunately I had already started the bodyshell before this GB started so I can't really list it as part of this GB or can I?



The Safari Toyota Corolla has the body shell painted but I'm sure no one wants to see a white bodyshell. Now the GT40 is finished I can find more space to push ahead with the Corolla.

Well I just finished my next build on my list tonight. I will have pics of it up on Sunday. I hope that all will like this one I had a hard time with the dacals for they wanted to rip on me. I tried my best to deal with them so if you dont like them tell me.

the Mustang looks unreal!

just a note fella's, I'll be away for a week, so any changes to lists and other stuff wont be done until a week later.

Looking every bit fantastic. I love Mustang's, at least the firts three versions of them. If the rest will look half as good as the paintwork it'll be a killer for sure.

Niclas "back from vacation" Proos

Man that body looks great. I can't wait to see the rest of the car.

Yep... same car

Thanks for the compliments.......

Eric, is that the same car I've seen over on AF? Looking great!! A winner for sure!

Well, I've finally finished my little P-51D, so I'll be focusing on my C5-R Corvette a bit more now. I did a bit of miscellaneous work last night, but nothing worth showing pics of.

Murray

Thanks Murray,

Body is now polished.... finally... I can move on to the interior.

Wow that Shelby's looking sweet. Nice job so far...

Murray

Thanks R-CMan, ....if you want to see some of the in progress pictures you can click on the link at the bottom of my post. When my photoalbum coes up just go to the last couple pages to see some other in progress pictures of this car (and other cars if you want to take a look at them).

If I may say so it looks good as is. I do like the GT350-R. It is one of my favs.I can not wait to see more of the inprogress pics, So post them so if you can.

As for me, I should have my next build done tonight or so. I have been very tired after all of my P T lately, so I have not been doing much as to the building of my cars. Hopefully I will have some pics up soon.

The Monogram Shelby GT350-R Mustang. So far I've cleaned up some of the parts and concentrated on the body and interior.

On the body I have:
Modified the panel line where the bumper and body meet.
modified the openings in the bumper from round to oblong like on most
GT350-R cars.

-drilled all the appropriate bumper mounting holes that are visible since
there is no rear bumper used on the real car.
-drilled appropriate holes in front fender near front bumper, also drilled
holes for hood pins and trunk pin.
-removed the chrome trim around the back window and removed the side
front quarter window frames (front will be replaced with a thinner chrome
strip)
-removed all the emblems
-removed the molded in door handles ( to be replaced by separate pieces)
-removed windshield wipers
-adjusted the angle on the rear edge of the front wheel arches
-adjusted the entire radius of the rear wheel arches.
-covered the interior door panels with plastic sheet to match most of the reference
I could find showing the interior door panels being replaced.
-sanded all the "carpet" from the interior tub floor.
-removed the glove box and radio from the dash and removed all the extra
dash padding from the dash
-drilled holes in the back panel to hold the spare tire in place.
**** still have to build the pressed in seat mounts where the passanger seat
would be, and modify the rollbar and fire extinguisher, and cut
openings in the seat for seatbelts and of course make the seatbelts****
-removed the molded in battery on the passanger side engine bay (it's in the trunk on
the real car) and removed the molded in "thingy" on the drivers side wheel
well and rebuilt the wheel well on both sides with plastic sheet
-added a plate under the hood "hood scoop", cut a hole in the plate and
added screen where it will close on the air intake.
-drilled out the center hub on the rear wheels and added a center cap for the
wheel bearing retainer on the front wheels.
-removed all the molded on "goodyear" and "blue streak" lettering from the
tires and dulled the tires to look more realistic and rubbery

Other than filling some sink marks on the frame that's about it for now... It's a good start to the most "changes" I've ever done to a model kit. It's a little intimidating for me so we'll see how it goes from here.

Here is a pic of the body painted white with the stripes painted blue and the final coats of clear but not yet polished... (more inprogrees pics in my photo album)

QUOTE: Originally posted by mach12003 Hey Luke, I think I'll enter a second build for this group if it's okay. I'm building a 1965 Shelby Mustang GT350-R and since it's already in progress I thought I might as well share it here with everyone. If it's okay you can add me to the list for a second car and I'll post some pics soon.....

no worries champ - all done!

look forward to the pics!

Hey Luke,

I think I'll enter a second build for this group if it's okay. I'm building a 1965 Shelby Mustang GT350-R and since it's already in progress I thought I might as well share it here with everyone.

If it's okay you can add me to the list for a second car and I'll post some pics soon.....