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

QUOTE: Originally posted by A68Trans-AmMustang This maybe what I need to motivate me to build my first model in 5(?) years. So count me in.Not sure what I will build though, but got plenty to choose from.BTW ,that brings me to this question ,if I may ask... If you folks have so many kits you have collected ..how in the world do you decide what to build?

A68Trans-AmMustang Mate - with a sign-in name like urs, you are most definitely are welcomed to join in! I've listed you in the Nominations List. This is located on Post 1 on Page 1 of this thread. I keep this up-dated everytime there's new info for sharing - so refer back to it as needed. When you decide your build, just give us a hello, and I'll put it up. Also, if you missed it, Scale Auto is tag-teaming us too, but it's been a bit quiet there - there was this guy talking about kicking FSM's butt !

Personally, I have about 30+ kits in my stash, and all are in various states of building - from not even the box wrapping plastic removed to some just needing a few extra decals. I like building a/c & ships, but have space and others in my collection too. Like mississippivol said, it's like having a LHS in your room. I go through phases between ships & aircraft, so it doesn't matter what I build now, it will be done later .

OT: nicholma: you guys did have a good weekend of sport, yes. Of the few things I watched this weekend (GP excluded) my rugby team even managed to lose with a single point (one of two one-point different scores this weekend in the Curry Cup)

The good news is that the water hazard did a bit of damage, but not nearly as much as I thought. Just touched it with sanding paper...

Anyways, I'm trying this picture-thingy again - added a masking pic as well...

Interior (at this stage)


Masking


Early version from the side. Screwed up a bit with the glueing, but won't be seen (i think) on the finished thing...

QUOTE: Originally posted by A68Trans-AmMustang BTW ,that brings me to this question ,if I may ask... If you folks have so many kits you have collected ..how in the world do you decide what to build?

It's like having my own hobby shop, dude. One of these days though,I may actually be in stock on the paint I need

Glenn

QUOTE: Originally posted by R-CMan73 Hey Mississippivol I think what I will do is sit out on the porch and whiddle we a stiffener rod and when use a trick I learned while building my radio controlled wingy thingys and take a stiffener rod and wrap some thread around it and then glue it in place. I am sorry I guess that I am that way when it comes to safety on the track.

Uh, be careful; NASCAR may think you're trying to sneak in one of those traction control thingamajigs and fine you

Glenn

This maybe what I need to motivate me to build my first model in 5(?) years. So count me in.Not sure what I will build though, but got plenty to choose from.BTW ,that brings me to this question ,if I may ask... If you folks have so many kits you have collected ..how in the world do you decide what to build?

Hey Mississippivol
I think what I will do is sit out on the porch and whiddle we a stiffener rod and when use a trick I learned while building my radio controlled wingy thingys and take a stiffener rod and wrap some thread around it and then glue it in place. I am sorry I guess that I am that way when it comes to safety on the track.

Since i finished the cobra I decided to start another race car I will be building this using the revell monogram 67 corvette coupe kit.

Well, doggone, it worked! I guess I should explain that last picture....

It's for my Matador; I'm stuck right now and I hope this group build will help me get if finished.

I took the AMT Matador kit, cut the front clip and rear wheelwell on back from the chassis, and grafted on a front clip and rear wheelwell/trunk floor from an AMT '95 T-bird kit.

I made a new driveshaft tunnel with the remains of an old Coke can.

Then I took the '91 Monogram Pontiac Grand Prix roll cage; cut off the crush panels, and glued it in to place (it fit really well both on the chassis and under the roofline of the body). I also salvaged the dashpanel of the Grand Prix kit (all of the black pieces you see), connected it with a scratchbuilt dashboard, and then made new crushpanels.

Not pictured is the racing seat, which is from the AMT t'bird kit. I cut off the headrest and will add one onto the back hoop, like you see on the old Monogram kits.

Whew, and you wondered why I was stuck; I don't know what to do next


Glenn

Hey RC,

It may not be that bad, after all. My driver prefers his track bars unhooked. You'll be ok to hook up the suspension without it; it shouldn't be too noticeable.

Glenn

Finally got my hand on another can of TS-17 and shoot a couple of layers on my Mercedes and it looks much better now, sorry, no pics at the moment. The wife and kids has the camera 250 kliometers from me, be patience and I'll get some progress photos later. I will have like 5 evenings of modeling without disturbance from others so I've been busy today. Kimi came in second at Silverstone , I was able to put some paint on the Enzo and the CLK-GTR. I think I'll have something to eat now and then try to finish my Pennzoil Skyline to night.

Cheers!
Niclas

Mkhoot - Thanks for those pics. The car is looking great.

Seabee - Leave it aside for a couple of days and then review the damages. I don't hink you'll suffer from anything that some sanding can't fix Sorry to hear about it though.
regards
Joel

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Trouble in turn 2 lets goto team radio to hear what the problem is:

(Dale Earnhardt) She is loose...... She is loose......... She is loose........
Boys I think we are done for the day.
(Crew Cheif) What the Hell are you talking about..... You have come back from spins
worse than that.
(Dale Earnhardt) I heard a loud pop in the rear end. I think that the Track Bar is broke.
So like I said "WE ARE DONE"
(Crew Cheif) Bring it in and we will look at it. It can't be that bad.

Does this sound like something that has happened to you. As I worked my way through this kit (#3 build on my list) the rear end track bar was broken in the kit. Now I am going to have to try and fix it or suffer with the rear end not being true ant straight. With this hurdle to cross my build time is now way behind. I hope to have the problem fixed one way or another and have prog pix up by mid week.

nicholma it's the old amt 289 cobra kit not a bad kit pretty good detail.

Hey Seabee its never too late to pray!!

I know exactly how you feel I have had a newly painted and still glistening wet body gently roll onto the floor. I'm sure the whole neighbourhood heard how thrilled I was at that turn of events!!

Yesterday I was polishing a body shell and went through the black paint to the white plastic beneath on a panel line. Its only very small but the colour contrast shows it up instantly so a repaint is now planned. Also yesterday I went to get some matt black from my LHS to find they didn't have any!!!

However overnight NZ beat the Aussies in the basketball, beat the West Indies in the cricket, beat the Pacific Islands in rugby and Raikonan's on pole so its not all bad!!

Nnnnnoooooooooo!!!!

I should have stayed in bed. Did the masking - my own, not the supplied masking pattern. Still have no idea how it went... because I just put on my second coat, came back to balance it on the same thing it balanced for the first coat. It cannot stand on it's own, because of this lip in the front which also needs to be yellow - just to defend my actions. Anyways, back my tale of misery... From there it took an absurdly quick nose-dive - I could do nothing but stare.

There is good luck in this day as well. It did not fall all the way down onto the carpet and rolled around on it's newly applied wet paint. It did not travel far at all and landed with the nose in a small Tupperware holder. My sigh of relief and my "Ahhhh ffffff... rangelica!" went out in in the same breath. This is the holder I allways do my decals in and as per usual, it had some water in!

Has anyone done such an incredible stupid thing?

Btw, how much damage can I expect from the water on the nose paint-job? (Hey, this is me, it cannot happen to a not-so-obvious place!) It seemed to just stay on top of the paint... or is that just temporary? Should I remain hopefull till tomorrow morning?

Mkhoot - what kit is it? That Cobra is one car that I don't have a model of, your build inpsires me to get one.

The photo hosting site I use is down right now too, so you get all red X's from me for a while until they get the problem fixed.

Not my day... I now see that the place I used to host photo's now does not allow direct linking any more! That is why nothing is visible.

Photobucket does not want me to sign up today... Any other options?

Now off to mask that body.... I hope this turns out better than my pics!!

Oops... it seems my pic posting did not help much... Looked fine at office, I see nothing now that I'm signing on from home this morning. Maybe something to do with me being signed on to the place hosting the pics?

Where do you guys host your pics? Or did I just screw up?

Luke, I'll have a look back there right now, thanks!

SeaBee - is it just me or I can only see Red-X's where your piccy's should be!

I wrote done some instructions in page 7 or 8 of this thread if you need help (or maybe it's just me LOL)

Awesome Cobra.

Glenn

man... that thing is sweet.

Thanks for the compliments guys I really enjoyed building this one. Joel here are some more closeups. the underside the interior the engine

Good work, guys!

I'm going to try and upload a pics here for the first time. Resized it a bit, for ease of use. Hope it works... Just to show there is something going on One of the interior and one from side. Still lots of work to be done...





Yeah, I know I screwed up with the glue a bit (above), but at least it won't be visible!