Auto racing GB March 2007-2008

Hey guys did i get you all on the list??????

   I jumped the gun and started my kit and added well am going to ad two more  a bike and a car for now heck I have a year

Okay since we are jumping the gun, this is where I'm starting from.

Remember I had already started the engine before the GB started. So now I can get back into the car and finish it!

williamsfw28 wrote:

Hey guys did i get you all on the list??????      I jumped the gun and started my kit and added well am going to ad two more  a bike and a car for now heck I have a year

I'm still not on the list I'm building the Polar Lights Torino Talladega as Lee Roy Yarbroughs car.

  GO!!!!!!!!  

   Also........ looks good Nuc.......

Ok guys i have a question for all of you. One thing i have always had trouble with is dust!!!  I dont have the best room to clean and paint my models and i will tell you all that it sometimes makes me want to put the kits away and give up.  So do any of you guys have tips and tricks for preping models before you paint them?????I have my NSX mostly clean sanded but am dreading the next step which is paining.

    Help!!!!!!!!

nucmedtech

nice looking chassie you got!   i like the details on the brakes

Havent start on my yet   since im totally busy with my job and other projects as well.  will speed up soon.  and btw   i forgot when is the deadline for this gb?   thanks

Williamsfw28, Silentmodeler and Bob,

     Thanks for the kind comments. I am mostly a military modeler and this will be my first civilian car. While building technique is generally the same no matter the model, I'm more concerned how the final paint job will turn out. High gloss finishes tend to disuade me, but, I'll try anything once (model related).

Williams-Sometimes we just need to do something different to keep our interest up. Like I said technique is all the same we just have to change our mind set on the details. Cars are supposed to be nice and shiny(unless modeling a just completed racer) while tanks and AFVs are dirty and banged up. Good luck on the Abrams, I'm mostly into WWII era models.

I'v done every sort of model since I started last century

from milarlty , aircraft , ships, cars ,and bike and I think the 1/12 range of gp bikes are the most challenging because of what can be added to them .

It is good to try / do a different sort of model now and again so that your interest will not waned

techniques learnt in one sort can be added to another making your models even better.Have

found doing  ie aircraft some rivet counters get a bit carried away like there may be 1 rivet not added or 1 to many added and they run you down and rubbish the model.

Don't worry about that any more if it looks good to me , although I will try my best to get everything right have to keep asking how just do you get plastic to look and feel like metal.

Shayne 

I'll post pictures in the next couple of days, but the Vette is coming along. Its the Mecon 1963 version, not the one i mentioned before. Just a bad memory. The Accurate Minuatures instructions are quite detailed, but there could be more drawings to illustrate what is mentioned. I have been confused several times on placements of the parts.

I may only add the ignition wiring, as I can't find a good picture of the engine wired up.

Mike T.

Well I finally started some more work on the Enzo GT, well more than the intial disassembly and taking off most of the paint. I'm working on adding fender flares to the front, and a hood scoop that will be functional to send air into the intake (functional in that i'll fabricate the tubing inside the cockpit. I also started working on some scratch built parts for the interior.

Quick question... Anybody did the FW24 yet? And if so, how did you go to work with the cockpit? With the MP4/13 you could insert the seat, etc afterwards from the bottom, thus allowing you to paint the whole thing without worrying about the two halves being glued together and the seam that it makes. This one looks a bit more tricky.

Could anybody insert the seat afterwards? Or did you paint afterwards, masking the cockpit? Or did you paint everything and just masked and touched up after doing the cocpit and glueing the laves together?

Are ther other options I'm not thinking of?

Thanks in advance. 

  Your out of luck your going to have to mask the cockpit  you cant cut the bottom like you could on MP 4/13 

     Shouldnt give you to much trouble

Thanks Dustin! After trying to figure out ways of fitting the thing in alternative ways, I gave up yesterday and started painting the seat... 

Just one more... Did you fit the seat and then only started body painting, which is the way I'm leaning towards. I don't see much gain if you pre-paint it all, assemble the whole cockpit and then sand a bit and then masking all over anyways to touch up the parts you had to sand out and had glueing issues. Need I say I dread that step... 

Accomplished a little on the Corvette-I sanded off the badging, puttied in the marker lights, puttied & sanded the fender flares, primed and painted.  Minor disaster.  Either too much thinner or air pressure-using MM acrylic-so the 'Vette is soaking in some Castrol Super Clean.

After doing some research on the kit, I'm finding that it appears to be a street version with a few 'race bits'...therefore, it has a much higher stance that one would expect for a road racer.  I may bag this build and pickup something else...maybe drag racing related...will advise.