Auto racing GB March 2007-2008

Looking good, Dustin! Looks like a good paintjob and decals that went on... well, like paint! Cool coffee mug too!

My construction on the R8 is done. Bar the wheels that was a bit of a pain, it went quite smoothly - even with me at the helm! Now the decalling job, just did the red bits to get going. Cockpit and rear was done seperately, of course.

May take a while - in for the surgery removing the rest of the tooth tomorrow. Well, so I'll have the day off tomorrow, maybe progress a bit!  

   Thank you !!!

Dustin-see if this link helps

/forums/692221/ShowPost.aspx

 Cut & paste the link into your web browser and it should take you to a post that has some info and more links.

btw-Photobucket gives you three options-use the <IMG> option-copy the entire <IMG> link from Photobucket (www.photobucket.com and its free)after you have downloaded the image and then paste it into your forum message.  That's pretty much the extent of my knowledge....

F1Champ, you're doing good on that one, nice progress!

Blue or black... Sounds like the inside of my mouth! ;) I had a horror emergency appointment at the dentist after splitting a molar lenth-wise. He said he'll unfortunately have to "quickly take it out", upon which my reply was - with me, that's not allways the case... He didn't believe me and needless to say, almost 1 1/2 hours later I escaped. He gave it a good shot and in the end stopped! So now I've got to go to a jaw specialist this afternoon so he can surgically remove the remaining shards of tooth and the roots, which is the problem (they don't grow straight...)

Aaanyways, back to modelling.Made some progress on the Audi. Got the wheels sorted out with some effort... let this be a lesson to one and all, don't test-fit the suspension and wheels WITHOUT the rubber on it! It may look perfect, but with the tyres on it did not quite fit. Also suspect the design of the rain tyres supplied was a bit of an after-thought...

So no pics, but I've basically finished the chassies bottom, loose cockpit (the upper part) and the body itself. All that remains is to finish the lights, then add those 3 parts together, as well as the wing. The some fasteners and decals to finish it off.

For me, that will most likely take another 3 months! But I'm trying to get this one done now, soooo close.

F1-you're making great progress.

Dustin, please change my build.  I picked up the Stone, Wood & Cook '41 Willys AA/Gasser this weekend and that's what I'll be building.  Now I have to decide...blue or black....choices, choices...

MK   great car!  impressive with the engine and it makes it look so real. 

F1  nice processing on the GT1  cant wait to see the compete car smiles

as for my processing  i havent touch it yet since i was totally busy with my job and one of gb i was involved with and finally finish it today  whew.  now i can get start on this gb smiles.  will let ya all know soon   

Great work on the car mk, love the engine details.

I've done a little bit more work on the Enzo GT1, the roof scoop is pretty much done, the fender flares need a little bit more work. I'm also working on the front fender vents which will be added in, and just cut the initial slits for the rear hatch vents over the engine bay.

Thanks guys next up is the 1969 camaro Daytona 500 pace car to go with this.

bobaily  I didn't use any aftermarket on this kit The only thing added to the engine compartment is plug wires made from wrapping wire from Radio Shack, but here's a good site for aftermarket stuff fur autos.

http://www.scaledreams.com/

 MK you did a very nice job there!!!  well done!!!  whats next???  I hope your all doing well ???  Sorry i have nothing to report on anything Im working on but we had a wonderful guest in our house for the last three weeks..........his name is FLU!!!!   and with six kids all down with it at different times I just couldnt go without taking my turn!!!  So I didnt get much of anything done but plan on starting back up. Ill have some pictures in a bit.

   Keep up the great work guys!!!!!!

mkhoot-WOW! Incredible amount of work involved . Think I'll be looking at Plan B....now what was Plan B?

edit-btw-where did you get the extra detailing bits that are present in the engine compartment?  I'm a wingie & tread guy so I'm not familiar with a lot of auto aftermarket sources.  Thanks

bobbaily wrote:

mkhoot-very nice work.  very impressive.  just how much extra work are the Polar Light kits? I have read that there are issues with using the 429 engine. I think I'm going to move the Revell/Monogram Corvette to the back burner and find something else.

Thanks guy's I really like building these kits this is the 5th one I've done.

bobaily it takes a little work to make everything fit. Here's a link to step by step photos by Lanny Haas of what needs to be done.

http://public.fotki.com/lannyhaas/polar_lights_build_up/

Just finished my Polar Lights Talladega Decals from Yesterdays.

Had some issues finding ref pics of the right-side "half" of the Audi R8 cockpit, but found some just now. So hopefully some progress shortly!

Apart from that, the wheels are prepared, must just gather the guts to assemble the suspension!  

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.

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... 

  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

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. 

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.