MODEL T--"Unfinished Project"--FINISHED! Pg 6

Bexley wrote:

Bare Metal Foil?

Gotta say it with confidence! Bare Metal Foil!

Out freakin standing Karl, just love the attention to detail and that bed looks great. Now I'm tempted to rust up a car . Been hangin around the auto forum more than armor, so who knows..

Rob

SIR, YES, SIR!

THIS IS MY RIFLE, THIS IS MY BARE METAL FOIL!

THIS ONE'S FOR FIGHTING, THIS ONE'S FOR SIMULATING VARIOUS POLISHED METAL FINISHES ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SCALE MODELS which can be... um... nevermind.

Karl,

it looks excellent.  I have found 5 photos of the '25 T truck, but I couldn't get any real close ones of the baling wire stitched cracked repaired fenders.  If you can e-mail me, I can send them to you.  To replicate the same repairs, you could crack the fenders halfway through, and stitch them back together just like sewing up a rip in a cloth using very small gauge copper wire.  Then rust the wire.  I can go look for the truck tomorrow as I remember where it was parked during the summer outside in the weather. 

~Hey Doog ! Bad azz project going on here. This will teach me not to forget to look in on the auto forum for so long! It all looks great so far, I gotta go back 'n study the thread. Shred on Bro.

~Indy

Bexley wrote:

SIR, YES, SIR! THIS IS MY RIFLE, THIS IS MY BARE METAL FOIL! THIS ONE'S FOR FIGHTING, THIS ONE'S FOR SIMULATING VARIOUS POLISHED METAL FINISHES ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SCALE MODELS which can be... um... nevermind.

LMAO!!!  Nice one, Bexley...lol...you made my daughter laugh so hard she nearly had orange juice squirting out her nose...

Oh -  fantastic job on the model T so far, Doog - the wood grain bed is fantastic.

WoW!!  Karl, that's all I can think to say.  WoW!! 

I'm sure this one will grace the pages of FSM at some point in the future. The wood grain looks fantastic & now there's one more tool on my 'want' list and another reason to go to Roberts Crafts.

Coincidentally I too am building a Model T. Mine is the RPM Ford Tfc kit(#35012) which is a Armored Model T.  In 1920 the Polish govenment needed an armored car for crowd control & recon, so they stripped a Model T down to engine/frame/wheels then mounted old boiler-plate steel on it building up an armored box. Then they put a small boiler-plate turret on top with a Vickers machinegun sticking out and you have one Really cool model- IMHO. The Polish military had a total of 20 of these cars produced. The model T is a small vehicle to begin with, but this kit is in 1/35 scale so it's Real small. RPM also makes a 1/72 scale version of this kit and I'm sure it's Really TINY!

If your curious to see what this model looks like, I bought it from Squadron so just enter the kit # or 'Ford Tfc' in there website's search and it should be their.

Again your truck looks Amazing and remember you heard it HERE first, one day the pages of FSM for this Model T of yours, I predict.

-Ray

Thanks a lot, guys, for all the comments and for folloing this build!

Lee, I'm glad you think the rails pass muster! I was unsure if I was on the right track with them!

Mike--a spring you say? You'll like the next update! Great suggestion!

Bexley and Bill--Bare Metal Foil it is! Some hate it; I don't mind working with it. It can be tedious, but with a little bit of patience, it looks great!

Rob--Thanks, man! I'd LOVE to see you do a car! Thanks for looking in!

Rich--email on the way! Thanks for the offer!

Thanks, INDY, and Lee! I appreciate it!

Ray, thanks too, sir! IN the pages of FSM? Hmmmm...well, that IS the idea, lol! I hope it turns out worthy of that fine publication! Or maybe Scale Auto? We'll have to see?

Update coming soon, guys! Thanks again for following this build!

I got to thinking about what Mike recommended, and set about making a better-looking seat. I remember seeing mice-eaten seats in old junkers along the railroad tracks, and decided to try to tackle this look.

First, I Dremeled out the seats....(I LOVE this tool!)

Then, I took Mangelsens's #28 steel wire and wrapped it a billion times around a brass rod held in a pair of hemostats. Not sure of the diameter of the brass rod?...

Then, I stretched it to a semi-uniform length-of-coils, and started cutting it into approximately 4mm lengths. Voila'!  SPRINGS!!!

And then, I glued them one by one into the seat. I used a slightly larger size diameter for the rear seat, so there are bigger "springs". I glued the springs onto a series of styrene rods glued into the back of the seats.

With some judicious painting, and after adding some tufts of fluff to the edges and in the springs themselves, I should get a pretty convincing look? What do you guys think?

Onward through the fog! lol!

I was just gonna lurk on this one, but I can't keep my mouth shut any longer:

A++++ work there, Karl!  Those seats are.... unbelievable!!

I can't sit down anywhere without the fear of a spring popping up somewhere.

It looks great Karl....

Hey Karl great seats. Do you remember when I used wire wool to make seat stuffing?

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Really good looking springs. this is going to be another FAB wreck.

Terry.

Looks like the heaps you see sitting in a field or thicket 'round here.  It never takes mice long to move in.  Our old Ferguson tractor's starter froze again, so since I didn't get a chance last weekend when I was home, I'd decided to take the starter off Sunday. I flipped the hood back to get a wrench out of the toolbox and, lo and behold, two mice were peeking out of their nest in the toolbox at me.  Two weeks stationary and they moved in. They'd piled feathers, stray bits of animal hair, newspaper, and stuffing from something in the toolbox between the wrenches and screwdrivers. 

That old Ford reminds me of one that was used as a feeder in the winter.  Hay was stuffed in the cab to protect it and cows ate from the open windows.  Grain was spred on the bed.  I can almost picture an old Holstein with her calf looking it over in the summer to see if she could find a snack!

Jim

Soo thaaaat's how to spell...  Voila'!

Yet another thing the Doog has helped me understand. 

cassibill wrote:

Looks like the heaps you see sitting in a field or thicket 'round here.  It never takes mice long to move in.  Our old Ferguson tractor's starter froze again, so since I didn't get a chance last weekend when I was home, I'd decided to take the starter off Sunday. I flipped the hood back to get a wrench out of the toolbox and, lo and behold, two mice were peeking out of their nest in the toolbox at me.  Two weeks stationary and they moved in. They'd piled feathers, stray bits of animal hair, newspaper, and stuffing from something in the toolbox between the wrenches and screwdrivers.  That old Ford reminds me of one that was used as a feeder in the winter.  Hay was stuffed in the cab to protect it and cows ate from the open windows.  Grain was spred on the bed.  I can almost picture an old Holstein with her calf looking it over in the summer to see if she could find a snack!

Great Dio idea for the T-bucket too.

cassibill wrote:

Looks like the heaps you see sitting in a field or thicket 'round here.  It never takes mice long to move in.  Our old Ferguson tractor's starter froze again, so since I didn't get a chance last weekend when I was home, I'd decided to take the starter off Sunday. I flipped the hood back to get a wrench out of the toolbox and, lo and behold, two mice were peeking out of their nest in the toolbox at me.  Two weeks stationary and they moved in. They'd piled feathers, stray bits of animal hair, newspaper, and stuffing from something in the toolbox between the wrenches and screwdrivers.  That old Ford reminds me of one that was used as a feeder in the winter.  Hay was stuffed in the cab to protect it and cows ate from the open windows.  Grain was spred on the bed.  I can almost picture an old Holstein with her calf looking it over in the summer to see if she could find a snack!

Thanls for all the nice comments, guys! 

A little update--I've decided I don't like this molded-on pipe here on the side of the engine, so I ground it off with the Dremel, and made a new one.

I've thought a lot about how to fashion that ripped cab top, and I decided to cut out the top. Then I glued in a reinforcing rib. Then I cut pieces of lead foil. Jenn gets me these from wine bottles at the restuarant where she sometimes bartends.

Then I glued the pieces on, and seal them alll around with diluted Squadron WHite putty, thinned in a spare bottle of Testor's liquid cement.

I'll be waiting until about two days, when it's dried good and hard, and then sanding the edges good and flush. I'll add seams, and rip the top, and I"m thinking I'll cover it with Mr Surfacer 500 for some texture?

Also been working on the Modified car body.....stay tuned!

Hi guys--

Well, I'm having much better luck with this model than with the 34 Modified!

I have done some more work to get it ready for painting. The top came out pretty cool--I cut into the lead foil, and bent it down-I think it'd going to look great when painted up!

I was going to use three tires, and one rim-only. Here, #1 is the tire on the rim. #2 is the rim alone; note the "lip" around the edge--in #3 I have pared down the spokes of the wheel with a #11 blade, and #4 is showing the rim properly altered. I had to use a few old, dull needle files to put in a groove into the rim (ugh! That was T-E-D-I-O-U-S!) and then glue in some spoke ends made from cut sprue.

Filing the rims...

After I put the wheels on, I just loked at that rim and said "That looks TOO COOL!" and so I decided to do all the rims that way. And so here is the model ready for painting. More engine wiring and details will be added after I weather and glue down the parts.

At this time, I must reveal the "theme" of the vignette; it will be called "Unfinished Project" and willl feature a "hopped up" engine in the bed, in packing-crate form, and protected by plastic, but just sitting there as if forgotten about, or never quite gotten-to.We all know how that goes, don't we? Enjoy!

I'm probably going to leave off the engine covers, and put them on the side, to show off the engine and the wiring details. Any other suggestions? I should be getting a base coat of rust, followed by the Hair Spray technique on this by late Friday--got a busy next two days...

Comments and suggestions welcomed!

I like it !     but ~ you should at least have the resemblance of at least one or two tires  even if it is just the  sidewalls. No rubber makes me think of a "Rail Jenny" the cars that were modified for early railroad maint.  But thats just me..

I cant believe you took a perfectly good kit again and you alrady have it worn out...

Looks real good Karl. I'm surprised you did'nt use your little friend to grove the spokes on the wheels, for that wooden look. I have to agree on one point, It needs some rubber somewhere.

When you do the hairspray procedure, would you go step by step, as I've never seen this done.

Good luck on the '34

Holy Karl that looks awesome dude. That roof is fantastic and once it's painted will be even better, man I can't wait to see what you do next.

Rob

Doog, This is fantastic work. Its coming together beautifully. This one really belongs on a base, maybe with a nearby railway line...that's how most people see cars like this.

You know you don't have to rely on Jen to get the foil...you can always invest in some bottles of good wine and justify it by your model building!

Karl that looks just brilliant. Can't wait to see you get some paint on this baby.

Terry.