Trumpeter Ford GT40 1/12 Scale, Part 5

I've mentioned that this very detailed model is oddly not detailed in places. One surprising example, there's no provision for ignition wires. In fact, there's no distributor!

I wouldn't be hard to make one, but I found this 3D printed parts assortment on Etsy for a reasonable price so I went with it.

The 1:8 scale Shelby Cobra I am also working on has the same engine. That kit includes instructions for the ignition cable length and the firing sequence. For the cable lengths on this one I just winged it. But I did do the firing sequence.

I added some PE cable ties to hold the wiring in bundles. Now no one can confirm the firing order!

Looks ready to run.

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Morning Crows

 

Hot

 

Trumpeter Ford GT40 1/12 Scale, Part 4

The "pile of snakes" on the back of the engine is all built up. The GT40 has a complicated system of exhaust pipes designed so the the lengths from the manifold out the rear are all the same. I have read this optimized horsepower.

The Shelby Cobra I am also working on happens to have the same 427 engine. It's interesting to compare the two models.

Next a break from the engine to paint the bottom of the car.

The front was inexplicably painted silver right out of the box. I left that and added two shades of black primer and paint.

Trying something new... The is a silver pastel powder. I've had pretty good luck with pastels for light weathering, but this is the first time I've used a metalic.

A dusting of the silver with a big fluffy brush gives very realistic effect. I sealed it with a matte finish.

Shocking shocks... So far so good on this project, but there's a long way to go.

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Seating

 

Hanging Around

 

Agora Models Shelby Cobra in 1/8th Scale, Part 5

This cluster of wires go into a small controller board that ends up under the trunk. Hope I don't have to access this later...

The fuel pumps here have been cleaned up and completely repainted. These parts are a great opportunity for easily increasing the level of detail, but I didn't. I would have if I had been able to do more detail in other parts of the car. You'd think it would be easier to find good reference photo for a Cobra. Then again, the kit could be far more detailed in the first place.

I did however carpet the trunk with 1:12 scale carpet. 

Part 6

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Top Ferment

 

Bond Cars

 

Harlan

 

Eaglemoss 1:8 Scale Aston Martin DB5, Part 2, Driver's Seat

The parts for the driver's seat (the right hand seat in this car) come like this in a blister pack, along with the front bumper and rotating license plate.

The bumper and license plate won't be used for quite some time, but that's typical of this build. The order they send things in is pretty strange. But at any rate, on with the seat.

The history of the car's use in Goldfinger, and what happened after production, make for some confusion on exact details. But looking at photos of the real DB5s and stills from the film, it seems the interior was both black and grey leather. 

This is some grey glove leather I bought from a place that sells materials used to detail classic Pocher kits. It's really nice stuff.

This leather is a little more than half a millimeter thick. So, where I plan to tuck it in between parts of the seat, I just have to shave off about 1mm around the edge of the parts (the leather will be stretched over the shape).

Like other large scale kits, Eaglemoss uses a rather hard plastic that really takes color well. The black isn't bad at all. But also like other large scale kits, the same handful of colors are used throwout if you don't change them. For example, this is the same black plastic as parts of the engine bay. In fact it's everywhere. Changing up the colors will add a good deal to the realism of the finished model. 

Besides, this leather looks great!

I used a new adhesive that I had not tried before for this. It's a type of CA glue specifically for leather. I worked very well. I pulled this stuff pretty hard to form it around the seat's shape and the glue held easily.

I added a darker grey piping around the seam lines. I may use more of this piping. Photos of the rear car show piping on the seat and back.

The piping is a tiny bit over scale though. I don't want to over use it. Still it's something to think about.

Under the driver's seat is a pull out tray full of weapons. The real Goldfinger car had this tray, but thy did not use it in the film.

The gear in the tray is another opportunity to improve things with a bit of paint.

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Brunch

 

Harlan

 

Audrey

 

Sunshine?

 

Olive

 

Harlan