Flavors

 

Those were the Days

 

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Audrey

 

Quiet at the Free House

 

Trumpeter Ford GT40 1/12 Scale, Part 10

Moving on to the interior now... No problems with fit of the kit parts. Again I have substituted some PE for  a few chunky chrome pieces.

I used resin seats from the KA model add-on set for the Trumpeter version of the 1/12th scale GT40. This set is hard to find, but I got lucky on getting one. I would say most of what's in that set provides a small, incremental improvement on this car out of the box. The kit already includes some PE anyway in fact. But the KA material is better and the seats are particularly good.

Setting in place everyone of those metal washers took a while. By all accounts these seats were as uncomfortable as they look. The comfort (nor safety really) of the drivers was not the primary concern. Also, the areas directly to the outside of each seat are actually the car's duel fuel tanks.

Notice that only the driver has seat belts. This is normal. Race rules required the car to have a passenger seat, but there never was a passenger. The car is also right hand drive, for the Le Mans endurance race. 

Again the mix of color helps. I used that Tamiya NATO Black on the roll bars, but a common flat black on the floor.

The metal/silver center part between the seats (where oil lines run?) is the kit's chrome part sprayed with a matte clear. For some of the clear though I actually used an adhesion promoter primer. It seals just like the usual matte clear I use, but gives a slightly different finish. It also of course works well as a plastic primer.

Again this all just helps mix up the colors and textures for a more realistic appearance.

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Pint

 

Eaglemoss 1:8 Scale Aston Martin DB5, Part 5, the Engine Compartment

Here's a before and after showing the brake canisters (if that's the right term?). The one on the right is as provided in the kit. The left is how I reworked it after looking at way too many photos.

There's a lot of detail missing, that would not be hard to add. But just a little extra effort helps I think.

The engine compartment nearly complete...

I found out later that near the end of this project you have to take this apart again to install it with the chassis. Typical.

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Eaglemoss 1:8 Scale Aston Martin DB5, Part 3, the Engine

Getting started on the engine now...

Here's another example of where some simple paint goes a long way. The raw parts are quite good, but there are some slight molding artifacts, and more importantly, everything metal is exactly the same silver color.

As near as I can tell, on the real car these parts are grey. 

Some parts are metal as provided. The detail is very good, but I added and/or detail painted many nuts and bolts. I also added a bit of oil staining, not too much. I'm not going for a used appearance, just realistic.

Looking pretty good! 

For the assembly of the engine, it's actually important to take the provided instructions with a large chunk of salt. I referred to other online sources heavily with this. Otherwise, you end up severely out of order and have to take things apart again later.

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Harlan's Breakfast

 

Lamp