[carver]

Thanks for all good advices! I will try some of this, that hot water method seems clever.

The glues I have tried here are GS hypo and also super glue. The lips where the glue should be are rather thin.

Carver

 

[carver]

I am returning to this after, let's say, a short break!

Got the windscreen in quite long ago. Not as pretty as I had wished, so no close-ups, please!

However, before finishing the wooden red car I took a mould and cast a resin shell.

I wanted to have the first original alu-version with the mail-box rear screen as well, I find that version even more spectacular.

Here is a reminder:

One of the iconic parking-lot-photos.

Rebuilding the tail and some improvements here and there.

The headlights of these cars I could not make up of acrylic-rod as I had hoped for, the shape is somewhat irregular. I carved some pieces of perspex and glued them in, then shaped the surface together with the body shape. For painting, I masked them with bare metal foil.

Only the windscreen to fit then... Fingers crossed!

Thanks for looking

Carver

 

[carver]

Gordon, this car is one of my all time favorites.

I remember that you started carving this model a long time ago. Did you ever finished it?

carver

 

[carver]

The Hawk model definitely got some issues. Was not a premium brand, was it?

The MMK looks pretty good, but I don't think I would swap my own for one of them...

@ David: I try to do my best!

Carver

 

[carver]

Woodslot, I also like to watch others building precesses!

For me, it is also a way to record what I do. Once a car is finished I tend to forget what I have done! Sometimes I return to my own threads to check something up...

@Gordon, seen from my point of view and knowing your carving skills, I think you'd be better of making your own Drogo.

Carver

 

[carver]

As many times before I mess it up in the last phase. Glue on the fingers, glazing problems, stains, you name it!

I might return someday and rework it, but for now, I am done!

Looks pretty OK on track...

and at the parking lot.

Thanks for looking

Carver

 

[carver]

Forgot the side view.

You can see on the side screen it was a rainy day!

 

[carver]

It will look better, Gordon. All you have to do is avoid my mistakes.

Carver

 

[carver]

These are all interesting point of views, an everlasting discussion that will turn up now and then.

Personally, I am a "doer", I don't go too much into theories. I look at photos and the model, trying to get it look "right" within the given measures.

Just for fun, trying to catch the essence. Sometimes it turns out very well!

This particular car I think is one of them.

When I wrote something about reworking it I meant glazing, painting, that sort of things that make it look pretty when it is blown up.

The basal shape of this model is as good as I ever can hope for...

Carver

 

[carver]

Thanks, DNQ!

As I have worked as a sculptor (full size and small size) for many years, I can only confirm: Size does matter!

Cheers Carver

 

[carver]

I have done some screen polishing on the red wooden car. A little bit better, now I dare blowing it up!

Thanks for looking

Carver

 

[carver]

I see that the Master himself, George Turner is about to release this Maser, that really is good news! It is a shame it has not been easily available. And it looks of course great!

I would buy one myself if I did not already have a pair...

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Who knows, perhaps he sometimes pick up good ideas from this forum?

 

[carver]

Meanwhile, Carver, an Italian mechanic sits in Maserati's parts' department having been asked to build a spaceframe chassis for a Tipo 61 'Birdcage'...

Poor bu%%er.

I am not sure I quite believe you this time...

Appears to be fake news!

Carver