Either way David your attempt shouldnt be abandoned. It certainly looks very promising.
I just ask , what is jelutong ?

Cheers
Bob

 

type of wood Bob

 

Yes Bob it is a fine grain wood which is very easy to carve.

David

 

'Very easy' being relative.....very high levels of skill and patience still required!

I've never progressed beyond polystyrene and acrylic.
Mike

 

In the 60s the full size car makers had their 1:1 scale models made from jeluting.

When I was a Student Apprentice at Pressed Steel they sent me to the Model Shop for amonth for experience, and they expected me to carve patterns and model parts to an accuracy of a thou!!!!!

I eventually I did the model of the reinforcement bracket at the base of the Triumph 2000 Estate's B-C post to the required accuracy but it took me about six attempts.

It's lovely wood to work with, but I didn't know that it was generally available, I can see the attraction of it for models like ours.

 

jelutong is an Australian wood and I was told by a local wood specialist that due to the fires in Australia , they are not exporting it any more so its quitter rare over here

I had a look at my scalex lotus25 and would make the following comments ,driver ,not happy with and may change mine for a super shells " Jim clark" I have heard folk criticise thescreen as not being the airflow type , but I believe that for the Italian gp team swapped back to the old type screen in an attempt to eke a little more straight line speed in the fast Monza track ( no chicanes in those days ) also I don't think the gearbox is quite right seems too short to me. but overall I am quite pleased with it

cheers tony

 

Thanks for the answers lads.
Its a real shame what's happening in Australia.
We sent 70 of our forest fire fighting crew down there to help out.
Just hope things get under control soon.

I will look for something else to test my carving on.
Cheers
Bob

 

David,

The Scalex model is impressive, but I have no doubt that your scratch built Lotus 25 will be superb.

That being said, I think that swapping out the Scalex driver (okay the driver's head) with a Jim Clark head from Immense Miniatures, and weathering the overalls a bit, adds something to the RTR kit.

 

Received one as a present and need a bit of advice mine has a binding front axle and to much slop across the front axle , i think the binding is in that plastic disc brake area , now are these axles knurled as i don't fancy taking the front wheels of if they are those wheels look very flimsy.

 

Have you compared the side view of the car, David?

 

Nick

It measures spot on for height at the cockpit side (bottom of body to bottonm edge of windscreen) and the engine cover.

Once again the lens slightly distorts the image but the scale drawing does lay perfectly over the slot car.

David