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[ballastanksian]

The heat protecting rope looks excellent Ken, she is an atttractive model.

[kpnuts]

Hi all well the world record version had two seats so the co driver could use the pump to increase the fuel/air mix.   Here is my first attempt at the extra seat.


As you can plainly see it's rubbish, this was made with das modelling clay and I tried a few times with this (including trying to make a mould of the original but none were any good so I tried a different approach, i heated some 2 mil plastic and wrapped it round the seat, let that cool then heated some more and pushed inside that which (although not an exact copy gave me the shape of the seat) I then sanded and cut the sides to suit.So here is the next versionAnd here they are installed, just a few more bits to do now.[/size][/font]

[ballastanksian]

She is gorgeous ken. I bet there was some torque from that engine!

[kpnuts]

Hi all well it's finally finished (I seem to have very little time to model or even check out the forums lately, life is so hectic)
Anyway for those that didn't follow the build this is not the red version in the museum it's the Ernest Eldridge world record run version, the tail had to be raised and the skirt lowered also an extra seat for the co-driver had to be added all else is out of the box, I've seen some amazing builds of this kit where an amazing amount of detail has been added, I'm no where near as patient as that or talented so here is my version of this amazing kit. It truly is an amazing kit, I have plans for another one but it will be totally radical and nothing like the actual car, anyway that's in the future. Here are the pics.I think I'm going to concentrait on finishing some of the models I've started to clear the bench for October's ducati(the missus surprised me further saying I could also get the upgrade kits taking the cost of it to nearly 700 quid)[/size][/font]

[ballastanksian]

That is so realistic Ken. I reckon it is your best model, even taking the brilliant paint jobs of one or two of your other models into account.