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[kpnuts]

Hi all been adding some detail from all the reference pics I've got they all show this with servo assisted breaks, this is what the kit supplies

So I acquired this off my missus favorite tipple (she is Scottish)

After a little sanding and a crease in the right place



I've no idea where a lot of these pipes go as I've not got enough ref pics so I've guesstimated

[ballastanksian]

While moving them would announce the the viewer that something has been altered to the car, leaving them as is provides an essence of mystery especially with the doors opened. A sort of stylish 'sleeper' car where unlike a sleeper where the existing engine has been replaced with a powerful one but the body has not been altered, your car has the look of an ordinary one but it has a surprise in the way it's doors open :O)

[Stavros]

Servo pipe should go to the inlet manifold and a copper brake pipe should out and then go down to the brakes


Dave

[Allan Mouritsen]

Great Work S. Lover your re detaling about the break assist etc. I make a thread for my Stingray later this weekend

[kpnuts]

That looks interesting.

[Allan Mouritsen]

thinking that it will look somthing like this when it is finished. With integrated bumpers, handles, wipers, lights etc.

[kpnuts]

That is a thing of beauty .

[ballastanksian]

Amen to that Ken and Allan 

[kpnuts]

Hi all here's the next update on this

[ballastanksian]

Looks very comfortable. Perhaps that isn't the right thing to say a out a sports car!

[kpnuts]

It never ceases to amaze me the knock on effects changing something on a kit, the doors are causing all sorts of problems first when I did the door shuts I couldn't open the doors because the corner of the firewall stopped it so I had to undo it then cut the corner of the door panels off to clear it then ( after I'd glued the windows in) I discovered (since they were designed for fixed doors they wrapped round the sides and included the side windows therefore preventing the doors from shutting, grrr)


I mentioned I'd already glued them in didn't I, well normally revells glue for clear plastic comes unglued fairly easily (in fact I've had windows fall out at the slightest touch) do you think this would come off, no stuck like a limpet so I had to cut the side window bits off with the window installed (not easy I can tell you.

[ballastanksian]

Typical isn't it  Its probably like the real thing, you have to look ahead and try and forsee where your changes will impact with the modifications.

I salute engineers who can forsee that gutting a warship wll weaken it so will have to build temporary girders inside to stop the hull from collapsing.

She is looking fab ken.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is the next update






The battery was pyramid shaped so I sliced down the corners then with some material removed I glued them back together getting rid of the pyramid shape (I assume they did it like that to get it out of the mould)

[ballastanksian]

Yes, its called 'draw'. You will find metal castings are the same and the draw often has to be more sloped the deeper a casting is to be to minimise any chance the pattern has to drag on the mould as it is removed with detrimental results.

The master is also a certain percent larger than the end product to take metal contraction into account when it cools. A plastic kit may not need to worry about shrinkage so much, though this can affect surface quality regarding the dimples you find in some kit parts? But draw is required to ease the removal of kit parts from the sprue aided by knock out pins which used to be put in plces where they could be seen on the kit requiring lots of sanding or filling and then sanding (Glee famine ) but then plastic kits used to be children's toys and only in the last thirty odd years have kit manufacturers realised that kits are more likely to be bought by adult enthusiasts and thus a move towards more careful design of kits and also their price increase majorly in 2007 when a Ģ25 tank kit suddenly rose to Ģ39-45  My then local kit stockist had a fit as his cashflow got seriously raided.

[kpnuts]

HI all well I'm calling it done, long way from my best work, very dissatisfied with it, mainly the paintwork, but the door fit is pretty bad and the doors won't stay open without support, it's actually a very poorly detailed kit for the money, it's on amazon for 89 quid, I have to say it's well over priced when you could add 50 quid and get the heller citroen (which is in another world to this) not a kit I will ever buy again. Anyway here is the final result.

[ballastanksian]

Well at least you gave it a good go and tried some ideas out