Monogram Packard Boattail Speedster - 1/24 scale

[JR]

Great recovery Jim, she's looking fine now.
Thanks for the info on the plugs.

[Jim R]

Wouter, Rick and John - thanks guys. I appreciate the boost your comments give me :thumb2:
Too hot today to do much at the bench but tomorrow looks much more conducive to mogglin.
Jim

[Steve Jones]

You are certainly beating this one into submission Jim. A lot of hard work with some terrific results. Luv what you have done with the chassis and engine. Great to see.

[Jim R]

Hi all
Nearly a month since I've done anything on this. To be honest I have hardly spent any time at the bench. Usual excuses - hot weather, lots of summer jobs courtesy of the missus, lock down eased and so able to visit the granddaughter and to be honest a lack of mojo. Anyway chassis complete, engine complete and put together. The fit is not good and it needed a lot of care to ensure everything is square and lines up.








I had already taken the chrome finish off the chromed sprue so cleaned up the wheels and sprayed Vallejo gloss black primer. A couple of the spokes were broken so needed repairing. Hopefully get them chrome painted and put together and dry fitted soon and then I'll see whether I did get the chassis nice and square.

Take care
Jim

[Steve Jones]

The colours on the engine look really nice Jim. You must be pleased this part of the build has come to an end. Like it a lot

[Jim R]

Hi all
"Slowly, slowly catchee monkey" - definitely most apt for this build. Slow even by my standards :thinking:
Wheels painted and built up. Flat sanded for the ground/tyres contact area.


Monogram would have the wheels 'click' fit onto the ends of the axles to allow them to rotate. Far too tight to get on and then wobbly.


So knob cut off and wheels will be glued in place.


The silencer was terrible as was the end of the tailpipe. So a new exhaust was scratched.




Dry fitted the cabin into the body. Bad gap on both sides. It will come together with clamping but the body is then distorted. So I'll have to fill the gaps. Not that difficult but just takes time.






This kit is really showing it's age and yet is strangely satisfying. It could yet become a shelf queen though :rolling:

Stay safe everyone :thumb2:

Jim

[Si Benson]

Hi Jim,
Great to see some progress on this, some neat scratch work too :thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi all
Si - thanks :thumb2:
A bit more done in between other jobs.
There is a sump guard thingy to fit. It doesn't :angry: There is a YouTube video build of this kit and the guy there couldn't fit it so missed it off. I hacked it about and made a couple of wedges and got it to fit - sort of. I doubt very much if it will show anyway.


The wedge bit - rough but it does the job.


Two parts of the exhaust painted and fitted. Just the tail pipe to go on later.


The sides of the cab were bulked out with styrene strips and the gap is no more :thumb2:




You can see in the cab photo that where the door opens is a raised line - why raised I don't know. I scribed in a line - needs cleaning up.


The upper body was quite scratched. Its been rattling about in the box for over 40 years so hardly surprising. I gave it a polish with Tamiya Polishing Paste and I hope I can get a reasonable gloss finish.


Stay safe
Jim

[Steve Jones]

Quite the challenge Jim! You are certainly beating this one into submission. Great to see how you are overcoming the obstacles.

[Guest]

Coming along very nicely Jim. As always, so clean and tidy.

[Jim R]

Hi all
Steve and Peter - appreciate you sticking with this :thumb2:

I've been working on the cabin. Cleaning up parts and getting them to fit is time consuming with this kit! :anguished:
Cab was primed and then the door pockets etc were very roughly preshaded with dark grey.


The seats and the other odds and ends were painted and the cab was airbrushed with Tamiya Buff. Very lightly weathered with oils. The wooden dash and the divider between the seats was based with Lifecolor Light wood and then oils used for the grain. Then gloss varnished. No decals for the instruments so they had to be painted.






The bonnet is one piece which the instructions say to leave unglued presumably so it can be lifted off to show the engine.


I decided to show the bonnet folded back so the engine is on view. Marked cut lines with Dymo tape and used a razor saw to separate the parts which will fold back. I'll need to make a hinge from thin rod or stretched sprue, I may actually have a length of PE hinge kicking around somewhere.


Thanks again. Take care. Stay safe - no drunken raves in the park for you lot!! :tongue-out3:

Jim

[rtfoe]

Hi Jim, just dropped in to have a look...love the grain work. :thumb2: The light tan finish of the leather seats and side trimming look real. Showing off the engine is a good idea.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Thanks Richard

A bit of progress. Because of the flash and misalignment of the mould clean up of parts is time consuming and rather mojo sapping.
The lower body was airbrushed with Tamiya Brown gloss. I don't particularly like Tamiya paints but I didn't prime and so used Tamiya lacquer thinner. Masked and painted the running boards.






Chrome parts done with Vallejo Metal Color. Quite a fair finish for a water based paint.


A couple of 'forests' of bits. Body parts primed with white Stynylrez as a base for the orange.


Odds and ends primed black.


When everything is fully cured I can paint the body orange and hopefully it will start to come together and look like a car.

Thanks for looking.
Stay safe. Modelling is by and large a solitary undertaking so I doubt we'll be bothered by Boris' '6 persons rule' :tongue-out3:

Jim

[Guest]

Proper modelling Jim :smiling3:.

[Guest]

Entirely agree with Ralph - proper modelling. Looking great Jim.