Nice one! The Burr Walnut is particularly effective. Excellent photos too - you have a light tent?
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Well, the right back mudguard in my fourth photo shows slight signs of orange peeling which I tried to avoid. The trick seems to be to get as much flooding on the last coat so that before it dries it looks very wet and with no orange-peeling. I found that it won't polish out.Originally posted by \stunning model. exterior gloss finish is brilliant, interior paint work is brilliant. lovely to look at
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While not a car guy I must say Superbly done my friend!
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Great work Steve .......... Absolutely stunning. Five Very Big Stars from me Matety.
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Just amazing detail.Comment
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Thanks. I am pleased about the Burr Walnut.Originally posted by \
I have a small light tent but didn't use it for these photos. I put a piece of wallpaper lining paper on a flat surface and curved it up at the back to make a seamless join of base and background. Then lit it with a lamp in an umbrella. You can get two outfits in one deal, each outfit having an umbrella, a telescopic stand and a 20W energy saving bulb, and a carrying case, all for £38. Good quality, tremendous value. The bulb is not as bright as a conventional very hot Photoflood bulb of lots of Watts, so I used a manual exposure of about 3 secs. From Amazon:
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Superb! What a beauty.Comment
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That is a work of art top marks sir.Comment
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This really is quite brilliant. Very well done Steve.Comment
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Thanks for your comments folks. It is encouraging.Comment
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It's now a year since I finished the model itself. The next stage was to mount it on a base with a transparent cover. I got heavily delayed on that but at last it is finished, completely. The build report :
The base and case came from:
http://www.just-bases.co.uk/
and cost £70. They attend shows such as Telford. The perspex case is made in three parts: two ends, and the top and sides which are one piece, folded. The result is exceptionally good. Quite expensive, so it is good that I am such a very slow modeller. Parts of the model are extremely delicate and without a cover they would disappear and it would get dusty (as models do) and this one would be very difficult to clean.
The base represents gravel (brown limestone chippings) and was made with Silver Sand got from a garden centre. After a coat of PVA (from a builders' merchant - the type sold for modelling canopies etc. is far too expensive for big jobs - the sand was sprinkled on generously and when dry brushed off. The first two experiments were unacceptable because many white spots appeared which was puzzling. At last I twigged: the sand probably came from a beach and was contaminated with salt. A thorough wash cured that. The sand adhered very strongly.
The model was fixed to the base by making a "T"-shaped soldered end to some stranded brass picture wire fed through a hole in the base and fixed to a screw under the base. For fixing, access to the underside was tricky without the model sliding off, so I secured it as shown and held the base vertically in a vice:
Rectangular trenches were cut for under the wheels to make them sink into the gravel and also to look flattened as tyres do, some more glue and sand being added to fill in any gaps. Without the trenches a model looks like it is plonked on top and not fully part of the scene.
After thoroughly cleaning the inside of the case it was fixed with two tiny scratchbuilt brass angles which can just be seen at each end. The handles came from the Internet. They clash slightly with the chrome of the car so perhaps I should have used chrome handles. It looks good on the shelf. Next is an enormous 1/24 road tractor with long timber trailer.Comment
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Superb nothing else to say.Comment
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Great work Steve like how you have painted the wheels .Comment
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Lovely job Steve. A real Gem. Faultless..... I like that a lotComment
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Wow. If only one day I can build like this .superb!Comment
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