Thanks Mike, yes anything to do with gardening and its likely to be in.Thanks re the pm still thinking about it, have a few question to ask later.
Just finished the recolouring yesterday.
Thanks Lee.:thumb2:
Right Joe, that's now on the banned list , management has decided.:smiling2:
John.
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Couldn't do a posting earlier yesterday evening as the site was still being upgraded, but this is where we have got to.
Painted the chassis and engine, quite a glaring error by HobbyBoss here they showed only two spark plugs. So without more ado I decided rather than just spot glue the wiring I'd drill the get a better guling point.Taking a .4 mm drill I drilled two extra holes for the " wire "plugs , then removed the existing two, after a quick sand if the cut tops I re drilled. Having done that I changed drill bits to a .5, this way I don't slip off line when drilling.
With this done 4 short lengths of wire wire glued into the head, followed by some thinner to the top of the arm.
Also drilled out the coil and took another cable to the distributor head. Don't suppose much of this will be seen even with the body in place but it was great fun doing it.
Steve had remarked about painting the chassis, how right he was !
I 've done some research on the colour of engines, esp the GAZ, which was the main petrol engine used by the Russians. Most engines built for the military would have been in, yes you guess it, Russian 4 BO.
I did the head in this and decided the rest would have been pretty much unpainted, ie the gear box and transmission, with probably the axles in green
In between painting flowers I also did the interior of the car.
The seats at this point have been done in acrylic, might touch them up later with some oli, the seat frames need to repainted as a little brown has got on them.
You can see the unpainted section in the middle of the dash, well there is a very small centre with dials .
I shall varnish this first with a fleeting pass and then do the decals, these should be fun and we may never talk of these again , :hungry::tongue-out3:
That's it for now, off on 1/1 shopping trip .
Thanks for looking in, comments as usual welcomed.
John .
Just finished the recolouring yesterday.
Thanks Lee.:thumb2:
Right Joe, that's now on the banned list , management has decided.:smiling2:
John.
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Couldn't do a posting earlier yesterday evening as the site was still being upgraded, but this is where we have got to.
Painted the chassis and engine, quite a glaring error by HobbyBoss here they showed only two spark plugs. So without more ado I decided rather than just spot glue the wiring I'd drill the get a better guling point.Taking a .4 mm drill I drilled two extra holes for the " wire "plugs , then removed the existing two, after a quick sand if the cut tops I re drilled. Having done that I changed drill bits to a .5, this way I don't slip off line when drilling.
With this done 4 short lengths of wire wire glued into the head, followed by some thinner to the top of the arm.
Also drilled out the coil and took another cable to the distributor head. Don't suppose much of this will be seen even with the body in place but it was great fun doing it.
Steve had remarked about painting the chassis, how right he was !
I 've done some research on the colour of engines, esp the GAZ, which was the main petrol engine used by the Russians. Most engines built for the military would have been in, yes you guess it, Russian 4 BO.
I did the head in this and decided the rest would have been pretty much unpainted, ie the gear box and transmission, with probably the axles in green
In between painting flowers I also did the interior of the car.
The seats at this point have been done in acrylic, might touch them up later with some oli, the seat frames need to repainted as a little brown has got on them.
You can see the unpainted section in the middle of the dash, well there is a very small centre with dials .
I shall varnish this first with a fleeting pass and then do the decals, these should be fun and we may never talk of these again , :hungry::tongue-out3:
That's it for now, off on 1/1 shopping trip .
Thanks for looking in, comments as usual welcomed.
John .
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