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Post by oldirish33 on Jul 14, 2022 9:54:16 GMT -5
I am always amazed and awed Jean at the steps you go through and the skill and craft you employ in your builds. You are truly both an artisan and a master craftsman!
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Post by Tom on Jul 14, 2022 10:58:18 GMT -5
Your usual excellence in every detail.
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Post by Jean B. on Jul 24, 2022 9:45:52 GMT -5
...or obsessiveness, I'm still discussing with my psychoanalyst. Great attention to detail! 🙂 Well, "from the hundredth to the thousandth", as we say in Germany I am always amazed and awed Jean at the steps you go through and the skill and craft you employ in your builds. You are truly both an artisan and a master craftsman! Thanks a lot, I wish I were both of it! In fact I'm only enhancing models which already exist by using tools which I still cannot name... However, it's big, big fun Your usual excellence in every detail. ...and there are still so many details to come with this model! I hope that I'll now have some weeks to make bigger steps, let's see... Preparing the new louvers for the bonnet sides. The all-over part serves as template for scribing in the new outlines, and in the gaps I can fit in the new louvers for perfect alignment. Nice. Positioning the top louvers is always a little tricky: no matter how accurate you're working, old white-metals are non-symmetrical in any way! Almost impossible to find a correct position. However, I hope that with this tricks I'll achieve an almost "straight" impression. Last details for the bodywork: the fuel take-in... ...new slots for the p/e bumper holders... ...and finally we're entering a new level: first primer coating! You already know it, the first coating is only for detecting all the spots and blemishes... ...but the second coating reveals almost perfect surfaces! However, I can still find some spots, and so they're gonna fixed and a final primer coating will be made! Stay tuned!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 24, 2022 11:21:02 GMT -5
Great update, as usual! I will surely stay tuned!
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Post by Tom on Jul 24, 2022 11:58:16 GMT -5
It looks great already!
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Post by reeft1 on Jul 25, 2022 3:37:25 GMT -5
Looking super
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Post by steviesx on Jul 29, 2022 9:08:18 GMT -5
Always enjoy your threads.
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 1, 2022 6:04:18 GMT -5
Great update, as usual! I will surely stay tuned! Coating with primer is always what we call "mountain party" in Germany , means: having reached the top. Although much work is still to do, having finished the bodywork means half the way is done...
Makes forget all the pain achieving this point
Thanks! Only if the priming reveals an absolutely clean and smooth body, you can expect a nicely finished result in the end...
Always enjoy your threads. Great to hearing that, feel invited!
And now changing to the sunny side of life: the paintjob. On the vintage photos we can only see that the car was painted "medium metallic", and the commissioning order of Erdmann & Rossi (which is still existant!) describes "fishsilver S16577". I could not find out which colour that means, perhaps an abbreviation of paint company Sikkens, but I guess it is hopeless to find out the original hue. I'm going the other way: coachbuilt luxury cars in Nazi-Germany could not be "bought" by anyone (independent of his monetary situation), but they were "handed out" by approval of the Reichs-office for propaganda, with its mastermind Joseph Goebbels. Bernd Rosemeyer was surely a wealthy man, but with his "job" of driving races for Auto Union he would not had been able to afford a dream car like this one. So Goebbels and Auto Union decided to "hand out" an appropriate car to him, designed after his own specifications as racing driver. The "silver arrows" (Silberpfeile) were painted in metallic silver, they were not polished, as many sources say. So I think it's very likely, that referring to his company cars, Rosemeyers own car was painted in a similar hue, and therefore I decided to use Humbrol No 56, aluminium.
Having airbrushed a second coating and polished the chrome trim.
After two times varnishing...
...and proper hand and machine polishing...
...we get a quite nice result!
There are meanwhile lots of replicas of this magnificent car, but they are all terribly proportioned and built. The only accurate replica is that of "Horch Classic", the Audi-based company curating the heritage of Auto Union. However, even this really great copy has some slight alterations compared with the original car. At least they used the same paint, and so I think it may be correct in some way.
As the main body works are finished now, I am going to concentrate on the interior parts.
The commissioning letter expressively demands "triangle windows without rear pillar" and "fixed chrome frames around the side windows". So I wonder if I am able to make movable triangle windows.
The door panels mainly consist of a "sandwich" of two mirrored panels. The triangle window has two small pins, matching according gaps on the inside of the two panel parts.
A first "dry" test reveals that the triangles are indeed working!
Will be great fun to build those door panels in the end...
Perhaps some find this detail neglectable, but I think that the pipings between body and fenders always add a dose of authenticity to a model, and so I made these pipings of 0.2mm copper wire, painted matching to the body.
Same for the front wings.
Done!
Meanwhile I added an opened sunroof, alternating to the closed one.
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 1, 2022 10:24:30 GMT -5
Masterful!
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Post by Tom on Aug 1, 2022 12:20:05 GMT -5
Looks fantastic, love the paintwork!
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Post by reeft1 on Aug 1, 2022 13:32:29 GMT -5
Sunroof is ace
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Post by alex on Aug 3, 2022 15:18:14 GMT -5
Great build JB.
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Post by GBOAC002 on Aug 4, 2022 4:12:57 GMT -5
Brilliant! Who else would do opening quarter lights in 1:43?!
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 7, 2022 11:06:46 GMT -5
Thank you
Looks fantastic, love the paintwork! Thanks, usually I work with matte foundation and transparent Iriodine overlay, but the aluminium paint from Humbrol is so fine-grained that it gives an almost perfect look - I guess I will use this paint for another couple of cars, anywhen...
Thanks a lot! Meanwhile it's a kind of "trademark" of my builds, removable roofs & slidable windshields. But please do not ask for opening doors...
Thank you so much! But there's still a lot to do, the car needs some very special trim...
Brilliant! Who else would do opening quarter lights in 1:43?! Well, ask the longterm inhabitants of comfortable sanitariums, there you find all of them...
All window panes are cut, and the door "sandwiches" including the quarter lights are mounted.
The door panels are a fantasy, as there are no interior photos of the original car. The commissioning order demands "arm rests", "brief cases" and "two window winders", plus "wood in matching colour to the pig skin", so I guess my version may be suitable.
Door panels fitted into the body.
Quarter lights...
...do work
Some more p/e parts.
I need new seats. As this type is only needed for this particular single car, I try to keep the construction rather easy.
The p/e parts bent to a "U"-shape, filled up with polyester putty, and the piping relieved with 2K-glue.
Everything painted - and ready!
Did I make a mistake The passenger's seat one piping wider than the driver's seat??? Nooo, the order form says "passenger's seat 6 cm wider than driver's seat", so did I
For comparison, the original seats. They are too thin and "tiny", and the proportions 1:2 are incorrect.
The original dashboard will only save as support...
...for my own version, an amalgam of what can be seen on one photo and the replica by Horch Classics.
Meanwhile the chassis is completed.
Hubcaps are mounted.
Pedals with "Horch"-H.
Mr Rosemeyer demanded a "spacious luggage compartment", and so I've made a luggage set in lizard skin...
...with handles made of tortoise shell
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Post by Tom on Aug 7, 2022 13:59:20 GMT -5
Wow! The luggage is beyond belief!
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