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Post by reeft1 on Aug 8, 2022 3:31:02 GMT -5
Next level impressive
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Post by bertone on Aug 8, 2022 12:20:12 GMT -5
Wow! The luggage is beyond belief! Agreed, but so much here is beyond belief. Luggage, hubcaps and pedals are all worthy of special praise over and above the usual well deserved accolades.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 9, 2022 9:05:59 GMT -5
OMG! Unbelievable!
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 14, 2022 11:38:41 GMT -5
Wow! The luggage is beyond belief! Thanks You know, if there's a luggage set expressively mentioned in the records, I simply cannot resist making one...
...and there are still lots of details to come! As we have a very hot summer here in Berlin this year, works are quite exhausting... on the outside I cannot model-build, and inside it's warm and damp which costs nerves and makes wet fingers - no way with model-building
Agreed, but so much here is beyond belief. Luggage, hubcaps and pedals are all worthy of special praise over and above the usual well deserved accolades. Too kind - it's only doing what can be done. I always wonder what I could make if I had a fond training as a jeweller or goldsmith. However, it's all about having fun, and therefore I always recommend to anyone: build model cars
OMG! Unbelievable! ...wait for the final trim
The two bigger suitcases must be glued into the car, the sunroof is to small for getting them through...
Completed steering wheel.
Interior is completed, and so the "wedding" could take place.
The trim strips on the fenders are quite special: Not only flat bands, but having a triangular cross-section. So I etched a thin line on the reverse side (see center) and folded the strip along the line (right).
Of course the strips are now very stiff and so it took a complete day (!) to attach all four strips properly to the fenders. What a work!
Finally you can hardly see the crease in the strips, however, the overall appeal is rather nice.
Attaching the bumpers.
Spare wheel, rear window, exhaust pipe mounted.
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 14, 2022 11:48:17 GMT -5
It's like watching greatness unfold. Amazing! 😲
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 14, 2022 12:31:21 GMT -5
Amazing!!! 😱
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Post by Tom on Aug 14, 2022 12:41:45 GMT -5
Those wingtop trim strips are a work of art! Must've been hard to resist replacing them with flat items though...
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 21, 2022 11:27:54 GMT -5
It's like watching greatness unfold. Amazing! 😲 Thank you, it's always quite a fun to attach the final parts and seeing the whole thing grow! However, the last and tiniest parts require the greatest accuracy - and a bunch of nerves...
Those wingtop trim strips are a work of art! Must've been hard to resist replacing them with flat items though... Of course! I often use chromed adhesive strips from TinWizard, excellent material - but you know: if there's a more complicated way, I'll take this!
Last round of p/e parts.
Marker lights handcarved from a halfround brass strip.
Galvanized with nickel and attached to the front wings.
Trim: door handles (4 parts), hood latches (2 parts), Erdmann & Rossi badges (with inscription ), bonnet handles.
More trim, already prepared.
Completed foglights and headlight lenses with Horch-"H".
Original radiator grille (left), self-made master, finished new grille.
Instead of making a new headlight shape by myself, I took a matching one from a RIO Delahaye and casted it in white-metal.
Starting with the front trim.
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Post by Tom on Aug 21, 2022 14:31:22 GMT -5
What a beautiful car and what an amazing model you're building!
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 21, 2022 14:58:25 GMT -5
Stupendous! I did like your comment that the small pieces make you nervous. It makes me feel better knowing you sweat those small bits too. 😁
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Post by reeft1 on Aug 22, 2022 4:28:42 GMT -5
Wonderful craftsmanship
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 23, 2022 5:22:36 GMT -5
What a beautiful car and what an amazing model you're building! Thanks! Indeed, it's one of my favourite E&R designs. They made several similar cars on RR/Bentley chassis, and they all have those magnificent flowing and modern lines, nevertheless classy and elegant.
Stupendous! I did like your comment that the small pieces make you nervous. It makes me feel better knowing you sweat those small bits too. 😁 ...you can bet I usually say that I'm building most of my models "by hearing" rather than "seeing" what I'm actually doing
Thank you! Indeed, this time I have a notion that I've considered some new methods for model-building and that the result is - perhaps - "better" than most of my previous builds. Well, give me the button "Apprentice. Thanks for your patience"
So it's time to say goodbye - to this model, only, of course It's always a sort of "post-natal depression", completing a project and send the model to the others in the showcase... The last picture of the building process shows the completed front design:
The design of the club crests over the licence plate are fantasy, interpreting the few details visible on the vintage photos.
And here she comes, "Manuela", how Rosemeyer christened the car for any reason which seems to remain undisclosed:
Alternating opened roof.
Quarter lights can be opened.
At least the smallest of the suitcases can be taken out...
...while the others are visible through the opened roof.
This marvelous picture was very likely taken on the AVUS in the southwest of Berlin, only some hundred meters distance from where I live. The AVUS (abbreviation for: Vehicle test and race track) was the first Autobahn in history and built for driving high speed cars and races. Today the notorious curves at the ends are wrecked and it's only a part of the city highway...
But what a coincidence: Mr Rosemeyer gathered by right when I took the photos!
And here we can see him with his likewise famous wife, Elly Beinhorn, a popular sport and artistic pilot, like many women in the 20s and 30s.
One of her colleagues, Ernst Udet, owned the Horch 830 I built recently.
In the www I made this magnificent discovery: An original photograph of the car, painted black! How comes?
Let's have a look at the reverse side:
Here's a hand-writte notice, which says: "G... 5,5 l Horch 2-seater sport coupé, after his dead painted black, delivered in fish-silver" - As Bernd Rosemeyer was one of the social and sport top stars in Germany at that time, obviously his car was painted black after his sudden dead in a record-drive accident as a kind of mourning condolence. He received his dream car in 1937, and only a year later he was dead. The car disappeared during the war, and although there are several reports that the remainings were found in the Ukraine some ten years ago, these news are fake. Even the shown scrap pieces show details which definitively do not belong to the original car, so we must assume that this unique car may be lost forever... Elly Beinhorn died with over 100 years, and their only son, Bernd Rosemeyer jr., died a couple of years ago, as well.
So this is my tribute to one of the greatest German racing drivers.
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Post by Tom on Aug 23, 2022 6:13:35 GMT -5
Fascinating history and a stunning end result of your build. I'm glad you built it in silver. Did I ever mention that I have a copy of the 1930s book written about Rosemeyer by his wife?
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 23, 2022 9:02:50 GMT -5
Amazing results, absolutely beautiful work!
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Post by bertone on Aug 23, 2022 9:15:37 GMT -5
Fantastic work. I didn't realise the quarter lights could be opened . I wonder where this enhancement will lead? You must display it with the beautifully realised sun roof opened - there's just too much lovely stuff inside to leave hidden away.
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