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Post by Jean B. on May 27, 2023 11:38:37 GMT -5
Amazing, simply amazing work! Thanks These Horch's are so terribly difficult, it's a horror! Even my Delahayes were easier to make than these cars. For me this proves that Erdmann & Rossi really made excellent designs with many complications which are underestimated when looking at the car...
As usual, incredible attention to detail. But then it would be a shame to go to all this trouble and leave out details like that... ...yes, it would! As I said, at the beginning I wondered if I should make one of the two models according to the design sketch, this would have avoided making all those details, but you know me: always taking the odd road...
The added details keep raising the standard ...and don't ask how I'm planning to fit in the opened & closed roof tops
The attention to detail here is quite mind blowing. So pleased we can witness your work Jean. I'm enjoying every step. Nice to hearing that, thank you! Without sharing the work here it only would be half the pleasure, I guess! I really hope that I will finish my Horch line by the end of this year, it's a terrible hard work - and the next cars will get even more difficult!
It's a little bit frustrating at this point of building: I do need certain p/e parts for getting ahead, but always only two or three, so that it's hardly worth making all the effort of photo-etching...
Since I've mounted new door panels for raising the beltline, also the bonnet must be raised to get the correct proportions over all.
For that reason I've made a dashboard dummy...
...which is to be fit in between the door panels and gives the correct height and shape of the bonnet.
Together with a p/e template for the radiator grille, I now have the fix points for the bonnet and must fill the area between with putty.
Here you can see the top points at grille and dash, the bonnet will be raised by app. 1mm.
Filling and honing, again and again, until the bonnet is nicely and evenly shaped.
Now the proportions are similar to the original car.
To fix a grille template is a thing I'm going to make with each new model I build: this way the radiator grille fits perfectly to the front end!
Next step is shaping the sweep panels: It's a mad-making work, the difference between the panels is app. 0.1mm, and of course the lines should be exactly straight resp. curved...
Typical for old white-metals is that both sides left & right show completely different shapes and measurement! Here you can see the distance between the original and the correct shape of the sweep-line.
The right-hand side shows almost perfect lines.
I'm sure that it will look terrible after a first priming...
...but at the moment this is the best I'm able to make!
In this "corner" several lines are joining: any direction, convex and concave. To get this correctly shaped and the areas between even, is such a tricky work that I have to make "Feierabend" for today Stay tuned!
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2023 12:09:01 GMT -5
That looks great already. Amazing work!
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Post by Jean B. on Jun 15, 2023 7:10:33 GMT -5
That looks great already. Amazing work! ...but - like any time - we have to wait for the first test priming, which always reveals all the stains & spots which are nearly invisible on the still messy surfaces... Very slowly we're approaching the last "big" body works, this time the front end. The bottom line below the radiator is too "flat" and needs some "swing"... Much worse: the "valleys" between the front fenders and the bonnet sides need to be "flattened", like the wing of a plane, if you know what I mean. First I have to make a template of where the side louvers should be located. Then I can define the new line of the inner fenders. On the way... Incredible work, it took about two full days, but at least the complete front end now resembles the original car. And now I know why the master-maker of Western Models did not do all that... Here you can see the new flattened inner part of the fenders. Time for the attached running boards for the IAMA car. There is now photo showing these running boards clearly, but I assume that they could have looked similar like this.
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Post by Tom on Jun 15, 2023 7:31:12 GMT -5
If the model makers did their work properly, you'd have no hobby. Fab work as usual!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jun 15, 2023 12:48:13 GMT -5
Such a fabulous display of applied patience! 😬
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Post by oldirish33 on Jun 15, 2023 13:38:46 GMT -5
Your eye for detail, patience in approaching the problem and skill in execution are outstanding and the results will be too!
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Post by Jean B. on Jun 23, 2023 6:44:27 GMT -5
If the model makers did their work properly, you'd have no hobby. Fab work as usual! Thanks! ...yes, I guess you're right! "Anything you can do, I can do better...!"
Such a fabulous display of applied patience! 😬 Or perhaps "applied self-therapy" rather than patience. Usually I'd like to have all, and to have it now
Your eye for detail, patience in approaching the problem and skill in execution are outstanding and the results will be too! Thank you so much, and I hope I will meet the expectations
Again some p/e parts.
With the help of all these templates...
...I've tried to scribe in all outlines of bonnet, doors etc.
Still one of the most annoying works in model-building!
However, meanwhile I cannot proceed with the works, as the surface of the models is so messy that I can hardly see what I'm doing!
A first layer with primer helps finding the over-all shape and detecting all the issues.
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Post by reeft1 on Jun 23, 2023 10:01:14 GMT -5
Like that!
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Post by Jean B. on Jul 10, 2023 10:58:56 GMT -5
Glad to hearing that! Then I'll continue For attaching the relieved p/e parts, I need perfect surfaces, and so I now have to re-do all the things which became first visible with the primer coating... Lots to do... I have to skip over some steps, and here we can see the result after a) first priming, b) filling, grinding, honing, c) second priming, d) applying p/e parts (louvers and beltlines), e) third priming It's still not "ready",... ...but at least I'm "on the way"... ...and after another decent sanding and filing a last (?) coating with primer will be made, before painting!
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Post by Tom on Jul 10, 2023 12:17:41 GMT -5
When you set your standards so high, it takes a lot of time to reach that level... you clearly don't cut any corners in the process which leads to a flawless end product. I know how tedious this process is, a lot less interesting than thinking out solutions for applying yet more detail. It's however an integral part of the build.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 10, 2023 12:48:00 GMT -5
Amazing work, as usual!
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Post by reeft1 on Jul 10, 2023 16:41:58 GMT -5
Patience of a saint and a perfectionist is a good combination
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Post by Jean B. on Jul 15, 2023 11:31:16 GMT -5
When you set your standards so high, it takes a lot of time to reach that level... you clearly don't cut any corners in the process which leads to a flawless end product. I know how tedious this process is, a lot less interesting than thinking out solutions for applying yet more detail. It's however an integral part of the build. You're right, like every time Thinking of choosing the best way to do something - nevertheless - needs lots of time, and to try something new needs even more time... Terrible fate... Amazing work, as usual! Thanks! I hope to get the couple ready over the summer! Patience of a saint and a perfectionist is a good combination I guess my cursing sounds like the devil Time for some eye candy: The paintjob was made for both of the cars. Here's the "second" roadster, with a dark blue-grey pearlescent finish. Making the gloss finish was terrible! Usually I take nitro varnish from the rattle can, but this time I couldn't - not only because we have hot summer weather and nitro paint gets dull at humid climate, but also because nitro varnish is too thick for the filigree rear spats. The slots would get filled with lacquer... So I decided to varnish with AlClad Gloss Cote, but this is unbelievable thin, so I needed to airbrush a dozen times... Some (bigger) issues were the result, but all in all I decided to keep everything the way it is, it was too much work to start all over again. Wheels completed. The "first" roadster, shown on the IAMA 1939, was mutually painted plain black, and so did I. Again, this time I chose Humbrol gloss black with airbrush, to have a very thin and accurate coating. The extreme shine will be softened by polishing. It's necessary to eliminate small blemishes, but mainly to reduce the mirroring effect. At the moment you can hardly recognize anything due to the reflections. Polishing will provide a glossy, but "soft" surface. As Humbrol enamel paints dry very slowly, I will wait a couple of days before beginning.
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Post by Tom on Jul 15, 2023 11:43:10 GMT -5
Fantastic colours. Love the way the blue-grey metallic brings out the shape and the black makes it look aggressive.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 15, 2023 13:33:34 GMT -5
Simply gorgeous!!! I love the black version!!!
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