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Post by Jean B. on Jul 23, 2023 10:55:57 GMT -5
Fantastic colours. Love the way the blue-grey metallic brings out the shape and the black makes it look aggressive. Thanks! Both show a rather classic and elegant livery. It is not sure how many cars with this body-style were made, if two, three or even four. Only two remain today, one (blue-green metallic) which is badly restaurated with many wrong parts and interior. The other the prize-winning Pebble Beach Car, which formerly was grey (metallic). This PB car is desastrous, as absolutely everything original had been removed and substituted by parts which never belonged to that car. The owner tried to achieve the look of the "Spezial Roadster", but in the end it is not such. So I decided to make the "original" IAMA car of which at least a couple of photos survived, and the "grey one", which very certainly is the PB car and had its almost original layout throughout the 1990s. Therefore I chose the grey-metallic colour, as I assume that the car never underwent a restoration. What a shame that the "Pebble Beaching" destroyed all original livery of the car...
Simply gorgeous!!! I love the black version!!! Always difficult to make black models! You see every smallest blemish, and finally you see nothing of the car. However, the final black/white livery will be quite a show, I hope...
More metal.
Baseplate completed, and marriage took place.
Rear spats are mounted, and some trim.
Spats indeed show the wheels! I am very happy that this effect is accomplished!
Spare mounted.
A preview of things to come!
Not exactly the same, this one shows the spectacular integrated running boards.
Next step is making the interior and the windscreen.
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Post by Tom on Jul 23, 2023 11:27:08 GMT -5
Oh wow. What fantastic results already. Even the baseplate is super smooth, and those spats...
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 23, 2023 16:08:10 GMT -5
OMG! Both look great but, the black one looks amazing! 🖤
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Post by reeft1 on Jul 24, 2023 5:12:59 GMT -5
These are turning in to a couple of very good looking cars.
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 6, 2023 11:54:59 GMT -5
Oh wow. What fantastic results already. Even the baseplate is super smooth, and those spats... Well, if anything would be that easy like making the baseplate This time I used Humbrol metal-cote, it is easy to airbrush and can then be polished up to a fine semi-matte metal finish. The spats - I have to admit - are quite a masterpiece. I have never thought that it would be possible to etch parts in such a way. This will make these two models something special in my collection...
OMG! Both look great but, the black one looks amazing! 🖤 ...and this will be topped when all the white details will be added
These are turning in to a couple of very good looking cars. ...I do hope so! German engineering and design months before a lunatic burnt all this to ashes.
Easy to see: interior is waiting to be made!
I need the two seat benches only for these two cars. Making a master and casting this in white-metal would cause more work than making two one-off benches by photo-etching, so I chose the latter option.
Meanwhile all seats are built and painted.
The pipings for the IAMA car were made in 0.1mm sheet with 0.25mm width and painted white.
Due to photo-etching, the pipings fit perfectly into the main parts.
The show cars always showed extravagant and costly liveries, so did this one. The "black-white" theme was continued all over interior and exterior.
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Post by Tom on Aug 6, 2023 12:30:56 GMT -5
Those seats are amazing, making the piping like this must be a lot easier to get right than by using wire.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 6, 2023 12:39:43 GMT -5
OMG! Those seats look great! I was wondering if it’s OK to contact you via direct message or, if you have an email where to reach you! It’s concerning a Matrix model that I received this week, which is lacking one small part, and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to make one for me! I posted this a few days ago: modelscale143.freeforums.net/post/26903/thread
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Post by jager on Aug 15, 2023 8:58:40 GMT -5
Great to see these coming together Jean. The open wheel spats look amazing, especially the black version with the whitewall tyres behind.
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 25, 2023 11:50:56 GMT -5
Those seats are amazing, making the piping like this must be a lot easier to get right than by using wire. Especially concerning the shape of piping. The design with the "winged" corners couldn't be made with wire, and this interior is quite spectacular, isn't it?
OMG! Those seats look great! I was wondering if it’s OK to contact you via direct message or, if you have an email where to reach you! It’s concerning a Matrix model that I received this week, which is lacking one small part, and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to make one for me! I posted this a few days ago: modelscale143.freeforums.net/post/26903/threadI haven't got any message...?? So please try again, will you?
Great to see these coming together Jean. The open wheel spats look amazing, especially the black version with the whitewall tyres behind. Thank you! Once in a lifetime... but I really wish to build an easier model, somewhen...!
Will this be the last p/e sheet? At least I tried to design all needed parts...
Dashboards and steering wheels completed.
Look at the armrests!
Fender trim made. Seems I'm getting lazy... Of course I wanted to make the trim with p/e parts, but: the grey roadster is varnished with AlClad and then polished, and the p/e trim is so stiff that the glue doesn't have enough grip on the polished surface. And I cannot clean the surface, as AlClad is wiped away with any solvent... So I had no other alternative than making the trim with ordinary self-adhesive strips...
Logo on the spats.
Imagine: after only twenty years (!) my mobile phone got broken. So I've no received my first smartphone! You know, elderly people have much difficulties with getting familiar with such ultra-modern devices. These are my first photos taken with the phone instead of my old camera which weighs nearly a ton. But it will take a while until I experienced how to manage all this...
Another interior pic. (Can't get enough from the black/white seats!)
The rather clumsy bumpers should get new holders.
Quite tricky to attach all the parts...
The IAMA show car in fact did not have a licence plate, but I don't like "white" plates, so I simply imagined a Berlin number ("IA" stands for Berlin)
The real car seems to have had a back-lighted licence plate, very popular with luxury cars at that time!
That's nice!
Front bumpers attached.
Attaching the trim.
The same for the black one.
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Post by Tom on Aug 25, 2023 12:39:26 GMT -5
Wow, looking fantastic already! Also, your new phone takes excellent pictures.
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 25, 2023 13:49:38 GMT -5
Beautiful Jean, with your usual fastidious attention to detail! I am always in awe of your work! Good luck with the new phone. I try to hold out replacing mine as long as I can, but 20 years, wow!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 25, 2023 15:07:22 GMT -5
Amazing, simply amazing work!!! 🖤
I'll send you a private message today! Thanks!
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Post by reeft1 on Aug 26, 2023 0:00:09 GMT -5
Beautiful attention to detail as always
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Post by Jean B. on Sept 12, 2023 5:47:47 GMT -5
Wow, looking fantastic already! Also, your new phone takes excellent pictures. Thanks! Let's hope so... I have mortgaged the house to buy the mobile phone...
Beautiful Jean, with your usual fastidious attention to detail! I am always in awe of your work! Good luck with the new phone. I try to hold out replacing mine as long as I can, but 20 years, wow! Past times... Remember (if you are already that old) how long our parents and grandparents used their fridges or TV sets Mostly an investment for life! To be honest, I was simply too lazy to learn all the new functions a smartphone offers, and I hate telephoning, so my old mobile phone only served as "life insurance" for emergency cases.
Amazing, simply amazing work!!! 🖤 I'll send you a private message today! Thanks! ...and I fear I've disappointed you, maybe I can make it up to you, later...
Beautiful attention to detail as always Thank you! The complete Horch line is so incredible ambitious! I've never thought that I would have to deal with so extraordinary many small & smallest parts for these cars . But this way we get a notion of how rich and costly the original cars were made at that time!
The windshields are attached (what a work! all parts had to be fixed "free-floating"!) and now more and more tiny trim is added.
Actually I should make a complete windshield dummy first, and then designing the real parts, but that would cause the double work! So I design all parts virtually on the screen and have to adjust them while attaching to the car...
Door handles and Erdmann & Rossi badges.
Always a good feeling when all the lametta brings such a model to life!
Next big work will be making the front design with radiator grilles and headlights.
My first attempt for the taillights was to build them from separated metal parts, but this was a failure. So I decided to make a master and cast this in white-metal.
And here's the result.
Perhaps a little bit too big, but it's already difficult to handle these parts in this size. The casting metal gets dull within thirty minutes, and so I have to high-polish the parts, get them fixed and immediately varnished to preserve the shine.
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Post by Tom on Sept 12, 2023 5:53:39 GMT -5
Those exquisite details...
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