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Post by Jean B. on Jan 14, 2024 12:38:43 GMT -5
Yes, strong easterly winds and -6°C with the sensation of -18 when I cycled to work in the morning. Quite painful for my feet and hands. Happy to arrive at work and get a hot coffee. The primered body looks great already, through I know that getting rid of the final imperfections will take hours of work. ...yes, it took hours, but finally: only hours Altogether three turns of priming, and everything was fine. Meanwhile it's warmer, but rainy, wet, gray...
Once again I am awed with your detail and skill Jean! I can relate to the cold. We are getting hit with storms out of the arctic Alaska and Canada. The shop has heat, but the garage where I paint does not, so those projects are on hold. Great stuff coming out of your workshop, despite the cold! Thanks! Well, of course I have a heating device in my workshop, but that costs a huge amount of energy, and I hate supporting that Russian Bastard in any way...
The second turn of sanding and priming made everything much better, and then only very tiny blemishes were left to partially make a third layer of primer - and here's the result.
I am satisfied and will proceed with works!
Time to plan the painting! My Horch book indeed refers the original hues: "Iraq light-gray & dark-gray". Well, no idea which gray the Iraq has... I browsed my colour pattern box and chose three shades of grey (lower body, upper body and hood) which suit well together and match the contrasts of the pictures approximately.
Here you can see my patterns.
A rather exhausting work, but I always recommend to polish bare metal surfaces after each turn of painting! Otherwise the layers are so thick in the end that it will get very untidy when polishing only in the final stadium.
The photo is very shadowed/dark, so you can hardly see that the upper body already got its light gray paint. Masking the trimline is very difficult, I use BareMetalFoil, all other kinds of tape are much to thick.
And even with BMF the edge between the two paints is not exact However, the complete paintjob is tolerable, and so I will retouch the line tomorrow morning, when I (hopefully) had a good sleep.
No surprises with the lower body.
A calm hand and a fresh surgery knife will help
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Post by Tom on Jan 14, 2024 15:33:14 GMT -5
I'd be more than happy with that result...
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jan 14, 2024 17:10:16 GMT -5
That’s going to look classy! 🖤
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Post by reeft1 on Jan 15, 2024 3:35:20 GMT -5
Looking forward to see this with lacquer
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Post by alex on Jan 15, 2024 12:55:33 GMT -5
Nice color scheme JB. Excellent work as usual.
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Post by Jean B. on Jan 21, 2024 12:24:01 GMT -5
I'd be more than happy with that result... You know, the modeller's fate: it could be worse, but it also could be better...
That’s going to look classy! 🖤 Thanks, I hope so, too...
Looking forward to see this with lacquer ... have a look below
Nice color scheme JB. Excellent work as usual. Thank you so much! Decent, but elegant, I would say.
Here we go: After the first (or the second?) varnishing.
Want to keep the matte paint for the inside floor, so this area is masked while varnishing.
Ready for polishing.
Polished with MicroMesh 3200 up to 12000.
For the first time I only glued the halves together, usually I use screws. This time it was technically impossible to do that, but it feels rather tight & safe.
From underneath: Meanwhile I always use Humbrol 27004 metal cote for finishing the technical parts.
For mounting the spats this "bridge" is necessary.
Wheels completed.
Spats mounted and polished with Tamiya liquid polishing wax.
Meanwhile window panes were cut and glued into the frames, now the sandwich panels are to be fixed into the upper body. Difficult: The top edge must fit exactly to the hood.
Quite an artistic work, but I guess it's acceptable!
Next step is designing the interior parts.
A certain resemblance is already visible, isn't it?
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Post by Tom on Jan 21, 2024 15:06:53 GMT -5
Wow, that's superb! Love the level of gloss in the paint, and every aspect is correct for the original.
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Post by reeft1 on Jan 21, 2024 15:27:17 GMT -5
That is looking stunning
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jan 21, 2024 16:57:51 GMT -5
Looking great! 🖤
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Post by oldirish33 on Jan 21, 2024 20:25:00 GMT -5
Beautiful are sportingly elegant Jean! Excellent!
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Post by Jean B. on Feb 4, 2024 12:35:45 GMT -5
Wow, that's superb! Love the level of gloss in the paint, and every aspect is correct for the original. Thank you! I am always surprised how anything turns out, finally! There are so many details which I only "estimate", and when measuring afterwards, everything fits up to 0.1mm However, there are always many, many things which don't come in the style I planned to, but I guess that's the "artist's fate", isn't it?
Thanks! Unfortunately I had to interrupt works for almost two weeks as I had to undergo a painful surgery and was "knocked off" for a while... Today's the first day I feel better.
Thank you so much
Beautiful are sportingly elegant Jean! Excellent! ...and imagine that the remains of this fantastic car possibly still sleep in any Siberian barn...
Time to start the interior parts!
Unfortunately there's hardly anything to recognize of the interior of the car... Only the number of pipings (approximately) and the pattern with the buttons seems to be certain, and that the interior likely was black.
On one picture we can see the arrangement for the third seat in the rear, but anything else will be a fantasy...
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Post by Tom on Feb 4, 2024 13:15:05 GMT -5
I hope you're feeling better now! Your interior detail is -as usual- next level.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 4, 2024 15:55:09 GMT -5
Fabulous stuff!
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Post by Jean B. on Feb 11, 2024 12:18:05 GMT -5
I hope you're feeling better now! Your interior detail is -as usual- next level. Thank you so much! Indeed, I fell well again, finally, but it was a hard time... The interior should get fine, but - to be honest - I wanted to make it even better: The third seat in the back should had been foldable, but I had no clue where to start with, so it is fixed now...
Fabulous stuff! Thank you! Now the last big bunch of parts must be designed, mainly the exterior parts, so please be patient for another couple of months...
The interior door panels, handles will follow later.
As there is no photo of the interior of this car is available, I decided to make the standard dashboard of the 853A. Most Erdmann & Rossi designs had customized dashboards, but the exterior design mainly follows the standard car, and so I think that the dashboard may also had the standard design.
The painted seats.
The completed interior.
The mounted dashboard. It is still difficult for me to take close-ups with my new iPhone... Despite all instruction books, the focus always switches on close distances to the "wrong" parts... well, I guess I will to have to learn much more
Well, actually it's the wrong place, but I just want to show what I've been doing the last weeks (and months...) beside the Horch. You know, when I came from the hospital, I could not work in my dungeon, and so was allowed to tinker with some Lego parts in my bedroom, here's how it's turned out:
More pictures will follow later in the appropriate thread...
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 11, 2024 12:33:23 GMT -5
Looking fabulous, as usual! And, your Lego showroom looks great as well!
That Loewy Continental is a beauty, by the way!
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