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Post by Tom on Feb 11, 2024 12:34:55 GMT -5
That interior is pure art.
Love your dioramas, such attention to detail!
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 11, 2024 12:44:27 GMT -5
Great work
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Post by oldirish33 on Feb 12, 2024 11:56:46 GMT -5
Fabulous work and images Jean!
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Post by WallOfCars on Feb 12, 2024 12:35:46 GMT -5
Breathtaking skills Jean! One can only imagine the time it took to develop these abilities...that coupled with natural talent and tools too!
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Post by Jean B. on Feb 23, 2024 12:34:24 GMT -5
Looking fabulous, as usual! And, your Lego showroom looks great as well! That Loewy Continental is a beauty, by the way! [/div] Thanks! The Loewy is hard at the edge concerning my collection subject, but thinking that it was built before America got into WWII, and that only two cars were built (the second one shortly after war), I nevertheless welcom this stunning car in my showcase!
That interior is pure art. Love your dioramas, such attention to detail! Thank you! And please wait for the next steps, which are already done (but not yet photographed...).
Thank you so much!
Fabulous work and images Jean! Always a pleasure to share with you!
Breathtaking skills Jean! One can only imagine the time it took to develop these abilities...that coupled with natural talent and tools too! Not at all! My favourite tools are a lady's manicure set and an old screwdriver - and everything else is something between tinkering and learning-by-doing.
Time to start with the funny things: The free-formed rear lights must be created, and I do such with making photo-etched silhouettes of the items, and then soldering both sides in one turn.
Very tricky: Making the headlights! There's no single point to fix all parts, but I have to make sure that everything works before mounting the grille...
I studied the pictures hours by hours, not really recognizing how the headlights were mounted, but I guess it must had been anything like this...
Oops, what's that? Do I switch to the American democratic Rolls-Royce?
Of course I don't! The Rolls has big marker lights, and I need such for the Horch, so...
...I copied them in white-metal.
Making the parts and the film for this metal sheet took several days, and I do hope that these are all (really all) parts still needed for completing the Horch.
One big - or the biggest remaining - work is making the open hood. You know, when I take my model cars to the sandbox, playing "it's raining/sun comes out", I always need both roof types, and so I decided to make the really weird construction of the original car also for my model car. The folding of the hood is really crazy, and I hope that my solution will work...
The paper template led to this p/e part.
And here's the next step. At least the part generally fits...
All edges softened, and details attached.
Stay tuned!
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Post by Tom on Feb 23, 2024 14:29:40 GMT -5
Fantastic! Every single part is meticulously copied, that must’ve taken a lot of research... if the details aren't clearly visible in pictures of the real cars, I guess it takes even more time to find something that's close.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 23, 2024 16:40:29 GMT -5
Great stuff, as usual!
An incredible combination of skill, creativity, knowledge, patience and passion! 🖤
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Post by paulius43 on Feb 24, 2024 4:15:41 GMT -5
It's such a delight to go through your construction processes in every thread and model you create! Keep it coming! We'll get our popcorns ready
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Post by Jean B. on Feb 27, 2024 2:29:54 GMT -5
Fantastic! Every single part is meticulously copied, that must’ve taken a lot of research... if the details aren't clearly visible in pictures of the real cars, I guess it takes even more time to find something that's close. ...yes, it does! You have to compare lots of photos, even with different cars, and you have to think about "what's likely?" in any case. And then you have to check if all this can be done anyway! But, well, "chosen fate"... Great stuff, as usual! An incredible combination of skill, creativity, knowledge, patience and passion! 🖤 Thanks, but I guess it's madness, obsession, weirdness, hot-temper and despair, rather... It's such a delight to go through your construction processes in every thread and model you create! Keep it coming! We'll get our popcorns ready Great! Feel invited! There's still so much to come, I wish the average age of a model-builder would be around 120 years... Funny: The scratch in the center wasn't caused by me, it appeared while/after photo-etching (you sometimes cannot see finest scratches in the UV lacquer). But at this place it's perfect to simulate a kind of soft-top, isn't it? Finishing only this opened hood took at least a week, all steps together. It was a hard work, but finally I'm happy to have done this! And also the closed hood is not entirely as I planned it, but it's good. Making the holding points fit was a really incredible work! So this is the bare car... ...and here's the open hood attached. And here's the closed hood. To make all parts - casted ones, photo-etched ones, painted, glued - perfectly fit together, in a way that you can replace the parts safe & strong, was quite a challenge... Time to recover and making the radiator grille, completely relaxed...
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Post by Tom on Feb 27, 2024 3:36:30 GMT -5
The level of detail on that soft top is amazing!
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 27, 2024 3:38:15 GMT -5
Superlative work
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 27, 2024 10:07:24 GMT -5
Unbelievable, as usual!
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Post by Jean B. on Mar 4, 2024 13:45:54 GMT -5
The level of detail on that soft top is amazing! ...if I could only make a real soft-top which could be folded...
Thanks!
Unbelievable, as usual! That's the same what I always think! Don't get wrong, not because I'd think that I'd be so fantastic, but simply because I look at such a model on my workbench and really cannot believe that it was me who built it.
Time to get to the end-spurt!
Details like door handles, running boards and hood latches.
Rear bumper.
Adding details.
Dyed glue helps...
...making the rubber strips.
Finished bumper.
Attaching the rear lights.
Completed front end, with headlights, signal horns, foglights, bumper, licence plate and so on.
Windshield with wipers. By the way: I have not forgotten the hood mascot - this car had none! By the mid-thirties, hood mascots were regarded a sort of "old-fashioned", and especially sporty cars often had none.
Everything "mis-en-place".
Well, let's see when I will make the big photo-shooting, stay tuned!
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Post by Tom on Mar 4, 2024 14:10:24 GMT -5
Utterly amazing. Very clever use of black glue to make the rubber bumper inserts, and naturally Lego for supports.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Mar 4, 2024 16:49:55 GMT -5
Incredible levels of detail!
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