The putty manufacturer should pay you for an endorsement. Excellent job!
Well, he does! Right at the moment I wonder whether to purchase another estate either on Barbados or on Bermuda
Or on both? Well, we will see...
Is it still a white metal model?
Those headlights are pretty amazing, both the original design and your scale replicas!
Ha, I've made up my mind considering metal/putty models! Indeed, I always confirm that I only make metal models. However, my solution is that as long as the original model resp. the main body is made of metal, it still stays a metal model, whatever happens. After only twelve years TinWizard presented the long-awaited Daimler Double Six Limousine, unfortunately only as ready-made model and: with a body made of resin. I know, everything else cannot be manufactured price-worthy, but I am very sad that this model now does not find its place in my collection...
Awesome work, as usual!
Thanks! Hope that I'm "over the mountain-top", as we say in Germany
Thank you! This model is indeed a memory to my early childhood, when I saw a (mediocre) painting of this car in a cigarette collecting-album (you know what I mean?) which were made throughout the 1960s. Back then I was fascinated by this unbevielable design, and so - decades later - the circle is to be closed.
Crazy amount of work there but my god it looks impressive
Nice to hearing that! I have checked all angles of the model compared to the various photos you can find, and yes, the lines and proportions are not that bad, I'm quite satisfied!
These re-builds are certainly an eduction Jean. Astonishing amount of redesign and accurate measuring involved. All very important to get the end results we love to see. First class.
Thank you so much! This Horch is surely one of the most elaborated models I have made so far - and of which I am going to build within the next twenty years, also! Indeed a feel a little bit exhausted after the complete Horch line I've made, and I hope that I will accomplish this project before summer...
Outlines of doors, hood and trunk have to be engraved.
The windshield must be designed. The original kit has one which resembles the windshield of the 540K roadster rather than the original Horch.
I always slept in math class, and so I am almost unable to find the correct angle of a V-type windshield in a certain angle, fitting with upright pillars to the doors and the correct radii at the bottom line.
The paper template is quite good, but...
...the softness of paper cannot be repeated with p/e parts, and so the errors promptly are visible!
To avoid this for the moment when the car is almost ready, I made these parts at this instant for purpose, to have the chance for re-designing the frames.
I've had to switch to a brandnew PC, including new Windows11 and the latest version of InkScape. This took quite a lot of time the last two weeks, and InkScape always has some difficulties with any printers, as I've learnt. I was unsatisfied with the printing result of the etching films, but the final result was not that bad. Meanwhile I've found a trick to improve the printing solution a little bit, and I really hope that I can make p/e parts in the usual quality in future.
After having made a complete "picture check", I found out that my cornucopia headlights are much to big in any direction. So I had to reduce them in diameter and length (left-hand). Difficult work, to find a smooth and "round" shape when the part is bend...
And of course the headlights must be again fitted into a "putty bed".
This is done now, and also the preparation for the marker lights, which are "sunken in" half-way into the fender.
Preparation for the fog-lights is done also.
Shaping the rear end is completed.
So the very "big" works seem to finished. Every further step is getting smaller and smaller. This point of work is always a very uplifting moment. My workshop looks as if an H-bomb found its aim, and I guess a clean-up will be helpful for continuing the works.