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Still using "De-Solv-It" Grafitti Remover ... I saw someone on TC had stripped a Scorcher shell with caustic soda though, I was quite impressed |
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Jonny,
Hows the M38 restro going? any update? BR Mark |
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In a word, no. Knowing that my "runner" Willy (that cost less than this one) will _still_ be more complete/ better condition than this one even when I've finished means I can't work up enoough enthuisiasm to work on it ahead of other projects ATM. |
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Actually made some progress on this for the first time in months - I got my Willy out, glued the bit together, applied some filler, and spent a couple of hours rubbing down last night.
Yes, I was rubbing my Willy while watching the Eurovision song contest. Today, I hope to get some primer on, and I plan to give my Willy another rub this evening. |
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Come on, nobody wants to grab hold of my Willy jokes?
Moving on, I need to thing about a theme/colour - I already have a boxart WW2, my other M38 is boxart apart from the driver, so as I want to make the new aluminium front very shiny, I need to come up with some other colour scheme ... I did think of a firetruck theme as I'm quite fond of red cars but my #2 Cheetah will be red & I don't really want to paint two cars the exact same colour in a row, so unless I have any brainwaves in the mean time, I'm thinking US Navy - about the same colour as the WWII Vought Corsair F-4U like this Tamiya one I found on t'internet, but without the dirt: |
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better read the other threads you have started but I got some inspiration and started fidling with My Willy. (that would be nr. 4 or 5 in the rebuild pile ) the gearboxes got some grease in it thats colored yellow, green and blue, yuk! |
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I seem to have got so enthuisiam back for this car, so while it lasts I'll run with it ...
Front wheel was in a poor state, with bits missing from both inner & outer white bits: Outer face is easy enough, I sanded off the badly chewed up sticky up bit on all of the wheels, then filed back the break to straight edges: Inlay is a bit of styrene sheet, outer edge will be sanded to shape later ... Along with the rest of the filler: Inner half of the wheel is more of a problem, I started by heating a bit of styrene sheet to "really floppy", then formed it around the wheel to get the (nearly) right radius... ... heat came from a mini blowtorch, balanced in a mug I had handy: Once the card had set it was trimmed right down & fitted to the inside of the wheel. Once the glue has set & I've sanded the bottom edge to the right height, I can have a go at the missing spoke. |
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I also started on the "chip" on the bonnet:
I cut back to solid material & filed the edges straight before fitting another inlay of styrene sheet ... ... and more filler: The tailgate just needed a bit of a cleanup & the broken bit gluing back on, and of course some filler: I scraped all the smeg off the inside of the broken front bumper ... ... glued it up ... ... reinforced the outside with styrene sheet ... and of course _more_ filler, I'll open up the decorative holes after sanding. |
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