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Made a little progress today ... I've been putting off setting up the blasting cabinet in the hope I'd have some more bits to do it to make it worthwhile, in the end I just had to do it:





Lars' bumper before ...



... and after 100, 240, 400, 1200 & 2000 grit wet & dry paper & soapy water, finishing with Novus 3 step plastic polishes. Note the grey stress marks along the angle & to the sides of the mounting area. It's not perfect, but there wasn't a whole lot to get hold of, in hindsight I should have servo taped it to a bit of skirting board or something.




This is as far as i got with the chassis before realising I couldn't use the original 3mm self tapping screws in my replacement M3 tapped aluminium chassis spacers, and I didn't have the right countersunk screws

Got a whole lot more done on this - glued the tyres on & took the sharp edges off the front:




Finished the chassis & fitted the bumper (thanks again to Lars):




I did plan to fit a steel ariel, but that would have had to pass through the windscreen & I thought that would look pants, so the wire it just routed around the body posts at present.

It's not quite done because the MSC is acting up - it only has proportional control on one side (so variable forward & only full speed reverse, or vice versa) so I guess the resistor has a break in it somewhere & will need replacing




That bumper will do a decent job of protecting the front end, but a hit from the rear is going to make it crumple

Lots of gratuitous "finished" shots :

That's cool, Jonny!
Somehow it looks to me as a "hopped-up-during-the-80s" merge of a Fiat X1/9, a Delorean and a pick-up converted Porsche 924

With a Countach windshield. That's fabulous. Like in my first tamiya catalog on wich I dreamed

Lars is it worth adding the "finished" photos to the end of the article?

Yes it is, would you mind sending me an email as a reminder. I'm out atm.

Lars

Jonny wrote:

Lars is it worth adding the "finished" photos to the end of the article?

larbut wrote:

Yes it is, would you mind sending me an email as a reminder. I'm out atm.

Lars

Done