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That’s the lot for this year. Merry and peaceful festive season to one and all.
Malc.
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Another great update. Have a good Christmas too. 
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The wooden wheels are an after-market kit and comprise a central machined Hub/Spoke, four rim pieces, Brass hub plates and a Brass rim. There’s also white rubber tyres available but I felt that would look a bit odd. In reality black tyres only arrived around 1917 when Carbon was added to improve the stability of the compound.
The parts get glued together and then drilled and bolted.
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The completed wooden parts were varnished before assembly.RM1 attached the following image(s):
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Now it can stand on it’s own Legs. RM1 attached the following image(s):
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This is looking AMAZING! I see a lot of Model Motorcars bling on it too.
Keep it up!
Best,
Mark
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Kev the Modeller wrote:That is very impressive Malc, a real museum piece and beautifully built! I like the way that you've painted those exhaust downpipes, they look perfect, like they've gotten hot and with a very slight hint of a rusted surface after they've cooled. Brilliant!!
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more!   
Kev
Thanks Kev. I was quite pleased how those pipes turned out. It was Tamiya gun metal spray and then a slight dry brushing with a Mig acrylic rust. Almost finished this one now.
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admin wrote:This is looking AMAZING! I see a lot of Model Motorcars bling on it too.
Keep it up!
Best,
Mark You’re right Mark. There are the major upgrades of wooden wheels and upholstered seats. Expensive bits from Model motorcars but worth it to add something extra to this kit. Thanks for looking in. Nearly at the end on this one, just started the assembly of the drive chains…. More on this soon. 
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That's looking fantastic. A real museum piece there. 
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Thanks for the kind comments, Roy and for following the build.
The drive chains comprise a few hundred of these “number 8” shaped steel blanks and turned rivets. The instructions illustrate a plate with holes that has to be used to hold the parts whilst the rivets are formed with the supplied tool ( A metal rod with a pointed end ) and my own hammer. The jig was however missing from the kit so I had to improvise an Aluminium plate with a couple of holes drilled in it. A bit of a fiddley challenge especially since the rivets were of variable quality but got there in the end. There were enough plates, but a couple of the rivets proved to be unusable. I closed the chain with 1.6mm x 8 nut and bolt. ( won’t be seen on the finished product ).
Nearly finished this one now……
Malc.
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Kev the Modeller wrote:Top job on that drive chain Malc, must have been mind numbingly boring by the time that you'd finished it!? A cracking result and a beautiful model too.
Very well done.
Kev
Thanks Kev. Yes it was both mind and Thumb numbing...
Nearly done with this one.
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Looks fantastic! The subdued colors really give the build a period feel.
Best,
Mark
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admin wrote:Looks fantastic! The subdued colors really give the build a period feel.
Best,
Mark
Thanks for the comments Marc. I'm really quite pleased how this box of Red and Grey plastic has turned out. Just the leather straps to fix now and a few paint touch-ups and it's done.
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Absolutely amazing work Malc.
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You must be really chuffed with this one. It really looks great.
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roymattblack wrote:You must be really chuffed with this one. It really looks great. Thanks Roy, I'm very pleased how it's turned out.
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It's finished... !!!
Quite a long build but very happy with the result.
More in the finished gallery soon.
Malc.
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