Spookytooth Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Wheely on fire Gremlin. They are looking good mate. Can you put something next to the "Mighty Maybach" to give a size comparison. Still, big Bernie watches the clock, counting all the money rolling in. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 Wheels on fire, rolling down the road................................. Yep, will give a scale idea next photo shoot. Bernie? As in Ecclestone? That's the tiny guy with the statuesque Mrs. from Eastern Europe isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Yep, the mighty midget himself, he is smaller in real life. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 The F1 Trump you mean? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 He has the only thing we don't have: his bank account............................................................. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 20/1 update. Weathering the road wheels. Working on the "Mighty Maybach". Decals on order since last week from Archer's, not arrived yet. Oilpainters and magic-sculpt ordered from Germany Wednesday evening arriving any moment. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Wheel weathering at it's best there Julian beefy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 x 1 for the wheels Gremlin. The engine looks a big lump too. Your signature. The Final Cut by any chance? Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks Keith, following Andy's advice here going slowly and adding layer by layer. Not there yet by a long margin but quite happy with the progress Thanks Simon, the Maybach is a rather boxy looking engine IMHO. Considering the size of the beast it had to drag around not too big either but if you put it next to Wolfgang it suddenly becomes a very big engine. Signature is from The Final Cut yes, but I am rather puzzled how it got there because I had Kipling's story of the wolf and the pack posted. I'll have to ask Mike about this I think. I do like a number of the texts Waters wrote on the Final Cut though with Possible Pasts and Paranoid Eye's being two that I consider extremely moving.I also enjoyed his first four solo albums with Amused to Death another high point in the list, (The lyrics of The Ballad of Bill Hubbard have already made an appearance on another build I blogged here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 A lot of work going into those wheels and it's going to show on the finished product...... Tidy job so far Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 21/1 update. The order from Germany arrived on time as expected: Some weld seams coming up so the MS will be welcome there. The oil brushers are part of an experiment. The order from Archer USA didn't arrive, hoping something shows in week 2. I have been doing dire things to the road wheels based on the work of the Vallejo "Airbrushing and weathering techniques " written by Rob Ferreira, (worth buying if you can get hold of a copy). The pigment fixer was still drying when I took the snaps. The Maybach is still proceeding, this is the first test fit, still unpainted. All for today.......................................... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I would say that all is looking good Gremlin, but I cannot see the whole pictures on my screen? Just the top of them. It could be my computer giving me s... Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 No, think there are problems with slick pic Simon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Same here with the photos but if you click on the first one it then brings them all up in your account page I think All looking good in there mate beefy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks Keith, that's not what I am paying for though. Time to drop a line. They are usually very quick with solving the bloopers.............................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Cheers Beefy and Gremlin. Now I have seen them mate. It is a tight squeeze for the engine there. No wonder they hoisted the thing out to work on it. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 It gets to be an even tighter fit with all the piping and the carbs on top. in the compartments next to the Maybach the air filters and more fuel tanks are shoe-horned in, long way off yet though. Still several more weekends working on more road wheels and the "bottom of the beast" or should that be underside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 22/1 update. Working on the Maybach. Nearly at the stage of doing a clean up and then painting it. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Big lump of plastic that is Glad the photo issues are sorted. beefy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 As Beefy put it, "a big lump of plastic" there Gremlin. Not one for the carpet monster to hide.? Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Thanks Keith, Yep, seems to keep growing too The guys at Slick Pic are very good at quick response to problems. The photos were fixed yesterday evening shortly after I mailed them. Hi Simon, I think the carpet monster would choke on the Maybach Amazingly it still fits perfectly in the central compartment at the stern of the JT. Says a lot about th CAD design of models nowadays. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 ' Heavy Metal ' Looking forward to seeing this one 'run in' Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Bless you sir I will see if i can get a 1/16th sticker with "Running in" on it for the JT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 23/1 update. More Maybach madness. Looks rather engine-like, gives me a warm and fluffy feeling just looking at it : 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Looking very nice Gremlin. When I saw pics 3 and 4 I first thought it was the new German Motorized Wheelbarrow. It some size that lump. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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