Bengalensis

Good to see this one back on the workbench again! It looks a lot happier now when the cab position got straightened up.

This is just completely crazy, for being an MX-5 Miata, (or the acid I just got is crazy...), but doing it so well and with so much effort makes it a very admirable project! Very well done! One detail I really appreciate is the way you have applied weight to the tyres, a far too often missed detail. 👍

“Grosvenor House”, the de Havilland DH.88 Comet that won the 1934 Mac Robertson Trophy Air Race from London to Melbourne. Built from the Mikro Mir 1/48 kit. The build thread can be found here.

A parcel just arrived from Japan, Aoshima 1/24 scale DeLorean

Thank you very much gentlemen! The left engine cover went on this morning. It fitted nice and tightly against the airframe, and the engine almost fit inside. It was pushed ever so slightly to the right, I’m pretty sure its the front rocker cover that interferes, but it’s easy to grind a little material off in the hole to centre the propeller and nothing else will be be seen. The wheel fairings were also fitted. Time to prepare the base. Masking for glue. Covered in grass and set aside to dry. The final details fitted in the afternoon. Most notably the propellers of course, but also navigation lights and the pitot tube/sensor (it doesn’t look like a tube and has some form of forked end). And finally the balance weights. And there we are. Grosvenor House. A grass field may not be the typical place to remove the engine covers in, but it is like it is. It has not been any easy kit to build, on the contrary, but I have enjoyed it a lot. With care and a good deal of preparation it can go together quite well. Am I a masochist enough to get a second one to build Black Magic? Gipsy Six R

Looks like quite a project 👍

Amazing work! As usual. 👍

Indeed, the home stretch is beginning, with the vac forming machine… The nose light cover is quite thick, didn’t polish out very well and really let the look down, so I gave up and used it as a plug to pull a thin vac formed part. Glued with Kristal Kleer it made me much happier. Testing some newly printed wheels in the background. Painting insides and some details has also been done. Oil tanks, landing gear and wheels glued in place. Mounting the engines is a small project in itself. The fit is not very precise and it takes quite some measuring and testing against the engine covers to make sure they are reasonably aligned. I think this will work and here I decided it was best give this a good night’s rest...

Lovely choice of subjects! I especially look forward to see the lesser built 600 coming together.

Looking great, the paint work has really come to life now 👍

Masking looking very sharp 👍

Indeed, it's looking very nice.

The answer is here. The kit supplied vinyl masks worked well. Relief.

Thanks a lot Trevor! It was indeed... 😬 Thanks a lot Stuart! Oh, it might have been 75-80% thinner, Tamiya paint and Ultimate thinner. So many light passes to get some coverage. It didn't look at the pressure gauge, just lowered pressure by feel, it might have been about 0,5 bar.

T51? If you mean the Heller 1/24 T50 it might be the wheels created by my friend Johan Brusefält you are thinking of. He sold those wheels through his Shapeways shop, he also had suitable tyres and T46 wheels available there. All from his old Shapeways shop, and more, is now being transferred to resin 3D-prints available directly. The Bugatti wheels are in stock as I just printed a few sets, other parts may have some delivery time. At this point in time it's still his private contact details that are used for inquiries, I can PM if you are interested.