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  1. Thanks for the interest! FYI this is still definitely a live project and has not been abandoned, but it has fallen to the bottom of my current project priorities. At this stage my target for completion is ‘no later than the 50th anniversary of re-entry and hopefully long before. 👍
  2. 41:45 to 49:45 An Errant Seat, an Odd Nose & Weird Blue Primer According to the drawings this Ferrari had a seat that looks a bit like this... It's made from MDF which is proving a valuable material that bridges the gap between wood and cardboard. Unfortunately I think that this seat looks a bit like something we would find in grandma's living room rather than in a hot racing machine. I think I might conduct some light research on this because I'm not sure this is convincing. Here is the nose radiator intake with the inside painted SMS Italian Red. I need to paint this now because if I paint it once it's attached to the front of the car the radiator grill will inevitably get red overspray on it. At this point I wanted to convince myself that the slightly rough MDF surfaces would be able to be smoothed out through the generous application of car spray putty. I went ahead and sprayed the whole thing blue despite the fact that this is a weird colour for a Ferrari. The follow-up sanding was reassuring. I think I'm going to be able to achieve a smooth final surface. At this point I decided to - perhaps belatedly - stick the nose assembly on the front of the car. This 'Titebond aliphatic' glue is brilliant and since I discovered it here on Britmodeller, due to a tip from @Bertie McBoatface, I have retired my PVA. Here is the unfortunatly odd-looking nose that results. It's more of a 'snout' than a nose. The whole project is looking decidedly strange at this point and not much like a Ferrari at all. See what I mean? It looks like a blue pig with lipstick. Fortunately a bit of carving, filing and sanding makes things look a little better. With appearances only to be ruined by the reckless application of pink filler. Well, OK - with the wheels on maybe this looks a little better. After some sanding this looks quite encouraging. If you blur your eyes the pink filler looks a bit like a 'flame' marking around the nose. This is very racy! To me though, the seat still looks out of place. This takes me up to 15 minutes short of 50 hours work. Unfortunately I am unlikely to be able to work on this project or post again for a few weeks as I am required to travel for much of February. Sorry about that Peace fans. I reckon I'm about half way through this now, so all going well I should be able to finish this towards the end of March. Best Regards, Bandsaw Steve
  3. 32:00 to 41:45 Various Recesses Now with the very basic outline of the car's body under control, I need to start making some of the recesses from which various bits and pieces will stick out. One way to ensure reasonably easy and accurate carving of recesses is to do some '3D Chain Drilling'. Here I have drilled a dense pack of holes to the depth I wish to carve out. This both defines and weakens the volume to be removed making the carving job more accurate and much easier. Any residual roughness can be hidden under a slathering of blade putty... followed by some sanding. I have decided that this will be strictly a 'curbside' model and will not have a detailed underside. Nevertheless, I still need to add the lower sides on the car-body and these can be provided by 9mm thick MDF. I simply marked out the two shapes required, glued them into position and let the glue set. This leaves a large recess under the car body that hopefully no-one will ever see. Further recesses need to carved around each of the axles. This is the volume from which the steering linkages and suspension and various other bits and pieces will emerge. While all of that glue and blade putty was setting I stuck a few strips of evergreen plastic onto the 'Paw Patrol' wheels. Doing this adds a visible tread to the tyres, and increases the outside diameter of the wheels to exactly match the drawings. Although the underside is sparce, it is at least quite tidy. Don't be surprised if you never see it again though. 😁 Here's how my curbside model looks now. The rear wheels look like liquorish all-sorts but a quick blast with same paint will fix that. Don't worry about the fact that the nose is too short. I'll be working on that in the next post. I'm now 41 hours and 45 minutes into this project and have given up all hope of '60 hours' being anything like a reasonable estimate for completion. Oh well, that's how we learn I suppose! 👍 Peace dudes! ☮️ Bandsaw Steve
  4. Welcome aboard from Perth. (Perth Western Australia not Perth Scotland) See, you Georgians aren’t the only ones with place-name ambiguity issues! 😀
  5. 27:00 to 32:00 hours. AIr-intake and radiator grill The leading edge of the air-intake (if that's the correct term on a car) was a worrying part of this project from the start. If the lips on the intake are made from MDF they will be vulnerable to damage. So I'm going to try to make them out of metal instead. I purchased some 2.2mm thick aluminium sheet from a local hobby shop and set about dealing with this -for me- unfamiliar material as if it was a sheet of plywood. The first step is to cut out the paper template shape of the big hole at the front of the car and stick it on the sheet metal using spray-on adhesive. After chain-drilling a series of small holes to outline the oval shape I used a jeweler's saw to cut the large shape. Here the rough edge has been cleaned up with a file. After more chain-drilling, sawing and filing I have this shape, and I am most pleased! 👍 This will sit on the front of a block of MDF as shown. Naturally the MDF needs to be cut to the correct shape and a big hole hollowed out. Once again I do some chain-drilling, although when working on the aluminium the holes were much closer together. Chain-drilling allows close control on the geometry of the final cut since the saw blade has less opportunity to wander. After a bit more work we have this. When the aluminium leading edge is added we have this. A rebate is cut out of the rear of the block so that... a radiator grill can be added. The grill is made from aluminium sculpting mesh. In the real Ferrari the bars on the grill were orientated vertically and horizontally, but I really like this more 'racy' diagonal orientation so I'm going with this. As you can see, once again, I'm making a lot of use of pink blade putty. This looks promising, although the leading edge needs to be sharpened up a bit more. I'm happy with this! I think that the metal leading-edge is going to work. I have used 32 out of my estimated 60 hours. I hope I'm more productive in the second half! 🤔 See you soon, Bandsaw Steve
  6. Ironic that it’s ‘difficult to get everything to fit inside it’ 🤣 Good job though. 👍
  7. Thank you. But the big question is whether all this ‘proper modelling’ will produce a ‘proper model’. 🤔 Only time will tell. 🕰️
  8. This Ferrari will - of course- be red but since there will be several coats of primer before the top coat the colour of the filler won’t matter much.
  9. 17:00 to 27:00 hours. Contour the Body As it currently stands the body of this car is just too ugly. 🤢 The priority now is to carve this thing to a contoured shape that will not make Enzo Ferrari turn in his grave. A deeply curved gouge chisel is the first weapon of choice for this kind of thing. MDF is a relatively soft and workable material and carves quite well. Carving is followed up with rasping and filing to a surface close to the final contour. You can see the rasp in the background of this photo and the horribly furry surface left on the first section. MDF is notoriously furry and dusty. Do not breath the dust, it's not good for you. Using this particular construction technique the lateral 'bulkheads' form a natural template to carve to, so it's relatively easy to get the 3d shape correct. After a fair bit of sanding most of the fur is removed and the front half is looking reasonably presentable, although a few more blocks of MDF must be glued into the front corners. Now I turn my attention to the rear. I follow the same process to produce this. Note that the forward filler blocks are now also glued in place and a forward 'bulkhead' installed to hold them in place. Now comes the first application of panel-beater's 'knifing putty' which is a single-part filler-putty which does a great job of levelling out major surface imperfections. Overall I'm happy with this. This car is looking much more like a Ferrari than it did at the start of this post, so something is going right.👍 I have now used 27 hours out of my estimated 60 for the whole project (excluding the display base). This means that I have already consumed 45% of the estimated time. Unfortunately I don't think I'm anywhere near half-way through the required work. 👎 I fear my initial estimate may prove to be completely haywire. Best Regards, Bandsaw Steve
  10. @albergman Hello Albergman, Just thought I’d tag you into this as I thought it might be your cup of tea.
  11. Probably not. I know even less about flowers than I know about racing cars! 😀
  12. By the way, I fully approve of the Winnie-the-Pooh icon! 👍
  13. Interesting stuff! The cruel truth is I know next to nothing about motor-sport. One of the great things about tackling an unfamiliar subject is we get to learn. When my daughter and I built the Hogwarts Express I learned a bit about steam locomotives and now appreciate them much more. Now I’m finding the same thing happening with racing cars.
  14. 10:00 to 17:00 hours: Wheels and Initial Bodywork As part of my preparation for this project I spent $5.00 at my local op-shop and bought this Paw-Patrol mobile crime lab. Apparently Paw Patrol mobile crime labs are critical assets when investigating chewed chair legs and buried bones. Alas as soon as I got it home I completely broke this one down to remove the rather fetching wheels. I had eye-balled these wheels to be ‘about the right diameter’ in the shop and as it happened my judgement was bang on. The wheels are only about 1 mm too small against the drawings and it will be easy to add 1mm by adding 0.5mm tread all the way around the outside of each one. The biggest advantage with these wheels is that they fit perfectly onto a perfectly-centered axle. By sliding one wheel off and cutting the axle to the correct length I can then slide the axles into the brass tube that I've already put in place for the purpose. Now I can remove and replace the wheels at will. The big disadvantage with these wheels is that they do not have wire spokes and therefore really don’t look much like the originals at all. If things go quickly and I'm really determined I will attempt to spoke them, otherwise I might make a very large cheat and just paint high shine chrome on the hubs and leave it at that. We shall see. Next I need to start filling the gaps between the cross-sectional formers. I considered using balsa for this because it would be quick to carve and very easy to fit but balsa is soft and I fear that I would inevitably end up with prominent lumps where the MDF formers are and hollows where the balsa was. So in order to try to achieve a uniformly strong structure I'm filling the gaps with more MDF. The MDF is held in place with blue joist glue used in house construction. This stuff is cheap, strong and very good at filling gaps. It sands beautifully. We are now 17 hours into this project (not counting the time spent shopping for the Paw Patrol vehicle) and already we can see the streamlined sleek lines of a first-class racing machine appearing.... Well, OK...No we can't... Stay with me - we will get there. Bandsaw Steve
  15. That background works really well. Good idea.
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