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  1. Redshift
    Don't worry, I'll show you how its done.
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    Cheeky blighter! Get back to your power tool shennanigans. Figured out how to make a radial engine.yet?
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    5 hours of sanding later... Those chisels may have been dirt cheap, but they are still razor sharp so the lime wood carves like butter. I think this Aston is the road going equivalent of the spitfire in terms of the correctness of the shape for the job it has to do. There are also no straight lines, so it is quite a task to get all the curves smooth and flowing. Next will be wire wheels made from pipe, fishing line and drawing pins
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    Wow, this is some seriously impressive stuff! Are you going to display it behind a magnifying glass?
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    Now that is a proper work of art. Well done.
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    Well, if you're going the cowards way out by reaching for power tools.... How about a blunt pocket knife and a lump of fallen tree?
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    Cheers matey. I hope you're not seriously going to give up on doing a dbr1?
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    All that lovely wood, hidden under layers of paint. *sigh*. Well, it'll definitely look like the real thing, and much more satisfying than nailing together some pre moulded plastic (no offence to the many plasticians on this forum).
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    Rough shaping finished, now to think about the cockpit and wheels
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    You snooze, you lose!
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    Managed to get a whole day at the workbench. Theres definitely a car hiding inside that lump of wood.
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    There is room in the world for more than one! Anyway, if youre waiting to complete the avro first everyone will have forgotten about mine by then
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    Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
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    Had a look at that website - yikes! They are serious prices! I know you get what you pay for, but that sort of investment will have to wait. My aeroplanes were done without chisels too, I just had a mini plane, a cheap craft knife, some files and a swiss army knife. Ive got a dremel copy that I'll probably use for wheel wells and the cockpit. Half the fun is working out how to make the shape you want with the tools you've got. Stevehnz: no idea, it was over 40 years ago! Thank you all for your interest, ill try not to disappoint. I'm off now to make a sacrifice to the gods of woodwork.
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    Nice start. Can I also give a +1 for Atlantic Models, I was very impressed with the ease my Zulu fitted together, and the detail of the PE; I had a slight warp one one resin part but once stuck down the warp was overcome.
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    Its a bag of Rayher chisels from amazon for about a tenner. When I settle on one or two I like I'll go for some expensive ones. These ones arrived as blunt as a broomhandle but took an edge OK, will probably loose it just as fast!
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    Hi folks Another day, another model This months exercise in sawdust making is the recreation of the best looking car ever to have been built (you may disagree, but you are wrong*) the Aston Martin DBR1 Le Mans winner from 1956. I remember as a young boy in the 70s being read bedtime stories by my Grandma from a book written in the jingoistic style of the 50s of the exploits of a plucky British driver in a car that was clearly a DBR1 overcoming the dastardly exploits of Baron Otto von Stereotype in a 300SLR and Count Lucio di Spicable in a 250TR, which meant that for me a Le Mans car was an Aston Martin. Anyway, nostalgia aside, I am attempting to recreate the curves of the car by hand from a block of limewood and will be trying to make wire wheels , also by hand, from plastic pipe and guitar strings (the car will have standard British tuning, none of this foreign rubbish). This build was inspired by @albergman's ebony Jaguar, but won't be quite as impressive due to a skills deficit and a simpler choice of wood. *special exemption for anyone saying Lamborghini Miura Starting point Ignore the rough cut lump of pine, that was just practice with my new chisels Templates:
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    A quick OOB build this, Italeri's Land Rover 109 civilian version. It had some issues, notably moulding seams and ejector marks, but the biggest error was having 6 wheel nuts instead of 5,so that had to be fixed. The good thing about modelling a Landie though is that however rough and agricultural it ends up, there will always be a real example that looks exactly like it!
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    You've captured the lines superbly, it is looking fantastic. I'm quite tempted to try carving a car next, you make it look too easy! (Not really !) Keep at it - it'll look amazing when it's on its wheels. Are you planning a doing an accurate suspension setup, or is that getting too cluttered?
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    The problem with solder not sticking could also be due to not getting the metal hot enough - those brass sheets will make excellent heatsinks which will suck the power out of a standard electronics soldering iron. Maybe invest ins something a bit meatier? Also, soldering wood doesn't work - I know, I tried.
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    Thanks for the feedback chaps. Yes, the bare finish leaves no hiding place, which meant several parts had to be redone. I might have the start of a sequence here, a 1918 Camel, a 1938 Spit, so 1958... maybe a Lightning or a Hunter next 🤔
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    Hi Moa, another top notch production. In your fascinating posts there's definitely enough material for a rather interesting book, ever thought of doing one?
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    Point of order Mr Speaker, the honourable member is getting distracted by dangerous curves.
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    Ooh, shiney much better than plastic. I like the use of veneer for the ribbing too. Its coming along rather nicely
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    1/32 Scratch-built Sopwith Camel in mainly basswood with oak prop, walnut axle, gun barrel cooling jackets and cylinders and bamboo struts plus brass odds 'n' sods, finished with 0.1mm rigging thread. As with my earlier Spitfire the brief from Controller, Home Forces was that it could be a wooden sculpture rather thaan a painted awar machine, so it is left just varnished. About a month start to finish, but actually more like two solid weekends of doing with lots of gaps in between. Not sure what's next!
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