roymattblack Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 An awesome model. I love the weathering and authentic look of the body paintwork. Great stuff. Roy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rishi Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 All the cars are rocking. The renault 40 CV is simply outstanding it keeps me thinking what type of noise will the engine generate. Rishi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 What a fantastic machine...!! Another superb model Jörgen, great stuff!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david v Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Excellent builds Jorgen, the finish of all of them is suberb, looking foreward to more. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Jorgen, as ever......stunning! The bike in the GB was amazing enough, then we see Titanic from the back of the garage! The cars are incredible mate. Show more, show more! Take care & ATB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Jorgen, as ever......stunning! The bike in the GB was amazing enough, then we see Titanic from the back of the garage! The cars are incredible mate. Show more, show more! Take care & ATB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 Thanks a lot gentlemen, I'm glad you like it. The 40CV remains one of my top favourite finished models. Steve; sorry for the late reply on the Messerschmitt vents. They are the kits original moulded vents painted in with Humbrol 85, my usual friend when it comes to painting small holes. The mouldings were quite sharp and deep enough to allow this. The vents on top of the engine cover were cut from one of the spare kits and inserted. Decals indeed home drawn and home printed on an Alps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Here is my take on Tamiya's 2CV. I started this build early 2011 by accident as I had two Tamiya kits laying around that I had nipped the rims from. They looked nice as kits though, so something had to be done. The bimotor Sahara version. With it's larger 16" wheels I would have to get other wheels anyway. The work went on well and soon the chassi was done as well the body modifications. The dash panel was scratched, as was the tunnel for the gear linkage. The bonnet is in resin and taken from Gunzes (Heller) 2CV "Lupin III" kit. It had to be stretched in length and adapted to meet Tamiya's fenders and body, then the spare wheel tub was made. The engines were modified to look more like the earlier 2CV engines. Valve covers, fuel tanks, rims and tyres were drawn up in SolidWorks and 3D-printed with a good service sadly no longer available. When it came to scratch building the necessary seats the whole project suddenly stalled. It sat like that to the end of the year before I was forced to build a similar seat for another project (which is now stalled...), and when that worked ok I did these as well and finally finished the model. Hope you will enjoy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Another beautifully understated finish Jörgen ! How did you get such a nice scale gloss on it - did you just polish the paint rather than using clearcoat? Not a car I'd really have much interest in, but an absolutely lovely model again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastcat Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 All lovely builds but the 40CV is something else! Beautiful weathering and so convincing. It's the first time I've seen one of these built (apart from Profil's publicity shots) and I'm amazed how good it looks. Wonderful work . Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphfan Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 What a great project. Makes me wonder if it is probably unique? Well thought out. I do admire the way you have added things like the fuel tanks behind the filler caps. (wouldn't like to sit over a fuel tank personally) Thanks for sharing and keep them coming. Regards, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 Thanks gentlemen, I'm glad you like them. Paint; I do different things but I usually try to avoid what looks like rather thick and super polished clear coats. When I use clear it's always automotive 2K sprayed with an airbrush as thin as I can possibly get away with. The Saab, Messerschmitt and Citroen here are sprayed with automotive touch up spray decanted into the airbrush jar, with a little retarder added to slow down the drying a bit. Then they are just lightly polished, no clear. The MkIIb has thin 2K clear and the 40CV thin 2K clear with a good deal of matting agent added. Another trick I have also used is to add just a small amount of matting agent to the 2K clear on an ordinary gloss body, just to tone down the shine ever so slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Paint; I do different things but I usually try to avoid what looks like rather thick and super polished clear coats. When I use clear it's always automotive 2K sprayed with an airbrush as thin as I can possibly get away with. The Saab, Messerschmitt and Citroen here are sprayed with automotive touch up spray decanted into the airbrush jar, with a little retarder added to slow down the drying a bit. Then they are just lightly polished, no clear. The MkIIb has thin 2K clear and the 40CV thin 2K clear with a good deal of matting agent added. Another trick I have also used is to add just a small amount of matting agent to the 2K clear on an ordinary gloss body, just to tone down the shine ever so slightly. Thanks Jörgen, some good tricks there I'll try when (if ?!) I ever get back to my car models. Most of the ones I still want to build are from the 70's & 80's & mile deep clear coats just look wrong on cars of that age. I used to like using decanted cellulose car spray paint that polished up with a nice subdued gloss, but the new acrylic ones seem to be much shinier when polished out (which I guess is what you want on a real car!) Keep those superb models of yours coming....!! Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymattblack Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 I just love your little 'oldies'. I have a 1/32 Mazda something-or-other from the '60's that will have to be dug out..... All your fault! Great builds BTW. Roy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 21, 2013 Author Share Posted September 21, 2013 Many thanks gentlemen. If it's my fault that some model from the stash needs to built I'm more than happy to take the blame. 1/32 it was, not my usual scale as have been mostly occupied with 1/43 and 1/24, but let's look for 1/32 in the shelves, and one of the models I find is the Auto Union Typ D with twin compressor from 1939. It's the Revell (ex Matchbox I believe) kit that I built late 2005. A quite nice little kit that I enjoyed building. The wheels were modified using photo etched spokes from some old Herb Deeks(?) wheel set that I managed to fit in the kit wheels after removing the crude plastic spokes. The engine also got a little extra detail. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjhm Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Jorgen, I am in awe of all these, thanks for sharingSuper models, keep the pictures coming please ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 What a terrific collection. The standards you set in fit and finish are impossibly high - most inspirational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foghorn Leghorn Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Just stumbled across this thread. Some great models there Jorgen, especially the Messerschmitt KR200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Wonderful builds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted December 28, 2013 Author Share Posted December 28, 2013 Many thanks for the praise gentlemen. As there was talk in another thread about Ford MkIV models I got inspired to post something more in this my thread of older models I've built. So we return to Le Mans 24h 1967 and the moment Bruce McLaren leaves the pits after extensive repairs to #2, SAI entered MkIV chassis J5. Around 10 am in the Sunday morning with McLaren in the car at 5th place, the latches of rear hinged tail came undone at about 200 mph down the Mulsanne Straight and the whole tail was ripped off. McLaren visited the pits and got some straps, set out again and retrieved the damaged tail. Back in the pits the rear end was rebuilt with tape, straps, sheet aluminium and plastic. McLaren then rejoined race and they finished in 4th place. The model is 1/24 resin from LMM with resin tyres from my own castings. I built this in 2006 IIRC and had some interesting hours feeling my way through the weathering work, which I tried to do pretty close to my references. I was planning to make a small base for the model with the pit wall behind it, but shamefully that has never happened... As I had finished J5, and also J4 from Sebring -67, I felt I was in good mood for MkIV's and decided to do the rest of the Le Mans -67 MkIV's, while I was at it. First is the winning #1, chassis J6, also an SAI entry just like J5. This is also a LMM kit. Then we have chassis J7 and J8, #3 and #4 respectively. These are also based on LMM's #1 kits, but I used the decals from Renaissance. As these two cars were H&M entries there was a lot of detail differences that I had to research and modify, which just made it more interesting. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cameraman Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Hi Jorgen, beautiful work. Regards Reggie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Beautiful work again Jörgen, but I have to say that I really love the 2 car - that weathering looks perfect! A fantastic model! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Yep, Much as I love GT40's with shiny paint, That is a lovely job on number 2. Le Mans is still one of my favourite films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-w Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Great collection, I like all these GT40's. John-w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulj Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Awesome work, every single one is stunning. The finish and weathering is perfect, please keep them coming Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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