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Thank you very kindly Chris, Art, and Porsche911. A Honda? Lol. 🙂
Chris’s Cylcone was a good first test with a 1/25 scale body. The proof is in how the car came out.
Clear coat is next.
The air comes from the room. If I leave the fan running for a while before painting. It removes much of the ambient dust floating in the air.
I close the door to the basement and watch TV upstairs for 20-minutes. Put on fresh clothing. Then slowly walk to the booth like Kwai Chang Caine on rice paper so as not to kick up dust from the floor. It’s the best I can do.
These are beautiful cars. This personal Ferrari livery has a wheelbase of 75.6 mm. I left the purple Ferrari for Luis. 🙂
Don’t let the camera angle fool you. The rear wheel arch lines up perfectly with the tire.
Sounds very interesting.
So there will only be 12-cars made in total?
Is this the 312P Berlinetta body?
Just out of curiosity. What size are the wheels/tires please?
Sorry for the dumb questions.
Ken
Paint is drying. Epoxy is hardening. It’s close.
I did a little more homework on the original 1:1 metallic orange Watson in the first post. It raced in 1961, ’62, and ’63. It was a different colour every race.
It was known as “The Titanium Roadster” because it had several titanium suspension parts.
The car was originally owned and driven by Ray Crawford.
Agreed. We have the best track builder in the country. And he’s our good friend. 🙂
I’m with F1nutz on this one as well. I would rather drive the 69 Camaro, and keep the track separate. Imagine driving that livery down the street? Very cool.
Thank you kindly Art and Gary.
Here’s a real Watson Indy car slammed for the salt flats. I’m not the “original slammer”. I do my homework, and copy what I see.
It will come up a bit for body float.
Thank you very kindly, Art and GI.
Yes, it’s getting a full interior. I need to put off procrastinating for a while. 🙂
The paint is TS49 Tamiya bright red.
There’s a race coming this Saturday. Time to pull up my socks. The chassis is complete. The wheels and tires are squared up.
Very cool combo. Count me in except for the “ALL the money” part. Or, I may be eating Kraft dinner for the rest of my life.
Speaking of old Indy kits. I bought this Lotus/Ford kit as part of an estate sale and had it sitting on my table at the last flea market. I rarely see kits like this. No one bought it. I was happy to bring it home again. Ever buy your own stuff from your own table? SOLD!
Very interesting in that the DArt d12’s fit this car.
That’s a killer sleeper with a Hemi. Something my uncle would have driven back in the 60’s.
Moebius offers a ’65 Satellite still available through Round2. It’s very close to the ’66.
On sale right now for $41 Canadian.
Baldwin Motion was forced to shut down in 1974. Starsky and Hutch were from 1975 to 1979. The Motion 454 Vega was also available in blue with white striping (and a few other colours).
Here’s the incredible Motion story. No other company matched it before or after.
The cars built by Baldwin Motion were among the fastest semi-production cars in the United States in the ’60s and ’70s, they were so fast in fact that the DOJ and EPA shut the company down in 1974 with threats of $50,000 USD per car manufactured (in 1974 dollars) if the company didn’t comply.
Hi Gary,
Super looking Porsche. The colour really pops!
You’re scratch built CanAm ready for the American Thunder.
A friend and I were inspired by these guys in the early seventies. We made a small wooden cart with 4-wheels. Stuck a Cox .049 engine with a prop on it and sent it down the street.
We both looked in amazement at how fast it went. We turned to each other and said “Oops, I hope that doesn’t hit someone”. Then started to laugh.
Kids never think ahead. Rail? Who needs a rail?
Hi Drew,
You clearly know your HO collectors. I don’t have the blue one. But I have the red 510 and matching 240Z.
I thought I was going to buy one of the new Thunderslot GT350’s when I heard about them. Turns out they are not worth the price. Lunchbag let down.
I’ll gladly buy a Slot.It Datsun 510 if it’s at a normal price. It’s a neat old car.
I wonder if this is Slot.Its response to the RevoSlot Juniors like the Alfa? It would be an interesting race. Both are Trans Am cars. Slot.It would be a lighter car.
Wow! Nice build GI!
Lovely colour and livery.
The driver looks like he means business. Len’s in it to win it.
Here’s a basic parts list for one of these chassis.
From Ernie:
- NSR 4859 Guide.
- 3/32 Bearings.
- 75mm Axles (3/32).
- 1mm Competition braid.
- Motor wire.
- 13/38 Sidewinder gears.
- Axle spacers.
From DArt Hobbies:
- Wheels and tires.
- Wheel inserts.
- Urethane body washers.
- #227 Evergreen styrene tubing for body post material at your local hobby shop.
- I can supply 4-40 brass inserts and hardware.
- The Fox-10 motor is from Professor Motor.
Bodies for these cars range from $5, to as high as $20 for a complete new kit at any of the Group25 flea markets. Very inexpensive. Crazy selection.
Hi Art,
I’m with Gary. This is a good thing.
I already have a Policar F1 silver kit, and simply need to assemble it. I’m just waiting for the green flag.
There is a 2021 re-release of that exact kit!
Sweet! 🙂
However. I don’t think I know anyone that would be interested in buying one… *innocent look*
Art,
I humbly thank you for the chassis reference.
The 1/25 chassis differs a little from the 1/32 scale chassis in that it uses 1″ inch square tubing rather than 3/4″. It also requires four body posts instead of two. The extra width makes sidewinder installation without a pod, a breeze.
I humbly thank you, MIA. You have the nicest looking car in the field so far. The first one with an interior.
I just found some interesting information through Google that supports the white paint theme for Auto Union cars.
“The color given to German racing teams was white, pure and simple. The traditional powerhouse brands, Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union (which later became Audi) followed the trend, and later on, Porsche and BMW did the same.
But around the early 1930s, the Germans pushed for a second choice of color, Silver. This option came not as a paint per se but actually as a lack of it. Around this time, some of the official Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union cars started to show up at the tracks completely stripped of paint, proudly showing the bare, polished aluminum body.”
A little more progress. The finish line is in sight. A ton more Molotow chrome penwork, and the windows can go in.
Hi Drew,
Thank you. You are very kind.
When I got my first Molotow pen. I remember everyone warning me that the ink pools into cracks and crevices. So I tried holding the work upside down. It’s truly a pain in the neck. But the ink can’t pool up. Only down to the high spots on the lettering.
I lean both wrists on the bench. I also lean a finger with the pen on the body to keep it steady. I then lightly dot the tops of the lettering slowly moving from letter to letter. In my experience. Stroking the letters or emblems with a Molotow pen is bad juju.
Commission? 2 or 3%? 😉
My pleasure Peter. That’s what friends are for.
My goal is to buy one LMP class car. I hate the ugly buggers. But some hosts are splitting LMP and GT into two classes.
See you there!
Ken
MIA’s Impala now has a full interior with a complete floor including pedals. The back seat needed some trimming before the interior got taped in correctly.
There was much more room left to slam this body to the ground. But I was asked not to do so for this class.
It only took 3 and a half years for the black Slot.It turbine inserts to finally wear me down. Art was kind enough to offer an insert painting seminar, and painted these cool looking, and proper inserts.
Thank you very kindly, Dave and Drew.
I tend to agree. A very reputable and seasoned racer said the following words on another public forum. “Art makes the best bodies on the planet”. Enough said.
Thank you kindly, Art.
Yesterday was even better for outdoor painting. There was zero wind around 7pm. I was able to get a nice coat of Tamiya clear over the metallic orange. The chassis is next.
Thank you kindly, F1Nutz.
Gary came by today to spin a few laps. He was witness to the 5-minute paint job outside in the driveway. We need more weather like we had today.
Thank you very kindly Gary. It always nice to unplug and chill once in a while.
Here’s a pic I took the day I did most of the painting. It’s around noon by the time I took the shot and there was no wind all day. The lake water was smooth as glass. The temperature was around 17 degrees. The bugs were too cold and lazy, and could not make it up the 10′ foot distance to the back porch. I had to take one pic of that perfect painting day.
Thank you very kindly, gentlemen. Painting cars is lots of fun and quite relaxing once you find a groove.
Bill. The tobacco decals are now dissolved in Super Clean. I am going with a “Mountain Dew” livery on the candy lime green.
Big thing on the TV news today about tobacco companies. They used to advertise things like “Cigarettes are good for you. They help you lose weight”. Or… “Be in style like a movie star and have a cigarette”. Or “Smoking reduces stress”. The conclusion was tobacco causes cancer. It was also stated that all the tobacco companies are completely ready to go into receivership before the company owners need to give up their Ferrari’s. They have apparently been ready for receivership for many years.
Here’s an option.
Find steel tubing that slips inside a brass tube with a good bushing fit. The steel tubing needs to fit over the wire.
Install a push on lock washer to the inboard side of the wire to limit the travel of the inside of the wheel. Then solder a small length of your steel tubing to the wire. The washer needs to be a bit larger diameter than the steel tubing. Leave enough of the inside wire still exposed beyond the steel sleeve to make room for the outboard push on washer.
Drill the wheel out for the brass sleeve. It needs to be a good press fit.
Slip the wheel with the brass bushing over the steel sleeve. Then install another push on lock washer to the outisde of the thin wire still exposed. It will keep the wheel in place and allow free spinning. You can cover it with some sort of spinner.
Here are some examples of push on lock washers.
I don’t think a ferrule will fit a wire without flopping around like a fish. Hopefully, I’m wrong. Brass tubing might fit better.
Looks good so far Bill.
Drew,
Wow! A classic colour that is hard to beat. Love the black hood and white roof. The hood scoop looks like it’s meant for business.
One KRZ custom chassis is on the build sheet for you.
I agree with you MiA. That’s more of a conversation piece than a race track. At $100,000 dollars, I’m not a buyer.
But it sure is getting the spotlight on all the forums these days.
Several 1959 Cadillac Biarritz have been seen floating around these days. It’s not a bad time to review this build thread for anyone about to assemble one.
There has been an update to the motor configuration and gears. It’s suggested to use an inline 14/30, 13/28, or 12/26 for MVL or NR. 10/23 works well on shorter tracks.
Please don’t hesitate to email me with any questions. Or post them here.
Warm regards,
Ken
Hot Wheels along with a few other manufacturers just came out with a series of gasser cars.
The Volvo-1800 is kind of funny. The stick-man logo on the door would raise a few copyright eyebrows if it had the halo from “The Saint”. Now it’s just a stick-man holding a trophy. Cool looking car!
Thank you, GI.
“Raced in anger”. What anger? The guys were teasing me and making me laugh with stuff like “Don’t like trucks eh? I bet you do now!” I’m not sure how I drove through all the teasing and laughing. It’s all good.
I’m still not buying a truck. I’ll sit those heats out. You guys enjoy the mayhem without me! Too many tires!
Thanks GI. That’s because someone already broke through the wall at “Cupcake Raceway”. When the opportunity came up. I merely drove through the opening. 😉
Your truck finishes were outstanding. Your trucks came in both first and second place.
Hi Drew,
Nice looking car!
Hover your curser over the “Model Database” tab at the top of the page. It should provide you with another tab below that says “Online Registration Form”. Press that tab and it should open up the questionnaire and registration form for your new model. Art can then add your car to the Database.
Looking forward to seeing it race!
Ken
The only thing I can think of is no custom wheel flares. The same hard bodies should be available to everyone across the board.
Happy body hunting, and chassis building! 🙂
Cool video. Thanks a million for posting!
But I don’t want my headstone to read “Died at age 61 while riding a tricycle”. That would be rather embarrassing.
Drew,
Thank you very kindly. I wish you, your family, and everyone on S32 a great holiday season (Or a Merry Christmas).
Hi Porsche911,
Decals were a bit of a challenge when I first started building.
I found these Revell/Monogram number/decals at Race Haven. I bought two sets. Then I saw them at Minigrid too, so I bought 2-more. Then I found one set at Panther Hobbies.
I have since used nothing but these decals. They are tough as nails and I have never clear coated over them. They seem to stand up without any protection. Whether you get them locally, or have to order them from a US supplier. These are amazing and worth trying.
F1Nutz,
That building is coming along beautifully! 🙂
Don’t forget the crowd control cop that’s usually leaning on the inside of that corner. You can see him in the first photo.
Thank you very kindly, Chris.
I’m guessing we can pop the inserts out of the plastic fronts and install aluminum if desired?
Just a quick thing about me molding or casting bodies in the future. I have been fortunate enough to have attended the best school I know on the subject. But I fear it will be a while before I can produce anything my teacher, or I will be proud of. I need to get past the learning curve and many mistakes first.
One agreement that was made and should be made public. I will never compete with DArt Hobbies bodies. Art and I have very different molding interests. I like too many none-race fantasy cars like Mako Sharks, strange race cars like the Sunbeam Tigers, BRM Rovers (I just picked up another Rover. Yay!), etc.
I’ve always been very thankful and appreciative of Art helping support the “KRZ chassis” through it’s learning curve.
It’s my goal to keep supporting DArt hobbies with all other related racing accessories. I just want to make a few bodies no one else seems interested other than a few of us scratch builders at S32.
Thanks for your support, F1Nutz!
If anyone was wondering what class this new style Shelby will fit? Thunderslot might make up to 8-different colour schemes. It looks like an all Shelby race if we all choose different colours.
If you buy one. Be sure to post your colour. I would expect these to run nice, right out of the box, on DArt tires. I hope they come with aluminum wheels. Those are sharp looking wheels.
Agent 86 might say “sorry about that, chief… missed it by that much”.
I think it’s spot on, Bill! 🙂
The “Players 200” is an S32 event. Or at least it started that way.
Much to my surprise, I was allowed to race a 1963 Cooper Ford as a Sportscar at the last R32 event at MVL.
I think it depends on which part of the club is racing. S32 or R32?
I hope this helps?
