World in miniature.

it turned out to be dangerous searching "1960's friction toy car" on ebay , before i knew it this and landed on my door step. missing bits but a good size and a fair likeness.... but this was never going to be an easy build , oh no!

so we start off with one plastic RR Cloud.



with my metro for scale , yup , thats about right.



the plan was formulated , rather than hacking something i could probably never replace , i had better take a mould and cast a shell to work on. very simple but i had never used this process before (thank goodness for youboob!). some repairs and prep were needed but with the shell packed out with plasticine and put in a box it was fingers crossed time.






that went well , best get some resin flowing. its quite tricky getting an even thickness using the "slush casting" method but i had an excuse to have a bit of practice as i managed to sell a few which went pretty much right across the globe. this was ideal as the project pretty much paid for itself.




let the measuring , cutting and gluing commence..... you didn't think this was going to stay boring did you?





i wasn't really feeling the love for the rolls grill , time to go all bentley(ish) on it.






and that's as far as this one got but the plan is to get it as straight as possible and do it in a very dark colour or even black and run its as low as possible.

Who?

I did find a random pic on the net of a beige one that had been slammed which was my inspiration.

Scalextric did a narrow body metro but wheres the fun in doing anything the easy way!

Get some pics up then...

aaaah.... must have missed them.

this one....?

I really like the work you are doing here Strikey. the rescue nature of some of the builds is great. nice to see some of these old racers come back to life. especially since they are unique to me being from the states.

I do not want to hijack the thread in any way, but am also into resin casting parts for 1/32 stuff, mainly big rigs. I like to use plastic kits mixed with die cast models and of course the parts bin. I custom resin cast the rear fenders on this KW and grafted a monogram plastic kit cab and interior onto a die cast frame....these frames are longer, have nice looking wheels and tanks, ect......

custom decals, paint, stacks....ect finished it off....




JP

brilliant repair!

JP

right , now everyone has had time to draw breath (or get counselling) , its time for another build. this was a biggie so i'll break it down into 2 or 3 installments as i don't want anyone headbutting their screen as they doze off.

you may remember the friction vw bus that i converted earlier , well i had bought more than one and a plan had been rattling around in my head for a while.

the other build compared to the next victim...



for the first build i modified the "toy" chassis but i wanted this one to run a little sweeter than my build tolerances allowed so a porsche 996 donated its chassis. i wanted to retain the bumpers and mounting points so some cutting and shutting was in order.





front axle was tubed to set ride height...low naturally...and new rear inner axle mounts fitted as the standard ones wouldn't allow the required track , the original mounts were then removed.




first job on the body involved something you don't generally see used in 1:32 modelling...my trusty 4 1/2" grinder! mask/spray/cut/strip/glue/fill/sand/prime.










the lower half of the body didn't need too much , just the side doors gluing and filing and some prep.





minimal interior but a rhd conversion was a must.




yup....liking how that's coming along.

that is so messed up! in a good way!...love it.....

JP