Tuesday....the start of a new day
Posted by Dr Diecast at 6/24/2008 6:34 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Welcome to the new slim and trim blog, LOL. To reiterate what I typed late yesterday this will now be more of a straight line update blog for a while due to my workload. So here we go with yesterdays projects worked on.
Did more final sanding on the CC Nash body including mounting the hood hinges and cutting in the fender vents. I also had to remove the ridge line from the deck lid cut out the grill opening for fitting and glueing.
I created the 68 Super Bee six pack hood. This car started as a 69 Super Bee and if you know cars you know 68's are very different. The hood was spliced mid point and then a 69 RR 6 pack hood was spliced midpoint and they were glued together. Once done I had to rework the front edge of the hood as the 68's are mostly flat. Some grinding, rail styrene and filler and its basically correct and ready for some finish work.
On this same car I had to sand and fill the marker lights as 68's have little round ones and 69's have large rectangular ones. I also cut, trimmed and fit some plastic rail on the rear taillight panel as its also unique to the 68 body. With this stuff done all I need to do is finish the taillight body area and the car can get painted.
I worked on creating the inverted hood for a 99 Mustang. See all those Mustangs have that GT style scoop and the customers car is a base stang with the inverted hood. This involved cutting the outter edge of the scoop with my dremel then bending the cut part down to simulate the invert dent. I then had to cut and trim a piece of plastic to fit the leading edge and fill the gap left by the GT scoop. I know this is hard to understand but if you go look at an 02 GT hood and a base Mustang you will see the difference. This is time consuming as I needed to figure out the easiest way to get to the point im at so I can get the proper look when finished.
I started creating the stock hood for a 69 Coronet R/T im doing for a customer. This involves removing the 2 bulge scoops then fitting styrene rod into the wholes to fill those gaps and applying some metal epoxy on the hood that will now be molded to look like then stock 69 bump hood scoop.
Next up was working the 2 convertible boots im going to make molds of. This is a little involved as I need to make access holes for the mold process and in doing so it means I need to glue some rod onto the boots in the best locations for fill and venting purposes. While it might seem simple its not..... heck just making the mold box and setting the boot is a project. Make the box too big your wasting product, make it too small and the boot wont cover. Then there is also making sure the boot doesn't move once the silicone is poured. Lots to consider while in this stage.
Lastly I created the herringbone pattern for the Torana seats. While the customer had sent me paper printed, off angle pictures of the pattern they were not usable at all so I had to go find better shots of it. I thought I had something workable but after a few tries at cropping and printing they look shitty, to be blunt. One problem with the whole..... why is it taking so long complaint is.... sometimes that needs to happen to accomplish what needs to be done. <see the Woodie for example>
While viewing something else last week... some other diecast cars somewhere on the web I cam across pictures of PERFECT herringbone patterned seats. See...... these were not there when I tried to find them weeks or months ago. So..... as much as it has taken longer than the customer wanted to get the car finished I will say I have now completed the seats with a perfect pattern. Mind you that did include my uploading and cropping and resizing the image. Then arranging and printing multiple patterns on a decal sheet, clearing the sheet, cutting the pattern for the bottom and seat back so they line up correctly and fitting them within the proper ridged area on the seats. This is now done and upon my trimming the excess this morning I can assemble the Torana and it will leave here too.
Ok....... thats it.... hopefully pictures tomorrow.
Im out !
Did more final sanding on the CC Nash body including mounting the hood hinges and cutting in the fender vents. I also had to remove the ridge line from the deck lid cut out the grill opening for fitting and glueing.
I created the 68 Super Bee six pack hood. This car started as a 69 Super Bee and if you know cars you know 68's are very different. The hood was spliced mid point and then a 69 RR 6 pack hood was spliced midpoint and they were glued together. Once done I had to rework the front edge of the hood as the 68's are mostly flat. Some grinding, rail styrene and filler and its basically correct and ready for some finish work.
On this same car I had to sand and fill the marker lights as 68's have little round ones and 69's have large rectangular ones. I also cut, trimmed and fit some plastic rail on the rear taillight panel as its also unique to the 68 body. With this stuff done all I need to do is finish the taillight body area and the car can get painted.
I worked on creating the inverted hood for a 99 Mustang. See all those Mustangs have that GT style scoop and the customers car is a base stang with the inverted hood. This involved cutting the outter edge of the scoop with my dremel then bending the cut part down to simulate the invert dent. I then had to cut and trim a piece of plastic to fit the leading edge and fill the gap left by the GT scoop. I know this is hard to understand but if you go look at an 02 GT hood and a base Mustang you will see the difference. This is time consuming as I needed to figure out the easiest way to get to the point im at so I can get the proper look when finished.
I started creating the stock hood for a 69 Coronet R/T im doing for a customer. This involves removing the 2 bulge scoops then fitting styrene rod into the wholes to fill those gaps and applying some metal epoxy on the hood that will now be molded to look like then stock 69 bump hood scoop.
Next up was working the 2 convertible boots im going to make molds of. This is a little involved as I need to make access holes for the mold process and in doing so it means I need to glue some rod onto the boots in the best locations for fill and venting purposes. While it might seem simple its not..... heck just making the mold box and setting the boot is a project. Make the box too big your wasting product, make it too small and the boot wont cover. Then there is also making sure the boot doesn't move once the silicone is poured. Lots to consider while in this stage.
Lastly I created the herringbone pattern for the Torana seats. While the customer had sent me paper printed, off angle pictures of the pattern they were not usable at all so I had to go find better shots of it. I thought I had something workable but after a few tries at cropping and printing they look shitty, to be blunt. One problem with the whole..... why is it taking so long complaint is.... sometimes that needs to happen to accomplish what needs to be done. <see the Woodie for example>
While viewing something else last week... some other diecast cars somewhere on the web I cam across pictures of PERFECT herringbone patterned seats. See...... these were not there when I tried to find them weeks or months ago. So..... as much as it has taken longer than the customer wanted to get the car finished I will say I have now completed the seats with a perfect pattern. Mind you that did include my uploading and cropping and resizing the image. Then arranging and printing multiple patterns on a decal sheet, clearing the sheet, cutting the pattern for the bottom and seat back so they line up correctly and fitting them within the proper ridged area on the seats. This is now done and upon my trimming the excess this morning I can assemble the Torana and it will leave here too.
Ok....... thats it.... hopefully pictures tomorrow.
Im out !
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