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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
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In these photos, the remainder of the engine/transaxle/suspension/brake system components have been painted and assembled. If you ever have the pleasure of building one of these kits, I recommend super glue for most of the construction of this entire assembly shown. While it's a well detailed kit, it's not a shake and bake kit. It does require a little coaxing to get everything into position and stay there. Super glue greatly aids this endeavor.
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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Something else I forgot to mention: Notice that the engine has no typical oil pan reservoir . Rather you'll see a pair of hoses attached at the bottom of the engine crank case. Those are oil lines. This engine is what's commonly called a "side oiler dry sump". The engine oil pump is located externally from the engine and oil is fed and returned through those two lines and connections you see at the bottom of the crank case. Just as an FYI on racing engines. -
McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Since Mike is going to be building this same model, I am going to try to give him a heads-up on the little idiosyncrasies that might help since I am walking point on this mission. Notice on each side of the engine at the transaxle bell housing there are braces that attach and lead forward to the mounting panel at the front of the engine. One brace goes beneath the headers while the upper brace weaves it's way through the header pipes. The instructions call for installing these braces first, then fitting the header pipes around the brace on each side. It's much easier if you install the headers first, then fish the brace through the header pipes second, exactly opposite of what the instructions say. Just my 2 cents. 🙂
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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
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Make sure to use a fresh scalpel blade to trim away the flash. Very soft and rubbery, so it's easy to work with. Use superglue to cement it in place. Thanks OC -
McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
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Great insight into the J Car, thanks Lou! Very nice looking set of multi-piece headers come with the kit.
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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Did a little more work on the engine tonight. The kit provides soft molded vinyl hoses and ignition wiring. You can see some of the hoses attached to the engine and some loose ends that will attach further along in the assembly sequence. The powerplant is a Chevrolet 7 liter V-8, the fabled 427 ci "rat" motor. Aluminum block and heads.
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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
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That was a great video Lou. Jim Hall raced a giant hoover vacuum machine. -
McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
CDW replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Accurate Miniatures put excellent molded detail into their kits, much higher quality than you will see in typical Revell or AMT kits. Because it has such good detail, decided to highlight it by giving the engine and transaxle assembly a dry brushing with neutral gray in order to bring out those molded in details. When it's all dry, will give everything a black wash to tone it down a bit. You can see the depth the dry brushing gives.
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My friend Lou (Imagna) reached deep down into his collection of model race car kits and generously provided me with this beautiful Accurate Miniatures kit of the McLaren M8B CanAm Group 7 race car. There is at least one other modeler, Landlubber Mike, who will also eventually build this very same model in a build thread here on MSW. Mike gave me the go ahead to get started while he finishes tying up a few loose ends on build threads he currently has in progress. Without further delay, I got started on my kit tonight. It all starts with construction of the engine and transaxle assemblies. First, here is the kit box/box art: Here is the assembled engine with transaxle in bare plastic Here is the assembled engine with transaxle painted in semi gloss black I'm hoping Lou will chime in and provide some of his considerable knowledge about the history and highlights on this venerable vintage race car. He deserves the credit for making this build thread happen, as I may have never gotten my hands on one of these kits to build had it not been for Lou's generosity. The company who produced this kit has been out of business quite a few years now and these kits will soon be very hard to find without paying a large, premium price for one. Thanks Lou! Hope you enjoy the build and hope I can do it justice.
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The understatement of the day. This past week marked the 41st year since my father passed away, Feb 19, 1980. I was thinking about how much has changed since he passed. If he were suddenly alive today, he would not recognize much of what he would see or hear. When I grew up, my Dad would drive daily down to a specific corner in downtown Tampa to buy the evening newspaper, The Tampa Times, hot off the press. In the mornings, Our daily Tampa Tribune, would be waiting for us in our driveway. Today, Tampa no longer even has a daily newspaper. Both are gone, a thing of the past.
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We can rearrange them as time goes by.
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This one is all over, it's one for the books. She now rests in the cabinet with the rest of the stallions. Finished.
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Maybe I will finish this thing today...or tomorrow. Almost there now.
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Overnight was sufficient for the Molotow ink to thoroughly dry, so I installed the bumpers. They look pretty decent I think and much much better than the sink-mark-ridden chrome plated bumpers that came inside the kit. PS: Molotow ink applied from the actual pen will not dry overnight. It's only because I applied it in very light coats using an airbrush. Molotow ink is very very slow to dry from the pen. Days, maybe even weeks.
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I don't know of even one model railroad shop in Tampa now. Not one. 😟
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Ken, I was thinking about your model railroading hobby today when I visited the south side of town today with my wife. We used to own a house over on that side way back 40 years ago and there used to be a landmark model railroad shop just a couple of blocks from our old house known as Chester Holley's model railroad shop. He had everything you could imagine in that shop with a full line of Marklin and Lionel trains. Wasn't too far from MacDill AFB. Old fella passed away and I guess no one from his family was prepared to keep the business going. A shame, a wonderful thing of the past now gone.
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I bought 2 big refill bottles of Molotow chrome ink (I know that's not the proper term, or is it?) that should have been delivered today, but they stalled in the main post office here in Tampa instead of going out for delivery. I got impatient and took a pen apart to rob the ink. I can relace it when my order gets delivered. It's a waste of $$ to open a pen just to use the ink. A refill is a lot more economical, but still not cheap.
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Thanks for that Ken. I'll try that out with gloss gray as a base. I never had good results with Alclad using a gloss black base. Maybe that's why?
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The kit bumpers had huge sink marks in both of them. I had to strip the chrome and fill the sink marks with putty, sand them down, then repaint them with chrome. To keep it looking uniform with the bumpers, I stripped the chrome from the windshield frame as well. At first, I primed the stripped parts with Tamiya gloss black, then shot them with Alclad Chrome. I didn't like the way that came out. Looked too dark. I decided to take apart a Molotow chrome marker and use the ink from it in my airbrush. I reshot the bumpers and windshield frame with Molotow chrome and am happier with the outcome. Will give this a day to cure before I handle them. Molotow chrome ink is alcohol based and takes longer to cure than Alclad, a lacquer based paint.
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Thanks. That's me on the left and my brothers on the right. I could not squeeze my other brother into the crop. It cut him off.
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That dark blue shows up every speck of dust like it's lit up. Can't even see it until after I've taken the photo. Will hit it with my anti static brush for the final photos. 🤔
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I'm going to do a deep dive into my spare tire stash. I have a box full of nothing but model car tires somewhere, I just have to find it. There's bound to be something that looks better, even if they don't say Dunlop (which is the correct brand for that year Ferrari).
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That's because of my high tech Dollar Tree LED lights in the shadow box. 😄
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The little California Spyder begins to catch her stride once the little chrome bits begin to be added.
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Performed some surgery and reconstructed the dash and door panels. I believe the adjustment will make this work out okay. The windshield frame is dry fitted with blue tack to check the fit against the dash.
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