Egilman

Most movies today are at least 75% CGI... TV shows as well... (and now they are using AI to fake conversation and speech) It's getting impossible to believe in anything on TV, or in any media anymore...

Brother the truth is, YOUR minds eye is the only one that matters... It looks the part my friend, well done...

That would be a good basis to start a build of a '28 Miller, but looking at period images of the real deal there is a lot wrong with the presentation... Scale issues being the biggest of all... Just from what I can suss out, much of the sparse detailing would have to be redone... There is also another up on evilbay right now, for $800.00 and the pictures show it as both incorrect and incomplete as well.... At the ISM.... In Diecast... At those prices, for what I'm seeing, I'll pass....

I would advise a goodly supply of breadcrumbs to leave a trail back with... (or searchers to find you)

I've got a few as well, but the only 1/12 scale I know of is the Paxton Turbine.... The '62 is the Leader Cards Racing owned #3 Watson/Offenhauser, The Watson Leader Card Special, Rodger Ward driving The '63 is the, J. C. Agajanian owned #98 Watson/Offenhauser, The Willard Battery Special, Parnelli Jones driving The '64 Lotus 38's were Jim Clark's & Dan Gurney's cars that DNF at Indy, In '65 the Lotus's put paid to the front engined roadsters for good, AJ Foyt won three races in a 38 taking him to #2 in the overall champ car standings that year, and Jim Clark and Parnelli Jones finished #1-2 at Indy, in '66, there was only one front engined Watson/Offy in the starting top ten and it could only qualify 9th... (the race was won by a rear engine Lola driven by Graham Hill) Both model kits were ahead if their time when manufactured... In 1/24th-25th I have the 1915 Mercedes, the 1920 & 21 Frontenac's, Several Millers from the late 1920's thru early '30's, a couple of Wetteroth/Millers from the 1930's, the 1939 & 40 Maserati's, the 1950's Kurtis Kraft roadsters, about a half dozen Watson/Offy's from the '50's thru '60's, Jim Clark's '65 Lotus/Ford, the 1966 Lola/Ford of Graham Hill, the 1978 Lola/Cosworth of Al Unser, Luyendyk's 1990 Lola T-90/ Ilmor-Chevy, the 1968, '73 & '75 Eagles of Unser & Johncock, Donohue & Rutherford's 1972, '74 &'76 McLaren M16's... I also have a couple of March 86C's from the late '80's but haven't figured out what they represent yet, probably Rahal '86 & Unser '87... {chuckle} All plastic, All Indy winners.... Most sitting in my attic stash for a while... All the Indy winners are available, (from 1911 to 2021) in 1/18th diecast at exorbitant prices though... Besides I'm not a collector I'm a wanna be builder... Been collecting for way too long... When I get some lifespace, I'll be stealing some of your techniques my friend, I Hope you don't mind... {chuckle}

Nice Stripes brother... I know they look easy-peasy but they really aren't to get them looking nice and those are some of the best I've seen... (better than most of mine) Putting in the time and cussin really pays off in the end as long as you don't give up.... These weren't the first ID stripes put on British aircraft, in 1941 they were also painting black & white ID stripes but in a different unequal width configuration, those are a bit more touchy to set up correctly... I agree, they really give a visual interest to an aircraft that carried them, makes some of the mundane paint schemes really pop....

I've got the Bentley myself and have been thinking about the Fiat... (but my brain is on an Indy kick right now)

The first alloy wheels ever....

At this stage of the GP game the cars were getting fast enough that weight control was becoming an issue.... As they cornered the weight of the front end would be thrown outside causing the inner front wheel to lift off the track... Stiffer springs were meant to keep that wheel from lifting thereby preventing an oversteer situation from the outside tire being forced into the pavement... Another thing Bugatti did was design the tubular front axel around the springs, (passing the springs thru the axel) thereby virtually eliminating axel twist as a cause of understeer.... The engineering of these GP cars was getting complex about this time.... and front wheel drive was just around the corner....

Super Job on the kit yes I agree... But that is not a live axle, (a gorgeous tubular dropped front axel though) I do believe this car was driven by the rear axels....

Well done Sir, Another beauty...

The Sheave for the cable is centered on the pivot point of the spindle, the brake lever remains at the same distance around the pivot point no matter which way it is turned... I forget what the geometry term is for this phenomena, but believe me it's real... If you moved the sheave to any other location, yes, you would have a cable tension problem as you turned the wheels... Mechanical brakes only work correctly as long as there is little to no slack in the operating cable.... If there is any minor slack in operation, a simple spring tensioner on the cable is employed to take that up.... (that is what your "S" chain in the middle is doing, it runs around two gears pulling against spring tension, travel is small only enough to take up the slack... Keeps the cable taut without overcoming the brake lever springs at the shoe)

GOOD DEAL!!!! They are not easy to come by.... Just two more to complete the set.... Excellent find...

Probably, the shipping to Aussieland from the US is atrocious brother... You already have the VCI, VCA, VTB & AMX 13-155 The AMX 13-75 should be easily available, they reissued it in '04 and '13 as Heller #81122, Unfortunately, the AMX 13-105 and DCA were never reissued... (there are a couple of DCA's available on US ebay right now, one Gunze AMX 13-75 (Heller 784 reissue), and one AMX 13-105) Gunze Sangyo AMX 13-75 on Australia's ebay... It's a nice collection of a rarely seen weapons system... Would be nice to have them all, the 105 & DCA are not getting any easier to find...

Proxon, schmoxon... the brand of saw make no difference at all, all they do is spin a blade on an axis... Yes, some do it better than others, but no matter how good the saw is, it still comes down to the skill of the operator.... And you sir are an artist with a saw.... Very well done...

Back in that era, spark advance was mechanical, controlled by a lever mounted to the center of the steering wheel... Pull down to retard, Push up to advance.... Operation was open the throttle, (pedal on the floor) and when the engine started pinging or backfiring as the RPM's increased, you pushed the advance lever up to get the spark ahead of TDC for better combustion.... When the distributor was developed, they realized that they could advance the spark based upon manifold vacuum automatically and much more accurately, and the manual lever magneto controls went away... Average speed jumped by 10 MPH...

The "Zipper", another skunkworks beauty... I'm in....

Yep, they do this to aircraft engines all the time... (and to aircraft skins before the advent of flush riveting) And, it's not really a bias, it done in opposition to the way the fastener turns... Think about it for a sec, the bolt or nut turns right handed to tighten, left hand to loosen, so the wire will run from the bottom side of one hex head to the top side of the next hex head on the left preventing either from turning left handed... But this is the first time I've seen such done for an entire line of bolts or screws continuously... (usually done in pairs) Beautiful work so far Craig...

Yep that is two of Mr. Gatto's well known plans... (engine-tender & Car) I have his Mack Dump Truck, Ford loader backhoe and Trailer plans which I built for a friend back when I could still do that type of work... His Road Grader is currently sitting half finished on my workbench... Unfortunately his website is down... (www.gattoplans.com) But from what I can see his plans are available from several online sources commercially... Fred is a great guy, I sure hope nothing has happened to him.... Beautiful Job Mike, Love the trestle presentation, that's above and beyond....

A BAC Lightning would be VERY cool, something seldom modeled....

Never tell the difference.... Nice repair..

Looks darn fine to me brother....

Hey brother, shiny aluminum needs to go down over a super smooth hard gloss black surface... The black is what gives it's it's depth of color, the smooth shiny surfaces give it it's reflectance... And they are very fragile, they won't take a whole lot of handling until they are sealed.... If you were doing a dull aluminum finish that's perfect... The depth of color is there but very muted and the reflection is very subdued due to the rough surface... (but it is there)

Good looking engine... Cosworth's dominated racing and HIPO ICE's for almost three decades, they were winning in all forms of 4 wheel racing... They broke the 70 year dominance of the Peugeot-Miller-Offenhauser line of 4VDOHC engines and their line was broken by the Honda's of today... The upper end of the Cosworth line could produce almost 800hp on 175ci at 10k revs.... (at under 300lbs as well) The racing engines of today all owe their pure performance to the original Peugeot L76, (for 7.6 liter) which first ran in 1911 and was dominating racing until the development of the L30, 183ci (two years later) The first 4VDOHC engine which blew away the 7 & 11 liter racing engines of the day.... 3 liters producing more raw power that three times the cubic displacement at half the weight... That 1913 design has been copied too many times to count and the principles of it's fuel induction system have been applied to and tweaked into everything that used internal compression to generate power... To me it's always been a wonder that the simple principles of the 1911 L76 and the 1913 L30, are still alive and well today....

She's a real beauty!!! Freshly minted P-38!!! Nothing else comes close... Well done Brother, very well done...