SimonT - 1/24 Abandoned Mini

[SimonT]

Morning all,

bit more done on the bonnet last night


said it was thinned right down - the internal bracing from the outside


finished off the back corners




added the anti burst catch from copper sheet - made same way as 1:1 from a folded piece of sheet, cut out then opened up

the actual bonnet catch in the middle added from brass wire coil and a bit of rod with the end shaped



side return flanges trimmed to shape

actually this may be neater than real thing - some of mine had pronounced creases in them


top side

just hinge mounting brackets to do now

[Jim R]

Morning Simon
That bonnet is great. Love the catch. Really looks down to scale thickness :thumb2:
Jim

[SimonT]

Cheers Jim



sorry about the crappy pic again - looked ok on the phone screen

took me three attempts to get them right but I eventually got the bonnet mounting brackets sorted out

each one is made from a single piece of copper sheet cut, folded and drilled


I also put the chrome sprue into a lethal mixture of Dettol and oven cleaner


within an hour the chrome plating had been eaten away leaving a nice shiny black sprue

[BattleshipBob]

Cracking Simon

Thats better made than a real one!!

[Graeme C.]

Nice work on the bonnet Simon, it looks better than the new, heritage one on my nephews mini!

[Jim R]

Hi Simon

within an hour the chrome plating had been eaten away leaving a nice shiny black sprue

What is your rechroming paint of choice? For a rusty wreck it probably won't warrant a really shiny chrome like paint.
Jim

[Defiant911]

Fantastic work. I’d almost put rusty cars out of memory until this thread. my first few cars went rusty and they were not that old really, mk3 escorts and Vauxhall’s cavaliers but thankfully modern Lexus don’t seem to suffer that fate anymore. Looking forward to the final results.
carl

[Steve Jones]

Nice to see you back on this one Mr T. The bonnet is outstanding!

[Guest]

That is looking amazing

[SimonT]

Bob - build quality of real ones varies. I had one or two that were quite good but plenty that weren't :smiling5:

Graeme - :smiling5: thanks

Jim - in my experience the chrome tends to stay quite shiny, apart from dust/dirt, but you get micro spots of rust. Bumpers tended to rust from the inside. When really bad you were left with just a foil like thin layer of chrome - still shiny
I shall use one of those pens

Carl - cars in general are much better made these days. My Dad had Ford Cortina estates and Peugeot 504 estates in the 70's and they rusted faster than he could patch them

Cheers Steve

Thanks Ken


Spent most of yesterday on another build but did a little more late last night on this one


I created a separate rear sub frame off the car

the sub frame is supplied in bits plus the white rear bar is moulded to the underside of the boot floor - I removed that and hollowed it out in an early post


I hollowed out one of the solid brake backplates and added brake shoes, wheel cylinder, adjuster and a spring from 0.3mm copper wire wound around a 0.4mm drill bit

Need to make the hub next to fit in the centre

[scottie3158]

Simon that bonnet is outstanding mate.

[SimonT]

Cheers Scottie

Did some more work on this - added the other shoe return spring then made the wheel hub with bolts which nicely covers up most of the internal detail :rolling:

Added a few bits to the sub frame to fill in missing bits of the kit pieces

Just found that I forgot to take pictures of it :smiling4:

[SimonT]

the photos I thought I had already taken.....

[Jim R]

Morning Simon
Up to your usual insanely good scratchery standards.
Jim

[SimonT]

Thanks Jim - tried to thread the studs with my jewellers die but it wouldn’t cut a decent thread so gave up and just used plain rod