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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Wow … what a weekend. Saturday I’ve been at a local car boot sale and brought bags of stuff (a couple of tank kits, a plane, a Billing Boat Kit …) and then afterwards I went with some friends of the Fischer Technik Club NL to a convention of the FTCommunity in Erbes-Büdesheim which was for the first time organised by Knobloch GmbH, a company dedicted to Fischer Technik.
I was most impressed by the large models … a crane made out of static parts, which was 3 times as tall as the builder D. Kutsch (easily!), a freefall rollercoaster and “flying Fischer Technik”. Thanks a lot folks for this nice day!
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Tags: car boot sale, Faller AMS, FischerTechnik, FischerTechnik Club Nederlands, Slot Cars
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
I admit, last week I was to lazy to take some pictures. But now I did:
Carrera Universal Cobra
Carrera Universal Cobra
Tags: Carrera Universal, Slot Cars
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Today I find there is actually something different to report from the fleamarkets this weekend. On Saturday I came home with a Revell modell of the “U.S.S. Voyager” from Star Trek (more on that later). And today I could have gone mad … beside a lot of 1:35 scale military models (partly built and painted) I found some Carrera Universal cars which where worth their price.
A Opel Manta (Lexan), a Porsche and a A.C. Cobra Roadster. They cam together with a battered Porsche Carrera 6 (split bonnet) and a Cooper Climax (I think) in OK condition. Pictures will follow.
Tags: AC Cobra, Carrera Universal, Opel Manta, Porsche 911, Slot Cars, U.S.S. Voyager Revell
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
… for the King Cobra of Tamiya. The cockpit has been painted a Tamiya black (fitting, no?). The colour I got a while ago on the infamous flea market. together with it some fitting blue as well, but to late for the base colour.
Here you go with some pictures:
The black painted cockpit 1
The black painted cockpit 2
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Tags: Restoration, Slot Cars, Tamiya
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
For the Porsche 908 Resin Kit I bought some parts quite a while ago. The only decal set I found was sold via “Jens Scale Racing” and was made by BvH. The Sheet is for the Gulf coloured 908/3 which was raced by the Werksteam in 1970. There are decals for two cars, the Targa Florio and the 1000km Nürburgring. I will try to make it the Targa Florio Version, which I also have in 1/32 by Fly (upgraded with Slot.it parts).
Together with the decal sheet I also got me some Colour, the Werksfarbe “Gulf Blau” (Gulf blue), and a technic kit for building a car compliant to the DSC rules. These kits are good value for money and you get everything you need to build a chassis ready to compete (remember, I have 2 of them).
Porsche 908/3 Gulf Decals
Technik Kit by Jens Scale racing
Tags: Porsche 908/3, Resin Kit, Slot Cars
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
OK … my wife had to leave me … but only on family business. What else to do than to go on with one of my projects? Nothing!
So I started masking the cockpit area of the Tamiya kit. It will become flat black with the driver painted in traditional colours. But first there comes some masking … actually quite some of it:
Overall view of the masked cockpit ...
... from both sides.
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Tags: Restoration, Slot Cars, Tamiya
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
After the masking and first painting session last weekend this is how the Porsche body currently looks (please not the spoiler is not glued in position yet).
Body with first details - right side
Body with first details - left side
You can see that I didn’t mask too well, since at the body panel lines there are some red markings where they do not belong … I will be able though to remove them by lightly scraping over them with a scalpel. And the body will get some white colour as well. For that I will mask off the read and other painted areas.
Tags: Porsche 936-78 Twin Turbo, Slot Cars
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Last Weekend I actually managed to get forward with the painting of the Body. Currently I am quite satisfied with the metallic blue that the body has taken on now.
Metallic blue ... lots of it
And even more from the other side
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Tags: Restoration, Slot Cars, Tamiya
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Some years ago during one of our visits of the local freemarkets I found this Cox BRM F1 in acceptable shape. OK … the windscreen is horribly glued to the body, the mirrors and the stabilisers for the rearaxle are missing but that did reflect in the price. And … somebody tried to make it a Ferrari … I wonder why.
vintage Cox BRM F1 - 1
vintage Cox BRM F1 - 2
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Tags: Cox BRM, Slot Cars, vintage
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Remember, a couple of posts ago I promised a dutch reader that I would make a master for the Tamiya King Cobra wind screen. Finally I did it. I mixed up some CeranoFix (by Eberhard Faber) and pured it into the windscreen part I had.
The empty lexan wind screen
The empty windscreen besides CeramoFix
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Tags: How-To, Restoration, Slot Cars
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