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[racie35]

Building is fun, but seeing how good it drove was even more satisfaction. No bullet but speedy and handles as good as half my cars. I'm gonna make a clone like it for my brother. Just hafta find a few more of those motor brackets to use.

[Bill from NH]

I think that motor bracket is a WRP drag racing item. Check with your local raceway to see if they have them or can order them for you. If not, try a mailorder house such as PCH or one of the others.

 

PCH shows this motor bracket as:  D3 ED Chassis Motor Bracket - ED-D3-001    $5.95

[racie35]

Thanks for the tip.

[Cheater]

Bruce,

 

The sideways pic problem is related to how you hold your iPad when you take the pics.

 

The correct orientation is (IIRC) to hold the iPad with the long side horizontal, with the home button on the right and the camera lens facing outward on the upper left.

 

As to why pics you take look correctly oriented in some places and sideways in other places, it has to do with software. Almost all apps embed orientation in the image's metadata. The problem is that some apps ignore that metadata and don't orient the image correctly based on the embedded metadata

 

Try holding your iPad as indicated above and test to see if the problem still occurs please.

[racie35]

I will from now on... thank you.

[racie35]

I better break out the wet sand supplies... I don't like how I painted the white... it's gonna need smoothing.

[racie35]

Stripping this again.....I should be slapped for the embarrassing paint job I did to something so simple...white with red roof.
" honey, hand me that oven cleaner" !!

[dc-65x]

Forge onward Bruce. We're with you! You're inspiring me to paint my 1/24 version....thanks.

[SlotStox#53]

Don't give up ! That great mini Gurney car is gonna look superb

[racie35]

Oh I won't give up for sure. I will grab my brothers airbrush this time though. .. I'm much better with that .

[racie35]

As a side note. I think professor has the revell monogram molds now and showed a planned release of that body in this paint scheme a while back. I haven't seen or heard any news lately though. If they do though ,I'm grabbing a few

[racie35]

My decals never came so I may buy junior johnson holly farms decals here in the states and paint this yellow.....then wait and see what professor offers if anything down the road. If they do the gurney I'll be all set, otherwise it's the 26 till then. Won't be a shrunken Gurney will it? Dang

[racie35]

Repainted .....headed back to the paint stripper now......such fun

[dc-65x]

I feel your pain Bruce. I personally have, lets just say, not a fun time painting. I'm the last person that should try and give advise on painting as I need to paint my 1/24 Gurney Stocker too. But I will mention that even though I have an air brush, the last 2 cars I painted were done with Tamiya lacquer spray cans.
 
I heated the cans in hot water in the bathroom sink and went to town. On the red Cobra I made the mistake of laying the paint on too heavy trying to get it smoother and glossier. I got a sag or run on one fender. I stopped and let the paint cure (dry). The Tamiya sprays on very fine, shrinks and smooths out as it cures over time. This allows any details to not be obscured with a thick coat of paint as with many enamels.
 
Trouble now was the paint wasn't very shinny or "deep" looking. I took a leap of faith and tried a technique I'd never done before:
 

I tired something to help my crappy paint and decal job look better and it worked beyond my wildest dreams:



A brushed on coat of floor wax worked miracles. The paint took on a high gloss. The decals blended much better into the paint and the cast resin windscreen became crystal clear...........amazing!

I was terrified as I brushed on that floor wax as it was running and bubbling all over the place.   After the stuff dried it was all smooth and shinny....amazing.

 

I don't know if the tales of my escapades is of any help but I hope it offers some moral support.

 

Good luck and you're an inspiration to us all for sticking with it.

[racie35]

Wow Rick! You've inspired me. I just stripped 95% of it back off and it's going better than expected(this things used to it now). I can either paint it white and red next time and try again for those decals...or yellow and do junior johnson 26.
Thing is this is a cox gurney mini and it woulda been nice to get those,but oh well. I'm almost there and btw, I've seen that floor wax used before...it sure works doesn't it!

[dc-65x]

I think you really want a Gurney as that's what you started out to make. It's to bad your decals got lost. I've been lucky so far with Patto's I guess. He does offer guaranteed shipping but it's kind of pricey.

[Bill from NH]

I'll second what Rick said. Go after the Gurney decals once more. Otherwise, you'll want to kick yourself every time you see the "Yellow Banana."

[racie35]

Pattos does warn you that if you don't pay the extra...no guarantees. I'll bet for what they charge I can get a simple envelope sent from the outback though. I won't be reordering,once is enough for me.

[dc-65x]

Give Patto's one more try Bruce. I'm sure you'll get the decals and have the Gurney Stocker you've wanted.

[racie35]

https://m.facebook.c...orid=1515463887

Here it is all stripped again and doing it's thing.

[racie35]

I know I can watch the video but someone let me know if it works for them too....thankyou

[Bill from NH]

I am a Facebook member, I get a " content not found" error message with this statement, "The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may be broken or expired, or you may not have permission to view this page."

[racie35]

I'll try to make it public....argh.....I think it's fixed now

[hiline2]

Just tried this morning , still same messege, is it a "youtube"?

[racie35]

No...it's a Facebook link....I'll try again