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[edworth]

Your King-ki-ness,
That is cool. The hybrid approach is not often seen on elder cars that nice.

One suggestion if I may. Perhaps blacking the inside of the front rims, with the natural rim showing, as is the rears, would have finished it off...

Just a thought. I apologize if I appear to be questioning perfection.

Keep up the cool stuff.

(Oh did I mention knock-offs on the rear?)

Ciao,
Ed

[Edo]

Traditonally Persian rug makers always left, on purpose, an imperfection in all of their work.
They believed that perfection belonged only to God.
So do We.


PS Knock offs are actually already there.

[edworth]

Traditonally Persian rug makers always left, on purpose, an imperfection in all of their work.
They believed that perfection belonged only to God.
So do We.


PS Knock offs are actually already there.

I'm glad the knock-offs made it...

I suspect you're aware that as well as rug maker's, Italian artesians going back a 1000 years or more would do the same. Even thru to the Carrozzeria of the great sports and classic cars of Italy that would continue. One side of a hand formed body might not exactly match the other side. Added to their character as well.

[TSR]

Your E,
We got rid of the Persian carpets in the trailer for 3 reasons:

1/ We don't like cooties.
2/ We don't particularly care about Persians right now, from Xerses to the current dwarf in charge.
3/ Goat wool gives me allergies.

Love goat cheese.

Yr Hmbl Srvnt,

The P

[Edo]

How is the Blue car with the Classic 16-d sidewinder geared, & what size rear tires does it have???

8T pinion, 44 spur, 25 mm tires diameter.

...Hey Edo, your facts are a bit twisted...

Sorry Bill, I was giving myself an importance I did not have.

Anyway,

today with the help of Hugie Chavez ( this doll will substitute all the girls from now on in presenting the kingee's collection) here's another Hornet:



The body has been painted by Tom Andersen in 2005 after insisting quite a bit, since normally he does not do Thingies, much less in such attire.



Chassis is by Bob Suzuki (a camarade notoriously involved with extreme left wing Canadian scratchbuilders):







Motor is an excellent black Champion 5001:



Looks like old Charlie is having fun, no?









Don't you love red cars?

Next the KRIMINAL!

[TSR]

Your E,
Totally totalitarian! Who's the driver, Rasputin in X-mas drags?

[macman]

8/44 gearing!?! well it has brakes... but where is the top end???, even on your short track.
25mm, is that about 1inch??

[Larry LS]

Lowrider"s Intruder looks great EDO. Thanks for showing it. That was fun mold to make and the design was inspired by my friend Steve Foster of ToyTech racing bodies.

I just made a few mods to it for the final mold. At the time it was designed to fit the Parma Flexi/one chassis with the narrow pans. As at the time not many were making up scratch chassis, in 1993.

How is the Supercukaluc doing these days?

[Edo]

...How is the Supercukaluc doing these days?

Oooh Larry!
She's having the time of her life since she's been running on the MDF track instead of the plastic one!
Look how happy she is:







Sometimes she complains she wants foam tires instead of the silicone ones:



...but with spongies she's gonna scare the hell out of the rest of my cars: waaaay tooo fast!

[Larry LS]

Good Edo; it is still looking good. And the paint is still on that slippery body.

[TSR]

Edo, just don't use the same spongies from the Cuc you made me drive on your royal track...

[mdiv]

[Edo]

Hello gentlemen
I hope you don't mind if I show you more toys.
What we have here is an ElectricDreams Lampray, masterfully and creatively painted by Paul Erlandson (hotrodanglican):









Super cute, innit?

The chassis was made by Steve "Lowrider" Kempson, who sometimes dabbles in Thingies (when he's not too busy building and racing D3 cars in North London).

Low, knowing my passion for ISO chassis, came up with this very lovely contraption:









Here it is assembled:



Motor is a Champion 26D with Certus post protectors, Certus shunts and Certus wire to motor:



Gearing is 7T/29T, front wheels are, I suspect, very modern and rears are Kai's anodized in purple.

Next...an unbelievable BIG monster...

[TSR]

Vealy Nice!!!

[Maximo]

King Edo,

That chassis is awesome! I am so impressed.....and jealous!

When will you open your thingie museum?

-Max

[Edo]

When will you open your thingie museum?

Hi Max
actually more than a museum (there is too many around anyway ) it will be a special exibition.
More details coming soon...
Ciao Max
Edo
PS Don't be jealous, I suspect you have more beautiful toys coming soon on top of what you have already!

[TSR]

Your E,
I am working hard to meet your deadline...

[Edo]

Obviously not hard enough if you have time to be on the forums!

[Justin A. Porter]

I get a real kick out of seeing these cars, not just because I'm nowhere near old enough to have seen them on track, but also because these ones are actually USING all of that vintage hardware that people collect.

Not to mention they're just plain cool, like something out of Speed Racer or - a bit more modern - Cyber Formula GPX.

[One_Track_Mind]

There still being built with six wheels, just not with all those wings on them!



Photo courtesy of Edo
Car Owner: Phil Smith an entry into the the 2008 World Proxy event.

Hi Edo,
this iso-version chassis, the paint job almost has those musical scrolls Howmet placed in a chassis.
Like the purple wheels for the added touch.

[Prof. Fate]

Hi

A varient on the form above was to have the outrail have a spur that plugged into a hole drilled in the front of the bracket with the 4/40 screws in the outer hole screwed in from the top as well.

Simply, more screws, the more you could have one work its way out without a disaster.

Another common variant was to use the bracket and the brass aftermarket drop arm with all these screws mounting the scratched rod bits and mounts. The mounts supplied by dynamic and others (I remember a red package not a dynamic, but don't remember the name) bent a lot in a wreck and the rod system was a lot more secure.

P, remind me, who was it that made the main in a big arco race in LA with a highly modded Dynamic when he was on the team?

Oh, and when was the last time you showed a pic of your Paris car?

Fate

[Edo]

She kicked the door open with her sexy high heeled sandals.



She came in in a blue cloud of exotic scent holding the most petrifying weapon I ever saw in my life and said:
"Kingie! Give me GOLD!"



“OK ! OK . Don’t hurt me (too much)! Here it is,” said I, while shaking in a pleasant sort of terror.



She was happy now:



...and she played with it:







...and she looked and looked at it:








I took advantage of the situation and with a swift move I took possession of the weapon she was carrying:

Mmmmm! That must be Nostalgic’s repopped Swift body painted by Lupo Lupazzi!



Lookie here! That old Howmet fox got creative once again with that contraption!







"Hey sweetie, do you mind if I try on my shooting range" says I:









Make no mistake about it: it's MINE!

PS The original and Nostalgic's version are here:
Interesting body

[edworth]

She kicked the door open with her sexy high heeled sandals...

Edo,
Only you could raise, or is it lower, slot cars into the realm of pulp fiction.

And with style no less.

[Horsepower]

She looks totally Italian.Very HOT! As for the car, how in the world did you get that body metalized?

[Edo]

...how in the world did you get that body metalized?

Hi Gary
when in Herrsching, last year for one of the 2007 Thingie Proxy round, Ralph Klose and his friend Erwing showed us a few repop experiments which were colored with some kind of secret technique:



Color is not applied with paint but with a sort of "electroplating"system:





Bodies are very thin and if you look at them against the light you can see through.
Unfortunately production never went under way and those you see are just the few examples existing.
Regards
Edo